Add Fire OS compatibility

[mosesroth]

📝 Why & how

This PR adds Fire OS compatibility as an option to the directory and includes 45 libraries that have been tested and confirmed compatible with Fire OS.

✅ Checklist

• Added library to react-native-libraries.json
• Updated library in react-native-libraries.json

• Documented in this PR how to use the feature or replicate the bug.
• Documented in this PR how you fixed or created the feature.

[mosesroth]

Co-authored with @chris-trag and @giolaq

[chris-trag]

Screenshots showing the Fire OS platform filter / checkbox:

Thanks!

[mosesroth]

Inserted ⏎ per warning

[Simek]

Hey @mosesroth, thanks for working on this addition! I would like to ask few questions before we can proceed.

About which Fire OS we are talking about, is it the Android TV fork?

• https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/fire-os-overview.html

Or this is about the new, proprietary Linux-based OS announced earlier this year?

[mosesroth]

Hi @Simek , yes Fire OS is the Android fork mentioned on the doc you linked, which is what we tested on.

Thanks,

Moses

[Simek]

Thanks for the clarification Moses! 👍

We were discussing this addition internally, and with react-native-tvos maintainer, and in case of the Android fork we lean into thinking that the separation (definition of FireOS as a separate platform) is not needed.

AFAIK when it comes to Android TV, all libraries marked with Android or tvOS support should be working fine on Android TV (so also on Fire OS) devices, since most of the code is shared with Android mobile platform. You can check the RN tvOS readme for a bit more details on that topic:

• https://github.com/react-native-tvos/react-native-tvos?tab=readme-ov-file#react-native-tvos

This is also a take that the Fire OS page I have linked previously stand by:

Fire OS is a fork of Android, so if your app runs on Android, it will most likely run on Amazon's Fire devices too.

If there are something that we miss, any concerns about compatibility or important differences between regular Android TV and Fire OS please let us know. We are happy to learn more about TV apps ecosystem, and work on clarifying the state of libraries support for different TV targets.

[mosesroth]

Hi @Simek , Fire OS runs on Fire tablets too, not just Fire TVs.

It is based on Android, but there can be some inconsistencies, not all Android libraries will work on FOS. For example, if a library requires Google Play Services, it won't work on FOS, because those aren't present on Fire devices.