Amazon has announced the Fire OS 5 Developer Preview

Many of you are familiar with Amazons popular devices, such as the Kindle Fire or the Fire Phone. While admittedly the Kindle was considerably the most popular of the two, they were both decent devices that catered to a different group of consumers (mainly entertainment focused peeps). All of which run on Amazons skinned version of Android (to the chagrin of many.) While a decent skin, it does limit the amount of apps that can run on the device, as they are not all optimized to run on the Fire OS as most of them are created for stock Android. Amazon has taken note of this and today has released a developer preview of the latest OS upgrade, Fire OS 5.

“Starting today, developers have the opportunity to participate in a Developer Preview of Fire OS 5, the next generation Android-based operating system that powers Fire tablets, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire phone devices.“

While it may not seem like a big deal for the average consumer, it will allow developers to go ahead and test their apps on what will the OS that will ship on Amazon latest devices when they are released later on. So now developers can squash all the bugs that may be on their apps when used on Fire OS and make sure that their apps will play nice with the OS. If you are developer, you can follow the link below to test out all the cool tools and services that Amazon has made available so that you can be prepared for when the tech giant releases their new devices. Among them is a compatibility tool for your apps and some discounts on current generation devices!

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