The Wikipedia article shows the progression. (As an aside: The Kindle is a remarkable product, in that successive generations continually remove features and functionality. The Kindle also included rear speakers and a headphone jack, although I never used these. The screen was not a touch screen - the controls included a hard-button keyboard below the screen and four page-turning buttons along the side of the device.

The screen was 600x800 grayscale pixels with a refresh rate of about one frame per second.

Designing for one frame per second, grayscaleĭesigning for the second generation Kindle was a wonderful challenge. If you have an older Kindle, both are still available: Collexions and Vocab Trainer. This didn’t end up working out (third party developers were forbidden from making “generic reader apps”), but I did end up making two games, which were released in March 2012. In April 2011 I contacted Amazon about implementing mathematical typesetting algorithms for their Kindle e-reader. Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle ← Back to Kevin's homepage Published: 2018 May 16

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