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sphinx02 / AppStarter

AppStarter | AppDrawer and Kodi / SPMC Updater for Amazon FireTV. Works without rooting your FireTV.
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Launch AppStarter Automatically #59

Open Thirty12 opened 8 years ago

Thirty12 commented 8 years ago

Hi guys, As you know the old FreStarter used to launch automatically on FireTV Stick start-up but the new AppStarter doesn't do this. Is there a way to enable this?

Thanks

Matt

sphinx02 commented 8 years ago

Short answer: No.

Long answer as explained on xda-developers: I can totally understand if you do not like the fact, that two of the main features of the App are not anymore useable in AppStarter (Home-Button-Detection and Auto-Start). And I can also understand if you are using a Fork of the App like FireStopper or if you stay at any older version. But anyway, my decision is clear to that point, AppStarter will not have one of these two features in future, as I am quite sure, Amazon will block AppStarter like they did it previously. I think AppStarter is very useful also without these two features.

With Firmware > 5.0.5.1 a double-click to the home-button opens the app-overview of Amazon where AppStarter is always the first App if you stick it as favourite App. From there you are only one click away from opening AppStarter.

I guess the point "Some of the users don't like registering" or "Users want to bypass the Amazon User Interface" are exactly why Amazon has blocked the App. I really do not like to play cat and mouse with Amazon by changing the Packetname of AppStarter every 2 weeks to bypass new entries on the blocklist. I mostly profit from the feature to keep Kodi up-to-date at the moment and I hope Amazon will not block AppStarter only because of this ability.

For everyone who really dont want to see any Amazon related things I can only recommend to buy another streaming device or to follow any of the rooting tutorials out there. For me rooting is no choice and so I try to find a way, to keep AppStarter unblocked by Amazon.

Thirty12 commented 8 years ago

Hi, thanks for your detailed answer. I completely understand where you're coming from and I also completely understand why you have made it a Amazon friendly as possible.

It's a shame it has come to this but for me (and no doubt many others) AppStarter as it is now still greatly improves the end user experience.

Thank you for all your hard work.

Peace.

JooJooBee666 commented 8 years ago

Unfortunately, the sole reason I used FireStarter was so I could bypass the Amazon home screen. As soon as I realized what happened here with the update, I QUICKLY removed it as I no longer have use for this. Sad to see you giving up so easily to the corporate overlords at Amazon. Thanks for the work up to this point and good luck.

vip32 commented 8 years ago

@sphinx02 thanks for this great app 👍 given the circumstances this is the best we can get to easily start kodi (i mean something the wife understands :)

ScottMccay commented 7 years ago

there is an app called onbootappstarter https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/noroot-boot-appstarter-t3616824