Google Hangouts on Bravia

[sweftA]

Does anyone know if it is possible to install Google Hangouts on a Sony Bravia KDL43W755C? I can't find it in the app store. Maybe there's a way to sideload it via USB?

[Jecht_Sin]

Sure you can try to sideload it. You get get the apk from apkmirror, put it in a USB stick and install it from there with a File Manager (I personally like X-Plore).

But unless you have a keyboard connected to the TV I wonder how you would use it. Just the idea to type messages with the remote control drives me crazy..

[sweftA]

I make you right but I really wanted it as a way to send messages to my kids when they are sat in front of the TV, a one-way thing really!

[Anonymous]

@Jecht_Sin - in 2011 I got my first LCD/LED Screen (Sony of course) and at that time I didnt have a PC/laptop or smartphone - so all my web browsing for 6 months or so was via the TV.  One does get much quicker in typing using the TV remote control !! 

[Jecht_Sin]

@sweftA Ahh.. ok. I am afraid notifications don't work on Android TV, though. Also to open sideloaded apps you may need either a file manager or you can make a shortcut in Home with TV App Repo (my favorite option).

@Anonymous I don't dare to ask why in 2011 (!!!!) you didn't have a PC nor a mobile phone... Where you living under a rock? 

[Anonymous]

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@Jecht_Sin wrote:

@Anonymous I don't dare to ask why in 2011 (!!!!) you didn't have a PC nor a mobile phone... Where you living under a rock? 

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I moved countries - sold up things before I left.  Fell on some hard times and living on the bones of my a... Didnt need a phone at that time and local library had 1hr free internet usage per day.  Only reason I got a new TV was that my Grandma died and left me a small amount of £ - so got the KDL-40NX723 TV   Loved that TV by the way.  Then got used to using the internet on the TV using the remote control.

[Jecht_Sin]

@Anonymous Right. As long as you have got your priorities in place, nothing can hurt you! lol