Apple TV App for Android Phones is Reportedly in the Works

Apple may finally make its Apple TV app available on Android phones. A recent job listing spotted by Bloomberg reveals that the Apple TV team is looking for an “experienced senior android engineer” who will “help build an application used by millions to watch and discover tv and sports.”

As of today, Apple has an Apple TV app for Android TV devices, but there’s no mobile app. Android users can still access Apple TV content via the web on tv.apple.com, but a native app would be much more convenient. Android is also the most popular mobile OS worldwide, running on over 3 billion devices.

The Apple TV app provides access to a large collection of on-demand movies and TV shows, as well as Apple TV+ and the MLS Season Pass. At $9.99 per month, Apple TV+ isn’t the most expensive streaming service on the market, but it has far less content than Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. However, it’s also the home of critically-acclaimed original films and TV shows such as Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, and Silo.

If Apple has already released Apple Music and Apple Music Classical apps on Android, the company has been quite reluctant to bring its most popular services on Google’s mobile platform. There’s little chance that we’ll ever see FaceTime, iMessage, or Apple Photos come to Android. However, the Apple TV service is already available on all platforms via the web, so it just makes sense for the company to give customers who own an Android phone a native app to enjoy that content.