Amazon’s Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos announced their first entrant into the highly competitive smartphone industry – The Fire Phone. The presentation was loaded with some excellent new features of the handset and Fire OS to attract potential buyers across the globe but there were also a few efforts to attract developers as well. The Fire SDKs are available now and make it easy for developers to take advantage of the features like Dynamic Perspective, Firefly, Shortcut Gestures, Active Widgets and more in their apps. These SDKs were designed to offer developers the power and flexibility with pre-built controls, low level APIs and complete UI frameworks.
Dynamic Perspective SDK
The Dynamic Perspective SDK allows developers to integrate real-time information into their app’s user experience and also enables them to go one step beyond static images and offer their users the opportunity to zoom in on the photos and then peek around the room with the use of this amazing SDK. The Dynamic Perspective SDK also includes a series of APIs and Controls to help developers create peek, tilt and zoom capabilities within their apps based on customer head movements and provide them with the quick navigation menus by tilting the device to the left or right. These unique experiences are created through a variety of visual effects including adding shadows, depth, tracking head and motion gestures.
The following table summarizes the availability of APIs and controls for the Dynamic Perspective SDK across development platforms:
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Dynamic Perspective SDK |
Android (Java) |
Android (C++) |
Unity |
HTML5 |
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Head Tracking |
Yes |
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Motion Gestures |
No |
Yes* |
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Active Widgets |
No |
No |
Yes* |
|
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Foundation Controls |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
Euclid Controls and UI Framework |
No |
No |
No |
Firefly SDKs
With the Firefly SDK, developers can build apps that recognize music, movies and more—and let customers interact with them. As a developer you can create more immersive experiences that will increase both the user engagement and the frequency of app usage. The Firefly SDK comes with in-built recognizers and databases for products, music, movies, URLs and websites as well as in-built actions such as dialing a phone number, looking up an object on Amazon or going to a certain website. The developers can use the Firefly SDK to take full advantage of the in-built recognizers, databases and actions.
The following table summarizes the availability of the Firefly SDK across development platforms:
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Firefly SDK |
Android (Java) |
Android (C++) |
Unity |
HTML5 |
|
Firefly Plugin API |
No |
No |
No |
With the launch of Fire Phone, Amazon now offers a complete device and apps ecosystem spanning across smartphones and tablet. As a developer, you just have to submit your app once and with few changes make it available to your customers across all Amazon devices. Now, submit your apps and games like never before!
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