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Amazon Fire TV and FireTV Stick are Android based (FireOS fork) TV Set Top Box devices. Based on Android 5.1 they support applications and games via HDMI and remote/controller.

The Amazon Fire TV family of devices currently run Fire OS 5, which is based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop, API level 22). The original FireTV and FireTV Stick devices ran Fire OS 3 (Jelly Bean, API level 17), but with the release of the second generation Fire TV the firmware was updated with native support for Android TV and the v17 Leanback library.

First generation FireTV and FireTV Stick support 720p and 1080p output. Second generation FireTV supports 720p, 1080p and 4K/HEVC output. All devices have HDMI connections, First Gen FireTV has TOSLINK audio, First and Second Gen FireTV have Ethernet and all three devices support WiFi

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How to set the Fire TV "icon" on home screen?

I have a Fire TV app that will also be released on normal Android TV and one some TVs that have Android that isn't Android TV and possibly on tablets. So I've set my banner for Android TV and that is working fine, the icon works fine on other…
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Programmatically lowering volume not working on FireTV

I'm attempting to lower the volume on a Fire TV, but am unable to do so. The following code works on other Android TV devices, except for the Fire TV. I am thinking this may be a disabled feature for FireTV based on this…
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How can I check the Fire OS version programmatically?

I'd like to check programmatically the Fire OS version of my running device. Not the Android version. The reason I want that version is because there is one capability which is not shown on old Fire OS versions and I'd like to include it on my…
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Target Fire TV, Android and Android TV using Gradle

Well currently I´m trying to set up a project which is targeting different android devices. As the title describes I like to target the Fire TV (using the SDK-Addon 17) but also regular devices (using MinSDK 15) and the new Android TV devices (using…
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Can't get Vitamio VideoView to play video files that normal Android VideoView will play

I am creating an application to play various types of videos on an Amazon FireTV box. If I use the default Android VideoView the video plays. If I use Vitamio’s VideoView the video does not play and I get “Invalid indirect reference 0x41fabca0 in…
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Implement and design Android apps for TV

I want to create a TV ready app. Since this is still a quiet new topic I'm asking myself those questions: What do I need to keep in mind for a great TV experience? Can I share code with my TV app? Can I reuse layouts, strings and other…
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How to start develop application for fire os in android studio IDE

I am going to start develop application for fire TV i can create an application using Eclipse successfully, But when i try the same procedure to create new application which compile with Firetv SDK got some Gradle error on android studio.. i am…
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Adb reverse on FireTV fails with error: more than one device/emulator

Running a React Native application with Leanback on Firestick. This only happens on Firetv stick 4k. I am pretty sure I have only one device connected $ adb devices List of devices attached 10.x.x.x:5555 device I have no problems running the same…
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App crash on firestick 2nd gen when getting presigned URL

Gradle implementation platform('software.amazon.awssdk:bom:2.17.119') implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:s3' Code Used To get Presigned Url public static URL getPresignedUrl(String bucketName, String keyName ) { PresignedGetObjectRequest…
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getting AUTH_TOKEN_VERIFICATION_FAILURE: null: null amazon in app purchase fire stick tv

I am trying to implement amazon's in app purchase(IAP) in my application. I followed the below article to implement it. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/in-app-purchasing/iap-implement-iap.html But I am receiving below error when I am calling…
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How to identify the HDMI port and TV switch in android programmatically?

I want to know how to handle the HDMI switch to TV's home events. I have developed an app with exoplayer for FireTV. Issue is when I switch between HDMI port and TV, The player is still playing in background. I don't wan to play the content in the…
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Exoplayer CC(Closed caption) issue in FireTV app : Rejected by Amazon Store

I am working on TV app for FireTV. Amazon store have rejected my app due to CC issue. Matter is that CC(Closed Caption) is not working fine for some of the videos. I am using Exoplayer player with custom CC(Closed Caption) button. If button ON then…
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Youtube javascript embed appears cut off in Fire TV Stick Gen2 and 4K version

I am developing an Android app for Amazon Fire Stick devices. I am using Cordova to create the Android wrapper around my web application which is loaded in an iframe. I am using javascript to embed youtube player as shown here. Below is what my code…
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Crashlytics Failing to Initialize

I am having trouble getting Crashlytics to work with the Amazon Fire TV. I have a project that targets Android, Android TV, and FireTV. Crashlytics seems to work just fine for Android and Android TV, but I'm getting an error when I run it, saying it…
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How to implement Anvato SDK?

I want to implement Anvato SDK for playing ads. After some R&D I found Platform SDKs description from "https://dev.anvato.net/", there Anvato SDK have briefly described only, we have not found any SDK pakage or demo code, that could implementation…
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