Top 2 ways to install the Roku Channel App on FireStick
In this article, I will show you how you can install the Roku channel app on Firestick / Fire TV devices.
Roku Channel is a well-known streaming app provided by Roku, one of the main streaming platforms in the United States. If you’re excited to binge-watch all of the free movies, TV series, Live TV, and other content on Roku Channel on your FireStick, this tutorial is for you.
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How to install the Roku channel on Firestick
Roku channel is available on the Amazon app store in certain locations such as the USA and the UK. So, the installation process for both the Firestick and the Fire TV is going to be the same. If you can download the Roku channel app on one device then you would be able to download it on the other as well.
Here are the steps that will allow you to undertake the adding or installing Roku channel on Firestick steps successfully:
Step 1: Search for the Roku app or just utter ‘ Alexa, search ‘Roku or Roku channel’ to install the Roku channel on Firestick
Connect your FireStick device with Wi-Fi. Go to the search menu from your home screen and type ‘Roku’. This can be done through the on-screen keyboard that will be provided to you. You can also get the desired results by using the Alexa voice command. To get the search done across the room, make sure that you have paired it with the amazon echo speakers or Fire TV Cube.
Step 2: Get the app by pressing the ‘Get’ button
For the purpose of installing the app, you have to now click the ‘Get’ button, lying next to the ‘Roku’ icon (which will consist of six words which are ‘Roku channel Free TV for you’)
Step 3: Launching the Roku channel app
Under the ‘apps and games’ section the Roku channel would be there, now simply launch it. To sum up, the next step after you have installed the app would be to launch or start it.
Now, there is one more method through which you can install the Roku channel app and that will be via using your internet-connected device’s browser. You can choose either of them at your own convenience. Here is how you can do it.
- You have to open the web browser on any internet-connected device such as your smartphone, tablet, laptop, PC, etc.
- Now type ‘amazon.com’ on your web browser.
- You will now be required to log in to your Amazon account. Remember, the account should be the one you are using on Firestick
- On the search bar simply type ‘Roku’. From the results, choose the appropriate app.
- After having clicked on the result your Firestick device will appear. Simply, click on it.
With these steps, you have finally installed the Roku channel on your Firestick / Fire TV device.
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How to get Roku channel installed on Firestick from anywhere
Now, we have already mentioned that if you are living outside certain geographic locations, for eg. that of the USA and UK, you may not see the Roku channel app on the Amazon app store. In this case, how can you access the Roku channel might be the question emanating from your mind. Well, we will be taking the help of a third party or sideloading app called ‘Downloader’ which will allow us to install the Roku channel, given that we have the apk of it. The apk for the same can easily be found online.
Step 1: Downloading the ‘Downloader’ app
- Go to the ‘Find’ option from the home screen
- Click ‘Search’ and type ‘Downloader’
- From the popped-up results, select the Downloader app.
- Click ‘Download’ or ‘Get’ on the next appeared window
- Wait for the app to complete installation
- Click ‘Open’ to launch the app.
Step 2: Making use of Downloader
- Firstly, go to settings from the Firestick home screen.
- Then click ‘My Fire TV’
- Click on ‘Developer Options
- Click ‘Install Unknown Apps
- Enable the downloader option by just clicking on it
- Run your Downloader app on Firestick
- Right after the previous step, the home tab will by default be popped up open
- Click on it
- Click on’ Install from zip file’ with a box that would say ‘Enter a URL or Search Term’
- Now enter the URL of the Roku channel APK that you will be easily able to find online.
- After you have pasted the URL, just follow the prompts.
- Delete the successful installation message by clicking the delete option, and if it again pops up click ‘delete’ again.
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Conclusion
Roku channel can be the one-stop for all your entertainment-related cravings given the huge repository of content it has in US. This huge library when intertwined with Firestick/Fire TV’s impeccable streaming quality would make your movie nights worth remembering. But, the only caveat is that you install the Roku channel app successfully on the firestick in either way we have shown above. I hope this firestick guide was helpful.