Amazon Prime Video APK Download for Android

Amazon Prime Video is an online that is for the members of Amazon Prime. And though it did start as a benefit along with the Amazon Prime, but the award winning original content helped it becoming almost next to the famous video streaming app, Netflix.

Amazon Video can said to be a true competitor of the Netflix but it doesn’t function exactly like the other video streaming services.

As a standalone service, you can get it by paying a small amount of $8.99 a month. But most of the people enjoy it as a perk Amazon Prime, which requires you to pay around $199 per year.

Also unlike its streaming competition, there's pay content mixed in with the gratis stuff. It can be difficult (sometimes frustratingly so) to separate them, particularly when Prime Video offerings change monthly.

But the Prime Video is said to be having a lot to offer to satisfy you and has changed in to more of a premier video streaming service, with its top best originals such as Fleabag, Good Omens.

Amazon Video also has a very big and impressive library which contains your favorite movies and TV shows of every category from romantic comedies or the timeless classics of course.

Features of Amazon Prime Video

If you are already a member of the Amazon Prime or then you should be considering the Amazon Video because of its features that you will love.

Here is the list some of the coolest features offered by the Amazon Video that will help you use the video streaming service more efficiently and make the most of it.

Here you go!

Download your favorite content for offline viewing

Amazon Video was the first video streaming service to introduce this feature in 2015 with which you can download your content.

This feature will help you go through long flight and when you don’t have an internet connection or your Wi Fi is messing with you.

But some of the content can’t be accessed overseas over Wi Fi as it might be locked down geographically. You might not be able to have access to it even with a VPN service.

Simply just click on the download button and your favorite will start downloading. You can just put your phone or whatever device you watch on, down and you will be notified when your episode or movie or whatever content you were watching is done downloading in the background.

Limited time for viewing downloaded content

With the feature defined above, there are some restrictions attached to it. According to Amazon, "the time period you have to view a downloaded video while your device is offline varies by title."

On the screen you will be shown in the notifications about how much time is left for you to view the content you have downloaded or if you've downloaded the maximum amount of titles across all devices on your account.

Parental controls

In the Amazon Video, Parental controls can be set so anyone without the PIN code that you have set which consists of five digits, will not be able to get access to certain categories of the provided content.

Plus you can also stop anyone who doesn’t have the Pin code from making any purchases that are unauthorized.

Go to Video Settings, click the Parental Controls tab, and create an Amazon Video PIN. Then scroll down to Viewing Restrictions and select a level. To limit purchases, select On for Pin on Purchases.

Turn off Auto play

One of the biggest annoying things about the video streaming services could be the auto play. When you get to the end of any episode or movie, you are just shown an Up Next window. As soon as your episode ends the window starts playing the next episode on its own.

Or if you are watching a movie, something will start to play that its algorithm think you might like to watch.

If you are someone who is really annoyed by this feature you can simply turn it off. All you need to do is go to the Prime account and settings page. Under the Playback section you will find the option to turn the Auto play off.

Watch some Prime content for free

You are still able to watch some of the content present on the Prime Video even if you are not a member of Amazon Prime.

Amazon owns IMDb Free dive for free with ads, on which you can watch the free content. After signing in, all content is viewable in a browser; Apple TV; Fire TV; or the Prime Video app on mobile devices, smart TVs, and, Echo screen devices.

X ray feature

One of the most amazing and unbelievable features provide by the Amazon Prime Video is the X ray feature.

The X ray feature lets you see actor biographies, trivia and other information on top of your show. It's taken straight from IMDb (which is owned by Amazon).

You can simply just tap anywhere on the device you are viewing your content on whether it is iOS or Android, it will just bring up the information. You no more have to struggle in remembering the supporting actors anymore.

Choose your suitable resolution

If you don’t want your movie to be downloaded on the highest quality provided because it might fill up your smart phone space very quickly so you don’t need to worry at all.

You can simply change the resolution quality from the app’s setting. You will find the Download quality option under the My Stuff section.

There, you can change between three tiers of video quality: Good, Better, Best or Data Saver. These range from using around 0.14GB per hour of footage to 0.46GB per hour.

Plus if you want to make sure that your content is downloaded only when you are using Wi Fi, there is also a switch for that so you can save your precious data.