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Kindle eBook Reader

Kindle is the popular eBook reader sold by amazon

http://www.amazon.com/kindle

A SDK is in limited beta phase: http://www.amazon.com/kdk

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Amazon Kindle Fire Music playlist

I'm trying to get my app to play a playlist created on the device. On non amazon devices i used String[] proj ={"_id", "playlist_name" }; Uri gMusicUri = Uri.parse("content://com.google.android.music.MusicContent/playlists"); Cursor cursor =…
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Kindle - best way to save images

I have created a book that each page is a JPG picture (believe me, this is how the book is intended to be). This book is intended to be read in landscape. This will be a kindle book, intended to be read on all kindle platorms (kindle 1, kindle 2,…
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How to open an app from a browser?

Amazon has the button that opens an app as follows. http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6829/screenshot20100724at111.png Clicking this button opens a 'Amazon Kindle', for my case, 'Amazon Kindle for Mac'. How is this possible? I mean, how can I…
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Prevent scaling on Kindle Paperwhite browser

I am trying to develop an app that works on the Kindle Paperwhite "experimental" browser. I would like to prevent the browser from scaling because I have designed my app to fit the screen perfectly. I tried using:
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Text Encoding for Kindle with Python

Basicly, I'm crawling text from a webpage with python using Beautifulsoup, then save it as an HTML and send it to my Kindle as a mail attachement. The problem is; Kindle supports Latin1(ISO-8859-1) encoding, however the text I'm parsing includes…
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css ebook image float

I'm developing an ebook for kindle epub reader, with flowing layout and several illustrations. The exact placement of the illustrations relative to the text is not critical. As you know, unlike normal browsers, an ebook reader breaks the text into…
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Leaflet Marker Pop-Up Not Working on Kindle

I use Leaflet in a WebView for offline maps in several apps. It works fine on all my devices. Except on a Kindle Fire HD 6 (4th generation) the marker pop-up rarely display. I keep clicking on the marker and nothing happens. Once in a while, with no…
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Can't get ADB set up for Kindle Fire 2 (Otter2) - does not show as Android Composite ADB Interface

Yes, I tried all the things from this one: Cannot install ADB for Kindle Fire HD I have the 2012 Kindle Fire 7" (NOT HD, 2ND GEN - Otter2) Trying to root, eventually install Cyanogen. I have: --Android SDK and adb running fine for other…
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Kindle - Get Quiet Time Setting

I need to get the quiet time setting so my app will not play any sounds when the user has Quiet Time turned on in their Kindle. Does anyone know how to do this? I was hoping it would be simple as Settings.isQuietTimeOn but I can't find anything…
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Maps Navigation Intent for Amazon Kindle Devices

I tried finding this via google search and searching through stackoverflow. I would think this would be a simple thing if it exists... Is there a way to create an Intent on Amazon devices to start navigation with their maps app? Something like the…
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Building for both Android and Kindle

I have been developing for Android for a while now and recently got interested in developing for kindle devices as well. I am not completely sure how to go about this but what I would really like to know is if it is possible to build an app…
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How does Kindle Fire OS systemversion map to Fire OS and android versions

I have a Kindle Fire that has a "systemversion" of 7.4.8.user_... installed on it. How does this version number map to the Fire OS version numbers and on what android version is it based on? Does anybody know a link where a mapping is provided that…
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Receiving Control Codes in C Programming

I'm writing a terminal program on the Kindle Paperwhite 2. I compile using tcc. I use linux. I want to implement functions such as gotoxy(x,y) and the Mouse. To move the cursor, I need to send control codes. I found I use printf like…
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How does sendtokindle/Reader/Reading View works?

As Tile says, I know there is couple browser e.g. Safari, Firefor, Amazon Silk browser supporting the "reading mode" which can turn any blog/web/news article into a pure text article without any other elements(beside the pics already in the…
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Amazon App Store: I can't publish apps any more

I've got the problem, that I can not publish amazon apps! I wrote a lot of mails to the support team, but I still got no serious answer. The problem starts with the new developer console. I'm submitting a new app, the review team writes an email,…
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