Developers Can Start Building Android Apps for Google TV
by Antonio Wells
Aug 23, 2011 7:40 AM –
Google recently opened up their Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK to allow developers to build Android apps for Google TV. Though limited to emulation and virtual testing, this move readies some suitable apps for the larger screen. Google TV has not caught on to the mainstream due to bumps in the roadmap by Google themselves. However, apps and their connected nature is the key ingredient which skyrocketed the smartphone market and proven the case for the emerging tablet computing market; shall we see this same successful spillage on the connected television space? So developers, get to work on those TV apps as I would like to evaluate them on my set top!