How to open kindle eBook from Android?

Question

I'm trying to launch the Amazon Kindle app from my android application but based on a specific book that the user clicks.

I'm able to determine the books available and which book the user has selected but I have only been able to launch the kindle application (using the package name com.amazon.kindle) to launch the kindle app.

Does anyone know of any additional commands I can send to specify a book to open? I know this is possible as there is a widget on the google play store where the user selects a boo and it creates a button on the homescreen that launches the kindle app and opens the book.

Thanks in advance!

If you have an access to Amazon Kindle's manifest you, perhaps, could figure out from intent filters — Alexander Kulyakhtin, Aug 02 '12 at 14:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 03 '12 at 12:38

First we need to set the intent to an ACTION_VIEW intent.

Then we need to define an Uri for the data which is actually a link that looks something like: kindle://book/?action=open&book_id=AMZNID0/B000FC1GHO/0/, where in this case the section B000FC1GHO corresponds to the ID of the book.

Finally we can then start the activity. In my case I had to set some flags on the intent to launch a new activity.

The code I'm using is as follows:

if(intent.getAction().contains("BOOK_ACTION_"))
    {
        Log.w("LOG", "We have a book selected");

        bookID = intent.getAction().substring(12);
        Log.w("LOG", bookID);

        Intent readbook = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        readbook.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

        Uri file = Uri.parse("kindle://book/?action=open&book_id=AMZNID0/" + bookID + "/0/");
        readbook.setData(file);
        context.startActivity(readbook);

    }

I'm overriding the onReceive method in this case so that I can perform some additional steps on each book. Presumably because I'm just setting an ACTION_VIEW intent this could have been handles in the other class that does the onClickListener for the imageview that holds the book I want.

How to open kindle eBook from Android?

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