Sorry if this was asked before, I did try to search the forum but nothing relevant came up.
Jailbreaking is great and makes a lot of cool things possible on our kindles, however one thing that seems out of reach is the customization of the official kindle UI. For instance, I would love to be able to configure the "pinch" gesture to change the brightness instead of the font size.
Now I only own kindles, so my understanding of other platforms is limited, however from browsing the Kobo forums it seems that the UI of Kobos can be patched to add new features or change existing functionality.
Why is this not possible on Kindles? Considering the source code is available for download on the Amazon website, what prevents us from compiling custom versions of the firmware with new functionality included? Wouldn't a jailbroken kindle be able to run such "unsigned" firmware?
Thanks!
Jailbreaking is great and makes a lot of cool things possible on our kindles, however one thing that seems out of reach is the customization of the official kindle UI. For instance, I would love to be able to configure the "pinch" gesture to change the brightness instead of the font size.
Now I only own kindles, so my understanding of other platforms is limited, however from browsing the Kobo forums it seems that the UI of Kobos can be patched to add new features or change existing functionality.
Why is this not possible on Kindles? Considering the source code is available for download on the Amazon website, what prevents us from compiling custom versions of the firmware with new functionality included? Wouldn't a jailbroken kindle be able to run such "unsigned" firmware?
Thanks!