In addition to being a system with a great presence on mobile devices, Android is also available on other devices, whether they are cars with Android Auto and Automotive, watches with Wear OS and television with Android TV.
As Google announces the arrival of a new version of the system, it tends to arrive first on mobile phones and later on other devices. The company has just announced the launch of Android 11 for Android TV, a version that has specific news for television.
Android 11 for Android TV is here, all the changes
Google has quietly announced the release of Android 11 for Android TV. This update comes to improve your television with many of the new features that we have seen on mobiles, such as better performance thanks to a new memory management system or privacy improvements with single-use permissions.
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Beyond the standard improvements, the platform has also been updated with specific improvements for television. Hegaming It is a fundamental section, and now Android TV has a low latency automatic mode. With this mode, an application can notify the system that it wants to activate the low latency mode and Android TV will automatically deactivate the image processing modes that are often a nuisance when playing games. Similarly, support for controllers and a low latency codec are improved, which should improvestreaming of videogames.
These improvements can be great for services like Game Pass.
Among other aspects, Android 11 also includes these outstanding improvements on the hardware of televisions:
- HDMI CEC control.
- Framework CAS offers a standard API to interface with digital television and IP television systems.
- Tuner frame for content delivery by A / V signal.
Google has not detailed the televisions that will receive Android TV, but it has specified that several devices will be updated in the coming months, in addition to there being many others that are launched directly with this version.
Unsurprisingly, Google’s official Android TV for developers known as the ADT-3 will start updating today. It is also to be expected that Sabrina, the successor to the Chromecast, will also hit the market with this update, although the rumors that it ends up arriving with Google TV are there.
The Android 11 entry for Android TV is official: all improvements appear first in The Free Android.
