“ASUS Nexus Player: Android TV gets its own Nexus device” – Android World

The trend devices become “smarter” is certainly not passed to televisions. Modern SmartTV can run apps and the various set-top boxes of television providers are getting more opportunities. Google is trying to make sure that Android is the number one choice with regard to operating systems for television. With Android TV This seems the company has to do with the ASUS Nexus Player. Include

Android TV

Google TV failed for several reasons, perhaps primarily because it was too complicated. Google TV brought full Android Apps to the TV but Android TV takes a different approach. Google has with this custom Android Version ensured standardized interfaces for displaying information and content. It’s simplicity is an important criterion.

The final first version of Android TV will run on Android L, not yet launched the successor to Android 4.4 (KitKat). Interestingly, Google aggressively hardware requirements on Android TV devices, which means that the devices also have to run graphics-intensive Android games suitable.

ADT-1

At Google’s annual developer conference Google I / O developers present were able to register for a developer kit for Android TV. It proved to be a compact set-top box to sit that makes it possible for developers to already try. Android TV applications on TV

One of the requirements for Android TV is that a game controller is included, in the case of ADT-1 is a sort of cross between an Xbox and a PlayStation controller. The ADT-1 is not for sale, but can still be requested by Google. (American) game developers

ASUS Nexus Player

This weekend popped a benchmark score on a device that identifies itself as ASUS Nexus Player. At first you could still think of a tablet or smartphone, were it not that the device has no touchscreen or cameras.

This kind of benchmark results are actually quite easy to distort, but we strongly suspect that this Nexus box from ASUS is real. Namely Google has announced that ASUS is one of the manufacturers with a set-top box Android TV would come.

There are more (large) manufacturers who have indicated to come. TV with an Android device Then only, it is not set-top boxes, Sony, Sharp and TP Vision (Philips) will have their high-end devices will feature Android TV. We can also expect a set-top box from Razer.

Announcement

It would therefore not surprise us if this Nexus-top box turns out to be. In this case, it will be announced at the official launch of Android L. This will take place in the fall, but if that is the case this month, as reported yesterday, remains to be seen.

Source: Liliputing via Android Community

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