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Several months ago, we were tasked to implement a built-in program guide a built-in program guide (also called an EPG) in their Android TV app. It should list all the channels from top to bottom, with the programs on the channels laid out from left to right on a timeline. There are some apps on Google Play, which have a similar program guide built-in, so I was hoping that there is a library or a Leanback component which we could build upon.

The Jetpack Navigation component is a very welcome add-on that makes the development of Android apps so much easier. No more committing Fragment transactions, and no more hassle to make sure that the up- and back button give the user the expected experience, not to mention the trouble of having to maintain a concise back stack for deep links and finally: How did we survive for so long without that visual navigation graph?

Apple tried to offer a head start on writing SwiftUI apps by providing us with some very nice looking tutorials. The documentation however is still severely lacking and the framework still seems in full development, noticeable by broken/missing functionality and some pretty big changes in the past betas. To fill some of the gaps in SwiftUI I wrote my own library for displaying sheets which gave me a deeper understanding of SwiftUI. In this article I will share some of my findings.