While you’ll find Kodi readily available on the Google Play Store, it’s nowhere to be found on Amazon’s platform, having been removed back in 2015 for concerns surrounding piracy. Unlike Google, Amazon takes a more Apple-like approach with their app market, only allowing in certain applications once they’ve been approved for use.
In this guide, we’ll be walking you through how to install apps on your Fire Stick, using Kodi as an example. Kodi isn’t listed in the Amazon Appstore as an application you can easily download for regular use. So while the Amazon Appstore is filled with apps like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Now, you can also use the settings menu of your device to add apps that aren’t traditionally supported by the Amazon Appstore, like YouTube, Kodi, or any other number of apps available online.
Every Fire TV device, be it the $39 Fire Stick or the $119 Fire Cube, run Fire OS, a modified version of Android that allows users to open up the platform in order to make all sorts of changes to the device.
Amazon’s line of Fire TV devices are great for so many reasons, and among them are the openness of the platform.
