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I am standing in front of a TV running the new Android OH home screen and what you need to know here is that it is a new way to look at all of your apps on a TV it's not just a giant app grid what Google is actually asking app developers to do is turn their apps into channels where the content is sort of immediately available on the home screen and you can scroll through it and some of the channels even have live previews so while you're scrolling through the home screen you'll see something you want to watch it'll show a live preview you can click in and watch it there are of course you know all of the apps that you want hopefully they're listed up at the top and there's even more apps over sliding in from the right but really the idea here is that rather than just grind through the grid what you actually want just right here on the home screen in addition to all these little channels that each you know app can set up there's a watch next thing so this is a queue of the stuff you've just been watching it's the queue of the things that you want to watch next and you can even add stuff to it by long-pressing on an icon so say I really want to watch this next you can just add it to your queue and it'll be available for you there's other really subtle touches the background of the screen actually changes to match the thumbnail of the thing that you're looking at you can also set up custom channels within each channel so for example if CNN has both like what's the latest news and top stories channels you can have both of them on your home screen and it also supports a live content so if there's a channel that has live TV streams happening right now it'll just start playing that stream right on the home screen and you can just click in and watch it so in addition to the new UI on Android Oh on Android TV it's also going to get the Google assistant and we have it here running on an Nvidia shield it will run all the way down to Android M and it does all the stuff that you would expect the Google assistant to do on other platforms so you can say play me a Jimmy Kimmel video or you could say oh hey play me that Winona Ryder thing on Jamie can't really specific searches that work well but it's also context about her so you can say tell me about stranger things play that right now and it all will just play that you can ask for the weather you can ask about your commute you can turn your smart home lights on and off basically all the Google assistant stuff it's going to be very similar to what happens when the Google home can send information up to the chromecast but it all works natively right on the TV for much much more of what's happening here at Google i/o 2017 you should definitely subscribe to our channel we are the verbs