Information technology's tough to find a good Android tablet these days, which is what makes Amazon's lineup so highly-seasoned. Not only does the company release new models at least in one case per year, just they're super affordable, priced as depression as just $fifty for the entry-level Fire 7. Amazon's tablets run Burn down OS, a forked version of Android with a custom home screen, and, near notably, scraps the Google Play Store for Amazon's ain Appstore. While it does contain some popular apps and games, in that location's simply no replacement for the Play Store — specially when you're looking for apps like YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, and more.

Here'south the good news: getting the Play Store on your Fire Tablet is super like shooting fish in a barrel, and we can walk you right through the process. This guide takes you through every required step for installing Google's ain app shop on your device, with instructions for models dating back to 2022. And if you're stuck, we too have some troubleshooting steps at the terminate of this tutorial.

If you lot'd rather watch a video how-to, cheque out the guide above to see how information technology works. Simply brand certain to grab the download links from the written instructions below.

IMPORTANT INFO

  1. Remove your tablet'southward microSD card if yous have one installed, unless y'all're using adoptable storage (e.g. your SD menu 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 tin can crusade issues. You can put the card back in once you're washed.
  2. There is no manner 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 haven't personally tested this, just that's what many people have reported in the comment section.
  4. Some apps hide themselves from the Play Store on Burn down tablets, considering Fire tablets are not SafetyNet-certified by Google (more info hither). Netflix is 1 app that does this. For those applications, you can endeavour finding them on the Amazon Appstore or downloading them on APKMirror.

Enable installation from unknown sources

The commencement footstep in this process is to enable apps to be installed from outside the Amazon Appstore. This activity allows you to open up and install applications from downloaded APK files, which is how nosotros'll get the Play Shop running.

First, go to the main 'Home' page on your dwelling screen and open the Settings app. And so tap the 'Security & Privacy category (older models might simply say 'Security'), notice the switch for 'Apps from Unknown Sources,' and turn it on.

If tapping 'Apps from Unknown Sources' brings upwardly a list of apps, you don't need to practice anything. You may receive a popup when installing APKs, but you'll but accept to tap the 'Allow' button when prompted. If you desire to skip a popup, make sure this choice is enabled for the Silk browser.

Now y'all're gear up to download and install the APKs needed to get the Google Play Store running.

Install the Play Store

The next pace is to download the proper APK files for the Play Store. You technically take to install 4 different applications — Google Business relationship Managing director, Google Services Framework, Google Play Services, and finally, the Google Play Store. The first three apps handle basic account services and add APIs, while the last app is the store itself.

Because different Fire tablets run different versions of Android with varying hardware, the exact APKs you take to install depends on what Fire tablet you have. If you lot're unsure which model y'all have, open the Settings app once more, tap on 'Device Options & Organisation' (it might too simply be called 'Device Options'), and look at what is listed under 'Device Model. You lot also demand to find out your Fire OS version — this is listed in the 'Organisation Updates' menu of 'Device Options & Organization' (or but 'Device Options').

If you're not already reading this on your Fire tablet, open the Silk web browser and type https://chip.ly/apfiretablet into the accost bar to bound straight to this mail service.

For the Google Business relationship Director and Google Services Framework applications, find the appropriate links for your device from the table beneath and tap the master 'Download APK' button on the linked folio. Don't open the downloaded files yet, as we'll do that later. If you see a message well-nigh a newer version being available, ignore it — your tablet will go along the apps updated afterwards the install process is over.

GOOGLE ACCOUNT MANAGER

GOOGLE SERVICES FRAMEWORK

For these last 2 applications, click the link for your device, then select the version closest to the top of the list which doesn't have "beta" in the proper noun. Over again, don't open the files however, and ignore any letters nearly newer versions being available.

GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES

Fire HD x (ninth and 11th Gen), Burn HD eight (tenth Gen) Google Play Services (64-bit ARM, nodpi, Android 9.0+)
Burn down 7 (9th Gen, 2022) Google Play Services (32-bit ARM, nodpi, Android 6.0+)
Fire HD viii (8th Gen, 2022) Google Play Services (64-scrap ARM, nodpi, Android 6.0+)
Burn HD 10 (7th Gen and older), Burn down Hd eight (7th Gen and older), Burn 7 (seventh Gen and older), Fire Hard disk drive vi, Fire HDX 8.9 Google Play Services (32-bit ARM, nodpi, Android 5.0+)

GOOGLE PLAY Store

Now it'due south time to install the apps. Find the Files app on your tablet (it might also be called 'Docs' or 'Documents') and open it. And then, find your device'south Downloads folder. On well-nigh Fire tablets, this is located in the side carte du jour.

Finding downloaded APKs on a 2022 Fire HD 10

Finding downloaded APKs on a 2022 Fire Hard disk 8

You should see all four APK files. If not, become back and run across which 1 you missed (or only download all of them for adept mensurate). Also, switch to the file list view if you lot haven't already, so yous can meet the full names of each APK.

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Open up the apps in the beneath social club, and when the installation is complete, press 'Done' and not 'Open.' Installing the apps out of social club will cause the Play Store not to work. If y'all have an SD bill of fare, make sure to accept 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 down the power button, and tap 'Restart' to restart your tablet. Older tablets might only take the option to ability off — if so, let the tablet shut down, and then hold down on the power button to turn it back on.

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Restart (or power off and back on over again) after you finish installing the Play Shop.

After your Fire tablet has booted back up, open the new Play Store app from the dwelling 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 mutual problems

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

"This account already exists on your device"

If yous become the mistake "This account already exists on your device" when signing into Chrome or another Google app, or if the app doesn't detect your Google account at all, follow these steps:

  1. Completely close the app y'all're having issues with (eastward.g. swipe information technology abroad in the Recents/multi-tasking screen).
  2. Open the Settings app, tap Apps & Permissions, and then select 'Manage all applications.' These options might have different names, depending on your version of Burn OS.
  3. Find the app y'all're having issues with in the listing, tap on it, and select 'Permissions'.
  4. Switch all bachelor permissions to 'On'. Enabling the Contacts permission alone did the trick in my testing, merely you might every bit well enable everything for good measure.
  5. Open the app again.

In Chrome's case, y'all also accept to open the browser, tap on the Settings menu, and tap the 'Proceed every bit...' blue button at the acme of the screen.

Troubleshooting

If y'all're having a different upshot than the ones listed in a higher place, here are some generic troubleshooting tips.

Reboot your tablet

To get everything settled, yous'll want to restart your tablet. Hold down the ability push button, tap the 'Power Off' selection, and plow your tablet dorsum on by holding down the power button again. Once it has booted back upwardly, open the Play Store from the home screen and see if information technology works.

Clear app information

If you lot're having trouble signing into the Play Store, try clearing the app's local information. This will essentially reset the Play Store app to its original state, and should fix nigh bug you might meet.

Open the Settings app, select the 'Apps & Notifications' section (or whatever else has 'Apps' or 'Applications' in the name), and tap 'Manage All Applications.' Notice the Play Shop in the listing of apps and tap it.

You have to perform ii steps on this info screen. First, press the 'Strength Terminate' button to stop the Play Store from running. And so press the 'Storage' menu option and tap 'Articulate Data' (information technology might also be chosen 'Clear storage'). At present return to the Play Store app and run across if information technology works.

If that didn't aid, follow the above steps once more, but restart your tablet before trying to open the Play Store. If that didn't piece of work either, try force-stopping and clearing data for Google Play Services in add-on to the Play Store.

Reset the tablet

If you notwithstanding tin't get the Play Store to work, your best pick is probably to factory-reset your tablet and try over again. Make sure you don't restore from a fill-in when you're setting upwardly the tablet again, unless the backup was made before you tried to install the Play Store.

Stuff to practise afterwards

With these steps finished, y'all're set to get-go using the Google Play Store to install whatever apps and games your heart desires. If you lot're looking for some places to start, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Add together more Google services and change the launcher

With a picayune fleck of actress work, you tin make your Fire tablet function much more like a regular Android phone or tablet. Setting Chrome equally the default browser, adding Google Assistant, and even changing the habitation screen launcher is possible. Come across our guide at the below link to get started.

Install Google Play on other device profiles

Since the Play Shop isn't a system-level application on Burn tablets, the install procedure only applies to the device profile you lot've been using. If you want to add together the Play Store for other users on the same device, the steps are a fleck different, because Amazon's Burn Bone won't let you lot have different versions of Play Services and the Play Store installed on each profile — cheers to Florian Wolters on Stack Overflow for pointing this out.

This process is extremely deadening that will probably have longer than the original guide. Believe it or not, the below steps are still the easiest way to become the Play Shop on other device profiles, with the fewest means of screwing something up.

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

On the user contour that already has the Play Store:

  1. Install ML Director from the Play Store and open up 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 two APKs have been saved to the 'ML Director' folder in your tablet's internal storage. Because user profiles tin't access the files from other profiles, you accept to copy the 2 APKs somewhere else, log into the second profile, and copy them to the 2nd profile's files. The easiest fashion to practice this is using Swiss Transfer, an online tool for sending files.

  1. Open Swiss Transfer (swisstransfer.com) on your tablet'south browser (Silk, Chrome, whatever) and accept the terms and weather of utilize.
  2. Tap the upload button, tap the bill of fare button on the right, and select 'Evidence internal storage.'
  3. While still in the file browser, open the left side menu and select your tablet (information technology should exist the merely detail that says how much storage is remaining).
  4. Open the ML Manager binder, concur downwards on one of the files until '1 selected' appears, then tap the 2nd file. Information technology should say 'ii selected' at the top. Go on going until you have all the APKs selected, then printing 'Open' at the top-right.
  5. If the other user profile has an email business relationship set upwardly, fill out the email form to send the link in a bulletin. Otherwise, tap the Link button to just create a link.
  6. Tap the 'Transfer' button.
  7. If you chose the link selection, and then write it down, log into Google Keep on the web and put it in a note, or save it with some other method.

Now you have everything yous need, so it's fourth dimension to switch to the other user profile.

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

  1. Go to the link y'all got in the previous step, either past typing the link in the address bar of your spider web browser, or by opening the electronic mail Swiss Transfer sent (if you chose that option).
  2. Download the Zilch file with the ii APKs inside.
  3. Open the Amazon Appstore, search for 'ES File Explorer,' and download it.

Now, go back to the very start of this guide, and follow the instructions just similar before. When yous get to the steps where you take to download APKs, only download and install the first two items — Google Account Manager and Google Services Framework. In one case you install those two apps, y'all need to install the APKs you just copied from the beginning contour.

  1. Open up ES File Director from the abode screen.
  2. Tap on the menu push button at the top-left, tap 'Local', and tap 'Download'.
  3. Tap the ZIP file you lot downloaded earlier (it's probably called 'Send-Archive').
  4. You should meet two APKs. Just like before, these have to be installed in the correct lodge.
  5. Tap the ane that starts with 'com.google.android.gms' (this one is Google Play Services), then tap 'Install'.
  6. Now tap the one that starts with 'com.android.vending' (this one is the Play Store), and so tap 'Install'.

Now reboot your tablet again, log into the second profile, and come across if the Play Shop works. If you meet problems, have a expect at the Troubleshooting section above.

Improve tablet performance

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

There y'all have it — the ultimate guide to installing the Google Play Store on Amazon'southward Fire tablets. If yous run into any troubles, exit a comment, and nosotros'll do our all-time to assistance. Your feedback might even help us ameliorate this guide!

Thank you: Zampacto (Burn down ten 2022 help), Trevor (Chrome login prepare)

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