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How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV – streaming app tutorial

16th November 2018 by Justin Leave a Comment

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Tutorial on How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV

Kodi is a powerful app not only as media organizer, but specially as a streaming platform for watch all sort of multimedia online; while Kodi 18 is only available as Beta version, learn How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV …

Installing Kodi on your Amazon Firestick or Fire TV opens up a whole new world of home entertainment. The software can be used as a home media organizer as well as a streaming platform for TV channels, movies, TV shows, sports, documentaries, and literally anything watchable. This is thanks to the fact that Kodi supports third-party addons from developers all over the world.

Kodi 18 is available in beta form, but Kodi Krypton 17.6 is the latest stable version of Kodi. It is the version that supports the most addons and in this guide, we’ll show you How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV. There are various ways to do so, but we’ll show you the simplest and the shortest.

How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV

Installing Kodi is a step by step process without much science; so you just need to follow the instructions carefully and you’re done. But, before you go further a concern arises; your privacy and security protection.

Your Privacy & Security

Though Kodi in itself is completely legal, most of the third-party addons that make Kodi very useful are not. Consumption of illegal content in today’s world is very dangerous, as ISPs and governments are always spying on you. The crackdown against illegal streaming using Kodi has intensified in the recent past, with sellers of preloaded Kodi boxes being arrested and various streamers facing the law.

It is therefore important to mind your own privacy and security before you can stream anything using a third-party Kodi addon. This can be done by using a secure and private that doesn’t compromise on performance and speeds like Surfshark.

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Installing a VPN on  Firestick or Fire TV

If you haven’t installed a VPN, a visit to our tutorial on How to Install Kodi on Firestick or Fire TV, may help you on this task. Once done, return here to proceed.

Allowing Unknown sources

Also, before you can go on with the process on How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV, you first need to allow Firestick to install third-party apps.

  1. First, turn your VPN On
  2. Now, while at the Firestick home screen, open settings and select device.
  3. After that, go to “developer options”
  4. Finally, enable “ADB debugging” and turn on enable “Allow apps from Unknown sources”

Now, Firestick can install apps that are not from the store.

Downloading APK

We shall download the apks using Downloader, but this one is readily available on the store.

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Installing Downloader

If you haven’t yet installed it:

  1. First, go back to the main menu and select the Search
  2. Now, on the search field, type “downloader”
  3. It should be displayed as the first option, and it has a yellow icon. Select it.
  4. Finally, click “Get” to download and install Downloader on your Firestick or Fire TV.
  5. You can now open the downloader app.

Downloading Kodi APK

  1. In the URL field of downloader, enter the URL “http://kodi.tv/download” and click ‘Download’.
  2. It will open a webpage with the various Kodi applications. Since Firestick and Fire TV are based on a fork of Android, we shall download the Android apk. Select it.
  3. Now, choose the 32-bit option, as it the recommended version for Firestick. Your download should now begin.
  4. When download is complete, click “Install”

Don’t go back to the Home screen yet. You will be given an option to delete the Kodi install file, If you let Firestick return you to the Downloader app; this will help free up some space on your device.

After that, proceed to the home screen and scroll down till you see the Apps shortcut option. Kodi should now be there. If you wish to move it, just highlight it and select move.

Wrap up

You can easily install Kodi on your Firestick or Fire TV using the simple procedure above on How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV. However, the power of Kodi lies in its third-party addons, but we have a roundup of the best Kodi addons for you. Remember that before you can stream anything on these addons, you need to enable your VPN first. This will guarantee you privacy and security while you enjoy your favourite content on Kodi.

Hope you found this tutorial on How to Install Kodi 17.6 on Firestick or Fire TV, useful!

 

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