Kindle Fire, Fire phone, and Amazon TV Emulators

Question

I was trying to create Kindle Fire emulators to test apps for Kindle Fire tablet, fire phone, Amazon TV. I've followed the documentation but I couldn't create emulators for these. Can anybody tell me that whether Amazon is giving support for emulators or not?

Answer 1

You need a basic SDK development setup using the Android SDK Manager with the latest versions of the following downloaded:

Android SDK Tools
Android SDK Platform-tools
Android SDK Build-tools
Android 4.2.2 API 17 SDK Platform
Android 4.0.3 API 15 SDK Platform
Android 2.3.3 API 10 SDK Platform
Android Support Library

Then you will need to add the various Amazon Add-on Site urls to the Android SDK Manager. To do this open the SDK Manager and go to Tools -> Manage Add-on Sites.. on the main menu. Next go to the User Defined Sites and add the following URLs:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/addon.xml
http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/addon.xml

Now close, and re-open your SDK manager (or use Reload from the Packages menu).

Next download all of the Amazon/Kindle related stuff using the SDK manager. This includes:

[Under Extras]
  Amazon AVD Launcher (Windows)
  Kindle Fire Device Definitions
  (optional) Kindle Fire USB Driver
[Android 2.3.3 (API 10)]
  Kindle Fire
[Android 4.0.3 (API 15)]
  Kindle Fire (2nd Gen)
  Kindle Fire HD 7"
  Kindle Fire HD 8.9"
[Android 4.2.2 (API 17)]
  Amazon Fire Phone SDK Addon
  Amazon Fire TV SDK Addon

Once all of these have been downloaded, open your SDK folder and browse to \Extras\Amazon\AVDLauncherWindows and run amazonavd.bat. Now create your desired devices from there.

For reference here are the Amazon documentation links:

Kindle Fire
Fire Phone
Fire TV