There’s frustratingly nonetheless no Apple TV app for Android telephones and tablets. Your subsequent greatest various is putting in the Apple TV Progressive Internet App (PWA) in order that the streaming service seems in your homescreen.

What’s a PWA?

Progressive Internet Apps seem on the homescreen of your Android gadgets, in addition to the appliance grid. Behind-the-scenes, this is identical expertise you get when visiting television.apple.com in Chrome, however the deal with bar, tab switcher, and different browser controls on the high of the display screen are eliminated while you use the PWA.

This offers a extra devoted expertise and sooner entry.

Browser vs. PWA

The way to set up the Apple TV PWA

1. Go to television.apple.com in Chrome for Android (or on Chromebooks)
2. Open the three-dot overflow button within the top-right nook 
3. Faucet “Set up app” close to the underside of the menu 
4. Click on “Set up” on the affirmation field

The sq. field in a circle icon is a bit ugly, however you now get one-tap entry to the streaming service that gained’t get misplaced in your different open tabs.

Why there’s no Apple TV app on Android telephones or tablets 

Apple solely provides an “Apple TV” app within the Play Retailer for streaming gadgets and tv units powered by Android/Google TV. There isn’t a cellular app for telephones and tablets. 

These with cellular Android gadgets and Chromebooks are formally advised to make use of television.apple.com: 

On a Chrome OS gadget or Android gadget, you possibly can watch Apple TV+ and MLS Season Go within the Chrome and Firefox internet browsers.

In the meantime, there’s an Apple Music cellular app on Android. It’s up to date frequently — although it solely simply added a Themed icon — to take care of the identical set of options because the iOS model. Total, it’s a reasonably good expertise.

The identical can’t be stated of the television.apple.com expertise. Whereas streaming works, it’s removed from an optimized expertise with no assist for offline downloads or picture-in-picture. In the meantime, you don’t get to see your Apple TV purchases as solely streaming content material is obtainable on the net. 

Apple sees its streaming service as another excuse to get an iPhone and/or iPad, whereas televisions are the third-party kind issue it does care about. As the corporate works to extend subscribers (and push the MLS Season Go), it would hopefully rethink the choice to not supply Apple TV for Android.