How-to Suppress Search Icon On Kindle Fire Menu/actionbar

A Search Icon appears in Kindle footer area (which I think is sort of an actionbar). It always appears on all my activities but I don't have search functionality on every activity

Solution 1:

According to the Kindle Fire User Guide page 8, section Content Bar, the search button helps users search their content library, not search within the current app.

You can partly hide the whole Content Bar by making your app full screen but you can't hide it completely as it replaces the functionality of the home & back buttons on non-kindle android devices. There is no documented way on the Amazon Developers blog on how to remove individual buttons from the soft key bar.