TikTok Comes To Android TV Across Certain Regions

TikTok has appear that information technology volition begin rolling out support for the app on Android TV. As reported past Android Police, the app works on Chromecast on Google Television receiver but only in select regions.

Despite issues with the United states of america government and restrictions imposed on the app, TikTok enjoyed its most popular twelvemonth yet in 2020. The company still faces major consequence in the US with a change of President unlikely to make much of a difference to the administration's views on the app.

However, some have argued that these restrictions and the subsequent press coverage has actually helped TikTok's popularity. The intense spotlight on the app coupled with the possibility of its ban made TikTok the virtually downloaded app of 2020.

This move to bring TikTok to Android TV is not that surprising given the company has already brought in integration with other platforms. In December, TikTok announced that Google App on mobile would bear witness TikTok videos and Instagram reels.

The next finish of bringing TikTok to Android Telly is, therefore, an obvious next step. However, as mentioned information technology has not yet rolled out fully and is only available in certain locations.

Android TV adds support for TikTok videos

TikTok for Android TV has recently become available on the Google Play Store. This means anyone can install the app to their TV. Nevertheless, there have been some reports that it is non compatible with all TVs.

It appears that the app works with Chromecast on Google TV but not the new Chromecast. However, users in the Britain using Shield Idiot box and others around the earth have too experienced issues.

If you are able to install the app you can exercise pretty much everything that you tin exercise on the mobile app. When you lot open up upwardly the app yous can offset watching videos straight away or log in to see your personalized feed.

To navigate the app you use left and right buttons on your remote to skip forward or back between video. You then use the downward button for options such as Profile, Like, and Comments.

To explore options such as Written report, Non interested, and Loop video yous take to go to the 'More' selection. When viewing a video the title and the view count is on the left with the music information on the right as shown below.

If you want to sign in to your account just press upward on your remote. Then yous tin enter a code at tiktok.com/activate or scan a QR code with the mobile app. A really nice move to make the sign-in process that bit easier.