How to Download a Web Browser on Nvidia Shield
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how to download a web browser on nvidia shield How To Install Chrome On Android TV [NVIDIA Shield] How is it that the most popular web browser in the world isn’t available on their own operating system? I recently did an article where I compared all of the most popular web browsers available on Android TV. But there was one browser missing from that list. That’s because Google Chrome isn’t available on the Google Play Store. It has to be sideloaded on an Android TV device. I’ll wait a moment to let that sink in. I’ve always wondered why Google’s own browser doesn’t appear on their own Android operating system. We’re going to fix that today and show you how you can install Google Chrome on Android TV. As an example, I’m going to be using my NVIDIA Shield TV. How to Install Chrome on Android TV [NVIDIA Shield] Since you can’t just download Chrome through the Google Play Store, we’re going to have to sideload it on to your Android TV device. If you haven’t heard of sideloading, or you need a refresher, I recommend checking out my tutorial where I walk you through several different ways to get the apps you want on your device. Don’t worry if you only want to install Chrome on your Android TV or NVIDIA Shield. I’m going to walk you through the process right now. Install Chrome on NVIDIA Shield from Aptoide TV. The easiest way to get Chrome on your Android TV is to install it from Aptoide TV. Aptoide TV is one of my favorite alternative app stores. It has thousands of apps, specifically designed for Android TV, that you won’t find on the Google Play Store. Open Aptoide TV and search for Google Chrome . The Chrome browser should be the first app listed. Click on it to go to it’s app page. Unfortunately, there’s only one version of Chrome available on Aptoide TV at the time I’m writing this. If you’re looking for a specific version, then I recommend skipping down to the APKMirror section of this article. Click on the Install button to start the download process. Once it finished downloading, Aptoide TV will start the installation process. Since Chrome doesn’t require any special permissions, click on the Install button to continue. Once the installation finished, an icon for Chrome appears in your Apps tab of your Android TV. Unfortunately, Chrome isn’t designed to be used with a TV remote. You’ll need a keyboard or mouse to use it. Even the NVIDIA Shield TV remote, as good as it is, doesn’t work that well with Chrome. Install Chrome on Android TV from APKMirror. If you’re looking for a specific version of Chrome, then I recommend installing it from APKMirror. Aptoide TV is easier, but it doesn’t give you as many options as APKMirror does. To start, open the Downloader App . If you haven’t yet installed Downloader on your Android TV, you should definitely check out this article. It’s one of the first apps I install on every Android box I own. I highly recommend it. Downloader’s home screen lets you type in the web address directly, if you know where you’re going. It also lets you search for web pages if you’re not. Search for APK Mirror Chrome to continue. APKMirror should be one of the first two links returned in the search. In this case, we’re looking at the second result on apkmirror.com. Click on it to continue. Now that we’ve found Chrome on APKMirror, we need to find the latest version so we can install it on our Android TV. Scroll down until you see the All Versions tab. This is a list of every version of Chrome that’s available on APKMirror. The newest version will always be at the top of the list. Unless you need a specific version, it’s a safe bet to download the latest version. Click on the Download button on the far right-hand side of the screen. This will take you to a page with more details on that specific version. Don’t worry. We’re almost done. From here, click on the Download APK button to start the installation process. If you’re using Downloader, you can install Chrome right from within the app. If you’ve been using a different web browser, you may have to download the APK file to your device and install it from your favorite file manager. Once the installation process completes, the Chrome icon will appear in your Apps drawer. Click on the icon to launch Chrome. Tim Wells got his first computer at the age of ten and hasn't stopped tinkering ever since. After discovering Android TV boxes in 2013, he created a popular Android PC Review website and guided it to over 8 million pageviews before stepping away in 2018. After a brief hiatus from the industry he's back at the helm of AndroidTVNews.com to bring Android TV and TV boxes to the forefront of the streaming world. When he's not writing, he spends as much time as he can with his beautiful wife and his bulldog. Recent Posts. There’s nothing more frustrating than a TV remote that suddenly stops working. One minute you’re zipping through your menu and choosing the content you want to watch. The next minute, you can’t. Hisense TVs are awesome! Hisense has some of the best smart TVs around, from Laser TVs to ULED and UHD. But, as impressive as they are, the TVs aren’t perfect, and things do go wrong. Some of. About Me. Hi! My name is Tim Wells and welcome to Android TV News! Back in 2013, I bought my first Android TV box and I've been using TV boxes and Android TV's ever since. In this site, I'm sharing all the tips and tricks I've learned over the years, so you don't want to miss it. How to Install & Configure Emby Server on NVIDIA Shield TV. Emby released a server app for the NVIDIA Shield TV back in February 2019, but the installation process wasn’t as smooth as I’d like. My experience involved a lot of trial & error, and reaching out to the Emby community before I finally got it working the way I wanted. I’ll admit, there were a few times that I wanted to give up and go back to Plex. I figured there had to be other people that were having the same problems. So I my experiences and I created this guide to hopefully help save you some frustration. Emby Server vs. Emby Client. First, let’s make sure we understand the difference between Emby Server and Emby Client. Emby is more like Plex than Kodi. It has one app that you run on the server, and a different app that you download and run on your clients. By contrast, Kodi has one app that plays your media files, no matter where you’re hosting them. Emby’s client app is available on the Google Play Store, so it’s an easy download for NVIDIA Shield TV users. Unfortunately, Emby Server is only available as a direct download from their website . That means you’ll need to sideload it on your NVIDIA Shield TV. We’re going to walk through the process in the next section. However, if you’d like a primer on what sideloading is and how you can get access to thousands of additional apps on your Android TV, check out my How-To Guide here. How to Install Emby Server for NVIDIA Shield. The first step is to download Emby Server for Android directly from their webpage at https://emby.media/server-android.html . You can do this on your favorite web browser, but I’m going to use the Downloader App . I would prefer to use Puffin TV to browse the web on my Android TV, but Google forced them to disable the download feature in order to keep it on the Google Play Store. Open Downloader, and go to the search bar in the Home screen. There, you can either enter in the link above, or just search for “emby server android” like I do here. If you choose to search, like I did, the page on Emby’s website will be the first result. I have to give credit to Emby here. They make the download process really simple, because there’s only one version and one link to click on. The Emby Server APK is just a little over 200 MB in size, so it’s not going to take up much space on your NVIDIA Shield TV. You can go through the installation process directly from Downloader. If you’re using a different web browser for Android TV, you may have to download the Emby Server APK file and then install it from your file manager app. Once that’s finished, remember to delete the APK file to reclaim some of that file space. Then, go ahead and exit Downloader and go back to the home screen. Click on your Apps icon to pull up the list of apps you have installed on your Shield TV. As you can see in this image, I’ve got both the Emby Client app and Emby Server app installed. The Client app has a dark blue background in the icon, whereas the Emby Server app has a grey background.