Hi,
I've a Philips Android TV running Oreo.
I'm curious if anyone can get split screen on this?
I've tried numerous forums without any answer. I've tried sideloading split screen apps which haven't helped, I'm wondering if this has been disabled in the OS by Philips.
It'd be nice to run the PS4 alongside an app.
Interested in this
Not sure... I guess you are looking for something like this. Just check the video from the below link. Hope it will help you.
https://t.me/miboxsindia/171201
The video is showing split screen on Android tv
Best suggestion would be an external Android TV device (like an NVIDIA Shield TV) and an HDMI matrix splitter...this usually only splits videos into pip or various screen sections, and you choose ONE audio source to listen to. I've used this setup with 4 Chromecast during last football seasons. That's the hardware approach.
If your Philips TV doesn't have PIP, you won't be able to break out HDMI inputs with any Android app.
On Sony Bravia Android TVs, we are lucky to get 'HTML apps' and I was able to write one app to show any of my HDMI sources in PIP over another HDMI source...this is not an Android app. That's the software approach.
You can look around Philips dev resources to see if they have any options for creating system apps (that are not Android apps)...might be called something like 'billboard' or 'kiosk' mode. These HTML5 capabilities are something that lingers on some manufacture TVs, but HTML5 apps can run along side (or overlay) Android apps.
Edit - looks like Smartbox may work on Philips devices...this is an HTML5/JS framework and does have a resizable video player 👍 but may only allows video files/streams. Sony has a custom HTML5 object they provide as part of their API that allows HDMI inputs to be sources. Maybe Philips has something, but did not come across at first glance.
Unless your TV has Input sharing/splitting (Which I've never seen in all my years in tech on consumer devices) you can't share the screen with 2 different sources.
AFAIK AndroidTV doesn't even do split screen the normal way, just PIP, which has no multiple input support, thus far anyways.
That won't be possible, since split screen is only works with android apps and not with hdmi input. The only thing you can do is have the PS4 in a small PiP which is not that useful, because it's tiny size.