May 11, 2011 08:58 pm EDT

Google TV shows off new Honeycomb UI, plans for Market, SDK; opens up remote app source code

Google I/O is still ongoing and at the session for teaching developers how to build Android apps for Google TV the team has just shown off a quick peek of the new Honeycomb-based UI that will be released later this year. Shown above you can quickly compare it to the original UI to see how different, and hopefully improved it is. Judging by the icons, getting back to live TV should be a simpler process, while there's also that large space above for widgets. Developers will be able to run their ADBs on devices later this summer, but prior to that it will have a "Fishtank" program for some devs to take home their internal test units to run apps on now -- no hardware modification necessary. The demonstration is still ongoing, watch it live at the source link or check back here for more updates shortly.

Update: They've also just announced that the source code to the existing Google TV remote app for Android is being open sourced, so anyone who thinks they can do better (it wouldn't be hard) can have a crack at it. The code is downloadable at the source below, or just check the screenshot in the gallery.

Gallery: Google TV - How to build Android Apps session

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