#Blackfire icons how to

In other words, this solution is a very crude and finicky bandage to the issue, but I wanted to provide some sort of solution because a lot of people have been asking about how to fix this issue. Every APK is created differently, so these instructions might not apply universally to all APKs and some APKs just canвЂ™t be modified at all. ThatвЂ™s because you have to modify every APK individually to fix the issue and youвЂ™ll need to do it each time you update the sideloaded app with a new version. If the missing icon doesnвЂ™t bother you too much, you should probably just wait for a software update to fix the issue. Either way, the only solution IвЂ™ve found is to modify the affected APK by moving the app icon from /mipmap to /drawable directory. IвЂ™ve also only seen this bug occur on the 2nd-gen Fire TV Cube, so it may be that only that one device is affected right now or, more likely, only Fire OS 7 devices are affected. For example, Kodi is unaffected but HBO Max is affected. HereвЂ™s how to get around the issue and make icons appear.ДЇrom what IвЂ™ve been able to determine, it seems like apps that store their app icon in the /res/mipmapвЂ¦ directories of the APK, instead of the /res/drawableвЂ¦ directories, are affected by this bug. Until Amazon fixes the bug, there is a way to make broken icons appear and it involves modifying the APK itself.

The bug seems to only affect apps that store their APK icon in a specific way, which is why some sideloaded apps are not affected. Instead of the app icon appearing, a gray icon with a slash through it appears.

There appears to be a bug on select Amazon Fire TV devices that prevents the icon of some sideloaded apps to display correctly on the Home screen and Apps screen.