Any plans for Amazon Firestick implementation?

[borolepratik]

As I understand, Firestick is based on Android and it maybe possible to develop/port flutter apps there but i do not sufficient information for its viability.

[Charlie284]

For a Fire OS-based Fire TV Stick, this is already viable without a separate Flutter port. Fladder's current Android package is also its TV package: the manifest makes touch optional, declares Leanback support, supplies a TV banner, and registers LEANBACK_LAUNCHER (source). The UI also handles remote focus/select keys (source) and TV mode selects the native Android player (source).

So the practical installation path is to sideload one of the Android APKs from the Fladder releases. Check the device ABI first:

adb shell getprop ro.product.cpu.abilist

Use the arm64-v8a APK if that ABI is listed; otherwise use armeabi-v7a, then install it with:

adb install -r Fladder-Android-<version>-<abi>.apk

That is Amazon's documented Fire TV testing/install flow (ADB setup, APK installation). Fladder already publishes both ARM variants in each release (build workflow).

If a Fire OS device launches the phone/tablet layout, try the current nightly. Stable v0.10.3 detected TV mode only through Android's Leanback feature; the July 29 nightly added a UiModeManager television fallback (current detection) plus a persisted Force Lean-back mode setting (source). Those changes specifically improve TV detection on devices that do not report FEATURE_LEANBACK as expected.

There is one important exception: Amazon now has both Fire OS and Vega OS sticks. Amazon's current device table lists the Fire TV Stick HD (2026) as Vega OS 1.1 with no Android API level (device table). Fladder currently produces Android APK/AAB artifacts, not a Vega VPKG, so that model would need a separate Vega port. On Fire OS models, sideloading and testing the existing Android TV APK is the right first step; codec/direct-play results will still depend on the exact stick generation and media formats.

[borolepratik]

@Charlie284 this works! thank you for the detailed explanation.