Starting Kindle Development

[ahsanmostafa]

Hi All,

I want to start the Kindle development from the scratch.
But I do not have enough knowledge to start and what development tools
is required. As I know there is no Kindle SDK available.

Would you please suggest what development kit and what knowledge is required to start development from the scratch ?

Hope to hear some nice advice from you.

Have a good day.

Mostafa

[Timoleon]

I misread your header as "Startling Kindle Development."

[pub]

Originally Posted by ahsanmostafa

Hi All,

Would you please suggest what development kit and what knowledge is required to start development from the scratch ?

1) Get USB networking working so you can ssh into the kindle (see the thread on this forum).

2) You'll need a Linux box. Download Scratchbox (http://scratchbox.org/) and install it enough to get the "cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm6" compiler.

3) cross-compile your code using the cs2007* compiler and transfer
the file to your kindle via ssh

4) ssh into your kindle and execute the program.

cheers

[pub]

Here's a sample log:

Add the cross-compiler to your path:

  export PATH=$PATH:/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm6/bin

A small program:

~> cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  printf("Hello, World.\n");
  return 0;
}

Compile:

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc hello.c -o hello-kindle

Verify that you have an arm executable

file hello-kindle
hello-kindle: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.14, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

Transfer program to Kindle:

cat hello-kindle | ssh root@192.168.2.2 "cat - > /tmp/hello-arm"

SSH into Kindle and run:

~> ssh root@192.168.2.2
root@192.168.2.2's password:

[root@kindle root]# cd /tmp/

[root@kindle tmp]# ls -la hello-arm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5064 Oct 26 15:49 hello-arm
[root@kindle tmp]# chmod +x hello-arm
[root@kindle tmp]# ./hello-arm
Hello, World.

[dr_g100k]

Hi,
what about /opt/amazon/ebook/booklet folder? Did Someone Already reverse engineer the firmware?

[DairyKnight]

Originally Posted by dr_g100k

Hi,
what about /opt/amazon/ebook/booklet folder? Did Someone Already reverse engineer the firmware?

So far as I know, to implement a Booklet, you have to extend your class from
the following interfaces:

com.amazon.ebook.framework.a - Booklet interface
com.amazon.ebook.framework.gui.event.a = java.awt.event.KeyListener
com.amazon.ebook.framework.kos.event.b = Kindle OS Events listener

For the booklet interface, you have to implement the following methods:

public abstract interface a
{
public abstract String C(); // Returns the booklet name as String

public abstract void c(); // Init booklet, set up keypad/mimetype hooks?

public abstract void B(); // Load booklet ?
// Use com.amazon.ebook.framework.gui.d.d.j().a(String booklet_title); to set booklet titles

public abstract void b(); // Some method gets called in the init chain. deals with filenames

public abstract void A();

/** @deprecated */
public abstract void a(y paramy, Graphics paramGraphics); // Painting surface - y is some Component similar to JFrame/Frame
/*



It's just toooo hard to peek through the obfuscated codes. That's why I'd suggest to only decode the JNI part and 'reinvent the wheels' with Java.

[myfreeforum]

Would just like to say thank for the info.

I have managed the "hello world" bit.

[Gizmor]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=102386
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=100736

[liuto]

Originally Posted by pub

1) Get USB networking working so you can ssh into the kindle (see the thread on this forum).

2) You'll need a Linux box. Download Scratchbox (http://scratchbox.org/) and install it enough to get the "cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm6" compiler.

3) cross-compile your code using the cs2007* compiler and transfer
the file to your kindle via ssh

4) ssh into your kindle and execute the program.

cheers

What compiler do I need to just compile my applications with using the exists libraries inside Kindle (DXG,3)?

[noisy]

btw, scratchbox-toolchain-cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm6_1.0.12-9_i386.deb can be found at

http://www.scratchbox.org/download/f...s/apophis/deb/