Install Android TV In Your Old PC In 2023

Android TV is a very popular operating system on media streaming devices. Devices like Mi stick, Google TV, and Nvidia shield offer an Android TV experience for nonsmart TV. Now you can build your own media streaming device using your old PC by installing Android TV. You can also dual boot your system by installing android tv on your pc. So, let’s check out the tutorial on how you can easily install android tv on any pc or laptop.

Install Android TV on any PC:
1. Open Disk Management: Right Click On Windows Start Menu and select Disk Management.
2. Select Shrink Volume:
We will shrink the volume to create a new separate drive from the
windows partition. First, make sure the selected volume drive is empty.
Now to separate it we will select the shrink volume option and remove
10000 MB from the selected partition. This will create a 10 GB partition
space for android tv.
3. Format New Drive:
Right-click on drive select Format Option. and Rename Drive as Android
TV
4. Download Android TV ISO:
To install Android TV on pc, we need an android-x86 image to install it on
the bootable drive. Here is a link to download the Android TV x86 PC
version.
5. Download Rufus Tool:
Rufus tool helps you to make a bootable USB drive. We will use this tool to
make Android TV bootable. Here is a link to download Rufus Tool.
6. Connect 8GB Pen Drive To System:
Now with help of the Rufus tool, we will make Pen drive bootable.
7. Open Rufus Tool:
On the Device, section select your Pen drive, and then select Android TV
ISO image.

8. Select Start Button:
Make sure the connected Pen Drive is empty, for making it a bootable drive
all data need to be removed from the pen drive.
9. Restart Your System:
Once the bootable drive process is finished, restart your system.
10. Open Boot Menu:
Now when your system is booting up press the F9 or F11 key to open the
boot menu. This may vary from system to system, some popular boot
menu keys are F8, F9, F11, and F12.
11. Select Bootable Drive:
Once you are in the boot menu select your Bootable drive to boot Android
TV on your pc.
12. Select Installation Option:
On Android TV, the menu select the installation option to install android tv
on pc.
13. Select Drive:
To install Android TV, select the Android TV drive which we created earlier
in step 3
14. Format File System:
Now format the selected drive with the EXT4 file system.
15. Confirm Format Partition:
Select Yes to confirm the format partition to be formatted, after confirming
android tv installation will start.
16. Install GRUB:
Now after installation select YES to install grub. Grub helps you to dual
boot your system.
17. Save Disk Image:
Select YES, to save disk Image
18. Run Android TV:
Android TV is successfully installed on your system. Select Run Android
TV for the first-time setup.
19. Basic Setup:
Now for the first time select your region,language and sign in to your
Gmail account to access all features and apps on Android TV.
20. Finally Done

Now you can enjoy the Android TV experience on your system.
Use Smartphone as Android TV Remote
Now you have installed android tv on pc but controlling it from Mouse and
keyboard isn’t a pleasant experience. So, here is a quick trick to use the
smartphone as an android tv remote.
1. First Download and Install Google Home App From Google Play Store.
2. Now Open App, it will automatically start searching for nearby android tv
devices.
3. Tap on Android TV to pair it with your system.
4. It’s done now you can use your smartphone as an android tv remote.