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Old 05-03-2016, 12:31 AM   #95
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
These are showing as incompatible at Amazon's app store.

ETA: Aldiko, paid version, not free version, seems to be one of the few that shows as compatible.

ETA again: I'm really annoyed; before ordering I had checked various Web pages that listed epub reader apps to use with the Fire tablet. Now that my device is showing at Amazon, all the epub reader apps are turning up as incompatible.
All reader apps in the Amazon appstore (except library apps like OverDrive) are marked incompatible by Amazon for all Fire's. They want you to read Kindle books on Fire's and make you jump through a few hoops to use other readers.


Other apps must be sideloaded. If you turn on Apps from Unknown Sources on your Fire (settings--->Applications) you'll then be able to sideload Android apps.

For free apps you can copy the URL of the app on play.google.com and paste it in at an APK download site (an APK is kind of like an exe in Windows) such as https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ and download the app that way, once downloaded tap to launch and install the app.

For paid apps it's a little trickier. What I've done for my paid versions of Moon+ Pro and Mantano is load them on one of my Android devices and then use Astro file explorer to do a backup of the app. I then install this backed-up APK on my Fire which is signed into the same account as the app was bought with (so authentication works).


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Originally Posted by Purple Lady View Post
I think I remember having to download Dropbox from their site because Amazon app store didn't allow that either.
Dropbox is in the Amazon store and works with Fires.

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