Universal Apps

Your tvOS and iOS apps will be submitted separately (and thus are standalone apps), but linked in iTunes Connect.

The new scheme is 'Universal Purchase'...not to be confused with a traditional universal app for iPhone/iPad.

It simply means users can enjoy a single purchase where there are both ATV and iOS apps involved.

So is it possible in a universal app (even if targets are separate) for a user to be watching a video on an iPad and then pick it up on the Apple TV?

Yes, but you would need to implement some means of carrying that state information from one platform to another. CloudKit would be one good option for this.

Ok cool, I just was on my submissions portal and see that you can now add a TVOS submission

So to summarize if you want a Universal setup you can create a submission

then attach your binaries one for IOS and one for TVOS

If the end user purchases on Iphone the TV version will be available on TV

and vice versa

If you want seperate paid versions for IOS and TVOS you create a completely seperate App for each.

Would I be correct ?

Thanks TidBits - any chance you could point me to a good example of how to implement / get that information? I will of course check out the cloudkit api but I have never had any experience with it before.

There should be more information on iTunes Connect support for tvOS soon.

For CloudKit, the QuickStart guide is probably the best place to begin: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/DataManagement/Conceptual/CloudKitQuickStart/Introduction/Introduction.html