What’s on tonight? New developments in Android and Google TV

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Google TV now dominates US activations and reports 110+ monthly active devices, with seven of the top ten OEMs shipping the platform. Android 12 adds a frame rate switching API and 4K UI guidance for resizable layouts and text scaling, and Android 13 adds audio optimizations including getDirectPlaybackSupport checks to choose Dolby formats before creating expensive AudioTrack objects. Use ExoPlayer and Media3 for out‑of‑the‑box frame rate and media session handling, test with emulator or ADT‑3, and follow the TV quality guidelines.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Android TV
2. 1:38New user profiles on Google TV
3. 3:43Virtual remote and input methods
4. 4:05Android 12 TV features overview
5. 6:10Frame rate switching API
6. 10:25Preferred display mode setup
7. 13:15Android 13 TV improvements
8. 13:37Audio route optimizations
9. 17:47Audio description accessibility
10. 19:52Keyboard layouts for TV
11. 21:18HDMI state changes and power saving
12. 23:01App bundles for TV apps
13. 24:45Voice controls and media sessions
14. 26:32Media session integration
15. 27:56Media session validation tools
16. 30:27Ambient mode and Cast Connect
17. 31:53Quality guidelines for TV apps

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