How to Update Your Android TV Apps

Android TV is becoming popular in each of its forms. As an operating system for televisions, as an operating system for decoders smart or onboard the chromecast with Google TV, the Google system continues to advance and as such, more and more users are approaching the platform. A platform which, everything is said, continues to grow in number of applications so we will show you how to update them once they are installed.

Update apps on Android TV

One of the features of Android TV is that, except for small details, its interface does not change depending on the device on which we are. Yes, there are cases like Patchwall, Xiaomi’s proprietary layer for its own TVs and with its own tricks, but even in those cases little changes what lies beneath the surface

, and that’s where we’re headed.

As we said, Android TV comes with different applications already installed so that we can start working from the first moment and we can install many more, almost as many as we want or as its internal storage allows us. But once that’s done, it’s time to keep them up to date and carrying out this procedure may seem a bit cumbersome, but it’s not at all. We explain how to do it.

To start, we go to the home window of Android TV, the one we see as soon as we launch the application, our digital decoder or our Google TV. There we see a row of applications in the first place, we stand on it and navigate to the left looking for the section title, ‘Apps’

. We can also do the same by navigating right to the ‘+’ button to view the full list of apps.

Once we are in this list we will have the Google Play button at the top of the screen with the text “Download more apps”. If we want, we can directly search for Google Play among the installed applications, but as we can see it is not necessary since it has quite visible direct access. Press the OK button on the remote to access it.

The next thing is to navigate with the command to the left and place ourselves on “Manage apps and games”. From here we will access, as indicated by the button, the application management section, where we will find the possibility of updating them. We will see that Android TV counts the number of applications that we have without updating next to the text ‘Earring’. We access this section.

Once inside we will have the button to update our installed applications, either navigating one by one or updating them all at once is what we recommend unless there is a space problem because we have finished our Android TV’s internal storage. That’s it, all we have to do is wait for our Android TV to download each update and install it, and we will have all the apps up to date.