Google TV is getting a homescreen widget on Android. The newest model of the Google TV Android app helps a widget nevertheless it isn’t utterly prepared but. The corporate appears to have prematurely launched the function. A refined last model could arrive quickly. Google TV just lately picked up Materials You redesign.
In accordance with 9to5Google, which first noticed the Google TV homescreen widget, the preview says the widget will default to a 4×5 dimension. You possibly can’t make it any smaller, although it may be expanded to cowl the entire display. Nonetheless, the factor itself doesn’t work in the mean time. It doesn’t even load on any gadget besides the Pixel 7 Professional working the Android 13 QPR2 Beta.
Even on the Pixel 7 Professional, all you get is a tiny bar with “Google TV” textual content and search and distant shortcuts. The search button opens the keyboard, whereas the distant shortcut will in all probability launch the Google TV distant. Tapping on the middle (over the Google TV textual content) merely takes you to the app’s House tab. Fairly clearly, the widget isn’t prepared for prime time and wishes refinement.
As soon as prepared, Google TV will doubtless present content material suggestions instantly in your Android telephone’s homescreen. The widget’s default dimension of 4×5 actually hints at that. Many different streaming apps try this, together with Netflix and Hulu. It seems Google is lastly catching as much as these on this regard. The truth is, it nonetheless wants some extra time.
Google readying an Android homescreen widget for Google TV
Google gives greater than 30 homescreen widgets throughout its Android app ecosystem. Calendar, Chrome, Drive, Gmail, Google Translate, Maps, Images, Search, to-do-list, Climate, and lots of different Google apps assist at the least one widget. The corporate commonly updates the widgets with useful and aesthetic enhancements. In current months, we have now seen Google work on new updates for Contacts and the Google app widgets. It's now readying a brand-new widget for Google TV as properly.
Widget assist on the Google TV Android app was noticed in model 4.38.7.4 of the app, which was launched final month. Google will doubtless roll out an replace for the app within the coming weeks with a extra secure and useful widget. Maybe all three widgets could arrive on the identical time (Contacts and Google too). Should you use Google TV in your Android smartphone, you'll be able to click on the button beneath to obtain the newest replace for the app from the Google Play Retailer. Don’t neglect to examine for the widget.
