so you just got yourself the brand-new
and vidi a shield Pro Edition or maybe
you've got the previous generation like
I have and you now want to fully loadup
your device now as we know with the
Nvidia shield you do get access to the
Google Play Store but it's a small
subset of applications are actually
available out there so let's say you
install more exotic applications or
applications that you can't really find
on the standard Google Play Store but
you still want to install them what's
the best and safest way to do that well
in this video today let me show you
three custom apks stores which only give
you access to some amazing applications
amazing utilities and amazing games but
they also have some great features like
automatic app updating and they also
give you verification to make sure the
application is 100% safe coming up right
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to me thank you so for this process to
work we need to have a method of
installing apks directly onto our Nvidia
shield now the method I showed yesterday
uses an older version of puffin TV which
will allow you to download applications
through the browser onto your device now
you may want to use different method but
you can still follow the steps in this
video
so my device because I've already
installed the older version of puffin TV
the first thing I need to do is go over
to settings device preferences go to
security restrictions and where it says
unknown sources I need to make sure that
puffin TV is an application which can
install other applications if you are
using a different method to install your
apks just make sure it's listed in here
and make sure you given it the allow
permission once you've done that let's
back out this let's now start that
browser so in my case I'm going to start
puffing TV inside the browser let's
navigate to my website which is tech
doctor UK comm ok let's search for that
and we can see it's the link here let's
open that up now we can now go to the
downloads page so under custom apk
stores the first one we going to look at
today is called up to down App Store
let's scroll down let's click on the
green download button
once you see the message that is now
started downloading we cannot press back
on the remote go back to the start page
and inside downloads we can see we've
now downloaded that custom applications
to us let's open that up let's now click
on install ok let's open that up ok so
this is the first custom application
store and here you'll find all sorts of
applications and many that you can't
find on the standard Google Play Store
so you go section for latest
applications you've got top downloads
your communications games lifestyle
multimedia productivity tools and here
you can also manage applications and
here's one of the key features of this
application store which has built-in
automatic updates so once you have
installed a bunch of applications you
can always come back and see if there's
a later version by clicking on this and
this will then update all of your
applications to the latest version so
let's say you want to get something on
top downloads let's install ok so what
yes file explorer here which is a good
utility let's click on that we can now
click on download let's give up to down
permission to our storage click on allow
and weeks it has now downloaded and we
get option 2 installer and here we can
see we need to give up 2 down permission
so we can store applications through
this application store so let's go to
settings and just make sure that's now
ticked let's go back here click on
install again and we can open that up
click on agree give it permission I will
now install this application outside the
official Google Play Store so that's the
first customer apk store which is up to
down App Store just back out of this the
next customer apk store we have in the
list is aptoide TV now this really
doesn't need any intro from me I mean
app to a TV has been one of the most
trusted long-running custom apk stores
for well a very long time so let's now
click on the green download button
let's press back on the remote go back
to the start page and inside downloads
we now have opto TVs let's click on that
and let's click on install now I want to
do things a little bit differently on
this one because we know what's going to
happen now I'm going to start the
application I'm going to find an
application to install porn I try and
install it it's going to give me that
warning so let's do it the correct way
so once you've installed your custom
application store go back into your
settings
go to device preferences go down into
security and we should now see after a
TV in the list there is let's now give
that permission which now once again
means if there is any application or
download through this application my
device will give me permission to
install applications from there so let's
back out that let's now add up to a TV
to the home screen there is so lets us
know that at beginning so you press and
hold let's click on move and let's move
to the left
artists put at the beginning and let's
now open that up so this really is a
giant and I really do mean giant library
of applications of utilities of games
just so many things this application has
you really will find all of the things
are you looking for in here and the
other great thing about this application
is because the thing is when you do
download things online maybe from
somebody's store or maybe from a website
how can you actually verify that the
application that you're downloading is
firstly what it is and secondly that's
being checked for viruses now I know in
the applications are normally download I
do pass them through virus turtles the
rest assured the stuff they get from my
website has been tested for viruses and
malware but if you are downloading from
a random guy's web soil from a random
guys falling store how can you really be
sure that what you're downloading is
actually safe or with app to a TV when
you do actually click on something so
for example uninstall YouTube 400 TV
let's click on that so in the
application you do find that's got the
green shield it is a trusted application
and it has been through various checks
and various vetting processes to make
sure the application is 100% safe so
that's really one of the benefits of
downloading through a pro TV is you do
get some kind of confidence of what
you're downloading can be trusted let's
back out this okay so here is up to a TV
so you got a section for discover we can
discover all sorts of different things
lots of different things in there
different emulators different things
let's back out for that then you've got
a category section so here you got your
entertainment category shopping
communications social tools video
players editors lots of different things
and it guys just so many things
let's try entertainment so you can see
guys pretty much all of the apps you
could possibly want or in here just so
much good content guys and all from a
trusted source somewhat and again here
we can see guys this also has
built-in updating so this is telling us
there is a new update for puffin TV
which as we know you don't want to get
because the latest version of puffin TV
actually blocks downloading so I'm gonna
ignore that before I update this
application I can do that or anything
else I have on my device but for now
let's look at Pac Man let's click on
that let's click on install and again we
can see this is a trusted application ok
do uninstall this we notice there's no
error about permissions let's click on
install here is to the UK playing a bit
of pac-man
I mean accompli people didn't find that
noise annoying but I guess in your kids
in care barracks it's working fine I
didn't mean destroying this is back out
of that okay so that's app to a TB so
really guys have all of the custom
application stores are previously tested
this has to be one of the best and when
you go through the list you can you see
why because literally every application
you could possibly want is in his that's
the second one which is aptoide TV so
the last custom application store in the
list is actually built a special one is
called the aurora Play Store now the
reason why it's a bit special is as I
mentioned at the start this video yes
you can access the Google Play Store
from the Nvidia shield but you only see
a small subset of applications the
reason for that is the place servers
actually detect which device is making a
connection to the Google Play Store if
they see an Nvidia shield coming in they
may show this many applications if they
see another hundred box coming they may
see different applications so based on
your device ID determines which
applications are damnit the volume
control based on your device ID that
determines which applications the Google
Play Store shows you well what the
Aurora Play Store does it allows you to
spoof your device IDs and only can you
download applications for the Nvidia
shield you can actually download all the
applications on the Google Play Store
and again in terms of security you can't
get much safer than installing apps from
the official Play Store so let me
download this now and let me show you
how it works and here we can just see
that's now downloading and just for
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let's click on the store now ok so now
if you want to you can actually log in
to the Roar Play Store using your own
Google credentials and the reason why
you might want to do that is if you have
previously purchased an application with
your Google Account so once you log into
that account here you can also download
the application for free because you
will be purchased it now in my case
because I only want to download free
applications I'm going to select the
anonymous option for this application is
a bit fiddly with the standard remote
control so I'm just gonna use my
Bluetooth controller let me now turn
that on I saw the UH Nokia phone it's
now working let's now click on anonymous
let's go down and let's click on login
and of course because you can pair up
any Bluetooth controller with the Nvidia
shield alternatively you can use a
keyboard with a dongle but for now let's
click on login so this should now use
one of his built-in accounts to login to
the Google Play Store and let's see if
that works first time I had to now were
close okay so here is the official
Google Play Store but again right now
it's actually the Nvidia shield that's
making a connection to the Google Play
Store which is where I can only see
these kind of applications so if I
search for Firefox we can see we get no
results how can we fix that well let's
go to the settings on the top right
let's go down and we're looking for here
is where it says spoof so we can see it
does correctly know what my device is
and similarly once it makes the
connection to the Google Play Store it's
only going to show me applications
suitable for this device and that's what
we want to change so the way we change
that is if you click on a spoof device
now we can now see we can pretend to be
any of these other devices so for test
lets us be let's be a Google pixel let's
click on that and let's now click on
apply ok it tells us that we need to
restart the application so you can then
spoof that device so the next time we do
make a connection back to the Google
Play Store Google Play Store should
think that it's actually a Google pixel
that's connecting in so let's see if it
actually works let's click on logout
let's log back in is anonymous as your
login is anonymous so click on login and
we can see straight away guys some of
these applications have now changed
because Google Play Store thinks is
actually a Google pixel that's now
connecting in blessed with our real test
scores so let's see if I click on search
let's see if we can now search for
Firefox and there we have it guys so
because Google Play Store thinks it's
actually a Google pixel as connecting in
we can now down at all these
applications
direct from the Google Play Store so
let's click on download and we can see
that's now installed ok so this process
has shown you a very easy way on how you
can access the entire Google Play Store
direct from your Nvidia shield and
install all these applique
with one-click even if they weren't
actually designed for your device you
can install them without any problems
whatsoever well that's all for this
video guys many thanks for watching and
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