Android TV News & Updates

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[Nishant]

Android 11 comes to Android TV today, but the rollout starts with just one device

Google started testing Android 11 for Android TVs back in June, and we saw the official Android 11 release land earlier this month for Pixel devices. Now

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[Nishant]

Google TV is finally ready for all the streaming addicts in your house

Personalized multi-user profiles and watchlists are coming soon

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[Nishant]

Google TVish UI is now rolling out on Android TV devices. Just got the new UI on Mi QLED TV 55".

 

[Nishant]

Android 13 for TV | Android Developers

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[Nishant]

Google releases Android TV 14 Beta, ditches Android 13

Coinciding with the release of Android 14 Beta 3 for Pixel devices, Google has also launched a preview of what...

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[Sushubh]

Aren't they replacing Android TV with Google TV 🤕

 

[Nishant]

Nope. They would not and probably can never do that.

 

[SVK]

Google TV is renamed version of Google Play Movies & TV app. While Android TV is OS for TV/STB I guess.

 

[Sushubh]

It's kind of a mess I think.

Xiaomi's next 4K-enabled set-top box will run Google TV instead of Android TV

Xiaomi gives you another low-cost option for bringing Google TV into your home

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[vishalrao]

Yeah confusing... My 2 TVs bought in the last year or so both have "Google TV" as the OS (boot animation at least) lol

 

[Nishant]

Google TV app and Google TV OS are two different things.

Google TV OS (based on Android TV) debuted with CCwGTV and Google is now licensing it to many TV / STB brands.

Why did they even rename Google Play Movies & TV to Google TV is best known to them. It's a mess indeed.

 

[SVK]

My Airtel DTH Xstream STB displays Android while booting.
May be Google wants to phase out Android brand from TVs and replace with Google.