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As announced in December, Apple TV is now available globally on the Chromecast with Google TV. The new app allows you to watch original Apple TV+ content, as well as access existing iTunes movie and television show purchases. The UI is quite straightforward, with a bar at the top letting users navigate between Watch Now, original content, Movies, TV Shows, Kids, Library, search, and settings.

Google’s Android TV is taking on new levels of importance thanks to a redesigned UI coming to some devices, and in turn, it looks like major updates might get a bit faster too. Right alongside smartphones and tablets today, Google has just debuted the first preview of Android TV 12. The first preview for Android TV 12 is launching today and brings along with it the new Google TV experience.

The first developer preview for Android 12 is here! We’re digging through to see what’s new, and as is customary for Google, one of the first things we noticed was yet another tweak to the design of notifications in . Android updates just don’t go by without some sort of revamp to the notifications shade, and Android 12 is no different. This time around, there are quite a few visual tweaks…

As a preview — rather than beta, Android 12 DP1 is “for developers only​” and not focused on new user-facing features. That said, we’ve flashed the first Developer Preview factory image to chronicle all the new features. Over the coming hours, we’ll dive into all of Android 12 DP1’s new features and every single change. (The newest updates will be at top of this list. Be sure to…