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                  <p>Recommend great content to users right on the home screen.
                    Enable users to find movies through voice search.
                    Engage users with fluid, immersive games.</p>
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            <p>Simple. Cinematic. Beautiful.</p>
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              Smooth, fast interactions are key to a successful TV app. Keep navigation simple
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            <div class="landing-h1">Build to Entertain</div>
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              Android TV lets you engage your users in a new, shared environment.<br>
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                  Take advantage of pre-built fragments for browsing and interacting with media
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                  Help users find your content quickly with in-app searching.
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                  Suggest content from your app to keep your users coming back.
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                <div class="landing-h3">Play Games on TV</div>
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                  Build apps that let users experience high-performance gaming in leanback mode.
                  Users can discover your apps easily through the Games row in the Android TV
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                  Create apps that serve video and music content in a linear, channel-like
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                 Set up your development environment to build apps for TV.
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