[Q] Anyone using the Android Kindle app on the Touch?

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I wanted to use the Kindle app on my Touch (heresy, I know), and it works well.... except for a single issue.

I can't search a book. Using the search utility on the Kindle app brings up nothing. No problems searching in Aldiko or the B&N native reader. Just wondering if I'm missing something blatantly obvious or if it's hosed to begin with.

I can confirm the issue, searching in a book doesn't return any results. :(

cceerrtt:

I was sooooooooooooo hoping it was just me. Without the ability to search for passages, I can't use it.

No worries. Quite a few other readers.

Thanks again for the reply.

Here's a question for everyone, too: is it possible to run the native Kindle Fire application on the Nook?

There are a lot of free titles available on Kindle that are not available on Nook. Heresy is appreciated when it is practical :)

I am also having the search problem. I tried updating the Kindle app through Google Market, but it won't update. The latest version in the market is 3.3.2. When I uninstall the Kindle app and reinstall through the market, it seems to install version 3.2.0.35. Has anyone been able to install 3.3.2?

So apparently the latest version 3.3+ you need to have android 2.2 or higher. Since the nook is only 2.1 the latest version you can install is 3.2

I have not tried searching but it seems that scrolling through larger titles (newspapers etc) with articles does not work. It is hard to say exactly how it should work but turning pages using a right to left swipe works perfectly fine. Scrolling through a vertical list of articles using a up to down swipe does not work at all. This makes newpapers really difficult to read on the nook since you have to many skip through each article.

Dictionaries seem to work the same as anywhere else which for foreign language reading is fantastic

Is there any way to get the hardware pageturn buttons to work in kindle.apk?

Originally Posted by Tom Fagerland

Is there any way to get the hardware pageturn buttons to work in kindle.apk?

Similar questions came up recently in two other threads. Paraphrased answers from these threads: You could either modify the key mappings statically in /system/usr/keylayout/TWL4030_Keypad.kl and reboot. Or, for dynamic app-dependent button mappings, you could attempt porting Buttonmap over from the PRS-T1.