Can you load Fire TV Hulu APK onto Shield?

by th3suffering

Have a Shield in the living room and a Fire TV Cube in the bedroom, and the Hulu app on the Fire TV Cube is leaps and bounds nicer than the Shield version. Can I hijack the APK off the Fire Cube? Has anyone tried this?

GenesisDH

It’s been tried multiple times before without success.

I believe the app looks at the device capabilities (build.prop) and fails to start when it identifies a non-Amazon device. Though I haven’t tried to modify build.prop to identify as an Amazon Fire TV to confirm, since I prefer to keep my ATV on factory firmware without root.

cybergrimes

It's been tried before along with installing Amazon services which some FireTV apps require but AFAIK nobody has ever had it working with Hulu.

BillDino

Yea unfortunately there is no good Hulu app for Android tv. Best alternative would be to sideload android version of hulu

tb21666

Can I hijack the APK off the Fire Cube?

Yes, you can, but it still may not work on the Shield.

Have you ripped it yet, whats the exact apk version number?