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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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Kindle Fire and Google Maps api

We're developing an app with some map features, with in the manifest. It runs well on a Xoom and a Galaxy Tab, as well as several phones. It also runs fine in one of the Google APIs…
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Strange behavior using TextAppearanceSpan on Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire seems to have a 'different' way of handling spans in the SpannableStringBuilder. I found that when I add a TextAppearanceSpan before a ForegroundColorSpan the foreground color is ignored. If I add the TextAppearanceSpan first, then the…
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How to get Unique Device ID for Amazon Kindle Fire

To get the Unique Device ID on Android phones/tablets, we use the following: ((TelephonyManager) ctx.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE)).getDeviceId() But for Kindle Fire, we can't get one.
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What are the limitations for app development on the kindle fire?

I think its time to ask this question since the kindle fire has been out a few days now. I've been hovering around the net to see just how different android vs kindle fire development differed. How different are the 2 in terms of developing…
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Amazon Silk browser: any special considerations for front-end developers

Do front-end developers need any special considerations for the Amazon Silk Browser because of it's split architecture and it's re-sizing of images? Or can it be considered as just another webkit browser from a developer's perspective?
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startLockTask not working with Kiosk mode and Fire OS

I own a Kindle Fire with Fire OS version 5.1.4 I set my app as a Device Administrator and it worked well (my app shown the little toast saying "yeah I am the administrator" :) ) The problem is that calling startLockTask has no effect at all: the…
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No definitions for Kindle Fire devices available in Android SDK Manager

I want to create AVD for KindleFire but I have some difficulties. According to every site I can find on the web regarding the problem, after performing these steps: In eclipse go to Windows --> Android SDK Manager click to open it. Then it will…
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Can I use android SpeechRecognition in a Kindle Fire HD?

I have been using the speech recognition provides by Google in my android app, but when I try test it in a Kindle Fire, crash. Debugging I found that it was my fault because forgot check if recognition was available before start the…
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App not showing on kindle devices (only showing on non-amazon devices)

I created a simple app and uploaded to Amazon store. The problem is it is only downloadable on non-Amazon Android devices. The app is simple with only one activity. The activity contains only one web view which loads up the following URL -…
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Kindle Fire HD Developer Options

I have been trying to sort out how to enable "Developer Options" (GPU usage, Layout Bounds, Pointer Location etc) for the Kindle Fire HD. I can't seem to find any posts about how to do it, or if the device even supports it. Clicking on the System…
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Detect Kindle Fire in CSS or JS

I have a website based on Twitter Bootstrap. Whenever I move around the site on a Kindle Fire the nav-bar, which is meant to be fixed to the top of the viewport, takes a second to catch up and move there. It looks ugly as. The navbar stays fixed…
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Kindle Fire USB Debugging Mode

I am porting android apps to Kindle Fire in eclipse. the problem is that i did not know how to on/off the USB debugging mode of Kindle Fire??
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Sending html emails on Kindle Fire

In our app we send emails with some html in them. This works fine on every "normal" Android device but when I send these emails from a Kindle Fire it seems that by the time the email reaches the recipient the mime encoding has been changed from…
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Testing in-app purchases in Kindle Fire application

I am not able to test in app purchases even with Amazon Appstore SDK Tester. public void onPurchaseResponse(final PurchaseResponse purchaseResponse) purchaseResponse always has "INVALID_SKU" even if I have amazon.sdktester.json file with fake…
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Kindle Fire and disable_keyguard permission

So based on https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#KindleFire Kindle Fire is NOT supporting disable_keyguard permission. But I want that my application runs both on normal android devices and on kindle. Is there any simple solution to this…
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