Android TV OS has grown 47% year-over-year to 220 million monthly active devices. This remarkable involvement would not be possible without our passionate developer community—many thanks for your contributions.
TV Android 14
TV will have Android 14! The next iteration of Android improves performance, sustainability, accessibility, and multitasking to help you build interesting TV apps.
Performance and sustainability—Android 14 for TV is faster and more responsive than prior versions. Users can control new energy modes to reduce TV standby power usage (see Energy saving picture). Make sure your app connects with MediaSession to stop content from continuing when input modes change or the panel turns off.
Accessibility —Users can change colour correction, enhance font options, and improve navigation utilizing remote shortcuts. To ensure your app supports accessibility best practices, review them.
Multitask—Qualified Android 14 TVs enable picture-in-picture mode. Check PackageManager for the picture-in-picture feature flag to see if a device supports it
TV composition
Version 1.0.0-beta01 of Compose for TV is released. Our Android Studio developer tools now feature a project wizard to get you started with Compose for TV.
Here are a few ways Compose simplifies TV app development:
- TV app-specific components. Browse our design guide or use our new TV Material Catalog app to test these components. We added lists, navigation, chips, and settings panels since the last alpha.
- Performance and input support improved. We’ve worked hard to fix focus difficulties and smooth UI animations.
- Simple implementation and significant style. Add and customize app components with minimal code.
- Wide form-factor support. Simply adding a ViewModel lets you render a TV UI using business logic from your phone, tablet, or foldable app.
Beta01 modifies alpha10 in two major ways:
- Some components are no longer experimental.
- Androidx-tv-material no longer includes ImmersiveList composable.
Experimental carousel and chip components like FilterChip should be kept.
The @ExperimentalTvMaterial3Api annotation applies to apps using these components. Now that these APIs are in beta, remove the @ExperimentalTvMaterial3Api annotation from any other components.
One entire excerpt is in the immersive list sample.
Review the release notes’ detailed list of changes to migrate rename or move components.
Migration from Leanback UI toolkit
Follow our step-by-step migration instructions from Leanback to Compose for Android TV.
Resources
Our extensive collection of tools will help you build TV UIs with Jetpack Compose, the current Android development toolkit, whether you’re new to Compose or migrating:
- Write TV integration guides.
- TV design guides
- Compose for TV Codelab Introduction
- Library release notes
- JetStream: video streaming app demo
- Sample software JetCaster streams audio.
- TV Materials Catalog
- Component samples
Contact the active Android development community on Stack Overflow
Your Android TV OS support is appreciated. We’re excited to see your Android 14 TV OS work on Google TV!
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