Fire TV devices have 'adb reverse' disabled - meaning no React Native Expo Development possible

Fire Devices & Appstore Q&A
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After some rigorous testing and back and forth between the RN-tvos maintainer on github, we have come to the conclusion that for some reason, crucials parts of the dev tools required for React Native development (as documented here) has been disabled.

If you follow the Amazon Developer “Getting Started With React Native” instructions here and try on a PHYSICAL device, you will find that after running npx expo run:android -d <deviceName> the app will attempt to launch but fail due to its inability to connect back to the localhost dev machine (using adb reverse…) for normal React Native debugging.

The only way I have been able to get a React Native app running on my Fire TV Stick 4K is to build a ‘release’ APK file and then install the APK via adb install … which is no good for developing/debugging.

Could an Amazon Developer or Engineer please confirm this with a physical device?

Thank you.

ps: The inability to share relevant links to documentation and important discussions on Github is not useful in this developers environment.

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Hey Kosso,

I just tested the create-expo-app with-tv on my Fire Stick and the it seemed to work fine with Expo SDK 54.

This is obvious - but can I double check you are using the same WIFI on both devices?

ps: Completely understand your frustration, could you please share the error you are receiving when trying to share external links?

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Hi there,
Thanks for getting back to me.

The link sharing issue popped-up in the text field as I was typing, possibly as it was parsing it to provide a preview. But it seems to be OK now. I just tried pasting the same links and did not see the issue again.

And yes, my devices are on the same network.

I see you’ve joined the thread over on github, so let’s continue over there.

Thanks!

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