Apple announced Wednesday that the Apple TV app, including Apple TV+ Streaming and MLS Season Pass, is reaching Android devices. While the company previously offered a version From its Google TV application, the recently released application will support a wider range of appliances based on Android, including phones, tablets and even foldables. In addition, Google customers in both the living room and mobile platforms will now be able to subscribe to Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass via Google Play billing.
Before, Google TV users should have an existing Apple TV+ account before using the app. Now, users will be able to create an Apple account on their device and pay for the service as they do on Apple devices. The pricing will remain the same at $ 9.99 a month.
Expanding the television application will allow Apple Flow Service to reach a wider user base, especially in non-US markets where Android devices are used more intensely.
Apple’s TV+ Service brings with it a series of top shows, such as “Retirement”, “Slow Horses”, “The Morning Performance”, “Supported Innocent”, “Shrinking”, “Hijack”, “Loot”, “” Palm Royale “” Masters of the Air “and” Ted Lasso “, among others. Apple’s original films such as “Wolfs”, “The Baders”, “The Family Plan”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, “Coda”, and many more are included.
The Android version of the TV application will also offer access to common features, such as offline shots, stored watching lists and a “Contink Watch” feature that synchronizes your watch history on devices. The latter will work even if you are using a mixture of appliances in your household, such as an Android or tablet phone in combination with an Apple TV TV flow box, for example.
Users of the Android TV app will also be able to see when new episodes or television times fall. However, the application does not yet provide inherent notifications to alert users to updates and new arrivals. As users navigate through the content of TV+, they will be highlighted in some of the best and popular TV content+, which can add to the tracking list or flow immediately.
Friday’s Live Sports Broadcast is also available to Android users.
The MLS Season Pass is available as an optional add -on ($ 12.99/Mo or $ 79/season), with the 30 MLS clubs available from the weekend of February 22. Supporters ”in the application.
A key difference between Android and Apple versions of the app is that Android users will not have access to the In -App Store, where users can rent and buy movies and broadcasts.
Optimized for Android, the new application uses Android material design principles, including adaptive provisions adapted to different screen sizes such as phones, tablets and folding.
The application arrives five years after the start of Giant Apple TV+ Worldwide technology, its first invasion of original streaming content.
Apple’s premium streaming service has gathered the rumor that it has high quality content, especially in categories such as drama and sci-fi. It is the first streamer to land an Oscar award for the best image with his 2022 victory for “Coda” and more recently saw his initial appearances made for 2024 Emmys at All the big categoriesdrawing In 10 wins (including Creative Arts Awards).
Apple TV for Android is released to Google Play users starting on Wednesday.