17. Registering as an Amazon Application Developer

Your Kindle Fire application may be functionally complete, but you need to take two final steps before you can publish on the Amazon Appstore: You must package the application so that it can be deployed to users safely and securely, and you must sign up for the Amazon Developer Program. In this hour, you learn how to prepare and package an application for release and how to register as an Amazon application developer.

Understanding the Release Process

Preparing and packaging an application for publication is called the release process, as shown in Figure 17.1. The release process is an exciting time: The application is stable and working as expected, all those troublesome bugs have been resolved ...

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