Google admits its Google TV software program is just too sluggish

Google has been engaged on making its TV expertise sooner, extra responsive, and fewer of a problem for customers. According to a post on its support forums on Monday, the corporate has been engaged on enhancing boot time, common efficiency, and the variety of choices for managing storage on each third-party TVs in addition to its Chromecast with Google TV streaming puck.

The firm says that it’s made it so the Google TV homescreen hundreds sooner, lowering the period of time earlier than you possibly can pick which content material to look at. Google says it achieved the efficiency enhancements “through CPU optimizations and improvements to cache management” and that they’ve began to roll out on third-party gadgets and are “coming soon” for Chromecasts.

According to the submit, customers ought to be seeing sooner efficiency in a number of areas — when loading the Live tab, scrolling via the homescreen, or utilizing a child profile. Some of those enhancements, in keeping with the corporate, are due to the truth that Google TV itself makes use of much less RAM, leaving extra for apps, particularly if you’re switching between totally different screens.

The firm’s additionally responding to complaints that have cropped up about how storage limitations could make it troublesome to put in apps for Google TV, particularly on gadgets just like the Chromecast, which solely actually has 5GB of usable area, according to Android Police. Google says it’s added a menu in Settings > System > Storage that’ll allow you to release area by clearing the gadget’s cache and uninstalling apps, which has rolled out to the Chromecast and will probably be coming quickly to sensible TVs. It additionally says there’s an “automated process that runs in the background” to release area for apps.

With current stories about Google seeking to combine wearables and free channels into Google TV, it looks like the corporate might be on the point of push customers towards its massive display screen expertise. If that’s the plan, it is sensible that it’s attempting to enhance on the fundamentals now. However, as individuals want increasingly more apps to maintain up with the rising variety of streaming providers, it might be time for {hardware} producers (together with Google) to think about upgrading the quantity of storage that comes with Google TV gadgets. While software program tips could assist cut back the variety of low storage error messages, there’s actually no substitute for simply having extra space.