Hello Developers,
We’re reaching out to let you know about a recent change on Fire TV HD devices (and soon, Fire TV Stick 4K Select, build 1901010003020 or newer) that affects the @amazon-devices/react-native-localize library. If your app does not use this library, no action is needed on your part.
Background: A change recently rolled out to all Vega powered FireTV HD devices and is in the process of rolling out to FireTV Stick 4K Select (build # 1901010003020) that impacts the functionality of react-native-localize. This change does not impact Release variant builds. This impacts new builds of debug variant when you depend on 2.0.x versions of the library.
Impact: If you don’t take any action, release build variants will continue to work as is; however, debug build variants will return an exception API calls to react-native-localize, which is commonly used on app start to identify localization settings. As an example, the vega-video-sample release 0.22.1 crashes on app start in Debug variant due to this problem.
Mitigation: We recommend app developers using the react-native-localize library to update to version 2.1.x which was made available as part of the 0.23 release (17-Jun). Once you update to the new library, debug builds will resume functioning the same as before.