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the entire purpose of my app is to make the FireTV interface more pleasant to use for XBMC users rather than replace it.

That's an excellent point. I think a lot of people here bought the box for XBMC and XBMC alone, and forget that this may not be what the typical user/household wants. I don't believe Amazon would have any issue with this app, simply because they really don't care if we use XBMC or not. The only reason XBMC will never be in the store is because of basic licensing. If the XBMC team had the licensing, Amazon would almost certainly approve the app. They have no issue with us sideloading XBMC. And I doubt they would ever disable/cripple sideloading because the whole purpose of that is to make it easy for devs to build/test apps, which then go in the Amazon store, which drive sales in the store, and of the device itself.

I think, if the app detects that XBMC is not installed, it should first display a message saying that XBMC was not found, and then ask permission to redirect to the Wiki page. An immediate redirect might confuse some users.

Also, as Koying mentioned, if automatic updating of various versions of XBMC could be enabled/disabled, that would definitely be a nice feature. I'm not sure how you would allow users to edit app settings, since opening the app itself will actually open XBMC. Sounds like open sourcing this may be the way to go.