[tomsem]

There are two 'Amazon' apps in Google Play. One of them, the one that supports video, is for 'phones' only. The other is for 'tablets' and does not support video.

But you have to install Amazon Appstore in any case, to get the Prime Instant Video app/plugin. Then you can get the Amazon app from there, and it supports tablets. That's what I did to get it working on my Xoom tablet. All the 'Amazon Instant Video' app does is to serve as a plugin and launcher for the 'Amazon' (shopping cart) app. You can launch either app to watch video (or yes, shop for Stuff).

I declined to install it on my Android phone.

But I'm really not happy with the app at all. As others say, this should just be a single Amazon Video app you get from Google Play, separate from the 'shopping cart' app. It is truly atrocious (hmm, or at least unfortunate) that you have to turn on 'allow unknown sources' to get both the Appstore app and AIV app on your Android device. Of course, you can turn that setting off again after installing these apps, but would have to turn it back on to allow updates.

Moreover the overwhelming expectation about any Android media app these days is that it should support ChromeCast. This does not. I don't even know if it supports screen casting to Fire TV. The description does not say.

It is as if Amazon customers who happen to have Android devices are the enemy and are to be punished because they should use a Fire or Fire Phone instead for all of this. I have to think they did this by design rather than any expediency. They could simply have offered Amazon Instant Video in Google Play, even if you still needed the Amazon app to play video. But someone whose job it is to promote the Appstore (and or the shopping app) must have insisted on this mess. IMO, it just makes Amazon look incompetent and clueless.

I've added my one star review. Hopefully if enough people complain, they'll back off and do this correctly.