How to Use Google Drive on Fire TV Stick

Feb. 1, 2021

As we know, we can’t use a bunch of Google apps on Fire TV Stick because of the lack of Google Play Services, Framework, and other components. Similar is the case withGoogle Driveas well. So, we need to make a workaround to use Google Drive on Fire TV Stick. We will beusing Kodi on Fire TV Stick to access Google Drivefrom there. Now having explained the basic approach, let’s now move to the steps.

1. First and foremost,follow our guideand learnhow to install Kodi on Amazon Fire TV Stick. We have updated the guide with the latest steps so you will have no problem sideloading Kodi.

2. Once you are in Kodi,move to “Add-ons”and click on “Search”.

3.  Here, enter “google drive” and click on the “OK” button.

4. After that, open “Google Drive” from thesearch result.

5. Here, click on “Install“.

6. Next, click on “OK“.

7. After a while, go back and Google Drive will be added to Kodi under the “Add-ons” section. Open it.

8. Here, click on “Add an account“.

9. Now, you will get apop-up with a URL and a code. You can perform further operations on your smartphone or computer. Keep in mind, as you are going to allow a third-party service to access your Google Drive, I would recommend you to add a throwaway Google account. Just share the media files to the throwaway account from your primary account.

10. On your smartphone or computer,enter the codedisplayed on Kodi.

11. After that, it will ask you to add orchoose your Google account.

12. Next, you need to give thefinal permission to allowthe Kodi addon to access Google Drive. In case, you want to disable the access later on, you can revoke the permissionfrom here.

13. Once you have allowed the Kodi addon, you will get an “authentication successful” message on your smartphone or computer. And Kodi on your Fire TV Stick will automatically log in to your Google account.

14. On Kodi, just click on yourname.

15. And there you have it. All yourDrive files availableon Fire TV Stick via Kodi. You can play media files directly on Kodi as it’s apowerful media centeras well.

Install Google Drive and Directly Stream Media Files

So that is how you can add Google Drive to Fire TV Stick using Kodi. In my usage so far, Google Drive worked really on Kodi and Kodi was itself pretty responsive on Fire TV Stick. So go ahead and try out the method that I have explained above. If you want to learn more aboutsideloading Android APKs on Fire TV Stickthen go through our linked guide. Anyway, that is all from us. If you are facing any issue then comment down below and let us know.

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