How To Open Kindle Ebook From Android?

I'm trying to launch the Amazon Kindle app from my android application but based on a specific book that the user clicks. I'm able to determine the books available and which book t

Solution 1:

First we need to set the intent to an ACTION_VIEW intent.

Then we need to define an Uri for the data which is actually a link that looks something like: kindle://book/?action=open&book_id=AMZNID0/B000FC1GHO/0/, where in this case the section B000FC1GHO corresponds to the ID of the book.

Finally we can then start the activity. In my case I had to set some flags on the intent to launch a new activity.

The code I'm using is as follows:

if(intent.getAction().contains("BOOK_ACTION_"))
    {
        Log.w("LOG", "We have a book selected");

        bookID = intent.getAction().substring(12);
        Log.w("LOG", bookID);

        Intentreadbook=newIntent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        readbook.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

        Urifile= Uri.parse("kindle://book/?action=open&book_id=AMZNID0/" + bookID + "/0/");
        readbook.setData(file);
        context.startActivity(readbook);

    }

I'm overriding the onReceive method in this case so that I can perform some additional steps on each book. Presumably because I'm just setting an ACTION_VIEW intent this could have been handles in the other class that does the onClickListener for the imageview that holds the book I want.