The KDK is a software development kit for the Kindle eBook Reader sold by Amazon.
This tag refers to the software development kit, known as the KDK, for the Kindle eBook Reader (kindle) sold by Amazon.
The KDK is currently in limited beta.
Questions tagged [kindle-kdk]
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How to access Kindle Highlights (API?)
I want to make a site that lets you follow other people Kindle Highlights. Is this possible Is there some sort of Kindle Highlights API?
Thanks.
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Kindle SDK Language/Platform
Does anyone know what language/platform the new Kindle SDK will support?
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Requirements for getting a Kindle Development Kit
How focused a project proposal is required to gain access to a Kindle Development Kit?
From Amazon's Request Access page:
Briefly describe the active content
applications you intend to build on
Kindle
I don't have a project spec yet, I just…
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How to put the Amazon Kindle Web Browser into Article Mode
How do you put the Amazon Kindle web browser into Article Mode via HTML or Javascript?
Editor's note: Some pages are not automatically detected as "articles" by the Kindle 3 browser, and give an error message when trying to go into Article mode.…
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statically sized pages in Kindle Books
I'm writing a book with lots of diagrams and very little text.
I've tried uploading a PDF, but it appears that Kindle tries to OCR my PDF and then resize it automatically to the device it's on.
Using the Kindle Developer Kit, is it possible to do…
user3454178
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How to resolve screen ghosting issue in Kindle?
I am using KRepaintManager.paintImmediately(root, true) from start() in my main class that extends AbstractKindlet to refresh the screen, but there are still ghosting issue there. When pressing and dismissing Menu - the screen clears up. I am…
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Can i read and write files on the kindle filesystem from a kindle active content app?
Can Kindle Development Kit Applications read and write to files placed on a kindle by usb?
my program would pretty much do the following
1.a user/supervisor places an xml or json file on the device using usb
2.at start read the file into the…
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How to tell the maximum width a Java component will receive in order to request the proper height?
I am creating a custom Java component for the Amazon Kindle KDK based on the Java 1.4.2 Personal Basis Profile. The component will contain text that will reflow to multiple lines if necessary. I want to request a size using getMinimumSize(),…
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What language is needed to write applets for e-ink Kindles?
So I want to write a small app for my e-ink Kindle. I know it's possible -- Amazon has released a Kindle Developer's Kit, but I can't figure out how to signup (I followed a signup link on another SO post that redirected to the useless…
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How to write an app for kindle 4/5?
Do You know, how to write an app for Kindle 4? Kindle Fire have KDK, but is there a possibility to write an app for Kindle 4?
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Designing UI in Kindle KDK (extended java.awt)
I have some experience with Android development and now I have decided to learn something new - developing for Kindle (NOT Android based Kindle Fire).
Amazon offers KDK + Personal Basis Profile 1.1.2 (JSR 217) as a platform.
My problem is, how to…
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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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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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Load HTML5 webview into an app
I have no experience with the Kindle KDK, so maybe this is a dull question. I'm wondering. Is it possible to create a simple app that loads a webview? So we could easily "wrap" an existing product.
If so, I'm interested in the possibilities:
what…
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Can the Kindle SDK be used to read a book purchased on Amazon?
I would like to write an app that can read DRMed Kindle books. Is this possible?
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