10 applications and games that cannot be missing on your Xiaomi Mi TV

Xiaomi's Mi TVs arrived in Spain relatively recently, but they quickly became an option to consider for users looking for a cheap TV. The Chinese manufacturer sells four models in our country, the cheapest being the 32-inch Mi LED TV 4A and the most expensive the 65-inch Mi TV 4S. All of them have the Google's Android TV operating system, which means that we will have a huge catalog of applications and games at our disposal.

So, faced with such an overwhelming catalog, we wanted to compile the 10 applications and games that cannot be missing on your Xiaomi Mi TVThese applications can also be found on any other television with Android TV or in the multiple multimedia players that use the Google operating system, such as the Xiaomi Mi TV Box S itself.

Kodi

If you have your small collection of series, movies, music or even photos in digital format, you have to install Kodi on your My TV.

For those who don't know it, Kodi is a very powerful multimedia content manager. It offers us the possibility of having our movies and series organized with their covers and descriptions. In addition, it has a very good internal player.

Kodi is a free app that you can download from the Play Store on your TV.

Sideload launcher

If you enter the Play Store through your My TV television, you will notice that only applications compatible with Android TV appear. Those that are not adapted for the format of televisions do not even appear in the application store of the television. However, there are ways to install any Android app on a TV running Android TV.

Downloading the .apk of an application is one way, but the problem is that it will not appear in the menu of our Android TV. And this is where an application like Sideload launcher becomes essential. This will allow us to see and run Android applications even if they are not adapted to the Android TV format

Obviously they will look quite regular, but if we want to have a specific application on TV it can be a good solution.

TV Launcher

Don't like the default Android TV interface? No problem, with TV Launcher you can change it. It is a launcher specially designed for large screens and with which we can divide the applications by categories.

With TV Launcher we can change the wallpaper, change the color of the icons, create shortcuts to all kinds of apps and even web pages and much more.

Send files to TV

The application Send files to TV allows us, as its name suggests, to transfer any file from our mobile to our television or TV Box with Android.

We can transfer video, image or audio files. It also does it quickly and very easily, with no complicated processes.

Steam Link

If you like to play and you usually do it on your computer, you probably know Steam. It is one of the most popular PC digital game stores in the world.

Well, thanks to Steam Link you'll be able to stream the games from your Steam account on your TV Of course, you'll need a controller Bluetooth or a Steam Controller that can be connected to the TV or TV Box in order to play. Also, the computer running Steam will need to be on the same local network as the TV.

If you meet these two requirements, with just one application you will be able to play on big TV without having to transport your computer from one place to another in the house.

Badland

We put apps aside a bit to talk about Badland, one of the most addictive games you can find for your Android TV. Badland is a platform game with a very simple game system and some really striking graphics.

The game has more than 100 levels and allows up to four players to play in the same game. Undoubtedly one of the games that has received the best scores from both critics and users.

Orbia: Touch and Relax

Another one of those games that only needs one button to play but can be tremendously addictive. The only thing we will have to do in Orbia is to coordinate our touches well to reach the finish line safely.

Orbia features minimalist and very colorful graphics, as well as a really interesting and relaxing soundtrack. The game is free, so you can try it by simply downloading it from the Play Store.

AirScreen

With AirScreen we can transmit multimedia content from our mobile to the television safely and with good quality. The application supports a wide variety of wireless transmission protocols, such as AirPlay, Google Cast, Miracast or DLNA.

In addition, it is compatible with different operating systems and has support for different applications. Transmission is encrypted, so transferred content is protected.

Plex

A classic on almost any Smart TV, but no less important. Plex is another multimedia content manager, similar to Kodi, but with a slightly different operation.

To use Plex on the TV we will have to have a Plex server installed somewhere, usually a computer or a NAS. It will be this server that offers all the information on movies and series to the television.

It is a great option if you have, for example, a computer with all the multimedia content and you want to watch it on TV, everything well organized and with its covers.

Puffin TV Browser

And we finish our selection with Puffin TV, a web browser that is perfectly adapted to Android TV.

If you have ever tried to enter a web page using your television, you will surely have realized how unpleasant it is to navigate a web browser without the keyboard and mouse.

Puffin TV manages to improve this experience with an interface perfectly adapted to the television.It uses a system of "boxes" where you can add websites, as well as offering recommendations of popular pages so that we can access them more directly.

Another good feature that Puffin TV includes is the possibility of "joining" the television and the mobile by means of a QR code that generates the application. Thus we can write on the mobile the page that we want to see on TV.