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TikTok has now surfaced in the Google Play Store for Android TV. This popular platform is used by a wide range of manufacturers, including Philips, Sony, Sharp, TCL, Hisense and Toshiba – so
TikTok’s arrival on the Play Store should bring the video-focused social network to more eyeballs. RELATED ARTICLES Advertisement Until recently, Samsung TVs were the only on the market
with access to TikTok. The South Korean firm, which is the biggest Smart TV brand on the planet, worked hand-in-hand with TikTok to tweak the interface to work with the landscape orientation
of a television. On smartphones, TikTok presents its videos as a vertical scrolling list. Vertical video is almost always the preferred format for users on the platform, which has gained
huge traction in the last year. TikTok is a pretty full-featured experience on the TV, with the app able to navigate to individual creator’s profiles, as well as sorting videos into
categories. This is designed to make discovering new content easier on the TV, where users will have to use a remote control – not a touchscreen like they’re used to using with TikTok.
Content is categorised into 12 categories, ranging from animals and comedy to food and gaming. Advertisement Like the iPhone and Android version of the app, videos will be viewed vertically,
with black bars on either side to fill the unused screen real estate. To solve the issue of not being able to scroll on the big screen, TikTok relies on categories (Image: TIKTOK) Like the
hugely-popular smartphone app, you can check on individual creators' profiles (Image: TIKTOK) If you’d like to test it out for yourself, load up the Google Play Store on your Android TV
and search for the app although it's worth noting that the big-screen version of the app doesn’t appear to be working in every region around the globe – with the UK one of a handful of
countries where TikTok works as expected on your telly. TikTok is also coming to the new Chromecast with Google TV, which runs on Android TV – but includes an all-new interfaced with AI
recommendations, a greater emphasis on artwork from shows, and games. It's these improvements that led Google to brand its new interface as "Google TV", rather than rely on
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and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. Read our Privacy Policy Thank you for subscribing. Speaking about the wide roll-out of its new telly app, Rich
Waterworth, General Manager of TikTok UK, told Express.co.uk: "We're excited to bring the creativity and joy of TikTok to Google TV and other Android TV OS devices across Europe.
The TikTok on TV experience will be a new way for people to come together and enjoy videos from some of our most popular content categories on the big screen. "Whether it's
learning a new skill or just having some fun together watching what you love, now more than ever, I feel this is a brilliant way for people to be able to enjoy their favourite TikTok content
together at home." TikTok, whose parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, has had a tumultuous year in the United States, including the threats of multiple bans by the US
government as well the sale of some of its US business to the likes of Microsoft and Walmart. RELATED ARTICLES Share Article