Showing posts with label Kindle Fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle Fire. Show all posts

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Open Star Map is back

When the Kindle Fire HD came out, Open Star Map wasn't compatible with it, so Amazon removed it from the Appstore.  I couldn't fix the problem with Open Star Map because my development laptop wasn't fast enough to run the Kindle HD emulator for debugging and I didn't want to buy a Kindle HD just to debug a free app.

Anyway, I now have a faster development laptop, so I was able to fix the problem.  The problem was that the Kindle HD reports having a compass but doesn't.

Anyway, here's the app.

Open Star Map is basically the open-sourced code from the Google Sky Map, with some modifications to make it run a little better on Kindle Fires.