There are three sides to the newest replace to Google’s TV working system.
There are enhancements to the software program’s efficiency, privateness restrictions with up to date dev instruments, and, lastly, new consumer-facing options like prolonged gamepad assist.
Since Android 11 on cellular was extra of a ‘behind-the-scenes’ replace past the brand new notifications shade, bubbles and the ability menu, there aren’t many visible adjustments coming to the TV model, both.
Customers can count on to make use of a brand new ‘Auto-low latency mode.’ This works on newer TVs with HDMI 2.1 ports and permits the Android TV machine to show off the TV’s post-processing results to cut back latency for gaming. This can be a huge deal, especially as game streaming becomes more prevalent across the world.
It’s additionally added assist for the Nintendo Swap Professional Controller and the previous — however not forgotten — Steam Controller to the record of supported controllers, so anybody with a Swap may play video games on their Android TV. Beforehand, solely quite a lot of Bluetooth controllers and each Xbox One and PS4 controllers might be used.
Different adjustments on the backend that might influence customers in the long term embrace extra assist for {hardware} with microphones and bodily mute switches. This appears to open the door for extra Amazon Fire TV Cube-type devices which can be all-in-one sensible TVs and digital assistants.
After all of the rumours we’ve heard relating to the subsequent Google TV machine, it is smart that the corporate would need to convey the TV platform as much as par with its cellular OS. Now the burden is on TV producers and Android TV field makers to roll out this replace to their gadgets. This typically takes a very long time, so some folks might need to attend some time for the replace.
Supply: Android Developers Blog
