With a bridge-oriented wallpaper and only the Bridgepal Icon - on-screen - my setup was ready to go !!
LauncherHijack - which is available from here. This was to ‘hide’ all other apps that may distract players using Kindles.
Incidentally I downloaded two more apps onto the Kindles. This is the basic requirement to ‘trial’ Bridgepal. This software now has integrated BCS control software. Personally I did not download the bridge scoring program as I would be using Jeff Smith's well-know Pairsscorer which is still free from his new-ish website. Install the app then concentrate on your laptop.ĭownload from the same site the two apps to run on the laptop and install them. Going via ’Settings’ scroll down to Security and under Advanced turn on ‘Apps from unknown sources’.ĭownloading the Bridgepal app - to the Kindle - from John and Mirna’s website - is a good starting point. My thinking was folk may want to take their Kindles home.īefore doing this it is important to enable the feature - on the Kindle - that allows any apps to be downloaded. I decided not to use the feature in Bridgepal to make it the server and experimented with other apps. Click on this and ‘voila ‘you can then carry on with the setup. It is important that random letters are chosen so you do not log into that wifi. It is well documented on the ’net how to do this - but basically select any wifi - and type in any password. The way Amazon seems to work is by providing continuous info on authors or genre of books which could be for ever present in adverts on screen - so it is vital to find a way round this. There is NO need to ‘root’ the kindles !!! I achieved this by by doing a factory reset and ensuring that the Kindles were not re-registered with Amazon. But getting rid of all the adverts was the first priority. So I bought a few from Ebay at ‘sensible’ prices.įocussing only on one app - Bridgepal - was high on the list of things to do. I really like the idea of using smartphones - the Acatel pixi 4 is ideal but may be a little small for some… I decided to experiment with Amazon Kindle Fire 7 inch. Some of which are notoriously greedy on power. It occurred to me that there must be other alternatives to using ‘standard’ 7 inch android terminals. So currently have a 2016 (I think) fire hd8, an old kids one that wasn’t being used.Setting up Kindles for use with Bridgepal
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