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The Kindle Fire is a family of Android-based devices, using the Amazon ecosystem and running their AppStore for third party applications instead of the Google Play Store.

Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire on November 15, 2011. Based on the Android operating system, the original 7" color tablet device was tightly coupled with Amazon's Kindle ebook library, App Store, memberships (Prime) and web services (as a caching proxy for the Silk web browser).

In 2012 they released an Android 4.0.2 based update to the original 7" device, as well as a new HD 7" and 8.9" devices and with more emphasis on the android app eco-system.

In 2013 they released Android 4.2 based 7" HD and HDX devices and an 8.9" HDX model.

In April 2014, a smart TV device, building on the Kindle Fire brand and similarly using Android, called Amazon Fire TV was introduced.

In September 2014, they announced FireOS4 (Android 4.4) based 6", 7" HD devices and an updated 8.9" HDX, as well as beginning a roll-out of FireOS4 to the 2013 HDX tablets.

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How to integrate Amazon Game Circle using Ant?

I have an Android game that is compiled using Ant and I try to integrate it with Amazon Game Circle. My project and GameCircleSDK look similar in structure: both contain jni/, libs/, res/ and other standard directories for Android. To integrate Game…
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MeidaRecorder failing on kindle

I have been using the following code on all android devices for a while with no problem. I have since updated my Amazon code to match and their test have produced FAIL with the code. After testing on emulator I am getting 01-08 22:04:33.322:…
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Flexbox compatibility (emphasis on kindle fire)

So I have a question pertaining to flexbox support on Kindle devices, and if you have anymore information on overall support in general. It seems that the display:flex and flex-wrap:wrap/nowrap properties aren't supported, at least on the earlier…
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Accessing Media Library on Kindle fire

I have some Android code that lets a user choose a song on their device: Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_PICK); intent.setData(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI); …
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How App Can Open Market &/or Browser in Kindle

I just want to know if there is an openURL command similar to handleOpenURL of Objc(iOS) in Kindle? Actually, here's what I want to happen. If I can detect the Market app, i want to open Market and direct it to the app link i passed. If there's no…
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Amazon GameCircle on First Generation (1st) Kindle Fire Initializes as Guest

I am trying to use the Whispersync feature of Amazon GameCircle. When my app's first Activity is created, I check to see whether the AmazonGamesClient is initialized; if not, I call the Initialize(...) function. I have followed the directions pretty…
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Is There a Way to Run Kindle Fire Emulator on OS X Mavericks?

I updated my machine to OS X Mavericks and I wanted to run a Kindle Fire Emulator but it doesn't run at all. I ran the Amazon AVD Launcher for OS X and it worked fine. I created an emulator and started it and my machine freezes. I also tried to…
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Determining if camera exists for Kindle

I'm trying to determine whether a particular Android device has a camera. The documentation for the android.hardware.Camera.open() states Creates a new Camera object to access the first back-facing camera on the device. If the device does not have…
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Google map engine is not being shown in Kindle webview

I am opening a Google map engine URL in a webview, and it opens homepage correctly, but when I click on "open map", or "create new map", it doesn't show anything except the top menu bar. It works fine in the kindle browser, but not in a…
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Kindle Fire HD (7") screen resolution: difference between spec and JS/CSS detected resolution

I don't know if I'm misunderstanding something fundamental in how screen resolutions work, but I'm getting stuck on an issue with the Kindle Fire HD (7"). I have a responsively designed page that, as normal, uses CSS media queries to change the…
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Hide navigation bar for kindle fire 3 and kindle fire HDX

My code : s_activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { //hide nub View view =…
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Black rectangle at corner of wevbiew kindle fire hd 7 inch device?

Can you able to figure out what's wrong with this webview on kindle fire?
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How (can?) I enable WebKit AudioContext on the Amazon Silk browser?

I'm working on a Web App and we're using the WebKit AudioContext. I'm trying to find the easiest way to run it on a Kindle Fire HD table (Android 4.x). (Chrome is not installed by default and it's not in the App Store for the Kindle) The Silk…
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MediaPlayer on Kindle Fire HD logging weird errors

I have an Android app that uses the MediaPlayer component to play movies. It works fine with all the Android devices, except on the Kindle Fire HD (and probably other Amazon devices as well as I haven't had the chance to test on others). On the…
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Amazon Kindle (Android) Screen Unresponsive to Touch After Many Activity Changes

I have a Unity game, and when it runs on an Amazon Kindle device, after several activity changes, the screen becomes unresponsive. It has a low occurrence rate, but when I am able to reproduce it, it's either by initiating an In-App-Billing pop-up…
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