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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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App with GCM will work in Kindle Fire or need to remove GCM Jar?

Upto now I'm uploading the same binary to Amazon and Google Play store without GCM and both are working fine. Now I'm going to implement GCM on the same app. Shall I have to maintain the separate code or the same will work ? GCM is not supported by…
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Android app kills on kindle fire when losing focus

An app that I have made works great on any regular android device, but when the app loses focus on the Kindle Fire it kills. Does anyone have any idea as to why? Thanks in advance.
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How to hide url bar in kindle

I would like to know how to hide the URL Bar for a kindle fire from Javascript. I have found some codes but none of them have really worked. Thanks for the help.
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Exporting Evernote notes to Kindle (via Gmail?)

I want to export notes from one notebook I have in Evernote to my Kindle, mainly so I can access the recipes I've saved in Evernote on my Kindle without having to connect to the mobile Evernote site. I want these notes to look like they do in…
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APK Expansion files on the Kindle Fire

Is it possible to use the Android Expansion files with a Kindle Fire? Because the Kindle Fire doesn't use Google Play. EDIT: Amazon allows the .apk to get bigger than 50MB, so no expansion files are needed.
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Tabs don't display on Kindle Fire

I have an Android app that uses tabs for its start menu. The tabs don't display when I port the app to a Kindle Fire. Here's the code:
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How to open kindle eBook from Android?

I'm trying to launch the Amazon Kindle app from my android application but based on a specific book that the user clicks. I'm able to determine the books available and which book the user has selected but I have only been able to launch the kindle…
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If user hits "Home", purchase confirm closes and sends to Home and app never receives the purchase Success message

We just launched our game on the Amazon Android Store with their new In-App Purchase SDK. We are seeing a few sale that resulting users not getting the virtual good they paid for. I've have reproduced one use case that will cause this to happen…
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how to create a kindle newspaper like the The Times

I'd like to create a kindle book based on some content I have, but would like to lay it out like the The Times kindle newspaper does it, with the centre button returning to the article list, which itself has a section view on the left, and the…
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Kindle fire, microphone

I am an android developer. I plan to implement my existing android application (which does voice to text) on Amazon Kindle Fire. I created a test device as per the amazon kindle help as i don't have kindle fire with me. I have a doubt that what…
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Kindle's Next/Previous page buttons stop working after clicking a button to update the page content

I can't figure out why the next page/previous page buttons stop working after a button click updates the page content. The code for my example program is below. The page next/previous page buttons work fine until you click the Go button on the…
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Javascript to make Manage My Kindle delete matching items?

I have a kindle and use Calibre to send it documents. Because I have Personal Documents archival enabled (and don't want to disable it), Amazon stores all of my news items in the archive. These extraneous items make it hard to find the books that I…
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How to get ISBN number from .mobi file with python

Is there any way of fetching the ISBN number from a .mobi book using python? Maybe there is a way of reading the .mobi files directely with python and search for 10 ints which is the ISBN number? if I open the mobi file with notepad i can find the…
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How to disable the soft key bars on top and bottom of a kindle fire?

Kindle fire has a grey toolbar at the bottom of the screen with the Home soft button and some other buttons, as well as a toolbar to get to settings and such on top. I am building an app which will be the only app running on that particular Kindle…
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Kindle Fire Permissions

I submitted an app to Amazon Store, Amazon approved for Amazon store but not for kindle fire. After read https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#KindleFire I check my manifest but I don't know what is the problem, I have removed all references…
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