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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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VLC for Amazon Fire: Compile from source

Anyone know how to do this? I successfully compiled the changes I want into vlc-android but I cannot install it on the Fire stick. Some of the errors I got were for release: This package seems to be corrupted. Ok that's strange it works on the…
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How to detect when a fire tv application is minimized?

Is there a way to detect when a user minimizes the fire tv application by pressing the home icon on the remote?
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Focus switching to next row in nested recyclerview in FireTv App

In our fire tv app, we are using a nested recyclerview where every vertical item have a horizontal row as a child item like playstore design. Scrolling with dpad working fine normally but when i hold the right key for few seconds, item start…
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3rd party music apps launch when pressing play/pause on my app on FireTV

On the newest FireTV OS for the Fire Stick Lite 2020 I noticed that when we play a third party app like Spotify for example music keeps playing when we press the home button. This is normal behavior, however when I launch my app I request the audio…
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Making an application for firestick but buttons click and hover not working

I am making an app for firestick but there is no click or navigation drawer not working using Firestick Remote. public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { int currentApiVersion; SharedPreferences sharedpreferences; String…
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Fire OS enable unknown app installation via ADB

I have a specific custom device that has a Fire OS vNext 7.0 (probably some kind of Fire TV type of the OS?) in it and I need to install my own APK into it. I have an ADB access with root, but Developer Options are not enabled (I cannot access…
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Badge Drawable in BrowseFragment doesn't appear on Amazon TV

I've got a BrowseFragment displaying some api-loaded content using the Leanback Support Library. I'm also showing a custom logo in the top right hand corner using the setBadgeDrawable method on the BrowseFragment. This logo is included in the apk in…
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onClickListener doesn't always fire in fragment

A problem that is driving me mad for some time (and it's blocking publishing to Amazon app store, since the app had been suppressed but now I am stuck with this bug and they won't republish it...). I have a layout with a list on the left and a grid…
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Fire stick 4k - ADB hide updates (disable updates) permission error

Im trying to turn off auto updates and I get this error. Fire TC Stick 4k with the latest official updates. Laptop is a MacOS with "Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41 Version 30.0.0-6374843" from brew. xx@mac ~> adb connect 192.168.111.111 already…
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How to Change Color of Button when FireTV remote navigates over it

I am making my first Android App. This is for a firestick. All done except for the color of the buttons. The default light gray color is good enough (though I may change this when I find out how to). When navigating over buttons with the remote…
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Why am I stuck on a sign-in page while setting up a Proxy on FireTV 4K

I've got a problem proxying traffic on Amazon FireTV 4k Stick, I'm using the following command to push the cert. adb push charles-ssl-proxying-certificate.pem /storage/emulated/0/Download Then I use this to install the cert. adb shell am start -a…
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Issue with playing youtube videos in Fire TV

I am developing an app that takes youtube video id's from the backend and it should play the videos from the queue automatically without the intervention of the user. But these are the challenges that I Faced with different approaches. Using…
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Change the focus color of PlaybackTransportControl action buttons using the leanback library on AndroidTV

Currently I'm stuck in trying to change the focus color of the action buttons in the PlaybackTransportControl using the leanback library. I've tried looking up how this would be possible and looked up how I can override this, but to no avail. If…
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Leanback transport controls overlay are invisible or behind the video surface?

When implementing a firetv application using Leanback and exoplayer I have used the LeanbackPlayerAdapter provided by exoplayer. I am also using a VideoMediaPlayerGlue that extends the PlaybackTransportControlGlue. It is identical to this:…
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Android TextToSpeech Get Speech Rate From System

I have an Android TV app, running on a Fire TV Stick. I have initialized a TextToSpeech engine and I am calling it via the speak function. My problem is that the speech rate (talk back speed) does not change when I change those in settings. I know…
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