Apple on Wednesday introduced that its Apple TV app, together with its Apple TV+ streaming service and MLS Season Cross, is arriving on Android gadgets. Whereas the corporate beforehand provided a model of its app for Google TV, the newly launched app will help a broader vary of Android-based gadgets, together with telephones, tablets, and even foldables. As well as, Google prospects on each lounge and cell platforms will now have the ability to subscribe to Apple TV+ and MLS Season Cross by means of Google Play billing.
Earlier than, Google TV customers must have an present account on Apple TV+ earlier than utilizing the app. Now, customers will have the ability to create an Apple account on their machine and pay for the service as they do on Apple gadgets. The pricing will stay the identical at $9.99 per thirty days.
The enlargement of the TV app will enable Apple’s streaming service to achieve a wider person base, significantly in non-U.S. markets the place Android gadgets are extra closely utilized.
Apple’s TV+ service brings with it numerous prime reveals, like “Severance,” “Gradual Horses,” “The Morning Present,” “Presumed Harmless,” “Shrinking,” “Hijack,” “Loot,” “Palm Royale,” “Masters of the Air,” and “Ted Lasso,” amongst others. Apple Unique movies like “Wolfs,” “The Instigators,” “The Household Plan,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “CODA,” and extra are additionally included.
The Android model of the TV app will even supply entry to generally used options, like offline downloads, saved watchlists, and a “proceed watching” characteristic that syncs your watch historical past throughout gadgets. The latter will work even when you use a mixture of gadgets in your family, like an Android cellphone or pill mixed with an Apple TV streaming field, as an illustration.
Android TV app customers will even have the ability to see when new episodes or TV seasons drop. Nonetheless, the app doesn’t but supply native notifications to alert customers to updates and new arrivals. As customers flick through the TV+ content material, they’ll be pointed to a number of the most well-received and fashionable TV+ content material, which they’ll add to their watchlist or stream immediately.
Friday Night time Baseball’s dwell sports activities broadcast can be out there to Android customers.
MLS Season Cross is obtainable as an optionally available add-on ($12.99/mo or $79/season), with all 30 MLS golf equipment out there beginning the weekend of February 22. Customers can observe their favourite groups for personalised suggestions, together with these inside a “devoted supporters” part within the app.
One key distinction between the Android and Apple variations of the app is that Android customers won’t have entry to the in-app Retailer, the place customers can lease and purchase motion pictures and reveals.
Optimized for Android, the brand new app makes use of Android’s Materials Design ideas, together with adaptive layouts that modify to completely different display screen sizes like telephones, tablets, and foldables.
The app arrives 5 years after the tech large launched Apple TV+ worldwide, its first foray into authentic streaming content material.
Apple’s premium streaming service has garnered a repute for having high-quality content material, significantly in classes like drama and sci-fi. It’s the primary streamer to land an Academy Award for Finest Image with its 2022 win for “CODA” and extra lately noticed its authentic reveals nominated for 2024 Emmys in all the most important classes, pulling in 10 wins (together with Artistic Arts awards.)
Apple TV for Android is rolling out to Google Play customers beginning Wednesday.
