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Does anyone know what version of Android this is based on?

• hind3nburg 12y ago
  Compatible with Android 4.2.2, API level 17 https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-phone/docs/fire-phone-specifications https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-p...
• ryanolsonx 12y ago
  Probably Gingerbread. lol
• deleted 12y ago
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  • kllrnohj 12y ago
    The question is very important because it's claiming Android app compatibility. What API level it's running is therefore critical information to any developer. Fire OS tends to be more a "skin" than a fork anyway, it's similar to TouchWiz or Sense. The core framework, services, and runtime are all Android.
    • gecko 12y ago
      Well, yes and no. My understanding from talking to the Trello Android team is that Fire OS has a lot of subtle differences in its APIs from the official Google ones, especially around things like mapping and push notifications that otherwise rely on Google services. Sometimes that sounded like it was trivial to work around, and sometimes not, but the overall discussion reminded me more of porting between Windows 3.1 and NT than anything else.
      • kllrnohj 12y ago
        Mapping and push notifications are both Google Play Services APIs, not Android APIs. So it's not that Amazon forked the APIs as much as the app that implemented those not-platform APIs isn't installed.
• natelam 12y ago
  Specs and technical stuff are here: http://bit.ly/1yjPpkA http://bit.ly/1yjPpkA
• kllrnohj 12y ago
  The SDK docs say targetSdkVersion=17, so JellyBean-MR1 (Android 4.2)