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It would great to sideload the cheapcast app in order to turn the FTV into a remote Google Play Music streamer, and also to send the occasional youtube video over without having to manually search for something with the remote.
floepie said:
It would great to sideload the cheapcast app in order to turn the FTV into a remote Google Play Music streamer, and also to send the occasional youtube video over without having to manually search for something with the remote.
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Cheapcast is pretty much broken since after Google released Chromecast SDK. The Allcast app by koush is supposed to be compatible with FTV.
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Cheapcast is pretty much broken since after Google released Chromecast SDK. The Allcast app by koush is supposed to be compatible with FTV.
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Allcast by koush is already on the Amazon app store, you can install it directly from the fire tv without side loading it, is under entertainment category.
2fastkuztoms said:
Allcast by koush is already on the Amazon app store, you can install it directly from the fire tv without side loading it, is under entertainment category.
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If you look in playstore it lists ftv as compatible along with chromecast, xbox360, roku , appletv, etc. which would seem to indicate ftv can be used to receive content from another device. Side loading cheapcast would be done in order to receive on ftv also, but OP doesn't mention what device they want to send from.
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If you look in playstore it lists ftv as compatible along with chromecast, xbox360, roku , appletv, etc. which would seem to indicate ftv can be used to receive content from another device. Side loading cheapcast would be done in order to receive on ftv also, but OP doesn't mention what device they want to send from.
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I am in the same boat as OP and this thread seems to be going off the rails.
The reason we want CheapCast to work on FireTV is so that we can mirror tabs from a Windows or Mac laptop onto the Fire TV. AllCast does not help here at all.
The question is can you install CheapCast on FireTV and use it to mirror a Chrome tab to the Fire TV from your laptop.
Well, I was hoping that Cheapcast could be run as a service in the background on the FTV to listen for casting requests from the various Android compatible apps just like the CC does. Essentially, it would allow the FTV to become an AppleTV in the iOS world, so that if you send something to the FTV, it would immediately stop whatever it was playing and directly play that which was casted (youtube vids, play music, etc.).
Thats fine but if you had of read the first reply, Cheapcast is practically dead! Google updated the sdk and since then cheapcast has had limited uses, there's a few apps still using the old sdk but as soon as they are updated they will no longer work as well. If chrome tabs are still working they wont for much longer.
The developers own post on the matter
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Well, I was hoping that Cheapcast could be run as a service in the background on the FTV to listen for casting requests from the various Android compatible apps just like the CC does. Essentially, it would allow the FTV to become an AppleTV in the iOS world, so that if you send something to the FTV, it would immediately stop whatever it was playing and directly play that which was casted (youtube vids, play music, etc.).
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This may be worth a look.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waxrain.airplayer&hl=en
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This may be worth a look.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waxrain.airplayer&hl=en
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Nope, that won't solve the problem. We want to emulate a Chromecast dongle. This way we can still use the Chromecast features from our phones/tablets.
Chinpokomon said:
Nope, that won't solve the problem. We want to emulate a Chromecast dongle. This way we can still use the Chromecast features from our phones/tablets.
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Yep I read that wrong. How bout this?
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/05/1...sic-pictures-and-video-to-any-android-device/
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Yep I read that wrong. How bout this?
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/05/1...sic-pictures-and-video-to-any-android-device/
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Nope. That's the same problem. With FireTV, you can't use Google services. So there isn't a way to use Play Music, or download apps from the Play Store, or stream movies from Play Movies and TV. Cheapcast looked like a was an app that looked like a Chromecast dongle, so in theory you could install the app on FireTV and have the best of both worlds.
Another 6 months went by, any update? Just got the fire tv stick, it's so cool, runs kodi perfectly. Would be good to have Cheapcast or similar running to imitate a Chromecast...
I know these apps exist in the UK, but the method for getting them in the US no longer works (switching regions in your amazon settings). Would anybody be able to extract these and post the apks somewhere?
BBC Iplayer on Amazon Fire TV
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I know these apps exist in the UK, but the method for getting them in the US no longer works (switching regions in your amazon settings). Would anybody be able to extract these and post the apks somewhere?
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I have tried sideloading the BBC iplayer APK but it looks like it needs a touch screen to work as i can't select a show to play it. Is there a BBC Iplayer app on nexus player? or an older apk that will work ?
Anyone tested this out?
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I have tried sideloading the BBC iplayer APK but it looks like it needs a touch screen to work as i can't select a show to play it. Is there a BBC Iplayer app on nexus player? or an older apk that will work ?
Anyone tested this out?
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Yeah you can use a bluetooth mouse or some android programs on your phone/tablet to make the iplayer work. But I know there is an iplayer app designed for firetv. That is what I am hoping someone can extract and post.
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Yeah you can use a bluetooth mouse or some android programs on your phone/tablet to make the iplayer work. But I know there is an iplayer app designed for firetv. That is what I am hoping someone can extract and post.
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I have the official bbc player app on my firetv. ? How do I extract the apk? Let me know and I'll put it up.
Yes can you please extract the iPlayer, STV Player and 5 On Demand apks and post them up here?
This guide details how to do it and transfer back to your computer : http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-transfer-amazon-fire-tv-apps-to-a-fire-tv-stick/#more-3475
Thanks...
I was just going to log in here and post those same instructions. It would great to get these (and is there a 4od app as well?). Thanks!
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I have the official bbc player app on my firetv. ? How do I extract the apk? Let me know and I'll put it up.
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I'd love the iplayer
Sent from my SM-G900W8 using XDA Free mobile app
Can someone in the UK please just follow the simple instructions I have posted and extract and post the apks?
It will only take 5 minutes and I think many people would be happy and appreciative of your efforts...
Fire TV UK Apps
Hi
Heres a link to my google drive for the UK apps (Iplayer, Demand5, TV Player and STV Player)
h t t p s://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6g4L9vpdO9gb3BPekF4QjFSMVk&usp=sharing
I cant post them direct here as the file size of some is greater than 20MB
I will keep them up til the end of the year if someone wants to post the to a more permanent link.
I backed them up using ES FIle Explorer so they should work.
Of course you will need a DNS service or VPN to use them outside the UK.
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Had to put spaces at the beginning of the url in the above post as you are not allowed to post links until you have made ten posts.
cheers
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Another option is using XBMC/Kodi
I have added the BBC Iplayer and ITV Player zip files to the folder linked to above.
Cheers
Thanks for posting these uk apks!
I have iPlayer and STVPlayer working perfectly but 5 and TVPlayer are not working on the firestick for me yet and there may be an issue withe firestick compatibility for some reason.
To get these to work i had to do the following:
Sideload the iplayer apk posted above to the firestick
Go to Amazon.com and search and buy that free app, for example iplayer
On the firestick go to my account and resync data
Now launch the app from the Manage all Apps setting
Now as each app loads it will be placed in your Recents list on the firestick Home Screen
The apps will NOT appear in your apps list in the apps tab so the only place to select them is from the Recents list or Manage all Apps.
Thanks again for posting these and i hope someone else also finds this useful for their firestick
No Problem
Getting a Fire TV Stick for christmas so will let you know how I go with these apps on it.
Using getflix.com as my DNS service if that makes a difference. Viewing these UK and US apps in Australia
drpie34 said:
I know these apps exist in the UK, but the method for getting them in the US no longer works (switching regions in your amazon settings). Would anybody be able to extract these and post the apks somewhere?
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This post is dated 3rd December 2014
I changed my region on amazon.com on the 19th December 2014 and it worked, I added BBC's iPlayer and BBC Sports
Thanks. I've now got both the fire tv and the fire stick ( I got the stick first). It looks like this method works with the fire tv but not the fire stick.
Got my Fire TV Stick
The UK apps from my account do not show up on it.
Installed Kodi/XBMC on it and added ITV player and BBC Iplayer that way.
Thanks for this :beer: can you accept my request. I'm over in Spain with a smartdns and look for these apks all the time
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Ok i have shared the folder again so try the link again.
If someone can post the files to a more permanent file sharing place that would be good.
I will keep the link active for the next three days then I wont be opening it again as I dont want to share my google drive folders.
Hey @grahamsmith, can you reupload the files or change the permissions for the folder to allow anyone with the link to download. Currently permission is required to access the files.
Hi,
I added the iplayer, as well as news and sport apps to my fire tv yesterday. Got them pushed from Amazon.com. I'm using adfreetime and can play the iplayer in a browser and also in kodi, but the app won't play anything.
All the content appears, but on clicking it tries to play but then I get a message saying somehting has gone wrong....
Anyone else getting this?
Any ideas?
Did they change something to the BBC iPlayer app?
I bought this one with an UK amazon account, as I can buy it with my german account (You are not eligible to purchase this app due to geographical restrictions, bla, bla).
Synched it to my AFTV, switched back to my "normal" german account and tried to start the app. It starts, shows me the main menu but then a windows pops up saying "You don't own this app. Want details?". If I select details it just says me the same again, that I don't own that app. I then can only exit the app.
Any workarounds?
My Hulu Plus installed the way described above works without problems..
Haven't tried the BBC player in Kodi yet, will try this one. But getting the AFTV app to work would be more wife-friendly
Please reup apk's
Could someone please reup the Itv and 5OD fire TV apk's? I can't seem to get them from Amazon even though I transfered my account to UK
Best regards
Bobi
Hi - I know I can change my country on the respectively Amazon website to download the apps onto my FTV, but I was wondering if there's somewhere I can just download and sideload them?
Apps that have such geo-specific restrictions: ITV (UK), UKTV (UK), NHK World TV (JP)
Or perhaps there's a thread in here somewhere I just missed?
My experience is that's it's not that simple to rip an official Fire TV app from Amazon without having a rooted Fire TV. Sideloaded APK app versions that rely on a usb wireless keyboard / mouse or bluetooth keyboard work without issues. Tried my Android phone and Nexus 7 to get the official apk version that works with the Fire TV off those devices and sideloaded to my FIre TV, but it would always take me to Amazon underground and install it directly without leaving an APK version of it to transfer to the Amazon Fire TV.
If you want to download the apk versions of those channels from one location, you could sideload the aptoide app store, but it can be keyboard dependent as sometimes it'll use a web browser ( I've tried boat browser, firefox, maxthon...take your pick and download them through aptoide ) looking for the apk file of the app you are interested in.
If you go in another direction, you'll find the most efficient way is to install these channels through Kodi using the add-ons for the respective channel. Call Kodi a one stop shop app for all your channel viewing. It saves the hassle of downloading say the ITV apk app and avoids having to use a keyboard to make it work. Highly recommend you familiarize yourself with Kodi if you haven't already. Another official channel on the Fire TV is the MediaHHH app. It's available on the Amazon Fire TV app menu ( At least for U.S viewers ). That's basically all the U.K freeview live channels on an official app and it works perfectly well without a proxy or vpn required which you'll need if you use either the sideloaded apk version of an app or run the add-on channels using Kodi.
My observation is that if you switch say Amazon locations on your Fire TV and download a regional official APP like the BBC iplayer, you'll lose it when you log back in to your local Amazon Fire TV account, but if all you want are the apps in that location then you shouldn't have a problem as long as you add a geo-proxy to your network or VPN access added to your router.
If someone knows how to pull off a rip of an official Fire TV app without root or knows how to get a ripped version from their Android phone / tablet of an official Amazon Fire TV app, not the universal apk ver, I'm all ears on how to do it.
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My observation is that if you switch say Amazon locations on your Fire TV and download a regional official APP like the BBC iplayer, you'll lose it when you log back in to your local Amazon Fire TV account, .
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I know for a fact that this not true. You can go it amazon content settings and change your locale to UK. Doing so, will allow you to search and download UK apps to your Fire TV. Once done switch it back to US and you can now search for US apps. The US and UK apps reside side by side and can be launched without issues (assuming you have SmartDNS).
None of the above can be accomplished on a Roku - which is why I really love this device.
Strange. Every time I've tried this in the past, the U.K apps disappeared ( 2 Fire TV's ver 1 and 1 Fire tv stick ), but that was a while ago. Maybe they've changed something in their firmware that allows you to do this now, because I remember hitting a brick wall a while back. and gave up Thanks for the heads up. I'll try it again and see if I can make it work now.
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I know for a fact that this not true. You can go it amazon content settings and change your locale to UK. Doing so, will allow you to search and download UK apps to your Fire TV. Once done switch it back to US and you can now search for US apps. The US and UK apps reside side by side and can be launched without issues (assuming you have SmartDNS).
None of the above can be accomplished on a Roku - which is why I really love this device.
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Call Kodi a one stop shop app for all your channel viewing..
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Perhaps you can help me - I use a LG smarphone to download apps from the Playstore and sideload to AFTV2. My issue is that since its a smartphone, the APKs it downloads is suited for a phone screen and not for the TV. Is there a way within Kodi to download different variants of the same APK. Google Playstore URL is the same on any device - except the APK that is made available on the page is dependent on the device requesting the download.
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Strange. Every time I've tried this in the past, the U.K apps disappeared ( 2 Fire TV's ver 1 and 1 Fire tv stick ), but that was a while ago. Maybe they've changed something in their firmware that allows you to do this now, because I remember hitting a brick wall a while back. and gave up Thanks for the heads up. I'll try it again and see if I can make it work now.
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Bear in mind that the approach I used did not involved signing out of my Amazon account. All the downloads happens with my single account (only the locales are switched).
I'm not quite sure what kind of experience you've had with Kodi, but Kodi basically is the hub. The channels aren't apps, they're addons from repositories that run content. When kodi is installed, you either rely on the repository that comes with kodi or you continue to add repositories to increase your content options. Those repositories usually come in Zip form and you can sideload them over to Kodi then install them under system / addons. Another way is to type in the URL for the repository directly. Kodi will then add the repository and after that you can install the plugins from that repository. I'm not quite sure if that even remotely answered your question, but just know that Kodi manages and automatically updates content through the repository and that content is universal, so whatever you add to kodi doesn't require an app to function, so you'll never come across a problem with installing phone vs tablet apps
Okay, if I understand you correctly you're looking for the non-phone apk version of an app. The easiest way is probably just to sideload the aptoide app on to the fire TV and download and install the apk apps from there. Aptoide can be browser dependent if it can't find a version of the app you are looking for and will open up a browser to find the apk file somewhere else for download ( In other words download a browser to the Fire TV - Boat browser for tablets is a good one ). You could try just installing the aptoide app on your LG phone and transfer the apk file to your Amazon Fire TV. I've done that before and all versions were non-phone apps. Downside with the standard APK apps on the Fire TV has always been that most of them are keyboard / mouse dependent requiring a usb / bluetooth - keyboard / mouse or app with a keyboard / touchpad that works with the fire tv.
http://www.aptoide.com/page/apps or look up the aptoide.apk file in google to download it and then sideload it. I've had no issues with aptoide and I've been using it for years.
P.S I'll look into what you mentioned. I've been signing into another Amazon account from the U.K, thus losing all my U.S apps. If I manage the settings on the same Amazon U.S account and do a country change to the U.K, maybe from there I can install the U.K official Amazon Fire TV apps directly to the Fire Tv box without losing my U.S content. That's probably where I was going wrong before.
Edit............That was the problem. The solution was not to sign out and re-sign in. As you mentioned, you just have to change the country under the same Amazon account. Downloaded U.K official Fire TV apps and running great without the need for a keyboard / mouse. Thanks for the tip.
Info for the original poster of this thread. Try this link
http://www.eyeondemand.com/2014/10/24/how-to-combine-us-uk-and-de-apps-on-the-amazon-fire-tv/
vulcan195 said:
Perhaps you can help me - I use a LG smarphone to download apps from the Playstore and sideload to AFTV2. My issue is that since its a smartphone, the APKs it downloads is suited for a phone screen and not for the TV. Is there a way within Kodi to download different variants of the same APK. Google Playstore URL is the same on any device - except the APK that is made available on the page is dependent on the device requesting the download.
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Bear in mind that the approach I used did not involved signing out of my Amazon account. All the downloads happens with my single account (only the locales are switched).
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vulcan195 said:
I know for a fact that this not true. You can go it amazon content settings and change your locale to UK. Doing so, will allow you to search and download UK apps to your Fire TV. Once done switch it back to US and you can now search for US apps. The US and UK apps reside side by side and can be launched without issues (assuming you have SmartDNS).
None of the above can be accomplished on a Roku - which is why I really love this device.
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So the technique is change the settings on the amazon website or on the ftv?
jarayn said:
So the technique is change the settings on the amazon website or on the ftv?
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You change the country settings on the Amazon Website, purchase / add the apps, then re-sync content on the Amazon Fire TV if required. One of the apps, I think it was the ITV player didn't show up immediately, but since I purchased it ( right term if it's free?? ), I could do a search on the main fire tv menu for the ITV player app and then I downloaded it. With all the U.K apps downloaded, I switched the country settings back to the U.S.
Thanks, got BBC and itv now. BBC is perfect but itv seems to require mouse still.
jarayn said:
Thanks, got BBC and itv now. BBC is perfect but itv seems to require mouse still.
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Don't know if you've tried this, but did you try deleting the app and then re-installing it. i've noticed just installing it over the one you already have won't replace it. The official itv player app doesn't require a mouse, so it must be either reinstalling the apk mouse version, or it hasn't synced the official app to your fire tv.
P.S You could try the STV ( Scottish television version of the Itv Player ) app. Pretty much the same content. One thing I noticed is you give up live content with the official ITV player, whereas you could get that with the mouse version. You can always get the live content of ITV through Kodi anyway.
Thanks, good idea. No live though is crazy, thats the only thing i would want itv for.
I don't want to install Kodi because I have no idea about the security rating of the repositories and packages. So far I only install from Amazon or Google Play (sideloaded).
I now have a single platform access to UK and US apps. Very happy. Cannot do this with any of the other devices.
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I don't want to install Kodi because I have no idea about the security rating of the repositories and packages. So far I only install from Amazon or Google Play (sideloaded).
I now have a single platform access to UK and US apps. Very happy. Cannot do this with any of the other devices.
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I agree, it's a great device and what's so great about it is just how open the platform is to allow us to do the things we can do with it. From an Ex-pat point of view, I just wanted to offer some various options that I've been using for receiving U.K content and thankfully you helped me solve one of those problems with getting the official U.K apps. If Kodi isn't your thing, then fortunately there are other ways to watch U.K content without having to go down that road. Alway good to have options, that's what I always say
The official ITV Player app on Fire TV is just a temp solution. It will soon be replaced by a new app called ITV Hub, which will have on demand and live tv for all the ITV channels
neil0129 said:
The official ITV Player app on Fire TV is just a temp solution. It will soon be replaced by a new app called ITV Hub, which will have on demand and live tv for all the ITV channels
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Good to know. Thanks for the info.
Could someone from uk with FTV3 use es file explorer to pull some apk for me please?
they have all been updated for for FTV3
ITV HUB
MY5
ALL4
Thanks,
Can you download them from APKMIRROR or use https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ to get them from the google play store and sideload them?
Michajin said:
Can you download them from APKMIRROR or use https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ to get them from the google play store and sideload them?
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These are versions built for tv that are exclusive to amazon, the latest updates for these support newer builds of android but are exclusive to FTV3 (2017)
not on APKMIRROR just checked
Misunderstood request - mod delete please
I need apk file Silk Browser and Firefox for Fire TV newest. anyone can extract apk for me?. thank
Hi,
I've Pulled these off my new 4k fire TV stick today, will upload shortly... Unfortunately itv and 4od don't work on non Amazon devices, like my philips android TV.
my5 works provided the Amazon app store I is installed and logged in
, 4od and itv hub install but don't load icons to lean back launcher and won't run
jimsey said:
Hi,
I've Pulled these off my new 4k fire TV stick today, will upload shortly... Unfortunately itv and 4od don't work on non Amazon devices, like my philips android TV.
my5 works provided the Amazon app store I is installed and logged in
, 4od and itv hub install but don't load icons to lean back launcher and won't run
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Thanks, looking forward to your upload so I can test it out.
Here are the APk's i extracted from my 4k fire tv stick last night.
the only one working on a non amazon device is my5.
all4 and itv hub appear to be wrappers not proper apps - still if someone could get them working for non amazon devices there are loads of people requesting them in various threads( shield, sony tv, philips tv etc .,pretty much all android tv devices would benefit)
OK so I tested out my5 on my shield with amazon appstore installed and logged in, I also then tried to use lucky patcher to remove amazon appstore dependencies and am still greeted with the same screen either way.
http://imgur.com/5VUOevB
http://imgur.com/kp28eJj
Is there a way we could maybe spoof the shield so its seen as an amazon fire TV device in the amazon appstore - then it may actually let us download directly without having to sideload.
Slayerkodi said:
OK so I tested out my5 on my shield with amazon appstore installed and logged in, I also then tried to use lucky patcher to remove amazon appstore dependencies and am still greeted with the same screen either way.
http://imgur.com/5VUOevB
http://imgur.com/kp28eJj
Is there a way we could maybe spoof the shield so its seen as an amazon fire TV device in the amazon appstore - then it may actually let us download directly without having to sideload.
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I installed the my5 app on my philips android tv, it complained about no amazon app store when i first opened it, so installed amazon underground, then it worked no problem
jimsey said:
I installed the my5 app on my philips android tv, it complained about no amazon app store when i first opened it, so installed amazon underground, then it worked no problem
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I have tried this aswel but same thing for me - tells me I don't own it.
When I check amazon underground it says I need to update to the new amazon app store which I previously had installed. I wish there was a way past this - you can see it loading up all in the background and can tell it will work when you can get that message of the screen but just have no idea how
OK so I finally found a way to get this to work, install amazon appstore on any other android device that's not android TV. Install the apps from there - then when you use the apk on shield it will now say you own it and not bother you anymore. Installed my5 and is working perfectly, way better than the side loaded app I was using for all these years (would have been fine if they didn't update so now it doesn't work on android TV anymore). So thank you amazon, last mission is to get all4 from either fire TV or Sony TV somehow and then all apps will be remote friendly. The all4 amazon apps I've found seem to be wrappers and not actual apps...
I've given up trying to get all4 and ITV hub working, now using the ITV hub pluggin via plex which works a treat and removes the ads, so even the mrs likes it better than the itv hub app.
I have a UK FireStick and want to install YouTube TV (the live TV service) on my firestick. The alternative versions won't work, and I'd love to get hold of the official APK, which isn't available for UK devices, even when going through a VPN.
If anyone can pull the APK I would be hugely grateful!!
Thanks
No one here is in the US and can get the APK? Oh well, thanks anyway. Hopefully someone will post the APK online eventually
Apkmirror? Google the. apk+version number directly
Depending on your firestick, this version should cover all of them. It should run on any Fire TV: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...-for-android-tv-2-12-08-android-apk-download/
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No one here is in the US and can get the APK? Oh well, thanks anyway. Hopefully someone will post the APK online eventually
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You can get it yourself by changing region on the amazon store, there is no need for a VPN to download.. if somebody else gets it for you, and you sideload it, you'll just get the "not owned" error, anyway.