Questions tagged [kindle]

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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Unity Unibill Plugin issue with Amazon testing, AMAZONAPPSTORE_GETITEMDATAREQUEST_NO_PRODUCTS_RETURNED

I got Unibill set up for my Unity project and everything is fine with Android payments. Now trying to get it running for Amazon and it is not working. I tried it with "Amazon Sandbox" turned on and turned off. I tried it with a pre-made…
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Is Android keystore file enough for amazon Amazon Apps & Games Developer Portal

Hi I am new to Amazon Kindle. I already uploaded an apk file to Google Play store. Can I use same keystore file to export apk and publishing app in AmazonAmazon Apps & Games Developer Portal your help will be appreciated!. Thank you.
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Programmatically Resume a child activity

Long story short, I am developing a multi-activity app for the Amazon Kindle. Kindle has a somewhat exotic launcher that does not support (correctly) more than one LAUNCHER activity in the manifest, so if you are on a child activity, go to home…
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Kindle Silk browser having issues with keypress event?

I'm trying to restrict a text box to numeric entry only in a project using knockout.js and MVC. I'm doing a data-bind on the keypress event to call a function from the VM that looks like this: this.NumbersOnly = function (data,evt) { var…
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Android StackOverflowError on Kindle devices

I have created 2 versions of my app, one with and one without ads. I have used a library that contains pretty much the whole paid app. The free version extends the base library's HomeScreenActivity and starts its own MainActivity when a button is…
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Device recognition in epub code

I'm hoping to implement buy links in an epub that will recognize the user's device and send them to a specific website based on the device, but I'm not sure where to start in an epub. So if the user is reading on a Kobo device, I want to have them…
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Is it possible to display kindle books with other software applications?

I would like to view and take notes on kindle books without the need of a kindle reader/software. Is it possible to build a reader (and add notes) that can open the .kf8 format?
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Trying to build a simple web app to be used on Kindle Fire but buttons too slow. Why?

I've implemented a simple number pad in my web app. When I run it from my computer, it runs fine. The buttons respond as quickly as I can tap them. When I run it from my (first generation) Kindle Fire, the buttons' response is at most 2…
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How does the SendToKindle work?

I'm been research on SendToKindle function, currently I'm using the Chrome SendToKindle Plugin. I want to implement this kind of function by using a web-service. From what I see, the "SendToKindle" is analyzing the webpage by send the page to the…
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Kindle online formating Framework or Tool can be used for web application?

This is my first time to post a question in here at stackoverflow: I'm currently research on Kindle online formating,I have seem couple websites that currently support online kindle format, e.g. http://www.epubconverter.com/epub-to-mobi-converter/…
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What version of Android does Kindle 1st Gen run on?

I am using Amazon Maps SDK which requires API 13. I am wondering about the following What version of android does the kindle first gen run on, are there updates for it since its released on version 10? Will my app requiring min api level 13 be…
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Formatting book for ebook in Sublime Text. What tools are there?

I have about 800 pages of text to format. Catch is, it was all transferred from image via OCR. There are hardly any typos/subbed characters, but lots of weird format/indentations. I'm doing the HTML formatting in SublimeText, and was wondering if…
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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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Multiple web paged as mobi

I have Kindle 5 and I use Amazon's "Send to Kindle" pluggin. It sends one article from browser into the kindle. I would like to send multiple articles as one mobi file. Example: 1. Add article A as Kindle content (stores article A into the…
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How do I use a while loop with an onTouch function? (Android)

Well, I have been looking up answers, but none have worked for me. I have a button that when it is HELD DOWN, is suppose to continue to move an image across the screen. But for some reason, it just keeps freezing my kindle when I tap the button. I…
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