Can I develop for Amazon Fire tablet?

[philatkin]

It looks like the Amazon tablets are the most inexpensive dev platform, but are not apparently 'actual Android' - can I use Qt to develop for these? If not can anyone recommend an inexpensive (sub-£200) table that is decent performance.

[sierdzio]

About 4-5 years ago the answer was "yes". I worked on a project where we had to support Fire tablets and Qt worked there just fine.

But I have no idea if this is still true today.

[J.Hilk]

yes and no,

a simple Hello World Qt program should work out of the box and without much trouble.

But FireOS does not have access to Google Play Services and requires other specific modifications. For example changes in the AndroidManifest files for e.g. permissions.

But it is a version of android, so you should be able to change specifics in your project and build scripts to make adjustments as needed. There's no guarantee that it will work out of the box, but nothing a documentation and access to internet won't be able to solve :D