How to use your smartphone as a remote to control your TV

We all, at one point or another, have found ourselves in situations where we have lost the TV remote. While it is likely that we may keep losing the remote, but not the smartphone in our hands. And what we told you that you can turn your smartphone into a remote control for TV? Yes, it is true. One can control their TV remotely with the Google TV app or alternatively can use the IR blaster feature on your Android phone.