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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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Disable sound effects in a RecyclerView when swithcing between items using D-PAD

I want to disable the annoying sound effects when switching between items in a RecyclerView with a D-PAD and just get rid of them if possible in the whole application. I tried setting false in the…
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How to make the Amazon Fire TV Web App compatible with Ad Servers?

I'd like to rebuild my Amazon Fire TV Web App so that it will be compatible with Ad Servers. My App is built with Amazon's "WASK" SDK, it's not the typical droid build. I found a few companies that do Ad Insertions of videos ads via VAST, VPAID and…
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Listen to Intent changes

I´m currently launching an Amazon FireTV app via the dial protocol with a parameter. This parameter can be accessed in the onCreate() by an intent like this: Intent intent = getIntent(); paramter =…
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Google Sign-In for Fire TV / Fire OS

I would like to do Google Sign-in for a Fire TV app. Unfortunately I can't use Google play services for this so I need a work around. The only thing I could think of is have the login screen be a uiwebview Google sign in web page. Has anyone ever…
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input tap through adb shell on FireTV stick

I've been playing around with Amazon FireTV Stick with adb. the input tap X Y does not seem to work. I want to simulate mouse input from my laptop connected to the FireTV. input press seems to be working just fine. Any hints on inputting a tap by…
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App Wakes Itself From Background

I'm making an app for Android TV. I've came across a strange bug in that on Amazon Fire TV devices when you press the home/back button to minimise the app or send it into the background it will pop back up after about 10 seconds. I'm not posting any…
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Amazon fire tv app design

I am trying to develop a side by side 3D application for amazon fire tv using HTML5,I created and loaded on my fire tv stick using web app tester Here is my code, #right{ width: 50%; display: inline-block; float: left; height:…
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Control Android App with Fire TV remote

it seems like this information must be available somewhere on the internet but I cannot seem to find it. I want to run an android application that I've written on an Amazon Fire TV stick. I found some tutorials how to load the app on the stick, but…
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Amazon fire remote affecting background process

I have a media application for the Amazon Fire tv and tv stick. I have successfully captured the buttons and have customized the events accordingly. Issue arises in the case when some other media app such as pandora is running in the background.…
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VisualOn Sdk implementation for amazon Fire TV App

I have implemented visualon sdk in my Amazon FireTV app to play m3u8 subtitled url. But it does not play any of video url either m3u8 or mp4. And i am getting error pop-up dialog showing media format not supported. pthread_create sched_setscheduler…
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Amazon app Game Controller requirement notification

I have an app in the Amazon store that is targeted for Fire TV (box and stick). It works great just using the remote. However when starting the app, there is an annoying notification to the user 'Game Controller Not Detected - It appears that…
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Can I develop background applications?

I know the Amazon Fire TV device runs a derivate of Android OS. Although I have no experience of it, I know I can develop applications that run in the background for Android OS. But is it possible to develop always-running, background applications…
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Show views currently focused (Even without layout selectors)

I'm trying to inspect a code for a very big Android (Amazon Fire TV) activity but i keep loosing the focus in the running app and i don't know what element is being focused. I'm looking for a way (Wether it's an App, a developer setting - Show…
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HTML5 Video in Amazon FireTV Apps

Pretty basic question. I am using PhoneGap/Cordova (http://www.phonegap.com) to build an app for Amazon FireTV OS, which is built on Android. I am using HTML, Javascript, CSS and everything is working fine. However, when I try to use the < video >…
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How to turn on "install from unknown sources" on Amazon Fire TV

The Amazon Fire TV has disabled the option to "Install from Unknown Sources" -- so is there another way to turn it on? You can still sideload apps using ADB but this setting needs to be enabled to install apps directly from the device (for instance…
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