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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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Is there any emulator for Amazon fire stick?

If i develop an app for amazon fire stick but I don't have a Fire stick so how can I check my app? Is there any emulator for Amazon fire stick ?
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Launcher app icon on Amazon TV Stick

App launcher icon is wrongly displayed on Amazon TV Stick device on home scren. Image is correctly displayed in category Recent but in category Apps&Games instead to be rectangular it is shrinked to square as shown in image: https://ibb.co/bYGiym I…
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how to get rid of notification circle in right side of the screen?

I've looked online but wasn't able to find anything: how do I get rid of this notification circle that is being displayed over the movie I'm watching?
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How to prevent default back behavior in Amazon Fire TV HTML5 web app?

I'm trying to override the default back behavior in certain cases, and update my application state rather than fire a history popstate event. Is there some other event I should hook in to to prevent default behavior? I found the remote back button…
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Side by side video not showing properly on fire tv app

I was trying to create a firetv HTML5 web app with the bellow code, FireTV
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Fire OS 5 - Android Constants Not Available

I'm attempting to upgrade my app to support Fire OS 5. One of my features is the ability to open specific Fire TV settings menus from within the application. i.e. Clicking a button opens the Network Settings using the standard Lollipop constant…
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Dismiss Amazon Fire TV screensaver programmatically

I have a service that launches an Activity and the screensaver is on. How can I dismiss programmatically Amazon Fire TV screensaver?
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How to start developing for Amazon Fire TV?

I was requested to develop an Amazon Fire TV app, but I find difficult to understand the steps required to get on track. As specified by the Amazon documentation, the previously available Fire TV SDK add-on is now deprecated, and they suggest to…
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Are Android TV and Fire TV devices always guaranteed to overscan?

I have a super simple video player on Android TV / Fire TV, basically my UI is just a 'Layoutmatching parent and then inside aPlayerView` also matching parent. On both Android TV and Fire TV on different TVs I'm getting about 2.5% overscan. I can…
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How do you map to KeyCode.JoystickButton0 in the new Unity Input System?

I'm working on a Unity project for Android TV and Fire TV that utilizes the new input system released in v2019.3. Fire TV's button mappings in the old system were as follows: Back KeyCode.Escape Select (D-Pad Center) …
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Flutter textfield on fireOS firetv/firestick on top of textfield

When calling textfield on flutter in fireOS in the fire tv devices, to do a search for example the fireOS virtual keyboard pops on top of textfield and doesnt work like on other android devices where the keyboard is on the bottom and textfield is…
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Amazon FireTV get name of device

im currently developing an android app for the firetv cube. Im a bit stuck in how to get the amazon fire tv device name. I mean the "calling" name of the device like "Exeu's FireTV Cube". Simply the name which you can configure in your device…
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How to set tv banner for my app when installed on firestick?

Tv banner is not showing on firestick. when I install my app on tv emulator it's showing tv banner image on home screen. but when installed same apk on firestick it's showing regular launcher icon instead tv banner. I've added android:banner…
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FireTV: Alexa voice command for video, fastforward and rewind not supported?

I have an video app for the FireTV and voice commands for play, pause, skipNext, skipPrev work fine, but when calling fastforward and rewind Alexa says it's "not supported". I'm using MediaSessionCompat and MediaSessionCompat.Callback. In the…
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How to turn on my accessibility service on Amazon fire tv

I have an app for android with accessibility service. I tried to run it on Amazon tv but it didn't work. In Amazon website Amazon claims there is no difference between the OS exclude the google service. But I can't get access to my accessibility…
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