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Weird, I'm actually using the Amazon Fire TV game controller with my Nexus Player and it works fine, no perceivable lag. I did notice once in Mupen64 that it started lagging, but basically restarting the emulator fixed it, so I'm pretty sure that was a Mupen64 related issue.

xaudiblex then perhaps the limiting factor is the required libs that the arm built executable uses. I don't remember the exact libs from the FireTV Slingplayer apk, but there were what looked like some .so files built with c/c++ that were linked in and accessed over JNI. I'm guessing the...

Are there any updates to the Hulu Plus app?

Sorry folks, but Nexus Player is an intel atom x86 based architecture while the FireTV (and Stick) are ARM based. That means unless the .apk's ship the correct bits for both architectures, you're not going to get the Fire TV apps running on Nexus Player (for example in the case of Sling Player...

You need to enable home button detection in the settings. It is not enabled by default in an attempt to get approval for the FireTV store.

Hey folks, so I've had a couple Nexus players from their release, and one thing that's really bugged me is not having the ability to seem my Picasa/Google+ photos displayed during daydream. For whatever reason, Google didn't add the ability to Backdrop on Android TV to display your own photos...

Also, FWIW, It looks like Amazon doesn't want to approve the app to be available on the FireTV part of the store. They are not being very helpful in my requests for support as to why the app isn't on the FireTV store. You can find the app on the normal app store, but whether or not it shows up...

There's another update: v1.1.5. This has various bugfixes, including better support for the FireTV Stick, a prettier icon/name for FireTV Home, Wallpaper fixes on the stick, and Settings icon fix. Cheers!

Weird, 1.1.3 should have been signed. I've added 1.1.4 which signs things a bit differently (there are some issues with JDK 7 and the traditional way of signing). This should fix things up.

Try uninstalling the old version first.

Hey folks, I've posted a new release (v1.1.3) which has a couple pretty critical fixes. It should intercept home button presses much more reliably now. Make sure you have Disable Home Detection *unchecked* in the settings (there was a bug in the last version that might leave this box...

Search for 'arcade' in the play store and you'll see some SNES emulators show up. You can actually install these and they show up on the home screen! I've been playing Snes9x EX+ with no issues :)

Make sure your DNS provider is actually forwarding all the right Netflix domains... I know mine was missing one (android.nccp.netflix.com specifically) that the other android apps apparently don't seem to use...

So I made it a little bit further. It turns out there was an address that my US DNS provider was not forwarding (specifically: android.nccp.netflix.com ). They don't forward *.netflix.com to maximize customer privacy, which is nice. Now I'm able to get to the error screen in Netflix where I...

I'm having troubles with this too still. I've tried many things: - Set my US DNS settings directly on the Nexus player (both wireless and wired via USB adapter) - DNSMasq (which works fine with Netflix on my other devices) - Drop 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 requests on my network - Re-route 8.8.8.8...

No, it never really made it into the Fire TV store, but it is in the normal kindle fire store (though somehow hard to find). I'm still trying to sort out with Amazon why it won't show up as a Fire TV specific app :s

This indeed is legit. I figured I'd throw it up on the store and if anyone wants there for ease of downloading they can get it. I will still publish this to GitHub, free, and open source, including the .apk's themselves so if you want to side-load you can still do it for free! I'll be taking a...

Heres an apk that someone sent me on Google+. Install at your own risk obviously. I have tried it and its working great! Has the homescreen launch icon and all. I do believe this is the real deal. If anyone wants to inspect it more closely that would be great! I did check google play for this...

Ok, so this is assuming you have your device connected to your computer and you can use adb (eg: you've enabled usb debugging on the nexus player). First, run the following command and report back here the output: adb shell pm list packages If we get the correct package id first, we might be...

Works great! Thanks!

I've tried this .apk and it appears not to be the same one... We need someone with a US Android TV to grab the .apk for us :(

I just got usaccess.ca working... It turns out I think my version of DD-WRT had some dnsmasq issues (even with strict-order enabled). I flashed a newer release of DD-WRT so i could get tcpdump working and when i finally went to capture the traffic, low and behold netflix was working with the US...

So far USAccess.ca is not working here either. Going to need to do more digging and see what the device is actually trying to do!

I've tried a few .apk's i've found online, none seem to be the right one with Android TV stuff in it. I suspect it doesn't exist in a spot we can easily see on the play store....

Could someone please post the Hulu Plus APK from their Nexus Player for us Canadians? I tried grabbing one off the play store but there must be a special build for Android TV (if anyone knows the play id of that I'd be happy for that too)! Thanks

Hey folks, finally had enough time to cobble together a new release. v1.1.0 is now available (and has also been submitted to the Amazon app store for review) https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher/releases/tag/1.1.0

I'm not really sure this is possible to do... Sorry :(

Not sure yet, I'll be looking into it for a future release. Right now I want to focus on getting this one out!

I actually did start with the approach of checking adb logcat within the app... The issue was I couldn't find a clean way to stream the output coming from the process, and if I had kept repeatedly running adb logcat over and over again it would have taken a lot of CPU and memory to check things...

So unfortunately, picking colours without touch is actually kinda hard... I'm not going to have a colour choose in this release, we'll have to stick with just the alpha of black for now. I'll look at adding force-close as an option, not quite sure the right way to do that yet in an app.

Updates coming... So I've put a significant amount of work into FiredTV Launcher in the last few days when I've found some time... Here's what is in the upcoming release: Completely new screen for better reordering of apps FiredTV Logo removed (it was ugly) Top info bar with time now is...

Im going to try and submit this to the Amazon app store as well (with the setting for disable home detection defaulted to true to try and help pass approval). What do you guys think a fair price is? I'll likely still keep it free to download on github as well.

So I did some work tonight on the launcher tonight (no release yet - waiting for some bugfixes in my toolchain before this can happen). You can see the progress: https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher/commit/adef6011c5bc73401784f9831f1a7064f1cc97c1 Basically the main work was on fixing the...

Hey folks, I would like to keep developing on this, I've just had very little time to do so :( I'm actually hoping to take a look at it tonight. What would be really useful is to understand what the top requests are for the app. I understand there are some issues with the reordering of apps...

Hey Folks! Sorry I've been really busy these past few weeks and haven't got much done on the Fired TV Launcher... I'm going to be working some more on it very soon though! Thanks for all the feedback!

Thanks! Yeah I've noticed that launching settings doesn't always work right (but sometimes it does)... I'll keep trying to make that more stable...

Version 1.0.3 is out now!

Ohh, I thought this was when you clicked Settings on the home screen, not in the hide apps setting. I've found the bug and it will be fixed in 1.0.3. Thanks

Thanks, unfortunately the logcat you attached doesn't have any info relating to FiredTV... Could you try and reproduce the crash and gather the logcat output as fast as possible directly after the crash?

Can you get me the logcat output? I'm not going to be able to track this one down without this information... Thanks

Going to need more info... The new version is crashing? Is it crashing on startup? is it crashing when you go into settings? Your post was very unclear...

This is a feature I'm working on. It's a bit more complex so I didn't put it in 1.0.2 yet, but hopefully for the next version!

It really doesn't make sense for me to kill the AFTV process since no matter what you do right now, when you press HOME on the remote, the AFTV process starts up. So, if after I launched FiredTV when AFTV starts up, I went and killed AFTV, it would actually be slower the next time you pressed...

Can you give a bit more detail? Where on the filesystem does this sqlite database exist? And are you suggesting this will cause all apps to show up on the launcher? Thanks!

Thanks so much! I am using a service to check the foreground activity and when it matches the Amazon fire TV launcher I open mine instead. Not the ideal solution but the only way so far to make it work! I will work on those features first thing, thanks for the donation!!!

FiredTV Launcher is a 'replacement' for Amazon's Home/Launcher app which does not show sideloaded apps. Visit the project page for more information (including source code): https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher How does it work? While it's not possible (yet/without root) to actually...

FiredTV Launcher is a 'replacement' for Amazon's Home/Launcher app which does not show sideloaded apps. Visit the project page for more information (including source code): https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher How does it work? While it's not possible (yet/without root) to...

Honestly, I'd stay away from it for now. I just got one (I'm Canadian), and I've setup a US based DNS that I use for Netflix, etc. on all my other devices and I still get content unavailable errors. I can't even *install* netflix without sideloading it right now. This isn't ready to be used...

Got my tracking number last night (around 9pm EST). I ordered at Dec 3rd, 12:03 PST (so 3 minutes after the window opened to order, when it showed 1-2 weeks to ship). I can see my package is in Cincinnati as of about 20 minutes ago, schedule for end of day delivery on Tuesday, Dec. 18th :)

I'm guessing it got charged today as I still don't see the charge...