Re:Kindle for Android
by Niten on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @02:02AM
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Thanks for posting this. I registered with Amazon for email notifications when this was to be released, but they didn't send me anything.
It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it supported search and included a dictionary like my Kindle 2 does, but since even Kindle For PC doesn't have these features yet I suppose I'll have to wait.
My one big UI gripe so far is that the phone's back button isn't used for navigation like the back button on the Kindle hardware; instead it takes you straight to the welcome screen. The navigation feature analogous to the hardware Kindle's back button is bizarrely exposed as a separate choice through the application menu.
Re:Kindle for Android
by jrockway on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @12:38AM
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Doesn't work on my Magic + Cyanogen 5. Random words from my book show up, but they are interspersed with strings of Japanese and other random Unicode characters.
Who knew that rendering a subset of HTML could be so difficult...
Re:Kindle for Android
by rcoder on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @03:08AM
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I don't really think that it's fair to blame Amazon for problems you have running their app on older hardware with a gray market ROM image.
It's hard enough to run tests on the legitimate Android configurations active on the market. Trying to account for homebrew setups like Cyanogen would be a recipe for lots of pain and effort with very little payoff.
Re:Kindle for Android
by wwortiz on Monday June 28, 2010 @10:25PM
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There are already versions for laptops if you use a mac or windows (and at least you can VM this if you run linux and it doesn't work on a linux android VM)
It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it supported search and included a dictionary like my Kindle 2 does, but since even Kindle For PC doesn't have these features yet I suppose I'll have to wait.
My one big UI gripe so far is that the phone's back button isn't used for navigation like the back button on the Kindle hardware; instead it takes you straight to the welcome screen. The navigation feature analogous to the hardware Kindle's back button is bizarrely exposed as a separate choice through the application menu.
Are there any minimum system requirements?
Edit: Duh, it says on the page that you need 1.6.
Who knew that rendering a subset of HTML could be so difficult...
It's hard enough to run tests on the legitimate Android configurations active on the market. Trying to account for homebrew setups like Cyanogen would be a recipe for lots of pain and effort with very little payoff.
That said, I feel as if perhaps Kindle's killed itself. I can buy a $200 Android tablet with a decent, colour TN LCD and run this app on it.
An interesting question is whether this app will work in the emulator. If so, it means you can have ebooks on your laptop.
Mac: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
Windows: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...