App Rejection on Kindle Fire TV

I submitted a small app to Amazon with support for the Kindle Fire TV and got the following rejection notice.

When the user presses the home button (ESC key), I call Application.Quit. What should I be doing? Is there a way to force the application into the background so it can resumed later?

 

Just remove Application.Quit directive... Without it app should pause/resume properly as Amazon required...

 

Hmmm... I did that. It looks like it still quits the app. I'll have to look further.

Have you managed to get something on the Amazon App Store for the Kindle Fire TV written in Unity?

 

I can see that when the home button is hit the app pauses. When I relaunch it, it doesn't resume but starts at the splash screen. I made a small sample app and that behaves properly. There is something abot my app that is forcing to to exit in suspend. I'm using a manifest that I got from Amazon. Wonder if that might be a problem?

 

That might be it, I would suggest removing that manifest and Unity will use it's own version. If you need to add some directives to it (i.e. IAP, etc.) fetch the Unity version and use that as a base. It's available in plyaers/android folder of Unity package (osx) or folder (windows).

 

I did remove the Amazon manifest and built. I expected the default Unity manifest to be copied to the project automatically but it wasn't. I couldn't find where on the drive the file was (OSX) so thanks for your tip about it's location.

That's the next step for me to try. Luckily, all my calls to Amazon Game Circle are in conditional compilation defines.

 

OK. If I use the default Unity android manifest and remove calls to Game Circle the app resumes properly. I'll have to see if I can figure out the differences in the Amazon manifest. Silly me for expecting the manifest provided by Amazon for Unity to work correctly.

 

I haven't done that integration before but based on the info it should be something like this...

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
3. <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.unity3d.player" android:installLocation="preferExternal" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0">
4.   <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" />
5.   <application android:icon="@drawable/app_icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" android:debuggable="true">
6.     <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerNativeActivity" android:label="@string/app_name">
7.       <intent-filter>
8.         <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
9.         <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
10.       </intent-filter>
11.       <meta-data android:name="unityplayer.UnityActivity" android:value="true" />
12.       <meta-data android:name="unityplayer.ForwardNativeEventsToDalvik" android:value="false" />
13.     </activity>
14.     <activity
15.     android:name="com.amazon.identity.auth.device.authorization.AuthorizationActivity"
16.     android:allowTaskReparenting="true"
17.     android:launchMode="singleTask"
18.     android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" >
19.     <intent-filter>
20.        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
21.        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
22.        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
23.        <data
24.           android:host="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerNativeActivity"
25.           android:scheme="amzn" />
26.      </intent-filter>
27.      </activity>
28.   </application>
29. </manifest>
30.  

 

THANKS! That worked properly when once I added permissions. Well, it seems to work. Now, I just need to retest everything.

I was using my bundle id for <put your package name here>.

The sample manifest provided looks like this. I wonder what all the other stuff does?

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     android:versionCode="1"
3.     android:versionName="1.0">
4.     <supports-screens
5.         android:smallScreens="true"
6.         android:normalScreens="true"
7.         android:largeScreens="true"
8.         android:xlargeScreens="true"
9.         android:anyDensity="true"/>
10.  
11.     <application
12.         android:icon="@drawable/app_icon"
13.         android:label="@string/app_name"
14.         android:debuggable="true">
15.        
16.         <!-- Unity Activities -->
17.         <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerProxyActivity"
18.                   android:label="@string/app_name"
19.                   android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen">
20.             <intent-filter>
21.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
22.                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
23.             </intent-filter>
24.         </activity>
25.         <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity"
26.                   android:label="@string/app_name"
27.                   android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen">
28.         </activity>
29.         <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerNativeActivity"
30.                   android:label="@string/app_name"
31.                   android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen">
32.             <meta-data android:name="android.app.lib_name" android:value="unity" />
33.             <meta-data android:name="unityplayer.ForwardNativeEventsToDalvik" android:value="false" />
34.         </activity>
35.         <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.VideoPlayer"
36.                   android:label="@string/app_name"
37.                   android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen">
38.         </activity>
39.        
40.         <!-- GameCircle Dependencies -->
41.         <activity android:name="com.amazon.ags.html5.overlay.GameCircleUserInterface"
42.                 android:theme="@style/GCOverlay"
43.                 android:hardwareAccelerated="false">
44.         </activity>
45.         <activity android:name="com.amazon.ags.html5.overlay.GameCircleAlertUserInterface"
46.                 android:theme="@style/GCAlert"
47.                 android:hardwareAccelerated="false">
48.         </activity>
49.        
50.         <activity
51.             android:name="com.amazon.identity.auth.device.authorization.AuthorizationActivity"
52.             android:allowTaskReparenting="true"
53.             android:launchMode="singleTask"
54.             android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" >
55.             <intent-filter>
56.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
57.  
58.                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
59.                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
60.  
61.                 <data
62.                     android:host="<put your packagename here>"
63.                     android:scheme="amzn" />
64.             </intent-filter>
65.         </activity>
66.  
67.         <receiver
68.             android:name="com.amazon.identity.auth.device.authorization.PackageIntentReceiver"
69.             android:enabled="true" >
70.             <intent-filter>
71.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_INSTALL" />
72.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED" />
73.  
74.                 <data android:scheme="package" />
75.             </intent-filter>
76.         </receiver>
77.  
78.         <!-- META-DATA --> 
79.    
80.     </application>
81.     <!-- PERMISSIONS -->
82.     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
83.     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
84.    
85. </manifest>
86.  

 

Rats. WhisperSync failed to initialize. I posted over in the Game Circle Forum.

 

Amazon says it doesn't sound like I'm doing anything wrong. They are looking at the issue. Has any one else here be able to submit to the Amazon Fire TV with Game Circle?