Amazon FireTV does not support Google Voice Search

[dmfrey]

Reported by @dekarl

I tried with the APK from github releases with the following result when trying to search in the recordings screen. Looks like com.google.android.voicesearch is missing from FireOS... (according to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9479846/no-activity-found-to-handle-intent-act-android-speech-action-recognize-speech ) But even that app is not available in my country, yet. Looks like the missing speech to text activity is not handled, yet? "NOTE: There may not be any applications installed to handle this action, so you should make sure to catch ActivityNotFoundException."

I/ActivityManager( 1832): START u0
{act=android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH (has extras)} from uid 10015
on display 0
D/AndroidRuntime(10607): Shutting down VM
E/AndroidRuntime(10607): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(10607): Process: org.mythtv.android, PID: 10607
E/AndroidRuntime(10607): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No
Activity found to handle Intent {act=android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH (has extras) }
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1797)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at 
android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1517)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3771)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3732)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
org.mythtv.android.view.activity.tv.SearchableActivity$1.recognizeSpeech(SearchableActivity.java:145)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.support.v17.leanback.widget.SearchBar.startRecognition(SearchBar.java:554)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.support.v17.leanback.app.SearchFragment$4.run(SearchFragment.java:194)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5466)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:984)
E/AndroidRuntime(10607):        at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:779)
I/AndroidRuntime(10607): To Report FATAL to activityManagerService
I/ActivityManager( 1832): handleApplicationCrash
W/ActivityManager( 1832):   Force finishing activity 1
org.mythtv.android/.view.activity.tv.SearchableActivity
I/ActivityManager( 1832): addErrorToDropBox inserted
hashcode=558234d2102138a369448751c2d68515a627a295 for eventType crash.
I/Vlog    ( 1832):
3p:fg_crash:fgtracking=true;DV;1,key=org.mythtv.android;DV;1,Counter=1.0;CT;1,unit=count;DV;1,metadata=558234d2102138a369448751c2d68515a627a295;DV;1:HI
I/ActivityManager( 1832): Next activity is on the same task, skipping
moveHomeStackTaskToTop()
I/Process (10607): Sending signal. PID: 10607 SIG: 9
I/AndroidRuntime(10607): Finished reporting FATAL to activityManagerService
I/CrashDescriptorUtil( 1832): addErrorToCommonLog Hash already present
in file
I/WindowState( 1832): WIN DEATH: Window{1c90a472 u0
org.mythtv.android/org.mythtv.android.view.activity.tv.RecordingsActivity}
I/WindowState( 1832): WIN DEATH: Window{311c5458 u0
org.mythtv.android/org.mythtv.android.view.activity.tv.SearchableActivity}
I/ActivityManager( 1832): Process org.mythtv.android (pid 10607) has died
W/art     (  746): PreZygoteFork called when we already have a zygote space.
V/WindowManager( 1832): Adding window Window{1fe4850f u0 Starting
org.mythtv.android} at 12 of 15 (before Window{311c5458 u0
org.mythtv.android/org.mythtv.android.view.activity.tv.SearchableActivity EXITING})
I/ActivityManager( 1832): Start proc 10777:org.mythtv.android/u0a15 for
activity org.mythtv.android/.view.activity.tv.RecordingsActivity

[dekarl]

A small addition, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.voicesearch just states "This content is not available in your country yet.", so its not just FireTV.

[dmfrey]

@dekarl this should fix it. I'm away on business, so I can't test it myself at this time. If you can pull it and try it out, let me know.

[dmfrey]

@dekarl have you been able to verify this with the current develop branch?

[dmfrey]

@dekarl Amazon has now addressed this in their documentation. It can be found here

Avoiding Speech Recognition Errors from Leanback

This is going into release 3.0.2. Can you get the beta release on the FireTV?