[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mnstr3nrgy:
Hello all. So I want to start out saying that I have not had the time to read all the comments, really just the first page.

Well I wanted to play Guardian Tales on my NVidia shield TV, and although playable its a bummer not being able to interact with the Main Screen or to select a level in the campaign. Weird how those dont work but playing PVP works just fine with a mouse.

Well I wanted to figure out how to emulate touch so that i can do the things that I wasn't able to.

I like to start in places that might be so obvious that no one bothers to look.

I looked in the Google Play Store from my NVidia Shield TV.

Oh and before I get into that to much, I unrooted my Shield about a year ago because I wanted to update and at the time didnt really see the need for it to be rooted anymore. Until this, but figured there has to be a non root option.

Now back to my discovery,

I installed a couple apps, passing up the ones that said root required and then I came across an app that I installed just to check but figured the likelyness of it working was extremely low, especially running the free version of it. Didnt really feel like going Pro on anything because you know the pandemic and all has got most of us short on cash these days.

Well the app is "Zank Remote - Remote for Android TV Box".

after following the instructions on the screen, and then instaling the client app on my phone, I hit the backwards Play Button and then it found my Shield and paired.

Using a mouse on the Shield, it doesnt emulate Touch as we are all aware of at this point. But using the mouse pad from my phone and then clicking it worked.

So far I have only tested this with Guardian Heroes as I barely discovered it just before writing this story, and for the time being that's all i'm really going to test it with.

Dont feel like going around seeing what I cant click with a mouse and then trying with the app to see if it works.

But yeah, this was a completely free solution. No extra hardware to buy (assuming you already have an android phone), no subscriptions to pay for, and no apps to buy, or try to crack.

I was honestly suprised that it only took me a couple hours to find a viable solution outside of re-rooting my shield.

Normallly I would be stuck for days being like what am I missing, sometimes only to just turn around and give up.

---------- Post added at 07:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:14 AM ----------

Wish I ended up with this issue before, then maybe I could have helped you out sooner and you could have saved some money.

If you still want to get that board working then maybe aptoid might have the app your looking for. IDK anything about the board but since your saying the app is gone maybe it can be found on a third party's database.

But you should try out my solution.

Now I realized its not the best alternative, but since I only need to click here and there it seems like its going to be more than fine for me. But I can definately see how in some other apps it would be a hassle and some would probably even say its unuseable.

As for as getting the Shield to emulate Touch, this is a win in my book.