Kindle Fire issues...

Solar2D Android
#1

I today made the first Kindle Fire build!

And I got disappointed :frowning:

First, the speed of the app is random, it is a music app, and sometimes it plays fast, sometimes slow, very strange…

The iPad, Android (tested on Xperia Play, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1) versions work fine :confused:

Also, Kindle but a stupid status bar that eats some pixels of the screen (ie: the content does not attempt to fit INSIDE the good area, but instead gets behind that bar).

And this status bar also got in a way of my menu bar (both open the same way, and are on the same place, so it is impossible to open my own menu bar on kindle).

So: can I manipulate the Kindle status bar?
And why Kindle speed is strange? event.time on it works differently somehow?

(my logic is: if event.time > nextTime then doStuff(); nextTime = nextTime + 500 end ) [import]uid: 142895 topic_id: 29295 reply_id: 329295[/import]

#2

The kindle status bar is evil and something you will just have to deal with. You can use various techniques to move things along the bottom up 20px if you see you’re on the Fire.

In main.lua:

 \_G.kindlePadding = 0  
 local model = system.getInfo("model")  
 if model == "Kindle Fire" then  
 \_G.isKindleFire = true  
 \_G.kindlePadding = 20  
 end

then when you need it:

object.y = display.contentHeight - object.height / 2 - \_G.kindlePadding

As for the randomness of speed, I’ve not really seen that, but if I did I would just attribute it to the lower performing hardware and a hacked up OS.
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#3

I cannot tell Kindle to have its bar on the top or something?

I will have to change my menu bar location just because kindle want to have it in the same place? [import]uid: 142895 topic_id: 29295 reply_id: 117883[/import]

#4

No, you cannot hide it. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 29295 reply_id: 117900[/import]