Kindle Fire soft button

Solar2D Android
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The infamous Kindle Fire soft button.

On the Kindle Fire HD, you seem to be able to surpress the statusbar on top, and the softbutton bar, using: display.setStatusBar( display.HiddenStatusBar ).

This probably also works on all new Kindle Fire tablets. Instead it displays a tiny small button, so no more problems with the softbutton overlapping your graphics.

However, you still need to figure out which Kindle Fire your software is running on, so you can work around the soft button of the first gen Kindle Fire’s.

So how are we gonna detect the differences between Kindle Fire, new Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, etc?

local environment = system.getInfo( “architectureInfo” )

only gives ARM Neon on the Kindle Fire HD

and the resolution from the old kindle fire and the new one are the same…

Anyone?

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Hi rmbsoft;

Curious if you ever figured out the answer to your question: “So how are we gonna detect the differences between Kindle Fire, new Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, etc?”

I’m going to be tackling a port of a Nook App over to Kindle next week – and knowing this might save me some work.

Thanks;

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Look here https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/specifications.html

At the bottom you see the Different build models so you can identify the different Kindle versions

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Hi rmbsoft;

Curious if you ever figured out the answer to your question: “So how are we gonna detect the differences between Kindle Fire, new Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, etc?”

I’m going to be tackling a port of a Nook App over to Kindle next week – and knowing this might save me some work.

Thanks;

Steve [import]uid: 49442 topic_id: 31395 reply_id: 134213[/import]

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Look here https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/specifications.html

At the bottom you see the Different build models so you can identify the different Kindle versions

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