The Fire HD is a really, really nice tablet. Great for surfing the web, keeping up with email, watching videos, listening to music, and yes, even reading Kindle books. It's quick, virtually indestructible, and easy-to-use. But even with all it's goodness, the Fire tablet is missing something. The Google Chrome browser. Yes, the Fire tablet does include Amazon's Silk browser. And while it isn't bad, it isn't as fast or easy-to-use as Chrome. Amazon would prefer you use the Silk browser and stay within the Amazon universe.
They don't want you straying off into Google Land. But there's no technical reason you can't install the Chrome browser on a Fire tablet. It won't void the warranty and in fact, will make the tablet even better. Fortunately, installing the Chrome browser onto a Fire tablet is easy. You should see a full list of the APKs you downloaded in the last step, each with its own notification, sorted by time.
If you followed the steps above and downloaded each in the proper order, the fourth download should be on the top of the list, and the first download on the bottom, so that the order appears as such:.
Newer versions will not install on the device. When each app finishes downloading, a display will appear citing the installation is complete. On both the Google Play Services and Google Play Store listings, there will be an option to open the app on the Services Framework and the Account Manager apps, that option will be grayed out.
The entire installation process for all four apps should take no longer than about five minutes total. If your version of Google Play Services fails to properly install, you may have downloaded the wrong version for your processor.
Try downloading the other version before continuing with the guide. Once all four applications have been downloaded onto your tablet, complete the process by restarting your Fire tablet. Press and hold the power button on your device until a prompt appears asking if you wish to turn off your tablet. After your device is powered off, reboot it by pressing and holding the power button again.
Instead of opening up the store, it will open Google Account Manager in order to gain your Google account credentials. All told, Google Play should take about two minutes total to finish installing. Now that Google Play is installed on your tablet, it works just as it would for any other Android device. As far as Google Play is concerned, your tablet is just another standard Android device. Once the app has been downloaded and installed onto your tablet, you can use it like any other application on your tablet.
It will show up in your app drawer, as well as the list of recent apps on your device, making it easy to access. In our tests on an Amazon Fire 7, the app worked exactly as we had come to expect, without any glitches or other problems.
You can even install third-party launchers to change the look and feel of your software, or download the official Gmail and YouTube apps to easily watch content on your Fire tablet. For most users, the above steps should be good enough for getting the Play Store on your brand-new Fire Tablet. That said, some users may experience issues, especially on older devices or devices running older software.
If that sounds like you, check out these optional guides for getting the Play Store working on your tablet. This should be an optional step for most users, but certain Amazon devices have had trouble installing the necessary APKs onto their devices without installing a file manager onto your Fire tablet from the Amazon App Store first. Alternatively, you can also use the Docs application on your device, which comes pre-installed and includes the ability to browse local files, instead of using an application like File Commander.
However, since newer versions of Fire OS do not have this issue, we recommend making sure your software is up to date rather than dealing with these issues. If you cannot upgrade your operating system for any reason, look through the guide below for assistance. Still, we were able to get the Play Store up and running on a Fire tablet that had never had it installed before; it just takes some patience and a little luck.
The problem with Fire OS 5. All four apps listed above seem to have this issues, where clicking on the installation file from your device will not allow it to install. Though we did get this to work on our device using both of the methods described above, and several users on the XDA forums have reported the same solution, a minority of users have reported that both the screen lock workaround and the recent apps button method did not work for them to activate the installation method.
Once again, the fine users at the XDA forums have found a few workarounds to this too, including:. And thanks again to the folks at XDA for figuring out how to get these methods working again.
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