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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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Android Emulator Reports 600x1024 MDPI as XLarge?

I am currently trying to test an existing application for compatibility with the soon to be released Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. They say to set the emulator at 600x1024 and LCD Density to 169…
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Amazon Kindle Fire AVD

How do I get Amazon Kindle Fire Emulator, Device definitions, and all necessary packages, etc, to emulate an Amazon device? I have tried to get it using Android SDK Manager - links were added, but in Extras I see only Amazon Fire Phone Build Tools,…
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On the Kindle Fire, is it possible to get a user's email address?

This question discusses it for android devices in general, but if you try to run this code on a Kindle Fire, all you get is the user's name. Is there any way to get the email address? We were hoping to pop-up a dialog with the email address already…
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How can I make my embedded videos play in place on Kindle Fire?

I'm not sure if this is an Android situation or just a Kindle Fire situation, but I have HTML5 videos which play fine on normal browsers but insist on playing full screen on the Kindle. They also won't autoplay, I need to manually tap to play. Here…
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FLAG_ACTIVITY_LAUNCHED_FROM_HISTORY isn't set for intents from history

In my activity: I use onNewIntent to handle new…
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Android - Image picker doesn't work on Kindle Fire?

I have the following code to display an imagepicker. After user picks an image onActivityResult gets called, to return me the data for the selected image. On kindle however, I get a resultCode of 0, and data as null. Anyone else has noticed this…
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How to debug the silk browser on the Kindle Fire?

I am experiencing some different javascript behavior when running my site on Kindle Fire than through Chrome. In order to debug this I need access to something like the Chrome Developer Tool or Firebug. Any suggestions?
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Google Advertising ID equivalent for Amazon devices

Wondering whats equivalent for Google Advertising Id for Amazon kindle/phone devices? I researched around, and it seems only "Secure.ANDROID_ID" seems to be nearest solution. Any inputs will be appreciated.
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How can I change the Read/Write Permissions of /mnt/SDcard folder on Kindle Fire?

I am trying to develop Amazon In-app in android. For this i download the sample code for from this site https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/in-app-purchasing/sample-code/button-clicker.html. This article suggests that we have to put a file…
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Kindle Fire changes Screen Resolution at some point…

Disclaimer: this is a strange issue that only happens in a Kindle Fire (so far). Technologies Involved: Android SDK, Eclipse, LibGDX. I have a relatively simple app running with LibGDX. The way LibGDX works is by having an OpenGL thread that will…
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Build error when using Amazon Device Messaging: class must extend android.app.Service [Instantiatable]

I'm integrating Amazon device messaging into my app following this Offical docs. According to the docs, I have to create a class (MyADMMessageHandler.java) that extends ADMMessageHandlerJobBase and declare my class as a Service in…
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How to implement push notifications using FCM for amazon kindle FireOS

I have used FCM to implement Push notifications in react-native application for IOS and Android but could not get push notifications in Amazon kindle FireOS Tablets . how can I solve this issue.
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Android / kindle drag drop freezing occasionally

I'm not sure if this is a device issue or an issue with my code but I created a simple draggable sortable list using a relative layout and image views. I have very specific reasons for doing it this way and that is not my question. The problem I'm…
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Problems with notifyDataSetChanged() when porting to Kindle Fire

So I'm porting my Android app over to Kindle, and expected some tweaks for compatibility, but this is getting ridiculous. The first thing I found out was that apparently running an AsyncTask from onCreate() can cause some problems if you are also…
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Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY on Kindle fire

I am trying to run the demo android maps project(MapsDemo) that comes along with the Android SDK (Google API 10) on my Kindle Fire but it throws this exception when the application is installing. [2012-01-31 23:01:15 - MapsDemo] Installing…
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