New game: Crash Dive

[Onkel Neal]

Well, guess what? I turned on my Kindle Fire HDX 7", went to Amazon and yeah, the game is available and it seems to work great. I wonder why the Kindle is not listed as a platform on the Crash Dive website? I see there is a link to Amazon, but the page lists "Android" as the OS....

[PanicEnsues]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Well, guess what? I turned on my Kindle Fire HDX 7", went to Amazon and yeah, the game is available and it seems to work great. I wonder why the Kindle is not listed as a platform on the Crash Dive website? I see there is a link to Amazon, but the page lists "Android" as the OS....

Just because Kindle isn't a separate platform; it's an Android device, but with an Amazon-specific front-end. So if you were to bypass the Amazon AppStore and install any Android app's APK, it would work just like any other device.

Do most people not consider Kindle to be Android? If that's the perception, then you're right, I should list it as a platform.

Thanks,

-Scott

[Onkel Neal]

Goodness, my understanding was that the Kindle ran a neutered version of Android, where you cannot access the Google Play store, and consequently, cannot install apps like Google Maps, and other useful apps. I know I have visited the Amazon Kindle store and cannot find many of the Android apps I run on my LG phone. I could be mistaken.

Regular readers will know, but neither of these tablets have any Google services on-board. Amazon has a budding app store for any Android device, and the apps offered for the new Kindles are fully optimized and vetted for proper performance, but the quantity, and sometimes quality, pales when compared to Google Play.

If you're looking for a "regular" Android tablet, with full access to all of Google's services and apps, you should look elsewhere. If you're entrenched in the Amazon world of books, movies, music and apps, you're in for a treat.

http://www.androidcentral.com/kindle-fire-hdx-review

A lot of discussion has been about "sideloading" Google Apps onto a Kindle, maybe there is some distintion between "Google apps" and Android apps I failed to grasp.

Anyhoo, if Crash Dive runs on a Kindle Fire HDX, I would suiggest touting that, and also on the Amazon sale page
add something there....
Crash Dive
by Panic Ensues Software
Platform: Android

I see that there are categories on the Amazon site for
Appstore for Android and also Kindle Fire Apps

I don't understand!

[PanicEnsues]

Yeah, Amazon is really muddying the waters with their labels.

Google's Android OS is free. Anybody can use it, modify it, sell it.

But Google's Apps are not free; if a company wants to include the Play Store, GMail, Drive, Maps, etc., they have to pay a licensing fee to Google.

Amazon chose not to do that, instead just using the free Android OS and writing their own app store software so they don't have to pay Google.

So I can certainly see where the confusion comes from, and will change the web site text to mention Kindle and Fire.

Regards,

-Scott

[nikimcbee]

LOL Neal, I thought you learned your lesson with the googlemachine. No escort service for you!


So how do you like Crash Dive? I was thinking about getting it. I have the same platform, kindle hdx.

[Onkel Neal]

Hi Jason, I have a full review coming in a day or two. Stay tuned!

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

LOL Neal, I thought you learned your lesson with the googlemachine. No escort service for you!


So how do you like Crash Dive? I was thinking about getting it. I have the same platform, kindle hdx.

I have it on my Ipadair. I consider it more of a sim then arcade. Best graphics I have seen on a pad game. Highly recommended.

[AngryHatter]

I am enjoying the game.
(It made me watch The Enemy Below again)

One query - the water in the tutorial seems incredibly pixelated. (Android)
Is it me?