You don’t have much left to make the jump to the new platform, but you probably have the same problem on the Amazon Fire TV: without knowing what will happen with Max, the HBO Max application It is not available in the AppStore of the popular marketplace. Although that is not a problem, the Android TV APK comes to your aid. Do you want to know how install HBO Max on your Fire TV or update it?
Most of Warner’s content, the films and series based on the DC universe, authentic television gems like Chernobyl or Game of Thrones and endless more content: no one doubts that HBO Max, and the future Max, make up one of the best platforms to subscribe to. Now: did you launch an Amazon player and think you missed the opportunity to access your subscription? The truth is that no.
The Amazon Fire TV is an Android TV in disguise: the same app works for it
Fire OS, the operating system that powers Fire TVs, is a fork of Android. That is, it is based on the Google AOSP code to disguise it with its own cape, functions and apps. They essentially behave the same way.there are more similarities than differences between a Chromecast with Google TV and a Fire TV.
The Warnes Bros. Discovery app is not operational in the Amazon AppStore in Spain, so cannot be installed directly from the player tools. You only need a few steps to place it on your TV grill: it’s much simpler than it seems. Even if you need to update the application next May 21 to finally install the long-awaited Max.
The basis of the process is install the APK of HBO Max for Android TV on the Amazon Fire TV. There are several ways to do it, we are left with the following two. You can choose any one, they serve perfectly for what we are looking for.
Install HBO Max on your Fire TV from an installer app
It’s a pretty quick method that works. without leaving Fire TV. You need to carry out the following process:
- Go to your Fire TV settings and enter “My Fire TV.”
- Click on “About” several times until you see the “Developer Options” active.
- Go to the new developers menu and turn on the “Install unknown apps” option.
- Now open the Amazon AppStore and search for the Downloader app. Install it.
- Go to the Downloader application and go to the central address box.
- Type 861682. We have created this shortcut to the HBO Max APK from APK Mirror: download and archive are safe.
- Downloader will tell you if you want to install the app. Say yes and you’ll have HBO Max on your Fire TV.
Install HBO Max on your Fire TV using ADB and an Android mobile
It is somewhat more laborious than the previous one, although this way you have greater control over the applications you install, since you will use your Android smartphone like a kind of remote control.
First of all, you need to install Easy Fire Tools on your Android mobile and that both the phone and the Fire TV are connected to the same WiFi network. Then do the following:
- Go into your Fire TV settings and scroll down to “My Fire TV.”
- Press “About” several times until “Developer Options” are activated.
- Go to the developers menu and activate “USB Debugging”.
- Go back, go back to “About”, go to the “Network” menu and look at the IP address of your Amazon Fire TV. Write it down.
- Open Easy Fire Tools on your mobile, click on the three top lines and enter “Settings”.
- Click on “IP Address” and write the IP address of your Amazon Fire TV.
- Go back to the main menu of the application and click on the top connect icon: you will see an ADB request appear on the TV screen. Accept it.
- If everything has gone well, your mobile phone is now connected to the TV player using the ADB protocol of Android.
- Now download the HBO Max APK on your mobile from APK Mirror.
- Return to Easy Fire Tools and, in the main menu (“Sideload”), go to “Custom APK File”, at the top.
- Click on “Select file”, choose the downloaded APK and, finally, click on “Install” below.
- Accept the installation on the Fire TV and you will have everything ready.
With both processes you will obtain the same result. And it will help you install any other app in APK, even when you have to update Max on May 21, the date it premieres in Spain. Once you log in with your account you will be able to see all the content on the Fire TV without the slightest problem.
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