How to Fire TV APK's on Android TV

by MediaShare2000

So I've found tons of sites that tell me how to sideload Android TV apps to the Fire TV but nothing describing the opposite. The only one I ever see mentioned is for getting Prime Video on Android TV. Every once in a while I see people on here talking about modding them to work on Android but never any directions and I can't find them anywhere online. The Fire TV's app store is unfortunately much more abundant and the apps are updated more often in comparison to Android TV. Is there a way to install the Fire TV app store also and have both that and the Playstore on Android? If not that how do I even acquire the Fire TV versions of the APK's? I can't find them anywhere. All I ever find online are Android TV & phone APK's. I know not all Fire TV apps will work on Android because I've seen it mentioned multiple times that they only have about a 50% success rate. I know I'm not the only one trying to do this so why is it so hard to find info on it? Has anyone thought about having a post on here or another site with a how to and list of apps known to work well? You can find a million sites like this for moving Android to the Fire but I can't find anything for Fire apps being put on Android TV. Any walk throughs or pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

dookiewater

Seriously, recently I recomissioned an old fire stick I had laying around onto my bedroom TV and was surprised at how many apps it has which unfortunately are a lot better than their ATV counterparts which most of the time don't even exist or have to be sideloaded from the mobile versions and navigated with a mouse.

NedSc

Some work, some don't. I don't believe there is any universal way to make all of them work. Sometimes you can change a prop file or something minor, but those ones tend to be ones that do have Android TV versions.

MediaShare2000

If you like that old Fire Stick you should see what the new ones are like. The new interface Amazon just added is really nice. It doesn't feel like one giant ad space anymore, much cleaner. Eventually they are supposed to be adding it to the gen 1 Fire Sticks.

nyteryder79

I've successfully installed FireTV apps on my Sony Bravia tv using adb. Just connect adb to the tv adb connect {ip address of tv} , then install the apk adb install {name of app}.apk . Simple as that. You might need an app like Sideload Launcher or Tv App Repo to make the icons for the FireTV apps show up on the leanback launcher.