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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
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).
Dropbox is in the Amazon store and works with Fires. |
Thank you! It turns out that the Apps from Unknown Sources is under Settings-->Security, and I discovered that I couldn't download to the SD card while the Fire was connected to my PC, but I finally got two epub readers installed. The free Moon Reader didn't work for me--I couldn't figure out how to adjust anything--so I quickly went to the free Aldiko, which seems OK. I may try a few more now that I know how to do it, thanks to you.
Maybe now I've calmed down I'll keep the damn thing!