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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 prevent FireTV from sleeping via a website (not an app) like youtube.com/tv?

I know that you can prevent sleep mode from an Amazon app (packaged or hybrid webapp) but I'm wondering how to do it from a website running in the firefox browser, eg. the youtube.com/tv site will play video on FireTV for extended periods without…
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Navigation on Fire TV for Web pages opened on Browser

I have a Web application which opens in "Fire TV" browser Amazon Silk & Mozilla. The remote has a navigation button : https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/remote-input.html#capturing-input and when clicked the mouse cursor moves in that…
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How to Support Amazon FireTV hardware by Removing the Touchscreen Feature

I am building a Xamarin Android App targeting the Amazon FireTV. When I upload the signed apk to the Amazon developer portal and review the supported devices list, I get the following message for all Fire TV hardware: Your APK manifest requires…
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Does Firebase A/B testing work with Amazon Fire TV or kindle fire?

Is Firebase A/B testing compatible with Amazon Fire TV? I use crashlytics with fire tv.
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Getting device location in Amazon Fire TV Stick

Developing application for fire TV Stick is similar to Android TV and Box, but there are some different method to access the different feature of the device. Now I'm trying to get the device(Amazon fire tv stick) location using Wifi location…
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Knowing that focus is on the left most view in Android TV

I am developing an application for Android/Fire TV. So now my question is that - How can I get to know that focus is on the left most view? I have two containers: (1) a hidden left menu (similar to an Android Drawer) & (2) an area with all the…
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How to auto play youtube video in amazon fire tv

I used this url http://www.youtube.com/embed/uGNhirSbWW0?autoplay=1 to auto play this video in my amazon fireTv app using web View, i am getting the video but the video is not playing automatically? How to auto play the video in amazon firetv. any…
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The app exceeded 65k reference limit. Please enable multidexing your app or use ProGuard to reduce methods and resubmit the app on amazon store

I am uploading my Fire TV application on Amazon app store. I got error of multidex library. The app exceeded 65k reference limit. Please enable multidexing your app or use ProGuard to reduce methods and resubmit the app. Below is my app gradle…
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Disable ANR on Fire TV

Hi there :) I have one simple question. Any know how to avoid or disable ANR error on Amazon Fire Tv? I read to many topic and no found any solution because it Android system case, but maybe. Maybe you know something more information? Best regards!…
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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lcom/amazon/android/Kiwi;

I have uploaded a FireTV build on amazon app store but Amazon rejected the build . I am not using any amazon library . The logs which i got from Amazon java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lcom/amazon/android/Kiwi; 10-05…
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Webview on Amazon Fire Stick not responding to controller

I've got an Android app in Cocos2d-x that uses a WebView to display the front end menu. Currently it's just a mock-up, and just has a URL to a website, which makes it easy to test. If I load the URL of the interface in the Amazon Web App Tester on…
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Android TV application doesn't support Amazon FireTV

While creating android TV app the minimum sdk level we can select is api-21(Lollipop). But for creating android TV app from android studio that also supports amazon fireTV we have to select the minimum sdk level to api-17 (Jellybean), As the…
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fire TV stick adb install apk won't work

I have been banging my head against the wall for the past couple of hours trying to install kodi on a fireTV stick. I first tried with adblink, connected to the device, then installed the apk and the loading bar is just entering in a never ending…
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Android stop onPause from being called in parent class

In my app I have a child class that extends a support library class called SearchFragment in the leanback support library. I need to extend this class but unfortunately the onPause() of the parent (SearchFragment) class has a method I cannot use.…
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How can i differentiate whether its a FireStick or FireTV

I am working on an app that will be run on an Amazon FireTV. Is there any API so that i can differentiate whether its a FireTV or FireStick. like String model = android.os.Build.Modal; if (model.equals("FireTV")) { // do something } else if…
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