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The app requires accessibility access and the permission to display over other apps (it's putting a cursor on top of your screen).

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I had to install it on both my phone and my TV to enable the cursor mode. I tried plenty of apps, but only one worked well on my Chromecast with Google TV: Zank Remote. вћЎпёЏ And finally, if you have any other Android TV, you're left in the cold because the official remote app has a trackpad and a swipepad, but no mouse. You'll get a hovering mouse on your TV that you can move around and click on items with. вћЎпёЏ If you have a Shield TV, you can download the official remote app from the Play Store and switch to the mousepad mode in it. вћЎпёЏ If you have a USB or Bluetooth mouse ready, just connect it to your Android TV unit. Three scenarios present themselves in the case of the missing mouse function. What you need is a mouse or mouse-like functionality to do that. You'll quickly notice that D-pad scrolling in the menu isn't possible in Photos on Android TV, so you can't go down to settings or click on anything.

You need to toggle sync for the standalone screenshot folder, but it isn't as easy as tapping on your avatar and going to settings to turn it on. Most Android TV devices don't save screenshots inside the DCIM folder, so they won't be automatically part of the backup.

sideloading APKs on the Chromecast with Google TV - beware, there are a couple of additional steps here (4.1 and 4.2) that only apply to this Android TV device, as far as we know.

I won't go over these two steps in detail here because we've already written separate tutorials for them:

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The next steps are to send this APK over to your TV and install it there. For example, you need the v7a processor variant for the Chromecast with Google TV, and the v8a one for the Nvidia Shield. The variant to grab will depend on the TV you have. skip the ones that have a 'bundle' notice next to them. Of course, we recommend going to our sister site APK Mirror and getting the latest version. You need to start by grabbing an installation file for Photos that's compatible with your TV. Since browsers on Android TV are mostly crap, it's better if you kick this off on you phone. If any terms I use below seem confusing, you're better off skipping this whole bidness altogether. The process isn't for the unexperienced or the faint of heart. If, after all of these warnings, you're still excited to get Google Photos to run on the TV, brace yourself. Step 1: Install Google Photos on Android TV

It could be younger kids or elderly people, or anyone else who doesn't have a phone or tablet, and you want them to be able to access the gallery and check some pics or videos when you're not around to cast the content to the TV. The second reason is to allow someone who doesn't have a smartphone to browse your gallery on the big screen.

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For most other people who don't need the automatic backup to kick in each time they take a screenshot, there's always a slower manual way to send screenshots to other devices - uploading from Solid Explorer to Google Drive, or using Send Files to TV are two methods I've often used. This is clearly something only tech writers, gamers, app developers, or tutorial writers would find useful. The first one is to set up automatic backups and sync your screenshots to other devices. As far as I'm concerned, there are only two valid reasons to get Google Photos running on your Android TV. I could talk about how more convenient it is to browse your gallery directly on the TV instead of looking down at the phone then up at the big screen, but really that's a tiny nitpick. It's a very convoluted process, especially if you own a Chromecast with Google TV (but much less so if you own an NVIDIA Shield), and you're better off not wasting your time with it unless you really need it. However, there are a few reasons why you might want to get the proper Photos app installed and for that, we have this tutorial.

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As long as you can cast any photo or video from your phone to your TV, you don't really need the full app to be installed on the latter. Google Photos isn't available on Android TV, and for good reason.