Anyone have any luck or even try porting the Amazon App Store? I really like their selection of free books. I feel like they have more books than Google Books does.
http://amzn.to/getappstore
Download it to your computer and sideload it, or download it to your device and install it with unknown sources enabled.
Also, a simple "it's already available for other devices" would have been a better approach.
Amazon App Store doesn't have free books, I assume you are talking about Amazon Kindle App.
Yes you are right, it's not available for all devices, but you can sideload it anyway. It doesn't have strict region restrictions as Amazon App Store has.
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Thought I'd list a few alternatives I've used to get apps onto my fire.
My favorite is the Android pit app. It offers quite a few apps and defaults to the market for those it doesn't offer directly. On the fire the Amazon appstore opens instead, usually saying app not found. Also features app reviews, a weekly half price app (which usually had a review also) and a news rss feed that also shows directly in the app.
There's also Getjar which now supports the fire as a device. You can get the latest version of the Dolphin HD browser here.
Both of these can be found via a Google search in the browser. The Android pit site will automatically offer to download their app as long as you have the user agent set to tablet instead of desktop.
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i want to order a kindle fire but i am not sure if it will work here in the uk as it is not for me but for a family member the person would just use the device as stock
Stock right now,the KF would not be a good choice for use in the UK. They would have a hard time accessing any media. Amazon app store and the Amazon cloud would not work.
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krelvinaz said:
Stock right now,the KF would not be a good choice for use in the UK. They would have a hard time accessing any media. Amazon app store and the Amazon cloud would not work.
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Right, in the UK you'd be unable to access the media stores. Too much conflict in copyright stuff between here and there.
I believe I heard the Kindle would burst into flames once it crossed US borders...
I'm quite sure the Kindle would work perfectly fine elsewhere.
I've been having a blast with it for over a week and haven't touched a single amazon based feature, which I believe would be the only place you'd have issues.
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I believe I heard the Kindle would burst into flames once it crossed US borders...
I'm quite sure the Kindle would work perfectly fine elsewhere.
I've been having a blast with it for over a week and haven't touched a single amazon based feature, which I believe would be the only place you'd have issues.
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Yeah, if you had media to fill it yourself and could use your cloud account for music in the UK (don't see why you couldn't) then yeah that would work. But a lot are likely buying it due to them already buying into Amazon services. If his friend was going to hack it, that's be one thing, but stock currently I'm not sure it's the best choice outside the US as none of the Amazon features work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you could find uses for it, I just think that your tablet would be a bit more crippled stock without Amazon services than other possible choices, at least currently. So I'll say it honestly depends on what your friend would get out of it.
I'm using one here in Brazil, so I guess you would have the same experience I have.
All Amazon stuff are useless, except Kindle for books (the same Android app you install in any device). You even can't install other Apps because Amazon App Store blocks everything outside US (even free apps).
The only useful thing you can do to a Fire outside the US is to install third-party apps and root your device to make it like any other Android device. And I loved it for that: a cheap Android tablet, open, unblocked, and easy to hack. Everything I wanted.
The reality is that you'll be buying an Android tablet, not a Kindle as it is in America.
I got the amazon apps to work outside the us using us address and test card.I have rooted and installed aneroid market aswell.Just waiting for touch recovery and then the fun will start.
thanks for the info i will just buy the normal transformer or a ipad
it is possibile to have Kindle Fire working fully outside US using for example unblock-us.
With fully i mean, cloud, streaming content (audio, video, books, etc), amazon app store, etc.
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it is possibile to have Kindle Fire working fully outside US using for example unblock-us.
With fully i mean, cloud, streaming content (audio, video, books, etc), amazon app store, etc.
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Yes, i can confirm. Using unblock-us is the solution, i use it in Germany and it works fine.
I was thinking of buying one of these for my nephew, he currently has a Nook tablet. I was trying to figure out if all the content he currently has on there would be easily re-downloadable to the Nexus 7 with the Nook app. I just wasn't sure if Amazon or B&N had any content that was only available on their devices and not available through their apps for other Android devices.
I could be wrong, and if I am hopefully someone here will correct me, but my basic understanding is that any apps & magazine subscriptions purchased through the B&N store are not available through the Nook App, but books & single issue magazines are.
With Amazon, all content should be available through the Kindle & Amazon Store apps, as long as they weren't Fire-only apps.
The other complication would be if older apps are incompatible with 4.1 Jellybean, of which I don't know.
just use calibre program to change all his books from the nook format to kindle fire format which is mobi. and install the kindle fire app on the nexus 7. Thats what im gonna do, but im just transfering my kindle books.
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I could be wrong, and if I am hopefully someone here will correct me, but my basic understanding is that any apps & magazine subscriptions purchased through the B&N store are not available through the Nook App, but books & single issue magazines are.
With Amazon, all content should be available through the Kindle & Amazon Store apps, as long as they weren't Fire-only apps.
The other complication would be if older apps are incompatible with 4.1 Jellybean, of which I don't know.
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just use calibre program to change all his books from the nook format to kindle fire format which is mobi. and install the kindle fire app on the nexus 7. Thats what im gonna do, but im just transfering my kindle books.
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I figured they did something to try and limit as much as they could to their specific devices to discourage people from moving on to better/different devices. Thanks for the info.
Probably too little, too late, but then again, maybe not, but Amazon has finally released an android version of the Amazon Instant Video app:
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/09/09/amazon-prime-finally-comes-to-android-after-all-these-years/
However, no Chromecast support. Boo!
It does work. I've installed it on both my RAZR HD and my Nexus 7. However, you must also have the Amazon store app installed as well. If on a Nexus 7, then you MUST install the non-tablet version of the Amazon store app. Until I installed the non-tablet version, it would keep telling me I had to install it and then would redirect me to the Amazon store web page.
Osmo makes interactive and educational games for kids (see here: https://www.playosmo.com/en/) and they say that they are only compatible with iPads and Fire Tablets. I'm not an Apple guy but I have many Android tablets. I'm also not a real fan of Amazon tablets, but I have some of them. I've looked all over the web for the Osmo apk files so that I can run their stuff on other Android tablets, but I can't find them anywhere. They're only available in the Amazon appstore, and it's pretty locked down. I've installed the appstore on my other tablets, but because those tablets are not "registered" devices, or approved devices, the Osmo apps are not available in the appstore on those devices.
The main apps I'm after are, Osmo World, Osmo Monster, Osmo Detective Agency, Osmo Pizza Company. Is there a way to grab the apk files from my amazon tablet before they get deleted (Amazon apk files are automatically deleted after installing)? Or is there some other clever way of grabbing the apk files? The guys at Osmo are not helping me. They just work with Apple and Amazon.
Well, I sure would appreciate any help on this. Thanks in advance.
Wow guys, I posted this question back in January 2021 and nothing, zip, nada. Maybe it's a bit too specific of something. Just needing some way to grab an Amazon App store app, before the apk gets deleted off of my tablet (immediately after it gets automatically installed). There are no alternate listings for the apk's that I'm after so they're only available in the Amazon App Store. I'm trying to get, "Osmo Math Wizard" and, "Osmo World" and the other Osmo apps I mentioned before. Help, help!