The nice thing about an Android-based streaming stick or player is that, unlike something like a Roku or Apple TV, Android is open source. This makes it much easier to install homebrew apps that may ...

Like many affordable smart TVs, mine runs on a frankly garbage processor that makes trawling through my TV’s updated Google TV interface a real chore. Quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPUs are pretty standard but ...

Walmart’s cheaper Onn 4K TV boxes are also reportedly receiving the Android TV 14 update. The update brings the March 2025 security patch and various bug fixes. This news comes shortly after the ...

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

Researchers still don’t know the cause of a recently discovered malware infection affecting almost 1.3 million streaming devices running an open source version of Android in almost 200 countries.