New androidTV user (Sony tv) some questions about region changing and apk sideloading

by abadguy87

Hi everyone I'm planning of buying a Sony 43XD8099 (X800D in the US). Starting by saying I live in Italy I have some questions:

1)I wanna be able to access US apps, has anyone tried to change region of the play store? as far as I understand I should be fine using a US google account (I read that changing country to an existing account doesn't work). When you select your country on the initial setup, is that is used to get your channels in the right order? in that case I'd need to select my real country right? Can you use 2 google accounts on the same tv? Does that mess things up?

2)In case I decide to just sideload apks without worrying about changing region, is there a way to auto-update or at least automatically check sideloaded apps? to my knowledge android checks updates only of play store downloaded apps

Thank you for your help!

osiris355

Well now I feel like a jerk. I am an Android TV app developer and don't offer my app in Italy yet. :(

There is an app called sideloadtag for android tv that makes it easy to side load apps. Unfortunately you would still need to update them manually.

You cannot use multiple accounts on Android 6.0 yet but you will be able to when Sony updates your tv to 7.0. I wouldn't count on it happening anytime within the next 6 months - year though...