However, you can install a launcher, which I did, and when the launcher is opened, all the apps which seemed to disappear after being installed are listed, including Brave and Opera. The Philips TV Home Screen/launcher is an ad-fest full of garbage that does not interest me and there is a row of apps along the middle which you can add to but when you try to add apps, you can only see apps which the TV shows in its curated installed app list - so if it isn’t listed, you can’t add it to the launcher, neither can you change the launcher (I have an Android TV box so I can see how the settings usually are). However, I’m 99.99% convinced that this did not make any difference to the eventual outcome. I don’t know if this helped in any way whatsoever but I enabled developer options by clicking the build number in Android settings five times (maybe more but the interface shows a countdown so you know). I had a brief window to play with the television. I’d be interested in any comments - even a definitive ‘can’t be done’ if it saves me the grief of continued pointless effort. The television is well outside its warranty so any argument that Philips were to make that it was about protecting my safety or whatever would be past its sell by date. It almost seems like no other browsers can be used or even installed. I thought about trying to install another browser and use that to circumvent the excuse of a version of the Google Play store but could not find any other browser apart from one I had never heard of but was even worse than the pre-installed browser. I have also tried using a few APK repositories like APKpure and Aptoide but whilst they appeared to have installed Brave, nothing appeared in the app list. It doesn’t show up in the sandboxed version of the Google Play app and I have tried sideloading using various file explorers which has worked with other apps. Has anybody managed to install Brave on an Android TV (not a TV box), perhaps specifically a Philips TV?
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