Amazon'southward Kindle Fire tablets (just Fire tablets these days) are some of the best-value Android tablets you can purchase, available from just £49.99, buy they don't run Google apps out of the box, which can make getting your favourite apps on them tricky. As always, at that place is a workaround, and if you're running Fire Os v.iii.1.one or above so information technology's actually pretty simple, and anyone can do it.

To install apps from outside the Amazon Appstore you have ii options: 'sideload' an APK file that you download from the internet (more than risky); or install Google Services (the recommended, safer selection).

At present, as you'll discover, even that latter selection involves installing Google Play and Google Services past downloading APK files from the spider web, but thereafter you can download apps directly from the relatively safe confines of the Google Play Store.

We'll explain how to do both in this article.

How to sideload Android apps on Amazon Fire tablets

Before you lot can install whatsoever apps on your Kindle Burn down you must give information technology permission to install software from outside the Kindle Store. You tin do this past launching the Settings app and choosing Security & Privacy, then enabling the toggle beside Apps from unknown sources. A warning message will popular upwardly - click Ok to go along.

Allow unknown sources Kindle Fire

From hither you tin can launch the Silk Browser, then search for '[App proper name] APK' using the URL bar. As an example here we're using 'Words With Friends ii APK'. You should run into several options in the results, just nosotros'd suggest looking for a proper app directory such every bit APKPure.

Click the listing in the search results, and then scroll down the folio to find a 'Download APK' button. You lot'll be prompted to afford the Silk Browser permission to access your storage in social club to download files, so click Go along in this pop-upwards, and then Allow when it asks to admission photos, media and files on your device.

Download APK Kindle Fire

Look to the bottom of the screen for a new window that in essence asks if you really want to download this file, warning you lot that this blazon of file can damage your device. If you're certain that it has come from a legit source click Ok.

One time the file has downloaded y'all'll again encounter a pop-up at the bottom of the screen prompting y'all to Open the file. If y'all miss this notification y'all can besides tap on the three lines icon at the top left of the Silk Browser and choose Downloads, and you lot'll be able to open the file from this list.

Find Download Kindle Fire

Click Install to begin installing the APK file, and when it has finished either click Washed or Open. You will and then find the app shortcut on the home screen equally if information technology were installed through the Kindle Store. It will exist at the bottom of the list, but you can tap, hold and drag apps to reorder them.

Install APK Kindle Fire

How to install Google Play and Google Services on Amazon Fire tablets

The app in our example above, Words With Friends 2, works fine when sideloaded to a Kindle Fire tablet. Withal, some apps will non piece of work unless you also install Google Play. The Ring Doorbell app is one such instance, which seems crazy when Amazon owns both the Fire tablets and Ring, so you might expect to be able to operate one from the other. The only workaround here is to install Google Services.

In society to become Google Play and Google Services running on your Kindle Burn down you will need to follow the procedure nosotros've outlined above to sideload the necessary APKs on your device.

You will need to download and install the post-obit APKs in exactly this lodge:

  1. Google Account Director
  2. Google Services Framework
  3. Google Play Services
  4. Google Play Store

Install Google Play Kindle Fire

One time you lot take installed all four, tap the Google Play Store icon that has been added to your dwelling screen. You will be prompted to sign into your Google account, and thereafter can use your Kindle Burn down equally you would any other Android tablet.

Sign into Google Kindle Fire

Google's apps are updated all the time, which means you may encounter warnings that a newer version is available when you lot go to download the APK files above. Still, once you are signed into Google it's easy enough to proceed all your apps updated through the Play Store.

Pull down from the top of the screen and you may see an notification prompting you to Update Google Play services. Tap this notification and information technology will bring upwardly the necessary page on the Play Shop, so yous can just click Update. You should now observe you can install and use any Android app on your Kindle Burn down.