Questions tagged [amazon-fire-os]

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Executing Sample of Amazon Fire-Phone SDK

I am trying to run the sample of Fire-Phone SDK in Eclipse and Android Studio but in the XML file it gives the Error. Error is "No Resource Identifier found for 'headerTitle','actionMenu','headerSubtitle', etc. in amazon " and also i will follow…
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onDestroy is not called for api 22

I am using the androidx.navigation to navigate around the fragments. I am seeing different behavior across different versions of FOS. When i switch between the fragments onDestroy public void onDestroy() {} is not called for api 21 and 22 right…
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Can not adb USB debug on Amazon fire tablet

I am trying to adb usb debug on an Amazon Fire 7 tablet. I am encountering a problem, where the tablet will not show the dialog to authorize USB debugging from my development machine. The fire tablet does have USB debugging enabled in developer…
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How to solve Can't find referenced class warnings when building for Amazon?

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesAndResourcesWithProguardForRelease'. java.io.IOException: Please correct the above warnings first. Here are the dependencies of my build.gradle dependencies { compile…
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Google Analytics V4 setDryRun(true) doesn't work in Amazon Fire Phone

I want to disable logging Google Analytics (GA) events when the app is running in Debug mode. So, I implemented the following: if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) { //Disables reporting when app runs on debug …
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Any way to access SpeechSynthesis inaccessible on Kindle Fire?

I release an app for people with disabilities to help them speak when they can't use their voice. I use android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech to generate speech in my app Android (Google and also Amazon), but it looks like Amazon is now blocking access to…
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Android resource property must be defined in localized folders on specific FireOS devices

Within my resources (res/) folder, I have the following files among others. ├── values │   ├── dimens.xml │   ├── strings.xml │   └── values.xml ├── values-en │   └── strings.xml ├── values-de │   └── strings.xml In values/values.xml I define a…
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Why Fire stick main screen app behavior is different from other apps?

I observed one behavior in fire stick, apps which are present in main screen are always calling onDestroy on app launch, which cause app to restart and not launch where user left off. I checked with Netflix app, even there onDestroy gets called on…
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Android TV How To Prevent Other Applications In The Background From Using Media Buttons

On my Android TV if I launch Pandora in the background and let music play, then launch my app. From my application if I press pause or next it receives these on my applicaiotn but also affects Pandora. How can I prevent background applications from…
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Music App in-compatibility issue on Kindle Fire HD 8 (10th Gen) tablet - FireOS 7.3.1.4 - What is happening?

Our APP is working fine with older versions of Kindle Fire HD having FireOS 5.1.x. APP is having problem only on Kindle HD 8 (10th Gen) with FireOS 7.3.1.4. That issue is random sometime app works fine but other times APP do not behave good. FireOS…
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Xamarin forms: How to develop applications for Amazone Fire TV

We are planning to create an application for amazon fire os devices like Amazon Fire tablets, Amazon Fire phone, Amazon Fire TV and the Amazon Fire TV Stick using Xamarin forms. I research about this and found this blog. But I am using visual studio…
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Where does a Fire tablet store its device name?

When I first buy a Fire tablet, before I set it up, its name is set to "My Fire". After I register it with Amazon, its name changes to "Creede's 30th Fire" (or some other positive integer) until I change it to something more to my liking, either…
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Setting up Cordova for an Amazon Fire HD 7

I'm struggling to get my development environment set up for Apache Cordova. I'd like to target an Amazon Fire HD 7 running Fire OS 5.3.6.4 (626532920). Wikipedia tells me that: The releases are chronologically sorted and categorized based on the…
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Android - Error when running benchmarks on Amazon Firetablets (using Jetpack Macrobenchmark)

The benchmark runs correctly, but in the final stage, when it was supossed to generate .json and .trace, it throws an exception. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to read any metrics during benchmark (metric list:…
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fireOs : Display problem on a 5.5 inch lcd

I am trying to connect a fire stick 4k max to a 5.5 inch 4k lcd (where the hdmi interface is provided by a MI-PI board). However, here's what i get : While booting : and a few seconds later : The lcd is working on windows. Also, after struggling…
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