Now you can see “ Add Server” button appear below “ Web Storage” button. Right side of the app you can see “ Web Storage” button like below picture. For that open X-plore File Manager that is installed recently. Now login to your Google Drive account using Android TV. There you can see X-Plore File Manager appear on search results like below. Open Google Play Store and search “File”. X-Plore is a great app to manage files on cloud. We use this app to access your Google Drive account.

Step 05: Install Apps using Google Drive on Android TVįor this we are using X-Plore app on Android TV.

Step 04: Allow X-Plore File Manager to install Android Apps.

Step 03: Accessing Google Drive files using Android TV BOX.

Step 02: Setup Google Drive on Android TV.

If you does not know how to do that you can follow below mention procedure. So you can share files on your phone, computer or any device easily with your Android TV. You can upload any file to Google Drive and can access those files using Android TV Google Drive app. But Fire Stick and many Android TV boxes does not have USB ports and many does not like to plug in their USB drives every time they want to install any Android app.įor this you should need gmail account and Google Drive account. If you have USB port on your Android TV box then you can easily copy downloaded apk files on your computer to USB and connect to TV.

Many Android TV devices come with USB ports. Play Store version of Android TV does not have puffin TV, Downloader and many apps used to side-load apk. So you may not find all Android apps you see on your Android phone in Android TV play Store app. Play store on Android TV is the filtered version of Play Store you seen on Android Phone. As you know ES File Explorer no longer available on Google Play Store.

Day by day installing third party apps or side-loading Android apps on Android TV become harder and harder.

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