How I can create an EPG for tv?

Question

I'm new in this forum, and I've been working in my company as a front-end developer for 6 months, this is my first experience. I'm working on a tv app. I never created an epg and I really don't know what i have to do and the worst things is that on the tv not all the code works. I just created the style what I have done. I hope that this is a good place to ask :) thank you very much! Example of what I need

Answer 1

This is a very general question. Probably beyond the scope of stackoverflow. And yes, there are probably better places to ask.

Anyway. As it's your first question: Welcome to the community and here's my similarly general answer:

What you're trying to achieve is what I call (it's not a technical term) an "US-style TV listing", where data is organized in a mostly horizontal grid-layout, by air time. Made popular, I think, by US print magazines like TV Guide. An online version can be admired on TV.com's listings, for example

The "European TV listings"-layout (again, no official term) is mostly vertical, organized in per-station columns, with time vertical. Examples online are this TV search service's EPG I've found or this similar looking online-version of a German TV guide print magazine.

You're mentioning that you are developing for a TV, a smart TV I guess. That's also very general. Depending on your targeted platform, you'd have to look into device specific SDKs or a cross-device framework. many rely on rich HTML or similar underpinnings.

Not knowing your exact tech, there're so many possibilities, it's hard to give a helpful answer. Try looking into "data table" frameworks for your platform, or if there's anything usable for your purpose. Some come with elaborate JS helper code, or a widgets library.

In general, you'd need to wrangle some source of rich TV airings metadata into a tabular or grid layout. I don't know about the sources of such data or licensing issues entailed, but make sure (!) you respect other online EPG's copyrights. You'd have to go to the original data originators, probably, or license pre-processed data somewhere.

I'm stressing that as I'm already seeing you are using official station logo graphics - which worries me! These images are copyrighted and you'd need the owners' OK to use them, especially if your work is for profit. You're at a company, right? Then you better raise these issues in an in-depth conversation with your supervisor.

With all that said, it's probably a too general question. Go back and separate your problem into manageable chunks. Try to work on these and if there are more specific challenges that pop up, you're welcome to ask again.