For many of its services, Amazon keeps support limited to in-house devices. The upcoming Echo digital assistant and Fire TV Stick, though, have dedicated apps available in the Play Store. Amazon traditionally acknowledges Android as a whole much later to push its own hardware. Both apps introduced today act as remotes for each device.
The app used as a remote for Echo does everything a user can do with his or her voice. After all, Echo is a digital assistant controlled by voice commands. The Echo app shows everything that the hardware would respond with by voice. It will display weather information, music playback, and lists. Support for the Echo app is limited to just a handful of recent flagship devices.
The Fire TV Remote app gives control to your device. The remote that ships with the Fire TV Stick lacks a microphone; therefore, voice commands are not possible. The Fire TV Remote app is an easy (and free) solution. This app also supports a keyboard for text entry. At the bottom of the Fire TV Remote app, there are back, home, and menu buttons. Everything you would find on the physical remote is here, digitally.
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