{"id":150306,"date":"2022-12-07T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-to-release-adt-4-for-android-tv-soon\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:56:00","slug":"google-to-release-adt-4-for-android-tv-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-to-release-adt-4-for-android-tv-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to release ADT-4 for Android TV soon"},"content":{"rendered":"
After its two-year-old streaming dongle for Android TV developers goes by the wayside, we’ve confirmed that Google is preparing an ADT-4 streaming box for Android TV development which brings a number of upgrades.<\/p>\n
Google has designated three devices so far as Android TV’s developer device, eligible for new builds of the platform and designed with app testing in mind. We confirmed earlier this week that ADT-3, the latest of this line of devices, had been discontinued as it has been out of stock for months. ADT-3 was first launched in 2019 and is still the only physical hardware that can run the latest Android TV updates, including Android TV 13 which launched just last week.<\/p>\n
We now have evidence that Google is preparing an ADT-4 device for Android TV development which has upgraded specs and a box form factor rather than another dongle.<\/p>\n
9to5Google<\/em> has viewed documentation that explicitly refers to a new streaming box as \u201cADT-4\u201d and a \u201cHybrid Google Developer Kit\u201d with TV tuner hardware with support for standards including ATSC 3.0 and DVB-S2. The streaming box is powered by an Amlogic S905X4 processor, considerably newer than the S905Y2 in ADT-3.<\/p>\n This device appears to be based on a developer box currently sold by DroidLogic.tv. There are currently no references to ADT-4 on the listing, but the hardware appears the same as the documentation we’ve viewed. If so, that would point to ADT-4 including 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and more input\/output than any other Android TV developer device. This includes TV tuner hardware, HDMI out, multiple USB ports including USB-C, 3.5mm audio and optical audio out, as well as a microSD card slot and built-in microphones and a speaker for Google Assistant.<\/p>\n