Although there are not many manufacturers that bet on Android in Smart TVs, that does not mean that Google has abandoned its development, a development that began in 2014, and that for now continues to be supported by Google although it has not had the acceptance that initially would have hoped.
The guys at Google have just announced that this platform will receive Android 10 over the next year, introducing the new improvements in performance and security that have come from the hand of the tenth version of Android for mobile devices. But in addition, it will bring us an important novelty.
With Android 10, Android TV you will receive updates much faster So far, all thanks to Project Treble. But in addition, it will also offer support for encrypted user data for much more secure storage and performance improvements with the new TLS 1.3 standard.
To make it much easier for developers to test their applications for the Android TV ecosystem, Google has presented a streaming device designed for this community called ADT-3, a device that works with a 4-core processor based on ARM Cortex A53 architecture and 2 GB of DDR3 memory.
This device has a 4KP60 HDR 2.1 output and will be made available to developers in the coming months through an OEM partner. Google has not confirmed the date on which it plans to launch Android 10 for Android TV devices currently available on the market.
Android TV still lags behind Samsung's market share, which uses Tizen as the operating system for its Smart TVs, and LG, which uses webOS. Sony is the main manufacturer that uses Android TV in its televisions, but little by little this operating system for multimedia consumption is becoming more popular among cable operators, through set-top boxes, as in other less important television manufacturers .
