Ready? All you've gotta do is download an app called Photo Screensaver onto your Android TV box. The Android TV-Google Photos screensaver solution In fact, it's actually quite a bit better than the native implementation on Chromecast. And sure enough, I found a pretty simple workaround for getting Google Photos to work as the screensaver on an Android TV device. But let's save that discussion for another time, you handsome devil.'Īnd so I started digging. Find a way.'Īnd then I thought, 'You know, it's kinda weird that you address yourself by name when you're talking in your own head. You write a column about Android stuff, for Goog's sake. I actually considered aborting our Android TV experience entirely when I dug through our new Mi Box's settings and discovered there was no option to create a custom screensaver with Google Photos. And when it comes to Google, logic doesn't always apply. Well, it turns out I forgot one critical fact: This is Google we're talking about.