We had a project where we were aiming to reuse the same codebase across mobile and TV. You have this care very often and there is this consideration of:

Should we use the Leanback Fragments?

The experienced Android TV developer

that is always ignored. We give the project a quick go and check how it works on the Android TV emulator and decide it is not worth the effort to work on TV specific codebase that may require additional devs to support it. And this is where hell breaks loose.

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