Amazon Silk Developer Guide

NOTE – A new version of the Amazon Silk Developer Guide is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07645833H

This is the official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Silk, the default browser for the Kindle Fire. The Silk Developer Guide provides an overview of the Silk browser and its architecture and explains how to optimize web content for Silk. The guide also describes Silk support for HTML5 and CSS3.

Amazon Silk is a next-generation web browser available only on Kindle Fire. Built on a split architecture that divides processing between the client and the Amazon cloud, Silk is designed to create a faster, more responsive mobile browsing experience. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/silk/.