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I want to configure an emulator to be compatible with the Kindle Fire, including its resolution. What do I have to change in the emulator settings (or elsewhere)?
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With high resolution device emulators such as the Kindle Fire HD 8.9”, we recommend enabling GPU emulation. This will deliver a smoother graphical experience and faster start-up experience.
If the emulator fails to launch due to the error vulkan-1. dll cannot be found , you probably need to update the emulator. To update the emulator in Android Studio, go to Tools > SDK Manager and install the latest stable version of Android platform.
From the Amazon Kindle Fire FAQ:
You should configure your emulator with the following characteristics:
- Width: 600px
- Height: 1024px
- Abstracted LCD Density: 169
- Target: Android 2.3.4 - API Level 10
- RAM: 512 MB
*Note: The device will reserve 20px to display a soft key menu, making the effective portrait resolution 1004px high x 600px wide and the effective landscape resolution 580px high x 1024px wide.
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Amazon recently released a new kindle fire add-on that you can easily install. It emulates the look and feel of the devices and can be set up in eclipse or from the command line. Check the documentation here for how to install and run it:
https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/emulator-guide.html
Also because the kindle fire uses API level 10 it will not use your resource folders that use the swdp qualifier, so I have found using the -large-mdpi suffix for your relevant resource folders works well.
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