Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Make no doubt about it, however, that Amazon designed the devices to be very Amazon-ecosystem centric and there is a strong push toward you only using apps from the Amazon Appstore. While the Amazon Appstore has a wide selection of applications there are two big issues Fire TV owners bump into.
Kodi, the media center software formerly known as XBMC, is a perfect example of this. Fortunately for you, us, and anyone else looking to load apps on their Fire TV we can take advantage of the developer options included with the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick to load any Android application we want.
The first technique involves using the command line interface on your computer to send Android installation files APKs right to your device. The second technique is a rather clever and convenient one: using a helper application on a device running Android to shuttle installed apps right from your device to the Fire TV. There are a handful of applications in the Google Play store that offer Android-to-Fire transfer, but we had the best luck with the application Apps2Fire; you can download it here.
Although you never see it directly in action, Apps2Fire and similar applications are just wrappers for ADB. If you already have the app ready to go on your phone or you can easily download it from the Play store it makes sense to use Apps2Fire and transfer it right from your device to the Fire.
All the steps in this tutorial are completely interchangeable between the Amazon Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick; the only difference between the two is that the Fire TV has more processing power than the Fire Stick and will offer superior performance for any CPU-hungry applications you send over.
The first option turns on the ADB link so that you can remotely bridge the Android debugging client to your Fire unit. Also note that if you restart your Fire device and you have not specified a static IP address for it, this address may change if the DHCP server assigns a new one.
All the following steps presume you already have ADB installed and if you do not, please refer to our guide here. Load a command prompt in the directory where your APK is stored e. X is the IP address of your Fire unit on the local network and someapp.
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Open the browser on your PC or Mac. This works on any browser and the process is the same on both Windows and Mac. I am just using Windows as an example. You can open any file and download or select multiple files and download them as a zip file from here by clicking on the download option. Similarly, you can open any folder and click on the upload option to upload the files to that folder on your Fire TV Stick. Now, launch this app, navigate to Home and then select View on PC.
This will display an FTP address. Now, copy this address you can simply write it down and paste it into your preferred browser. This will display the list of files that are on your Amazon Firestick and will allow you to download these files to your PC. This can save you time but can also irritate you as it is possible for you [read more…]. Students have to deal with hundreds of writing assignments during their academic path. Indeed, every essay has to be written according to [read more…].
The night is young and you are feeling energetic. Any way to connect to a usb flash drive that is attached to the Firestick? Trying to save the step of removing usb drive, adding to my Mac and copying, then moving back to Firestick… Dan. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Get your Amazon FireStick Now. About Adrian James. Adrian has always loved technology.
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