28-09-2022 17:45
Why is there no generic Android TV app.
There is a Sony Android TV app and an Android FireStick app so why isn't there a normal Android TV app?
It can't be that much work to adapt one of the above ones.
28-09-2022 21:51 - edited 28-09-2022 21:56
@Anonymous User
You missed the Android mobile phones app 😢
But what Android TV are you thinking of? Philips, perhaps, without Now whereas Sony have it?
I guess that’s just another form of S/P DIF(f) 😛
28-09-2022 22:54 - edited 28-09-2022 22:55
I have the mobile app and know I can cast it but that is not the same as having a native Android TV app. Using the phone app also takes up an extra device.
29-09-2022 9:09
@Anonymous User
Never say never, things move along slowly here in NOW. Bare in mind it wasn't on Amazon fire sticks until over a year ago.
29-09-2022 9:19
@Anonymous User
To avoid casting taking up two devices, start the programme before casting it. Then it only takes up the one device that being able to watch Now native on the TV would take up.
I have the faint annoyance that our 2020 LG TVs don’t have All4; we use Roku Express devices to get over this. Only one device either way, but it takes up an HDMI input on each TV that we might like back 😢
I have a theory, backed up by no evidence whatsoever, that Sony contributed to the Android Now app that it uses, such that Now are not free to make it generally available as an Android TV app, for technical and/or commercial reasons.