Opens the full Fire TV settings screen from any launcher.
For Projectivy Launcher and other Fire TV home-screen replacements.

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The problem

If you use a third-party launcher like Projectivy on a Fire TV, its "Android settings" button just flashes and takes you back. Fire OS sends the standard android.settings.SETTINGS intent to Amazon's home screen, and the launcher intercepts that and returns you home.

The fix

Fire Settings is a tiny app with a TV banner. Pin it to your home row, press it, and you get the real Fire TV settings screen.

• No UI: it opens settings and closes in the same moment, so nothing flashes on screen.
• No permissions and no tracking. The app is about 30 lines of Java.
• Fallback: if Amazon's settings screen isn't there, it opens the standard Android settings screen instead.

Install

1. Download FireSettings-vX.Y.apk from the latest release.

2. Install it with ADB:

   adb connect <fire-tv-ip>
   adb install -r FireSettings-v1.0.apk

   Or install it with a sideloading app such as Downloader.

3. In Projectivy (or your launcher), add Fire Settings to your home row.

It runs on Fire OS 5 and newer (minSdk 22). It has been confirmed on a current Fire TV Stick with Projectivy Launcher.

How it works

The app has one Activity with Theme.NoDisplay. It launches

com.amazon.tv.launcher/.ui.MainSettingsActivity

with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK. If that fails, it falls back to android.settings.SETTINGS. Then it calls finish(). That's the whole app: MainActivity.java.

To check that the target screen exists on your device:

adb shell am start -n com.amazon.tv.launcher/.ui.MainSettingsActivity

Build from source

No Gradle and no Android Studio. The build uses plain javac, dx, aapt, zipalign and apksigner from Ubuntu's own packages, so it also builds natively on ARM64 (for example a Raspberry Pi or an Oracle Ampere server), where Google's SDK build-tools don't run.

sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk-headless aapt apksigner zipalign dalvik-exchange android-sdk-platform-23
./build.sh

The output is out/FireSettings.apk.

Important

On the first run, build.sh creates a signing key in keystore/ (git ignores it). Back it up. Android only installs an update over an existing install when both are signed with the same key.

The icon and banner are drawn by tools/make_images.py (needs Pillow):

python3 tools/make_images.py res/drawable-xhdpi docs

Project layout

├── AndroidManifest.xml          # LAUNCHER + LEANBACK_LAUNCHER, banner, NoDisplay theme
├── src/local/firesettings/
│   └── MainActivity.java        # the whole app
├── res/drawable-xhdpi/          # 96×96 icon, 320×180 TV banner
├── tools/make_images.py         # generates the icon and banner
├── build.sh                     # Gradle-free build + signing
└── .github/workflows/build.yml  # CI build on every push

Credits

The target activity comes from dkreye/fire-settings, which solves the same problem. This is an independent minimal rewrite with a Gradle-free build.

License

MIT