The Amazon guide states that 20 pix are reserved for the soft menu at the bottom. Below is a message box I added to my app for the person to test: Using the phone library (add to your project if it is not already added), you can determine whether or not the app is running on a Kindle Fire and if so, you can hard-code the activity height and width rather than reading the Activity.Height since it will be wrong on first run. Off hand I don't know how many pixels high the title bar is.Īs already mentioned in the tutorial, the Fire does report an incorrect height on first run which can cause problems especially when layouts are tweaked in code based on the activity height and width. If your app displays a title bar, then that will make the height even smaller. After rotating to landscape and back, it then showed the height as 924.

In the case of my app (no title bar but the notification bar is visible because it is not full screen), initially the Fire reported its height as 984. NOT full screen (Fire's notification bar at the top is always visible and the app does NOT have a title bar visible) The tutorial mentions the actual screen dimensions (activity size) when taking into account the soft menus at the bottom, but the dimensions given are for full screen apps.įull screen (taking into account the Fire's soft menu buttons at the bottom) as mentioned in the tutorial Just to add to the very nice tutorial from Margret, here is some more info for those who are interested.

I had given up on the Fire when Amazon stopped communicating with me but recently someone asked why my app isn't available on the Fire and long story short, he agreed to do some testing for me.

Tutorial on how to use a kindle