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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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getLaunchIntentForPackage is null for some apps

I'm building a service that sends a list of installed apps from an Android TV or a Fire TV to a mobile phone. The phone then sends back the package name of the app it wants to launch and the service launches it. This is the code that creates the…
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RecyclerView onCreateViewHolder called excessively when scrolling fast with DPAD

I'm developing on Amazon Fire TV. Because it's a TV app(No touch), I need focusables inside row's layout to be able to navigate around. I have a really simple Recyclerview with image, text, and a focusable. When I press up or down, it all scrolls…
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Android WebView iFrame font scaling

I have an app that essentially just loads a website to display that information. Within the website I have an iframe that loads an events calendar. Viewing the website (via Chrome) on a computer, the events calendar looks exactly the way it should…
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Is it possible to make Android TV app work on Amazon Fire TV?

Since the Android TV leanback library is apparently compatible with SDK level 17, which is what the Amazon Fire TV uses, I set the minimum SDK level on my Android TV app and installed it using ADB on my Fire TV. It actually works without any…
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Is there an ExoPlayer + Leanback library example for using captions?

I have found a few examples that work with Leanback and ExoPlayer and I have all that working but I can't get subtitles/captions to work. The newest Google example I could find (https://github.com/android/tv-samples) has a captions button on the…
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Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT] error while sideloading app on Fire TV Stick

My app works fine when I install the app via Android Studio, but when I try to sideload the app using adb, I get the INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT error. I have tried many things like cleaning, invalidating etc. but everything failed. This only happens on…
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Changes background color to black few times in RowSupportFragment in FireTV on item selection

I am using RowsSupportFragment of lean-back library for my TV application. It changes background color of the fragment to black while selecting items (few times color changes to black where as we have set background color transparent) in FireTV…
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Custom TitleView with Description and Preview Image Android TV (FireTV)

I am trying to build my first Amazon Fire TV app using Android Lean back library. I want to customise the BrowseFragment to look like the image shown below. I tried setting a custom layout as below. @Override public View…
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How to detect if Software Keyboard is Visible on Android tv (fire tv)?

I know how to detect in android mobile devices when keyboard is shown, but how can I do that on android tv, or fire tv?
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How to hide voice search icon in searchfragment using android Tv

How to hide Voice search icon in android firetv extends android.support.v17.leanback.app.SearchFragment library. its coming default in my code when i extended that search library... For now i dont want to use voice search functionality... Below…
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Long Press handing of D Pad center button via TV remote control

I am working on TV application using Amazon Fire Stick TV. I need to handle long press event for the Dpad center button via TV remote control. For the Dpad center button, only I receive a call to onKeyDown() multiple times if I long press the DPad…
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How to create an amazon Fire TV virtual device

EDIT: After searching for a while it seems that currently there is no way of creating a virtual device of a Fire TV I am trying to create an amazon virtual device using AVD Manager, but I am not being able to find a correct image. I followed the…
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Android Studio, Fire TV - Issues compiling with Amazon SDK

I'm still exceptionally new to Android Development, about 2 weeks in to my first project. So, a resolution may be obvious, and I can only hope this eventually helps another in my shoes. The goal was to build an app for FireTV that would stream media…
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How to play YouTube videos in WebView on Amazon Fire TV?

I want to play a YouTube video in a WebView for Amazon Fire TV. As of today, there is no official API for playing YouTube videos on Fire OS (link), so I tried to get it working with Android's WebView. In the Android WebView documentation it is…
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How to Set Focus on an Item in the Action Bar on Launch

I had developed an Android app that works fine on smartphones. When trying on Amazon Fire TV, I see that no view has focus on launch and the key presses on the remote controller don't have any effect. How can I make an item on the action bar have…
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