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GameCircle button on controller quits game instead of bringing up overlay

Hi again. Another question. I'm in the middle of porting a game to FireTV and converting the achievements to GameCircle. However every time I press the GameCircle button to bring up the achievement overlay it instead returns me to the Amazon home screen. Is this some sort of side effect of running a unpublished test apk? I've also noticed that by pressing the Home button it quits to Home immediately instead of offering the usual option of Return To Game or Home I see in published apps. The documentation cites that these buttons are handled by the system, and my code doesn't appear to be targeting them, so I'm a little confused why this behavior is occurring.
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Answer found in this thread https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=3407&tstart=0 [i] Q: I have tested my GC sample app what was never submitted. When running my app if I press any of these buttons, I fall into the home screen. Is that not supposed to work in developers version of the apk? A: This is expected. Their application will only be treated as a game if it comes from the App store and is correctly categorized as a game. Side-loaded apps will not be treated as games. [/i]
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