A curious and unpleasant paradox may arise with your Smart TV: it has Android TV but does not have the official Google application store, since the Google Play Store is only available for certain brands and models (fortunately the majority) . If this is your case, don’t panic because there is a solution and it’s simple: so you can have Google Play Store on Android TV.
How to get Google Play Store on a TV with Android TV that doesn’t come bundled
First of all, some premises. Reading the title, you may have thought about having the Google Play Store on any Smart TV, for example a Samsung or an LG. The official Google application store is a true marvel in terms of the quantity and quality of the applications you will find there, but only is compatible with SO Android TV/Google TV
From here, the procedure is to download the APK from the Google Play Store from a trusted repository like APKMirror and install it on the TV. This can be done directly on your Smart TV with a browser and file explorer, but in practice it is quite more convenient to download the file from a device such as mobile phone, tablet or computer and transfer it
Suppose you already have the file with the Google Play Store on your TV, now it’s time to perform the installation. To run it, the first thing will be to allow the installation of applications of unknown origin, something that you will have to activate from the TV settings (the gear icon). Then follow the route ‘Security‘ > ‘Unknown sources‘.
Simply locate the APK on the Google Play Store (again, a good file manager can help, if you don’t have the download folder handy) and tap on it to install it . Once the process is complete, the Google Play Store should appear in the list of installed apps.
I tried to open Google Play Store, but it gives an error. This is probably because the installed APK is not compatible with your version of Android TV, in which case you will simply have to download another version and repeat the installation process. To get it right, it’s a good idea to first check which version of Android TV you have (here’s how to find out this information).
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