It'south tough to observe a good Android tablet these days, which is what makes Amazon's lineup so appealing. Not only does the visitor release new models at least one time per year, only they're super affordable, priced as low as just $50 for the entry-level Fire 7. Amazon'south tablets run Burn OS, a forked version of Android with a custom dwelling screen, and, most notably, scraps the Google Play Store for Amazon's own Appstore. While it does contain some pop apps and games, there's simply no replacement for the Play Store — specially when yous're looking for apps similar YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, and more.

Here'due south the skillful news: getting the Play Store on your Fire Tablet is super easy, and nosotros can walk you right through the process. This guide takes you through every required stride for installing Google's own app shop on your device, with instructions for models dating back to 2014. And if you lot're stuck, nosotros also accept some troubleshooting steps at the end of this tutorial.

If y'all'd rather watch a video how-to, check out the guide above to see how it works. Just brand certain to grab the download links from the written instructions beneath.

Important INFO

  1. Remove your tablet'due south microSD card if you accept ane installed, unless yous're using adoptable storage (eastward.g. your SD card storage is merged with your internal storage). If you don't remove the external SD, the Play Store and its required applications may be automatically installed to the microSD card, which can cause bug. You tin can put the card back in in one case you're washed.
  2. There is no way to manage a Fire tablet through Google Family Link, even after the Play Store is installed.
  3. Apps installed through the Play Store might not piece of work with Amazon FreeTime app management. I oasis't personally tested this, but that's what many people have reported in the annotate section.
  4. Some apps hide themselves from the Play Store on Burn tablets, because Fire tablets are not SafetyNet-certified past Google (more info here). Netflix is ane app that does this. For those applications, you can effort finding them on the Amazon Appstore or downloading them on APKMirror.

Enable installation from unknown sources

The offset pace in this process is to enable apps to be installed from exterior the Amazon Appstore. This action allows you to open and install applications from downloaded APK files, which is how we'll get the Play Store running.

First, get to the main 'Home' page on your home screen and open up the Settings app. Then tap the 'Security & Privacy category (older models might simply say 'Security'), find the switch for 'Apps from Unknown Sources,' and turn information technology on.

If tapping 'Apps from Unknown Sources' brings up a list of apps, you don't need to practise anything. Y'all may receive a popup when installing APKs, but you'll just have to tap the 'Allow' button when prompted. If yous want to skip a popup, make certain this option is enabled for the Silk browser.

Now you're ready to download and install the APKs needed to go the Google Play Store running.

Install the Play Store

The side by side step is to download the proper APK files for the Play Store. You technically accept to install four different applications — Google Account Director, Google Services Framework, Google Play Services, and finally, the Google Play Store. The offset three apps handle basic account services and add APIs, while the final app is the store itself.

Because different Fire tablets run dissimilar versions of Android with varying hardware, the exact APKs you lot accept to install depends on what Fire tablet you accept. If y'all're unsure which model you lot have, open the Settings app over again, tap on 'Device Options & Arrangement' (information technology might also but exist called 'Device Options'), and expect at what is listed nether 'Device Model. You too need to find out your Fire OS version — this is listed in the 'System Updates' bill of fare of 'Device Options & System' (or merely 'Device Options').

If you're not already reading this on your Fire tablet, open the Silk spider web browser and type https://flake.ly/apfiretablet into the address bar to leap straight to this postal service.

For the Google Account Manager and Google Services Framework applications, find the appropriate links for your device from the table below and tap the main 'Download APK' push on the linked page. Don't open the downloaded files however, as nosotros'll do that later. If you see a message about a newer version being available, ignore it — your tablet will continue the apps updated after the install process is over.

GOOGLE Account Managing director

GOOGLE SERVICES FRAMEWORK

For these last two applications, click the link for your device, then select the version closest to the acme of the list which doesn't have "beta" in the proper noun. Again, don't open the files yet, and ignore whatever messages most newer versions existence available.

GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES

Fire HD 10 (9th and 11th Gen), Fire HD 8 (tenth Gen) Google Play Services (64-bit ARM, nodpi, Android 9.0+)
Fire seven (9th Gen, 2019) Google Play Services (32-bit ARM, nodpi, Android six.0+)
Fire Hard disk drive eight (8th Gen, 2018) Google Play Services (64-bit ARM, nodpi, Android 6.0+)
Burn Hard disk 10 (7th Gen and older), Fire HD 8 (seventh Gen and older), Fire 7 (7th Gen and older), Burn down HD 6, Fire HDX 8.9 Google Play Services (32-bit ARM, nodpi, Android v.0+)

GOOGLE PLAY Shop

At present information technology's time to install the apps. Find the Files app on your tablet (it might also be called 'Docs' or 'Documents') and open up it. Then, detect your device's Downloads binder. On most Fire tablets, this is located in the side menu.

Finding downloaded APKs on a 2021 Fire Hd 10

Finding downloaded APKs on a 2018 Burn down Hd 8

You should come across all four APK files. If not, get back and see which one yous missed (or just download all of them for good measure out). Also, switch to the file list view if y'all haven't already, and so you can see the full names of each APK.

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Open the apps in the below social club, and when the installation is consummate, press 'Done' and not 'Open up.' Installing the apps out of order will cause the Play Store non to work. If you have an SD card, make sure to take it out during these installations.

  1. com.google.gsf.login
  2. com.google.android.gsf
  3. com.google.android.gms
  4. com.android.vending

Once you've installed all four apps, hold downwards the power push, and tap 'Restart' to restart your tablet. Older tablets might only take the option to power off — if then, let the tablet shut down, then hold down on the power button to turn it back on.

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Restart (or power off and dorsum on once more) after you finish installing the Play Store.

Later your Burn down tablet has booted support, open the new Play Store app from the home screen. From there, the Play Store should ask you to log in with your Google account, after which you can finally download and install apps.

Fixes for common problems

If the Play Store or other Google apps aren't working correctly, here are some fixes for common issues.

"This business relationship already exists on your device"

If you lot get the fault "This business relationship already exists on your device" when signing into Chrome or another Google app, or if the app doesn't detect your Google business relationship at all, follow these steps:

  1. Completely close the app you're having issues with (e.one thousand. swipe it away in the Recents/multi-tasking screen).
  2. Open the Settings app, tap Apps & Permissions, then select 'Manage all applications.' These options might have dissimilar names, depending on your version of Fire OS.
  3. Find the app you're having issues with in the listing, tap on it, and select 'Permissions'.
  4. Switch all available permissions to 'On'. Enabling the Contacts permission lone did the trick in my testing, but you might as well enable everything for good measure out.
  5. Open the app again.

In Chrome'southward instance, y'all also take to open the browser, tap on the Settings menu, and tap the 'Go along as...' bluish button at the top of the screen.

Troubleshooting

If you're having a different issue than the ones listed above, here are some generic troubleshooting tips.

Reboot your tablet

To become everything settled, you'll want to restart your tablet. Hold downward the power button, tap the 'Power Off' option, and plow your tablet back on by property downwardly the power button again. In one case it has booted back up, open the Play Store from the home screen and see if it works.

Clear app information

If y'all're having problem signing into the Play Store, try immigration the app's local information. This volition essentially reset the Play Shop app to its original country, and should gear up most bug y'all might encounter.

Open the Settings app, select the 'Apps & Notifications' department (or whatever else has 'Apps' or 'Applications' in the name), and tap 'Manage All Applications.' Discover the Play Store in the list of apps and tap it.

Yous take to perform two steps on this info screen. Commencement, press the 'Strength Stop' push button to stop the Play Store from running. Then press the 'Storage' menu pick and tap 'Clear Data' (it might also be called 'Clear storage'). Now return to the Play Shop app and come across if it works.

If that didn't help, follow the above steps again, but restart your tablet before trying to open the Play Store. If that didn't piece of work either, endeavour force-stopping and immigration data for Google Play Services in addition to the Play Store.

Reset the tablet

If y'all still can't get the Play Shop to work, your best selection is probably to factory-reset your tablet and endeavour again. Make sure you don't restore from a backup when you're setting upwardly the tablet once again, unless the fill-in was made before you tried to install the Play Store.

Stuff to exercise afterwards

With these steps finished, yous're ready to start using the Google Play Store to install whatsoever apps and games your centre desires. If you're looking for some places to start, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Add more Google services and change the launcher

With a fiddling bit of extra piece of work, you can make your Burn down tablet function much more than like a regular Android phone or tablet. Setting Chrome as the default browser, adding Google Banana, and even changing the dwelling house screen launcher is possible. Meet our guide at the below link to get started.

Install Google Play on other device profiles

Since the Play Store isn't a organisation-level application on Fire tablets, the install procedure but applies to the device profile yous've been using. If you want to add the Play Store for other users on the aforementioned device, the steps are a fleck different, because Amazon's Fire Os won't let you lot have unlike versions of Play Services and the Play Store installed on each profile — thanks to Florian Wolters on Stack Overflow for pointing this out.

This procedure is extremely tiresome that will probably accept longer than the original guide. Believe information technology or not, the beneath steps are still the easiest fashion to go the Play Store on other device profiles, with the fewest ways of screwing something up.

The easiest way to get the Play Store on some other user contour is to extract the APKs already installed on the get-go contour and install them on the second profile. We only demand to grab the files for Play Services and the Play Shop.

On the user contour that already has the Play Store:

  1. Install ML Manager from the Play Shop and open it.
  2. In the list of applications, find Google Play Services, and tap the 'Extract' button.
  3. Find Google Play Shop in the list, and tap the 'Extract' button.

Now the 2 APKs accept been saved to the 'ML Manager' folder in your tablet'south internal storage. Considering user profiles can't admission the files from other profiles, you have to copy the two APKs somewhere else, log into the second profile, and copy them to the second profile's files. The easiest manner to do this is using Swiss Transfer, an online tool for sending files.

  1. Open Swiss Transfer (swisstransfer.com) on your tablet'due south browser (Silk, Chrome, whatsoever) and accept the terms and conditions of use.
  2. Tap the upload push button, tap the carte button on the correct, and select 'Bear witness internal storage.'
  3. While withal in the file browser, open the left side carte du jour and select your tablet (it should be the only detail that says how much storage is remaining).
  4. Open the ML Director folder, hold down on i of the files until 'i selected' appears, then tap the second file. Information technology should say '2 selected' at the top. Proceed going until you have all the APKs selected, then printing 'Open up' at the top-right.
  5. If the other user profile has an email account set, fill out the email form to ship the link in a message. Otherwise, tap the Link button to simply create a link.
  6. Tap the 'Transfer' push button.
  7. If y'all chose the link option, so write it downwards, log into Google Go along on the web and put it in a annotation, or salve it with another method.

At present y'all have everything you need, and so it's time to switch to the other user contour.

On the user profile that doesn't have the Play Store:

  1. Get to the link you got in the previous footstep, either past typing the link in the address bar of your web browser, or past opening the electronic mail Swiss Transfer sent (if you lot chose that pick).
  2. Download the Nil file with the two APKs inside.
  3. Open the Amazon Appstore, search for 'ES File Explorer,' and download it.

Now, go back to the very offset of this guide, and follow the instructions but similar before. When yous go to the steps where yous have to download APKs, only download and install the first two items — Google Account Managing director and Google Services Framework. Once you install those two apps, you demand to install the APKs you simply copied from the first profile.

  1. Open ES File Manager from the home screen.
  2. Tap on the menu button at the superlative-left, tap 'Local', and tap 'Download'.
  3. Tap the Nada file y'all downloaded earlier (it's probably called 'Ship-Annal').
  4. You lot should see ii APKs. Only like before, these accept to be installed in the right order.
  5. Tap the one that starts with 'com.google.android.gms' (this one is Google Play Services), then tap 'Install'.
  6. At present tap the one that starts with 'com.android.vending' (this one is the Play Store), then tap 'Install'.

Now reboot your tablet again, log into the 2nd contour, and see if the Play Store works. If you lot encounter issues, accept a look at the Troubleshooting section above.

Better tablet functioning

Fire tablets aren't the fastest devices in the world, but you might be able to make yours marginally faster with a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Check out our full Burn down tablet performance guide for the instructions.

There you take information technology — the ultimate guide to installing the Google Play Store on Amazon'due south Fire tablets. If y'all come across whatever troubles, exit a comment, and we'll exercise our best to help. Your feedback might fifty-fifty aid us improve this guide!

Thanks: Zampacto (Burn x 2019 help), Trevor (Chrome login set up)

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