Any updated Amazon Fire TV App Tutorials/Walkthroughs

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I used a tutorial on Amazon’s site from 2017 to create my Fire TV app. This has worked fine on every version of the Fire TV until the 4k Gen 2 came out. The video player is not working. I’ve asked about this in the past, but I can’t get any help, mostly because it doesn’t seem like the community is large enough.

Anyhow, I’m wondering if there are any updated tutorials that would start me on my way to getting my app to work on newer versions of the fire tv as well as the older versions.

Thanks!

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Hi @Michael_Benedict,

Please check the document here: Getting Started Developing Apps and Games for Fire TV | Amazon Fire TV

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Thanks… This links to the fire-app-builder, which is the basis of my current app that’s not working on 4k Gen 2 (everything is fine except the AMZNMediaPlayer is crashing when attempting to play a video. I’ve submitted a topic here for that I get error with only Firestick 4K (Gen 2) - #2 by Levon). It almost seems like the upgrade in the Fire OS version broke the fire-app-builder because my app works everywhere else.

I guess I could look at building a generic android tv app to see if it works.

Thanks for responding.

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for posting! Fire App Builder has been open sourced and is hosted on GitHub [1]. There’s a separate team that maintains its repository, and I would suggest posting in the repo’s Issues section [2] instead of this forum here, and someone will assist you there.

Alternatively, if possible, look at building a generic Android TV app, that way you will have more control over its UI and features. Thanks!

[1] GitHub - amzn/fire-app-builder: Fire App Builder is a framework for building java media apps for Fire TV, allowing you to add your feed of media content to a configuration file and build an app to browse and play it quickly.
[2] Issues · amzn/fire-app-builder · GitHub