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Originally Posted by Hotrootsoup
Awesome, thank you very much for the reply!
I hope to be active in this community for a while, very tempted to write an IRC client at the least.
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We're always happy to see new contributors, so welcome to the community!
Just a few hints:
1. If you're just getting started with Kindlet development, it may help to take a look at the existing Kindlets' source code.
2. If you want to do non-trivial things, like reading/writing files, accessing the network etc. you're likely to need the Kindlet jailbreak sooner or later. You can find examples of its use in the KUAL or Collections Manager Kindlets.
3. Please use the existing "test" certificate instead of creating your own to sign the .azw2 files. See the KUAL sources for an ant script. This way, your Kindlet will work out of the box for users who have the "mobileread dev certs" package installed.
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Originally Posted by knc1
We already have one of those posted on this site.
You might want to check it out before starting your own version.
Not that we have any objection to having more than one flavor of anything posted, just that it might save you some time.
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I personally think that Kindlets are somewhat underrepresented in all of the various tools that we have here. Of course, it's probably easier to port existing applications, but they will (almost) never integrate as smoothly with the Kindle's look and feel as a Kindlet can. Just my personal, and highly subjective, opinion of course. Plus, they're fun to write
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(*) as long as you don't try to mess with the Kindle internals too much, that is. But that is only due to the close-minded "we do closed source, hands off our device" developers over at lab126. Yeah, I just had to say that again
