There is a crashing issue with the virtual keyboard on Amazon Fire TV for our current issue of Unity, 4.3.4f1. Essentially, using either the Back button or the Play/Pause button prevents any other input from registering in the game and eventually causes the game to crash.
Upgrading to Unity 4.5 or newer alleviates the issue, but does not completely cure it. The behavior simply becomes as follows:
Back Button (BACK Shortcut)
- Quick tap: works perfectly fine.
- Press & hold for a second, then release: crashes the game.
Play/Pause (NEXT Shortcut)
- Quick tap: crashes the game.
- Press & hold for a second, then release: works perfectly fine.
If you check the game Dead Trigger 2 (live on Fire TV and also made with Unity) you will note this same behavior on the Login Username field.
Attached are crash logs both for a new Unity 4.5.5 project (“Spaghett”) as well as Dead Trigger 2.
I understand this may be an issue with Amazon Fire TV itself, but I wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention in case anyone else was facing the same problem. Thanks!
1843589–118254–DeadTrigger2Crash.txt (15 KB)
1843589–118255–SpaghettCrash.txt (26 KB)