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google's new chromecast with google tv
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is out in users hands and it's been
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well received mainly because of the fact
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that it has a remote control and a ui
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on screen so that means it's the easiest
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chromecast for most people to use
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but that doesn't mean that people are
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without questions and one of those
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questions is how to get apps onto this
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when they don't appear in the play store
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we want to show you how you can do that
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okay so here we are at the main screen
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for your chromecast and
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to get this whole thing working where
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you can sideload applications
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it only takes a few steps the first
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file browser to put on the chromecast
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that can handle cloud-based
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files so that once you have whatever
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application it is you would like to
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sideload today we're just going to use
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stadia application even though stadia
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still doesn't work that well
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uh on this chromecast uh it's a it's a
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it's one i'm sure a lot of people want
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to try so that's the one we went and
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grabbed we went to apk mirror
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but you can grab your apk wherever it is
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you want to get your apk from
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again this isn't for any particular app
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as long as you have your app and you
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what you need to do is go ahead and put
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it into google drive into a folder that
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you're going to be able to find
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so once you've done that and you've got
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your application apk is sitting there
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ready for you to install
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you need to get that file browser here
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what i found works best so far for me at
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is an app called file commander so we're
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going to get that installed first
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install file commander from the play
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store here's file commander
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file manager and free cloud on the
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and this is one of those apps you can
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use it for free and you can remove
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ads if you want to if you want to pay
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for it later but i've found no reason to
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do that if the main reason you're using
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it is just to side load applications
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so we're going to go ahead and open this
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thing up and you'll get your nice little
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splash screen saying hey
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welcome to file commander and right off
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we get the option to select cloud yes i
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to manipulate files and we're going to
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go down to google drive
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and it's going to link up the same
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google drive account that you have
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logged into your chromecast so keep that
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in mind when you're placing that apk
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into your google drive account but you
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could use box or dropbox if you wanted
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now once we're in that spot if i go to
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try at this point to pull up my drive
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and open up the apk and install it it's
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going to fail because there's a couple
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other steps that we need to do
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first so what we're going to do is head
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and then go all the way up to the top to
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the far right and this is where you will
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so the first thing we need to do is
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enable developer mode and so we're going
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about and go all the way down here to
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so android tv os build and keep clicking
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until you see it say you're now a
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developer from there we'll
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back out a couple times we're going to
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and then we're going to go down to
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security and restrictions
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unknown sources and select file
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commander to be allowed to un
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install unknown apps which obviously is
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so now that's done we can go back to our
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and then open up file commander and now
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what we want to do is go to the drive
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folder i put mine in one just called
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and you'll have to kind of fuss around
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with this just a little bit like you
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kind of move over to the right and then
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it to highlight it first so sometimes
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it's easy to lose that cursor just keep
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moving around you'll eventually find it
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so we're going to go into the temp
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folder and you can see right up top here
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there we go i'm going to click this and
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it's going to start staging and
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installing the application once it sits
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there for just a second
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it's going to bring up hopefully the
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logo of the application you were looking
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for this is stadia and it's going to ask
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you if you want to install the
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we're going to click over and hit
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install and the app should install
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assuming it's a normal size smaller
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this shouldn't take too long again
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remember the chromecast is not wildly
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powerful so some of the stuff takes a
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little bit longer than you might be used
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and then once we're done we can either
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hit done and you can exit this and go
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back to your home screen
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or we can hit open for right now i'm
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going to hit done just hit home
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and just to show you once we go to all
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our apps you see stadia
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right there and now i can launch it
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and again stadia isn't quite ready
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yeah i can't even select get started so
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for all those out there saying that
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stadia works just fine on this
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chromecast this is a perfect example
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uh if i hook up a bluetooth controller
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uh for right now unless i have a mouse
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keyboard and all that kind of stuff i
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can't even get past the splash screen
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it will actually load up it'll open and
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all that kind of stuff so really while
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this may not be the best
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tutorial for installing stadia
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necessarily there's probably
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a handful of apps that people want to
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or test on this new chromecast that you
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just can't get in the play store it says
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this application is not valid on your
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and so you can't do it through the play
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store this is the only way to go about
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getting it to be on here and
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there are certain apps that might run
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pretty well on here uh once you get them
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and if you've been looking for a way to
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get stuff side loaded without having to
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hook up a bunch of cables
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this is your route a couple of steps a
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couple of app installs and boom you're
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that's it for this one hope it helped
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