Prerequisites
All official Android TV and Google TV deivces are supported. If you are using a TV with another OS like Samsung, LG, Panasonic or others, you need to use an Android TV device which you connect via HDMI.
| Device | Rating | Description |
| Nokia 8010 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fast Android TV device with a lot of features, e.g. Bluetooth remote, LAN/WIFI, Optical Audio, Refresh Rate settings, Dolby Digital Passthrough and much more for third the price of Google TV Streamer and even faster. My favorite Android TV device. |
| Strong Leap S3 Pro 4K | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fast Google TV device with a lot of features, e.g. Bluetooth remote with number and color keys, LAN/WIFI, Optical Audio and much more. My favorite Google TV device. |
| Strong Leap S3+ | ⭐⭐⭐ | Fast Google TV device with a lot of features, e.g. Bluetooth remote with number and color keys, LAN/WIFI, Optical Audio and much more. Update: Unfortunately this device suffers quality issues as I had to replace it several times. |
| Nvidia Shield devices | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fast Android TV devices with good update support and a lot of features |
| Philips TV devices with Android TV or Google TV | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Great devices with Ambilight. Make sure the TV supports Android TV or Google TV because some cheaper devices use an alternative OS which is not supported. TV integration is working fine with my apps. |
| Google TV Streamer 4K | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | The best device with Google TV and Android 14. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the fastest processor required for the Google TV interface and is slightly less fluid than the Nokia 8010. |
| Sony Bravia TV | ⭐⭐⭐ | Good TV sets with software issues and bad support. |
| MI TV / Mi boxes | ⭐⭐⭐ | Cheap Android TV devices with some Wifi issues and some standby issues. |
| TCL devices | ⭐⭐⭐ | Good Android TV devices with some restrictions regarind Autostart because of SafeGuard app. See autostart section for solution. |
| Google Chromecast HD | ⭐ | Not recommended. Very slow, bad hardware choice, bad driver support, Google TV UI is inmature compared to Android TV (recommendations not available) |
| Google Chromecast 4K | ⭐ | Not recommended. Slow, bad hardware choice, bad driver support, Google TV UI is inmature compared to Android TV (recommendations not available). Since Android 14 Google introduced more display issues affecting multiple apps. |
| Thomson 240G | ⭐⭐⭐ | Good alternative to Nokia boxes. |
| Android TV boxes | ⭐ | There are a lot of so called "Android TV boxes" which are no real Android TV devices. They use Android phone OS with some customizations. Therefore not everything is working as expected. Not recommended. |