Amazon video tutorial series. Emulator, GameCircle, IAP

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Greetings all. I was able to devote the weekend to putting together the long awaited series on All things Amazon. I completed the first of three parts. In this video I show you how to install setup and run the kindle fire emulator to use for testing your GameCircle and IAP code. I hope to complete part 2 on game circle tomorrow and then onto IAP.

colander

Tx FBS your videos have been a big help to me over the last four months learning how to use GS.

allc1865

Hi, @fryingbaconstudios, do you have any tutorial on In App purchases for IOS devices?
Thanks.

bjandthekatz

Do a quick search on his youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/dsouza41/videos

alarm656

Hi I followed video about installing Kindle Fire emulator. But I got this message

Downloading Amazon AVD Launcher (Mac OS X), revision 2
URL not found: /Applications/Android Development/sdk/temp/b3928448d409f1aaadf724169bd684af11851c07.zip (Permission denied)
Downloading Kindle Fire Device Definitions, revision 3
URL not found: /Applications/Android Development/sdk/temp/05db2fcbff794f4aede95d01cf0e85adec05418b.zip (Permission denied)
Done. Nothing was installed.

jonmulcahy

Check permissions? That's what seems to be causing the problem

alarm656

May I change the location of Android SDK? from Application to home icon folder.

alarm656

Check permissions? That's what seems to be causing the problem

What & where are the permissions?

jigglybean

Cool stuff! I will watch this tonight because like a few others, having the odd issue(IAP not working).

This is why the gamesalad community rocks

RP

Nice work Mr. Bacon!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Working on the GameCircle vid. That will need to be a two parter as there is so much to cover. Should have the GameCircle up on Saturday.

@alarm656 yes you can move the android folder it needs to be located at root as I explain. Also make sure you have the Amazon SDK installed as well.

Hymloe

Thanks for the videos, FryingBaconStudios!

viking

Awesome videos! Thanks for putting in the time to help out the rest of us

lycettebros

Excellent. I am hanging out for the Amazon IAP video!!!!!!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

It's in the works. Got stuck on game circle. It seems you can't test game circle with the emulator as you can't access your nickname because the emulator has no Amazon home screen,

ultima

when you get a chance FryingB. amazon IAP tutorial or even text guide would be so much appreciated. i've submitted 10 different builds and none of the has gone through. it's a bit frustrating now haha.

ultima

any one that's gotten amazon IAP to submit successfully, care to share your insights ? I thought i followed all the steps , getting MD5, adding an IAP item on amazon, setting up security profile, copying a long list of string to game salad publish.. am i missing anything?

The_Gamesalad_Guru

I've been trying to test IAP but unfortunately the emulator won't let me install the json as it keeps coming back as the sdcard storage is read only.

lycettebros

Do you need to use the emulator to test the IAP Gamecircle functions?

Whatever, keep trying man! I have faith in you! [-O<

The_Gamesalad_Guru

I have a Kindle first gen but it's not supported so it's time to upgrade anyway to test my Android stuff so I'm going to pickup a new kindle this week.

I do need to see it work as when I make a video I throughly test first as I want my videos to be as reliable as possible.

ultima

any news?

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Bought a new kindle HD yesterday. Going to test IAP today. if all goes well will have a video this weekend!

lycettebros

Ohhh this is good news! Tanks for the update and your tenaciousness.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

I have IAP Working. Making videos now.

lycettebros

Yeah baby!

cpweduca

Hi, I am having trouble installing the Amazon sdk. When I enter the url

http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/addon.xml

Nothing happens. (see video)
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c2i63Vnmbp

cpweduca

Having a MD5 signature problem. Any help would be appreciated.(See video)
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c2i63TnmFi

colander

I am trying to remember how I did this. I looked at my notes and you have the first bit right "keytool -list -keystore (Drag and drop file into terminal window, leave a space before and after path)" but you also need to add your alias key name to the statement " -alias yourkeyname" and it should work.

RP

I know that @The_GameSalad_Guru is really busy outside of GS right now. You may want to post a new help topic in case he does not get to it for a few days. If I happen to talk to him before the weekend, I'll point him over to this thread.

bjandthekatz

@cpweduca said:
Having a MD5 signature problem. Any help would be appreciated.(See video)
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c2i63TnmFi

Add a space after -keystore
If that doesnt work try keytool -list -v -alias [Alias Here] -keystore [Keystore Here]

(example: keytool -list -v -alias BjandthekatzStudios -keystore BjandthekatzStudios.keystore)

cpweduca

Thats is, Thanks colander. Had to leave a space