Items tagged with Android-TV

by Seth Colaner - Mon, Jun 30, 2014

Get A Sneak Peak At Google's Android TV Controller

Android TV is coming, and as we mentioned earlier, one of the killer features of the product will be the ability to play Android games on a nice, big TV. It appears that Android TV will ship on certain devices, but apparently there will also be a standalone Android TV box, and there’s a controller that will ship with said box. Google I/O attendee Artem Russakovskii posted an image on Google+ that shows the alleged controller with the alleged Android TV box. Russakovskii’s photo has been corroborated by some press renders of the controller discovered by Reddit user bedofgoatturds in a directory of the Android L Developer Preview. Credit: Artem Russakovskii Both images show that... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Sun, Jun 29, 2014

Android Evolved: Recapping Android, Wear, Android Auto, And Android TV

Google had a whopper of an I/O conference last week, and if there was one prevailing theme from the whole event, it is this: Android has evolved. Already a mature mobile OS that is one of the two dominant operating systems in a huge and still-growing mobile market, Android is officially not just for phones and tablets. It’s on your wrist, in your car, and in your living room. Suddenly, the smartwatch is evolving. We had an inkling that this would happen when we first caught wind of Android Wear back in March, and we’re just about to be inundated with Android Wear-based smartwatches from all the usual consumer tech companies, including LG, Samsung, Motorola, and ASUS. Android Wear... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Sun, Apr 06, 2014

Android TV Launch Is Imminent, Here’s An Early Look

Google TV was a swing and a miss in terms of Google’s play for living room dominance, and thus it was good news when word leaked that the company was both rebranding its TV platform to “Android TV” and ostensibly making it better with a different foundational version of Android. Now, The Verge reports that it has acquired exclusive documents that show the new and improved Android TV. So what exactly is new and improved about it? Well, mainly, it’s simpler. “Android TV is an entertainment interface, not a computing platform. It’s all about finding and enjoying content with the least amount of friction,” say the documents. Credit: The Verge You can browse... Read more...