Since its inception in 2014, users have been able to control their Android TV from their phone using an app. However, over the past week users have been reporting a new app has been updated on their TVs. This app, called the “Android TV Remote Service”, “is the service that allows use of your Android […]
Tag: play store
Two months ago a bug appeared in the Google Play Store on TVs, where selecting some categories would cause the entire app to crash. It was a pretty critical bug, and one that could lose consumer confidence as they turned on their new holiday gifts for the first time. You can see an example of […]
Google Banners Gain A White Background In New Redesign
Google has been fairly quiet with most of their apps on Android TV lately and the last time we saw a white banner background get added to a Google app on Android TV was Play Movies & TV a couple of months ago. As of late last night and today that changes for two apps […]
App Reviews and Ratings to Come to TV Play Store
When you’re searching for thousands of TV apps, or millions of phone apps, you want the best. That’s why users are able to rate them and give feedback as to their rating. This is easy to do on a phone, but currently not available on a TV. Users have to rate apps through the web […]
Android TV Backdrop Released Into Play Store
Today Google pushed another one of its core system apps to the Play Store. Though you never noticed it before you’ll notice it now when updates come around(or maybe not, thanks auto updates!) . So what is this app, it’s a daydream based app that is used when your Android TV device goes idle for […]
Get $6 In Play Store Credit Per Android TV
Everybody likes free things, and Google wants to go even further in giving users free Play Store credit just for having a Google Cast device. For each one you have, whether a Chromecast or an Android TV, you’ll get $6 in credit. This is meant to an incentive for users to buy more things from […]