Questions tagged [amazon-fire-tv]

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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Parse Push Notification on Amazon Fire TV only received upon app restart

About a week ago, I began noticing my Android app stopped receiving Parse push notifications, but received just one notification (even if there were more than one) upon app restart. Since then, I've updated to SDK 1.10.3 (from 1.10.1) and I'm still…
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Android app is non responsive in Amazon fireTV

I have developed an Android app which works well on mobiles and tablets. Recently I have installed it on Amazon fireTV and I see that some screens are not responding for touch events. I tried using the physical remote and the Amazon fireTV remote…
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android Unselect onscreen Keyboard on dpad navigation (blur focus)

I have a keyboard on the screen (As a component inside LinearLayout. So it's always on the screen.) I'm developing the app on an Amazon FireTV so I made an onscreen keyboard where I can use DPAD for navigation. It all works great except the…
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Japanese and Korean titles are blank in kodi/xbmc for FireTV

I'm using original titles for my kodi/xbmc on amazon FireTV , however the titles are displayed blank or '' or ' ' any solution ? Note: duplicate of question asked in more relavant forum original question
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Force Android app to use a particular intent, rather than showing intent menu

I'm working on a Fire TV app, and want to deep link to some of our other apps in their store. This can be done using amzn:// links instead of http:// but it brings up an intent menu to choose either the app store app or kindle app to complete the…
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How do I prevent daydream mode in an Amazon FireTV HTML5 web app?

I'm building a FireTV HTML5 web app and my FireTV Stick keeps going into Daydream/Screensaver mode. I see from the FAQs (https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-tv/docs/amazon-fire-tv-sdk-frequently-asked-questions) that I can…
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Does Amazon Fire TV support HbbTV Applications?

I can't find any information about whether or not the Amazon Fire TV (original release as of the posting of this question) supports the HbbTV specification. I'm building an app using the TAL framework, and I've successfully added my hello world…
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Amazon fire tv carousel

Is their anyway way to implement carousel for amazon fire TV. As i implemented carousel it works fine on phone but when i tried to create it for fire TV.Is their any other way to implement carousel and access the position of every image in carousel…
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HTML5 video not starting automatically in Amazon WebView

I am trying to develop a video app for the Amazon FireTV using the Amazon WebView component. I cannot make the videos play automatically and I have tried using the HTML5 video DOM properties and events and also setting the video tag property…
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How to add my app in 'RECOMMENDED APPS FOR YOU' row on Home page in Fire TV devices

How can I add my app to the 'RECOMMENDED APPS FOR YOU' row on Fire TV devices? Fire TV screenshot It is possible to show my app in 'RECOMMENDED APPS FOR YOU' in row on Home Screen in fire TV, without install app in device.
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How to implement recommendation in fireTV

I implemented the recommendation in FireTV but it's not working. I am not able to see the recommendation row in FireTV I used this code in FireTV recommendation. I am using contentrecommendation instead of NotificationCompat.Builder. if…
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ADB | How do I Authorise Amazon FireTV Stick via. USB? - to run shell script on boot

Goal: Follow this tutorial, to run a shell script on boot. Despite following the tutorial and trying various solutions, I am still unable to authorise the ADB connection. I'd greatly appreciate any help in resolving this issue. Linux: (base)…
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Amazon Fire Tv: Video playback at input volume level

Requirement: Volume control without UI intervention. The client app getting different videos to play in VideoView and it usages the MediaPlayer class to control the playback of these video files. These video data has a volume level we want the…
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Amazon Fling iOS SDK issue when streaming a video

I am integrating the Amazon Fling SDK into my iOS app and faced the issue. When casting a video, playback on Fire TV stops immediately or after several seconds and a white video frame is displayed on TV. The SDK reports the error with the…
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ADB shell command to set default Bluetooth volume for android device

can someone please give me a command to make android device Bluetooth volume to default(some 11). The below query working but the volume is going back to normal once the device is restart. Enter command: service call audio 7 i32 6 i32 15 i32 10​