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tvOS seems to support seamless transitions of apps across iOS devices (they mentioned it in a game context) so it may prove to be much better than that -- e.g. watch a show on Hulu, walk into room and hand the app over to the TV and so forth.

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Android TV devices act as Chromecast receivers, so you can do the same thing on Android TV, at least with media player apps. However, I don't think there's a built-in way of transitioning state for full-fledged Android apps. Samsung's apparently been experimenting with it [1], but it's still in beta, currently only works with a few Galaxy devices, and requires apps to integrate their SDK. I'm interested to see what Apple's approach looks like.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.fl...

That's already a thing on Amazon's Kindle + FireTV, for us it's really only useful occasionally moving my daughter to a tablet so we can use the tv.

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