Android Question Is there a library for Amazon Maps API

[katrad]

I recently was posting my app on amazon market place and my app uses google maps, when I was doing the testing phase I recieved a warning that it would be placed in "General Android apps" but not appear for kindle fire devices since it uses google maps and not the amazon maps api. Is there a tutorial on using the amazon maps api, or is that not possible to do?

 

[warwound]

Looking at the documentation it states that the Amazon Maps API "offers interface parity with the Google Maps API v1".
https://developer.amazon.com/appsandservices/apis/engage/maps

Looking at a code example i see that it requires an Activity to extend the MapActivity:
https://developer.amazon.com/public/apis/engage/maps/doc/01-understanding-the-amazon-maps-api

We never did succeed at getting the Google Maps API v1 to work on B4A.
I discussed the problem in this thread: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/mapview-a-non-starter.11304/#content.
We couldn't create a Google Maps MapActivity in B4A so there was no way to use Google Maps API v1.

I'd guess the same applies to the Amazon Maps API - if we can't create an Amazon Maps MapActivity then we can't use the Amazon Maps API .

Martin.

 

[katrad]

OK, then I guess it's goodbye Kindle. I have noticed that it seems like Amazon, wants to leave the play store out of their stuff and have users instead use the Amazon Market place exclusively. I think it's strange since there android O/S.