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Amazon has many apps which are used for different purposes and also they have their own App Store which can be used on Android devices and today there is another app from Amazon. Which includes awesome features and content that is not available on their own shopping app. Here you can get your hands on best mobile shopping experience, Amazon Instant Video in apps, games, and even in-app items that are actually free. So I think its time to leave Amazon Shopping app and switch to Amazon Underground, In this post, I’ll tell you how you can download and install Amazon Underground for PC. Download Amazon Underground for PC. Download and install BlueStacks or Remix OS Player:. Open the installed BlueStacks or Remix OS Player and open the Google Play Store in it.
Now in Play Store, search for “ Amazon Underground“. Install the game and open the app drawer or all apps in the emulator. Click the Portal Worlds icon to open it, follow the on-screen instructions to play it.
Method:2. Download. Download and install Bluestacks:. Once you’ve installed Bluestacks, double click the APK that you just downloaded above. The APK will be installed using Bluestacks, once installed open Bluestacks and locate the recently installed Amazon Underground. Click the Amazon Underground icon to open it, follow the on-screen instructions to play it. You can also use Andy OS to install Amazon Underground for PC, here’s the tutorial:.
Also see our article The past two decades have seen Amazon’s rise in dominance, from an online book retailer attempting to revolutionize the industry, to a tech giant that seemingly has their hands in every possible tech product category they could. From free two-day shipping on almost any product in the world, to their lineup of eReaders and cheap tablets for watching videos and playing games, Amazon is one of the four or five tech companies that shape our lives every day. One of their earlier pursuits in tech products, however, was their Amazon Prime Video service, a competitor to Netflix and Hulu that allows Prime subscribers to access a wide variety of streaming films and television shows. Amazon Prime Video has a wide variety of content, including a ton of recent Blockbusters, some of the best HBO series, and a great collection of original series and movies. Amazon’s original products have been nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, and Emmys, finding critical acclaim, making it an ideal streaming service to keep paying for.
In fact, there’s only one major complaint we can think of about Amazon’s Prime Video service. When two tech giants go head to head in competition, it can hurt the consumer, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen with the feud between Amazon and Google. One of Amazon’s most popular products is their Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, two streaming boxes that are capable of showing Amazon content, in addition to a number of third-party apps and services like Netflix, Hulu, Plex, and so much more. Unfortunately, Google also happens to sell products that compete directly with Amazon’s Fire TV. The Google Chromecast line is just as affordable as what we’ve seen from Amazon, but instead of including an interface and a dedicated remote, allows you to control what’s streaming directly from your phone.
This makes it incredibly easy to pick up and start playing what you’re watching on your phone back on your television, without having to fiddle around with a remote control or a poor interface. Not everyone prefers the Chromecast experience, and it certainly isn’t without flaws, but it does offer some advantages over Amazon’s Fire Stick. Google and Amazon have been feuding for quite some time, and this fight has really started to hurt consumers.
Amazon has refused to add proper Cast support to Amazon’s Prime Video player or application on both iOS and Android, leaving most users without a choice for watching their favorite Amazon shows and movies on their television without purchasing an Amazon Fire TV or other streaming stick (like a Roku device, which supports both Google and Amazon content). Without official support, it’s difficult to suggest a perfect workaround, but with that said, here are the best ways to use Amazon Prime Video with your Chromecast as it exists currently. Casting From Your PC or Mac Casting from your PC or Mac seems to be the easiest way to stream content from Amazon Prime Video to your television, since it manages to supersede any limitations placed on the app by Amazon.
We’ll get to the mobile experience in a moment, but in short, you might want to grab your laptop for this one. In order to cast from your Mac or PC, the only thing you’ll need to ensure that you’ve installed on your device is Google’s Chrome browser. If you’re a regular Chromecast user, you probably already have it installed on your device, but if you somehow don’t, you can grab it from Google’s website here.
You’ll also want to ensure that you’re logged into your Amazon account inside of Chrome. Open up a new tab or window in Chrome and load Amazon’s Prime Video page. You can browse through the listings to find the show or movie you want, or just search using the bar at the top of the page. Amazon’s desktop layout isn’t quite as clean as the mobile experience, but it’s certainly usable. Once you find the movie or television show you want to stream, click on your selection and open the video in your browser. When the video begins to playback, make sure you don’t make the window fullscreen.
Instead, as the movie or episode begins to start, click on the triple-dotted menu button to open the Chrome menu, then scroll down until you find the Cast button. Clicking on Cast will load an option that allows you to stream the tab from your computer to your television using your Chromecast. You’ll be able to see every device on your network at the time, including Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, and Google Home devices.
You can select the proper device from the list that drops down from the top of your browser, and once you’ve selected an option, you can allow it to play in the background. Selecting your Chromecast device should allow the video to begin playing on your device. Because you’re mirroring the tab between your devices, you’ll want to make sure you hit full screen on the video playback option on your device. For the most part, casting from Chrome to your Chromecast seems to work without any major issues. The device loads properly, displaying the video in full resolution. We did experience some light buffering when playing back content, but overall, casting using the basic utility built into Chrome seems to work well. Glitches or lag seemed to last only a few milliseconds before the video caught up, and all of our tests seemed to pass with flying colors.
Video resolution was solid, and as mentioned, with the full screen icon checked, the video filled the entire resolution of our television. That said, some users have experienced difficulty using this method when casting from Chrome to a Chromecast under the default Amazon player settings.
By default, Amazon’s video player used to be built on Microsoft Silverlight, the same technology that powered Netflix and other streaming services. Silverlight allows these players to feature a smooth and reliable player while also controlling the DRM portions of the device, blocking the ability to steal the stream for piracy reasons. Unfortunately, sometimes Silverlight gets in the way of being able to cast reliably from one device to another, which means you’ll want to make sure that your Chrome browser is updated fully to ensure that Amazon’s video player uses the newer HTML5 interface over the older Silverlight or Flash interface. With both of the older standards gone, you should be able to playback your video without issue.
You can also try to ensure the video begins playing by signing out and back into your account on Chrome. Casting From Your Mobile Device It’s understandable that you might not want to cast from your laptop. Maybe you rely on your smartphone entirely for your internet browsing. Maybe the only computer you have is a desktop, and it’s difficult to control and cast your content from the device that’s in a different room in your house. Unfortunately, while casting from your phone or tablet used to be semi-possible on Android, Amazon has made it harder than ever to cast from Android or iOS to Chromecast, making it almost impossible on your mobile device. Let’s take a look at why.
Android Devices Android users used to have a workaround on their devices that allowed for an easy sharing mechanism on Chromecast. Although the app never allowed users to stream their content from Android, using your device’s mirroring function within the Google Home app allowed for Android phones and tablets to mirror their content to a television just by sharing the device’s screen with your larger display.
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It wasn’t the easiest method in the world, and black bars surrounding the content were common, but on a general scale, it was an easy way to cast to your Chromecast behind your television from your Amazon account. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it wasn’t meant to be.
Sometime in between when we updated this post in January of 2018 and our current update in October, Amazon removed the capability to cast your content through screen mirroring, replacing the ability with a complete black screen. While the audio does play through your television or speakers, and tapping on the display will show your playback controls on the television, your ability to mirror to your television is completely gone. This could’ve been done for a couple reasons, and it’s hard to completely determine why Amazon removed it. Perhaps they removed the ability to mirror their videos because of a concern towards piracy; after all, you can’t watch content on Prime Video while using a screen recorder on your device. That said, given Amazon’s history with Google as a not-so-friendly adversary, it’s probably due to the fact that Amazon wants you to purchase an Amazon Fire TV Stick, not a Chromecast device, to watch their content. As a test, we tried downloading a version of Amazon’s APK from APKPure to test and see if we could stream and mirror the content from our device just by using the older version of the application. Alas, it was a no-go as well, with Amazon’s app team politely telling us to update the video app to the newest version before we could use it.
This means that, as far as we can tell, there’s no real way to mirror your Prime Video content to your Chromecast anymore. So, what we’d recommend doing is using the above method to cast your video from your laptop, computer, or other desktop service, in order to properly display your video on your television.
IOS Devices To cut to the chase, iOS users are a bit out of luck here. As of writing, there’s no sensible way to cast Amazon Prime Video to your Chromecast device. Here’s the problem: when you’re dealing with three different tech companies all at once, all trying to keep your cash in their ecosystem and push you to purchase products they make, you quickly run into issues. Your iPhone and iPad, though made by Apple, play fairly well with Chromecast, offering support through app channels. Apple doesn’t stop apps from offering support for the Cast standard, even though it competes with Airplay and the Apple TV. That said, one thing Apple doesn’t allow for is mirroring. This is an iOS issue; the software allows for Airplay mirroring, but not the Cast standard, even with the Google Home app.
Then there’s the complication of trying to stream Amazon content to your Chromecast device, which as we’ve established, simply don’t play well together in the first place. The combination of Apple’s limitations on display mirroring and Amazon’s lack of Cast support means it’s basically a wash when trying to stream from your iPhone or iPad. We have a guide here on, and while it isn’t a perfect solution, mirroring with your iPhone to Chromecast isn’t impossible if you insist on using your phone to stream Amazon Prime to your television. Still, that solution requires a PC or Mac to mirror the content from your phone to your computer to your television, so you’d be better off simply using that computer to mirror using a tab interface with the built-in Cast support in Chrome. If you’re concerned about using a computer that’s in another room, you can try out using a Prime Video remote app.
There are a number of Fire TV-specific iOS remote apps, but we recommend using Unified Remote to control your Prime Video playback on your computer. You can find out more about that app at its website here; it allows you to control playback on your PC or Mac in another room using a server app on your desktop and the remote app on your phone. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than picking up a Fire TV just for Amazon Prime video. The app is also available on Android, making it ideal for anyone looking for proper video support in Chromecast using their desktop while still controlling playback from their phone. Will Amazon Ever Add Proper Cast Support? To be honest, it’s hard to say at the moment. The two companies seem to be trying to be friendlier on some level.
Amazon has made a commitment to add the Chromecast back to their storefront, and though the listing now exists, the device is still marked as “Unavailable” through both Amazon and third-party sellers. Amazon made the same promise about the Apple TV, which has since become available, although those companies do seem to be on better terms than Google and Amazon. Though Amazon has placed their Prime Video app back on the Google Play Store, it seems to be more about getting users onboard the streaming service rather than as an easing of arms between the two.
The biggest red flag for Cast support comes from the recent war over YouTube support on the Fire TV. In many ways, it’s just hard to imagine things improving between the two companies at this time, even as Amazon announces their ready to sell Chromecast products on Amazon. That said, there is some evidence to the contrary. For one, reddit user Filmgeekvt to their request asking for Cast support to be added to the mobile app. The reply, though a bit long and drawn out, seemed to be official, stating that development was already underway to add support for Chromecast to Amazon’s Prime Video applications (whether this would be limited to Android or come to both Android and iOS is unclear). Sent in the heat of Google pulling out of offering YouTube on Amazon’s services, it makes sense that Amazon would be scrambling to offer some kind of reconciliation offer in the form of proper cast support.
Around the same time, we also saw Amazon’s Music application on Android for Chromecast devices, something that had previously been ignored from the company. Whether anything substantial will come from these reports remains to be seen, but for the time being, it’s worth holding out a little hope as we wait for Amazon to finally listen to the demands of their consumers and add support for a major streaming protocol to their applications. It might go without saying, but it’s clear that Amazon and Google have it out for each other right now. This has been going on for years, as both companies battle back and forth over their own visions for where tech is going. Amazon forked Android to create their Fire line of devices, including the Fire TV, and even designed their own Amazon Appstore for those tablets and streaming boxes. The fight has only gotten more serious since the launch of Amazon’s Alexa voice service and Google’s own Assistant, which clearly compete directly against each other, causing problems between the two companies.
As both companies—mainly Amazon—begin to make small moves towards reconciliation, including most notably, adding Prime Video back to the Play Store and adding Chromecast support on Amazon Music, it’s entirely possible that we begin to move to a point where the two tech giants make up and begin to allow Prime Video to work properly on both Android and iOS. Until then, your best bet is to use a laptop or desktop running Chrome to stream Prime Video to your television. It’s not ideal, but it is the best experience we’ve seen on the device to date, and really the only smart choice for iOS users, who will need to use a computer to mirror their mobile devices anyway.
No matter how you choose to stream Prime Video to your Chromecast, rest assured that we’re closer than ever to full Cast support for Amazon’s video service.