Amazon Fling will be discontinued on March 5, 2026 and we recommend integrating Matter Casting as a replacement.
Amazon Fling is a second-screen service that enables your customers to send media and web content from Fire OS, iOS, and Android mobile devices to Amazon Fire TV devices for display and playback. Once the Fling service is disabled, mobile apps will no longer show Fire TV as a casting option.
We now support Matter Casting and recommend it as the primary media sharing integration for Fire TV. Matter Casting has broad industry adoption and provides open standards across multiple device families. Having a standardized casting experience will make it even easier for building this functionality into multiple form factors.
If your app currently uses Amazon Fling, please follow these steps to replace it with Matter Casting:
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Confirm Matter Casting is working by testing how your client app interacts with your Fire TV app.
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Remove Fling from your client app:
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Android: Reverse the steps in the Android setup guide. Remove the AmazonFling.jar file from the libs folder in your project and from your modules. If you are developing an app that runs on generic Android devices (not Fire OS devices) remove Whisperplay.jar from modules.
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iOS: Reverse the steps in the iOS setup guide. Remove the iOS framework in your iOS controller app, linker setting and any header.file that reference ‘AmazonFling’. You may want to remove Fling’s framework dependencies if you do not use these libraries outside Fling. Remove code references in to related to initializing, suspending or handling callbacks.
- Remove Fling from your Fire TV app by reversing the steps in the Fire TV integration guide. Remove references to Whisperplay or Fling in your Android manifest or code related to listening to events or handling API interfaces.
Thank you for using Amazon Fling and let us know if you have any trouble.