After many new innovations in Google apps, products, Android and smartphones, now Google released another new thing to its users. Google has announced the release of Android 13 for TV today, but the new release is only available right now for the ADT-3 developer platform and the Android TV emulator.
Here’s a look at some of what’s new in Android 13 for TV.
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Performance and Quality
Android 13 brings new APIs to the big screen that helps developers deliver high-quality experiences to users across different device types.
- Improvements to the AudioManager API allow developers to anticipate audio attribute support for the active audio device and select the optimal format without starting playback.
- Users can now change the default resolution and refresh rate on supported HDMI source devices for a more reliable playback experience.
- HDMI state changes are now surfaced to the MediaSession lifecycle, allowing TV dongles and other HDMI source devices to save power and pause content in reaction to HDMI state changes.
Accessibility and Input Controls
Android 13 brings new features to make interacting with TV more adaptable.
- The InputDevice API now supports different keyboard layouts. Game developers can also reference keys by their physical location to support different layouts of physical keyboards.
- A newly created audio descriptions API in AccessibilityManager allows your app to query the new system-wide audio description preference setting, helping developers provide audio descriptions in line with a user’s preference automatically.
Now, Talking about Nearby Share, Google is testing a “Send” shortcut in the Nearby Share bottom sheet that lets you quickly select files (using the Files by Google app) to share with others. This shortcut will appear when you tap the Quick Setting tile for Nearby Share.
Yes, you can already share files through Nearby Share. However, you have to open another app, select file(s) to share, hit share, & then pick Nearby Share. This cuts out some steps and makes the QS tile actually useful (before it just let you change visibility or open settings).
