Open the FireTV app store using DIAL

Amazon Appstore Q&A
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We have an iOS app interacting with our existing FireTV app. For our iOS users, we would like to provide a simple way to get the companion app installed on their Fire TV: ideally just pressing a button in the iOS app could bring up our FireTV app’s download page in the context of the FireTV App Store.

On paper, the DIAL protocol seems like a great place to launch the App Store on the FireTV, and passing some type of argument to show our App’s download page. Something like (using curl):

curl -d ‘’ ‘http://[firetv-ip]:8009/apps/<com.amazon.appstore>/<my.app.identifier>’

Questions:

  1. Does the Fire TV App Store support DIAL? If so
  • What is the DIAL launch ID for the App Store? (<com.amazon.appstore> in the example above).
  • What is the expected format for passing an app identifier as a parameter (<my.app.identifier> in the example)
  1. If DIAL isn’t supported by the Fire TV App Store, are there any alternatives to achieve the same outcome from the iOS app?
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Hello Hugo,

Thanks for posting. We have messaged the appropriate team for further investigation and will let you know once we receive an update.