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ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well that’s the death of Android TV then. With Nvidia killing future Shields and now Amazon. There is no more big names making Android TV devices other than the built in Android TV in actual TVs which is a bummer because that shit gets outdated faster than the TV dies.
Google still sell their own Android TV dongles (Chromecast), and big TV manufacturers still sell it as a smart TV OS (notably Sony).
Fire OS isn’t Android TV anyway; as the article says, it’s built out of an old fork of AOSP, and has no tie in to Google’s services. I don’t see that Amazon moving Fire products to a different base makes the slightest difference to the rival Android TV.
It’s not an “old fork;” it’s regularly upleveled.
It’s currently on Android 11, which is 3 major versions (and 3 years) behind mainline Android.
Well, it’s been a while since I worked with them on that, so maybe they’re not bothering while they prep for the final push to Vega … or perhaps they finally stopped giving a shit and canned the rest of the architecture team. We used to uplevel every two major versions.
Really wish smart TV’s running AndroidTV/GoogleTV could do framerate matching like external devices can, though.
What do the TV devices that Google sells run on?
Google’s not a big brand /s
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
What are you talking about? Shield is still getting better support than most older Android devices.
And a lot of TVs have Android built in, not to mention plenty of third party devices like Xiaomi TV Stick.