I have it sideloaded on my Fire, but I bought the version from the Amazon store (so that it's associated with the same account as my Fire).
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Moral of the story: Kindle Fire is a lousy tablet for accessing the wealth of Android apps, unless you go to the effort of hacking it. It does make a great way to consume Amazon media, though.  |
I wouldn't call it lousy just not great
, it works fine for quite a lot really. Any free app from the Play store can be sideloaded without the need of a second Android device, but yes with paid apps, if they're protected, you run into issues. It's a bit of hoop jumping to sideload stuff, but I've not yet run into something that I want & can't get (which of course will be a personal thing).
I wish someone else made a tablet in the quality/price/spec range of the 8.9 Fire HDX, but at least when it came out no one did (don't know now).