The second method is sideloading the Skype APK directly from APKMirror. If you’re not familiar with Aptoide TV, I wrote an article showing how to install it on your Android box and Android TV here. Aptoide TV is an alternative app store that has been used by over 200 million people since it began. The first method is directly through the Aptoide TV app store. In this section, I’m going to walk you through two of the most popular. There are several different ways to install Skype on your Android TV. While there’s no official Android TV version of Skype, I was able to successfully sideload the regular Android version of Skype on my NVIDIA Shield TV.Īfter a couple of tweaks, it was working great.

It just means that you have to go through a few extra steps. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t use Skype on your Android TV. They created it back when Skype was still a privately owned company, before they were bought by Microsoft back in 2011.Īfter a few years and a few thousand tech-support call later, Microsoft quietly retired Skype on TV.

There used to be a version of Skype specifically for Smart TV’s called, predictably, Skype on TV. We’ll also cover those in detail in this article. There are a couple of tricks to getting Skype installed and looking great on your Android TV. Most of us use Skype on our laptops or smartphones, but I bet you didn’t know that you can also use it on your Android TV’s. Honestly, I don’t know how we would have made it through those two years without talking on Skype every day. We needed a more reliable & cheaper way to keep in touch. Telephone service on her island was very expensive and suffered from a lot of outages. I started using Skype a few years ago, while my wife was away medical school in the Caribbean. If you’re like me, you’re probably using video-conferencing apps like Skype and Google Duo more now than ever before. We still need face-to-face interaction even though we’re working from home, and trying to keep socially distanced from our family and friends. These days, it can be hard to keep in touch with the people we care about.

Skype app for chromecast