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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
Android Apps need two things at least not on Kindle: The Davik VM to run the Google equivalent of Java and the GUI.
Android is built on top of a Linux core.
a) Amazon isn't going to have any package Kindle HW doesn't need.
b) Unless you can download source and build & run Kindle SW on a Kindle you have no idea how complete or accurate the source info Amazon gives. They will only publish enough to avoid EFF lawsuits.
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Depends on the version of Android. Dalvik went away 3 or so version of Android back. The Kindle firmware includes Java but not Dalvik or ART. The kernel source which is rather different does not match the differences used with the Android flavour though the Fire version does contain most of the same differences as the Goole Android version does.
I played with building the source code on an Ubuntu VM and managed to get the compilation to work though quite a bit more of a pain than the ToolChain Build Howto suggested. A Linux kernel running the bash shell was supposed to be the final result but never bothered to try running the compiled output on an ARM-based system.