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• There are three rows: 1. My Apps, 2. Recommended Apps, and 3. Featured Video on Demand (VOD).
• The My Apps row hosts those DAC apps that the user has installed on the device. It can be navigated horizontally to access all the apps the user has installed.
• The Recommended Apps row displays the information about the first four apps present in the upstream DAC Apps catalogue so that user has information about what apps they can locally download onto the device. The last tile in this row is reserved for the "More Apps" button so that the user can get the complete comprehensive list of apps served by the Apps Catalogue.
• The "More Apps" button takes the user to another page that lists all the applications currently present in the DAC Apps catalogue, which is described later in the document.
• The last row is the VoD Apps (Video-on-Demand) row, which contains VoD apps that are preinstalled on the device.
• On the left side of the UI, there are three additional buttons: Home, EPG and App Info.
• The Home button, as before, is a navigable button that returns the user to the Home Page; EPG button opens the EPG page – both its functionality remains unchanged.
• The App Info button is new. It lists all the installed DAC apps, along with information about each app and management options such as Launch, Update, and Uninstall. More details about this option are provided later in the document.
• At the top right corner, the Settings and Device Time indicators are displayed—both retain the same functionality as in the previous UI.
• The Settings button continues to provide retain the same set of options as beforeoptions that it provided before , but additonaly there is a new option called - Connect to the Application Catalogue.
  • This new option provides a standard username-password  user input page , so that the user can enter the credentials to the reference app catalogue as soon as the RefUI is launched.
  • Upon successful log in, the  UI is routed back to the settings page and the home page would now display the apps hosted by the app catalogue and can be downloaded with a click on the icon.
• Please note that the pixel widths, tile dimensions, and other layout details remain the same as in the previous UI.
• Please Note: The My Apps row should be hidden to the user, when the user has no DAC apps on the device. ex. during a Factory reset or user intentionally uninstalls all apps etc. So, the only rows on the Home page would be – Recommended Apps and VoD Apps.

Note: The VoD row is expected to use the platform player like AAMP. However, in a DAC based environment, this might is not still be entirely functional.

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