Android on Switch - Is it possible to use it with the dock and display on the TV?

[uigger]

Hi - I own a Nintendo Switch since 2 years and haven't powered it on since 2 years - I used it onl a couple of hours and always forget to sell it.

Now I was excited that Android got ported to Nintendo Switch - I wanted to turn it into a Nvidia Shield TV since it has the same tegra chip. I watched some Youtube Reviews and the big bummer is that ityou get some lag because it runs from the slower sdcard and not the fast emmc chip.
No big deal.

But nobody talked about it being docked and useable on the TV screen. Is it even possible?
I would love to run Kodi on the LineageOS and watch some IPTV - My FireTV 4KS Stick is too slow for Kodi.
Would Switch be able to display different refrehs rates 24hz, 50hz, 59.98hz?

Thanks for your Answers

 

[BlackByrd]

the switch will dock to TV in android its perfect for kodi, and terrarium tv clones I even got netflix running on it, it runs as a pretty decent android box you can mount to TV and use joy cons wireless to control kodi, I didnt have a 4K firestick but I had one before and never again, Im guessing youd get much better performance from a switch since its pretty much the same hardware as a nvidia shield but dont expect it to run as good as a shield the android is pretty buggy for the things I do like gaming but lightweight apps like TV apks all are usable.

 

[uigger]

i have tried to run kodi with my switch in docked mode but i'm disappointed with the performance. all android + kodi animations lag and are not smooth and it doesnt support framerate switching when docked to the tv.

also sometimes the resolution is very pixelated

 

[Jdbye]

i have tried to run kodi with my switch in docked mode but i'm disappointed with the performance. all android + kodi animations lag and are not smooth and it doesnt support framerate switching when docked to the tv.

also sometimes the resolution is very pixelated

You can try to OC by increasing the performance profile, it should help, I would not use the highest setting though because it uses higher clocks than normal docked and may be bad for the SoC and battery.

The MicroSD card used also matters a lot more than you would think, Android was unusably slow for me until I bought a new SanDisk Ultra A1 rated (100MB/s read) and now it's fast. It's about 10 times more responsive with the balanced performance profile than it was before.

Some people also said it runs faster with the pico gapps package than the larger ones. I used micro, it only has a few more apps than pico so performance between the two should be similar.

The X1 is much slower than modern smartphone/tablet hardware, and newer apps are designed with newer hardware in mind, so if you want the UI to be as smooth as a modern flagship smartphone, that is not going to happen. But it runs pretty well if you have a good MicroSD card I think.

Glitchy TV output is a known issue, the workaround is to undock and dock again until it works correctly. It will hopefully be fixed in a future release but the devs are working on Pie now so there won't be a new release until that is ready, and they may even wait until Android 10.