Replacing APK file wrapper for FireTV web app

Fire Devices & Appstore Q&A
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Hi.

We have a web app for FireTV. Amazon wrapped this app into an Android APK after deprecating web apps.

Questions:

  • If I replace this APK file with one I created, does the new file have to be signed?
  • Does the new APK file I create have to have the same package ID as the one Amazon used when it initially wrapped my web app?
  • The API wrapper Amazon provided is named app-debug.apk, so it looks like a debug version was used. I’m guessing when I upload my own wrapper, I should use a release version?

Background:

There have been problems with how Amazon wrapped our app. I’m finally getting around to replacing the APK with one I’ve created to wrap our app in a way that addresses these problems.

For reference, I asked about this here: