How to develop the Amazon Fire app using the Android TV app

In the Amazon Fire App Development, the developer can choose from the set of frameworks based on his skill sets and knowledge. The developer can either choose Android or the HTML5 Web app as the platform. At 4 Way Technologies, we also concentrate in developing the Amazon Fire TV application for the users. Serving clients across countries including the USA, UK, and Australia, we always focus in the designing and development of the Smart TV applications of high quality.  Android Tools like Android Studio and framework can be used to build a fire app. Plenty of apps that work on Android will work for the Fire TV. This is because the Fire TV is built on Android.

Setting up the Development Environment

The developer will have to set up the JDK and the Android studio before starting with the development process. Android Studio, is the official IDE for Android is used for coding to developing the Amazon Fire applications. The Java-based Android developers can get started in Amazon Fire App Development using Fire App Builder.

Developing the Amazon Fire App using the Android TV app.

The sequence of steps involved in setting up the environment for the Amazon Fire App Development includes downloading and building the sample application using the Fire App Builder. Then, the next step in developing the fire app is connecting through the ADB (Android Debug Bridge). Below are the steps for developing the Amazon Fire application with the Fire App Builder.

1. Configuring your Feed section

The media feed with images, videos, and other files should be loaded by the developer as an initial step. Next step in the Amazon Fire App Development is to set up the category recipe and completely configure it. The mapping of categories recipe, customizing it with the query parameters is required. Then, find the match list parameters with the query parameters. Below is the default categories recipes configuration file.

{

 "cooker": "DynamicParser",

 "format": "json",

 "model": "com.amazon.android.model.content.ContentContainer",

 "translator": "ContentContainerTranslator",

 "modelType": "array",

 "query": "$..categories[*]",

 "queryResultType": "[]$",

 "matchList": [

   "StringKey@mName"

 ],

 "keyDataType": "StringKey@keyDataPath"

}

In Amazon Fire App Development, the media feed is loaded and configured. Various media assets like titles, the unique description, enormous media objects would be present in the feed in the process of developing the fire appl.

2.    Customizing the appearance

In the Amazon Fire app development, the appearance of the application can be changed by altering the applications’ logo or the icon. The home screen customization is a very critical step in ensuring that the fire app has a very engaging and intuitive user interface. The best part is that the customization can be done to every element of the application inclusive of the font, background color, screen customization by modifying the changes to the custom.xml. File. You can customize the various aspects of the fire app as shown below.

3.    Addition of the Components for more Functionality

Components can be added instantly in order to increase the functionality of the application, to provide an excellent level of authentication, analytics and for the advertisement purpose as well. It is possible that only one component can get loaded of a particular interface type in Amazon Fire App Development. This adding or removing is possible by easily editing the lines in the Gradle build files of the Amazon Fire application. Every component will have its own unique set of features and the configuration. The process of addition and removal of components can be done easily which make the entire process of building fire app commendable.

4.   Adding the recommendations

The recommendations play a very critical role in Amazon Fire App Development. This is a vital step involved in developing the app as they provide useful information about the features. Screenshots can also be added about the developed Fire app. These recommendations play a role in spreading awareness of the fire app to the customers. You can know more about global and related recommendation.

Testing and Submitting the Amazon Fire Application

In Amazon Fire App Development, the developer must comply with the content policy of Amazon. Additionally, screenshots of the developed application must be provided for the purpose of promoting the application on the App Store. The developer can update the application in Amazon Fire. when the app is being live in the app store.