Fire TV App Builder for OTT and Broadcasters

Launch a Branded Fire TV App for Your Streaming Service

With the Vodlix Fire TV app builder, your viewers get your own app on Fire TV: your name and logo in the launcher, your films and series on the home screen, and sign-in with their phone instead of the remote. Broadcasters and OTT services launch it without an Android development team. You fill in the settings and artwork in the Vodlix admin, and the app runs on the same catalogue and subscriber accounts as your website. The same admin also covers your Android TV, Apple TV, Samsung, LG and Roku apps. Fire TV is included on the Business and Enterprise plans.

Your own Fire TV app

Your name and logo on the TV.

QR code sign-in

No typing with the remote.

One admin, every TV

Fire TV beside your other TV apps.

Title page in a Vodlix TV app on a television: synopsis, genre and quality badges, with Play, More Like This, Add to My List and Credits & More Info for the remote

How Each Film Looks in Your Fire TV App

Every film and series in your Fire TV app gets its own page, and viewers move around it with the remote alone. The page shows the synopsis, year, age rating, picture quality and genre. Below that, the buttons sit in one column: Play, More Like This, Add to My List and Credits & More Info. Viewers can also rate the title here. The text and artwork come from the title you publish once in Vodlix, so the page matches your website and mobile apps.

The Vodlix TV app player on a television, paused mid-film with the progress bar, elapsed and remaining time, and skip back, play and skip forward controls

Watch Films in Your Fire TV App With Just the Remote

Viewers control playback in your Fire TV app with the remote alone. Pressing OK pauses the film and shows the controls: the title's artwork, a progress bar with time watched and time left, and skip back, play and skip forward buttons. Go Back returns to the title page. Pressing up shows a strip of preview frames, so viewers can see where a skip will land before they jump. Read more about trick play thumbnails.

TV login screen in a Vodlix TV app: scan the QR code or go to yourplatform.com/mytv, enter the sign-in code, or sign in with email and password

How Viewers Sign In to Your Fire TV App With a QR Code

Viewers sign in to your Fire TV app by scanning a QR code with their phone, so nobody has to type a password with the remote. The sign-in screen shows the QR code and a short code. The viewer scans it, or opens your site's /mytv page on any phone or computer, enters the code and signs in there. The TV then signs in to the same account and subscription. Viewers can still use email and password on the TV if they prefer. Your mobile app can offer TV sign-in too, and you can hide that option if you do not want it.

Vodlix App Configurations with the Fire TV tab open: app name, package name, keystore and Google Services files, and the Amazon store link, beside iOS, tvOS, Android, Android TV and Roku

How to Set Up Your Fire TV App in the Vodlix Admin

You set up your Fire TV app in the Vodlix admin by filling in a short form, with no Android code to write. The Fire TV tab sits next to your iOS, tvOS, Android, Android TV and Roku apps. You enter the app name and package name, upload the signing files, and add your Amazon Appstore link once the app is listed. Vodlix builds the Fire TV app from these settings and handles publishing. The app uses the same catalogue, content lists and subscribers as your website, so a title you publish once appears on Fire TV too. See how apps are managed from one screen and how one configuration produces every app build.

Vodlix App Branding for Fire TV: the 512x512 app icon and the required 1280x720 launcher icon for the Amazon Appstore

Add Your Logo and Fire TV Launcher Icon

You add your logo and the Fire TV launcher icon in the Vodlix admin, so your app looks like yours from the Fire TV home screen onward. Amazon requires a 1280 × 720 launcher icon. You can also add a 512 × 512 app icon, a 114 × 114 small icon and splash screens. If you have already set artwork for another app, you can copy it across instead of starting again. The panel also lists anything still missing before you can publish. Read more about branding across web, mobile and TV.

Vodlix settings: the TV apps contact text, filled with a support email, a help centre link at yourplatform.com/help, a phone number and opening hours

Show Your Support Contact Details in Your Fire TV App

Your Fire TV app can show your support contact details as text, because viewers on a TV cannot click a help link. You write the text once in the Vodlix settings: a help address, a support email or a phone number. It is a platform setting, so changing it does not need an app update. The settings also include the apps' screensaver interval, the idle time before the screensaver starts.

One Catalogue for Your Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Samsung and LG Apps

Your Fire TV app shares one catalogue with all your other TV apps. The same films, subscribers and watch progress also run your Android TV app, your Apple TV app, your Roku channel, and your Samsung Tizen and LG webOS apps, alongside your mobile apps. On the Business plan, Fire TV comes with Android TV; Enterprise adds Apple TV, Roku, Samsung and LG. See every TV app Vodlix offers or compare plans and pricing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about taking advantage of this limited-time offer? Check out the FAQ for answers.

What is a Fire TV app builder?

A Fire TV app builder lets a broadcaster or OTT service launch its own branded Amazon Fire TV app without writing Android code. With Vodlix you enter the app name, package name, signing files and artwork in the admin, and the Fire TV app is built from those settings on the same catalogue and accounts as your other apps.

Which Vodlix plans include a Fire TV app?

Fire TV is included on the Business and Enterprise plans. Business covers Android TV and Fire TV together; Enterprise adds Apple TV, Roku, Samsung and LG. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

How do viewers sign in to a Fire TV app with a QR code?

The Fire TV app shows a QR code and a short sign-in code. Viewers scan the code with a phone, or go to your site's /mytv page and enter the code, then sign in there; the TV signs in to the same account. Signing in with email and password on the TV also works.

Can I publish a Fire TV app under my own brand?

Yes. Your Fire TV app carries your app name, logo, launcher icon and splash screens, so viewers see your brand in the Fire TV launcher and throughout the app.

Does my Fire TV app share content and subscribers with my website and other apps?

Yes. The Vodlix Fire TV app reads the same catalogue, content lists and subscriber accounts as your website, mobile apps and other TV apps, so a title published once appears everywhere and a subscriber signs in with the same account.

Can I show support contact details in my Fire TV app?

Yes. Vodlix Settings has a Contact Us display text for TV apps, under Business Details, where you set the help address, email or phone number viewers see on the television.

Fire TV App Builder: Launch Your Own Branded Fire TV App