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Originally Posted by booklover6
Had to go to APK Mirror for the Chrome browser. For some reason, I couldn't find it in the Play Store.
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same here at first - i could not find chrome in the play store either, nor could i install what I already owned with my google/gmail account, - i would pull down the list of "my apps", tap one, and play store would close.
But after doing some other stuff - the play store started to work properly and chrome was listed under "my apps". I suspect there's some delay while the google framework stuff takes inventory in the background, or because my collection of apkmirror apks are not quite right and updates have to happen. Either that or it was that searching for and installing a couple of free google apps kickstarted whatever needed to happen.
I have chrome from play store running now and am signed into it.
[ at a guess, chrome has some special dependencies because it can offer the option to sign in with gmail - so all google account manager infrastructure needs to be up and running ]
The only thing I've never managed to install was gmail. I did not bother to try it this time around, but on previous amazon devices I could not get gmail to work. So I just add my gmail to the on board amazon email app, which works ok
i did notice that a 2nd system update happened - well I think so: I'd spent ages moving all the irrelevant on-board amazon apps into folders to get them out of the way, but when I opened the tablet the next day they were all back on the home screen. ( which happens when updates to apps are pushed)
So i stuffed them back into " junk" folders again and now they are staying there. I can shrink the home screen to 3 rows of useful stuff, by grouping and filing apps.
I also somehow managed to let google store overwrite the alexa app. I had to remove updates before amazon was able to overwrite it again and stop reporting it as sideloaded.
I know that for any app that you own in in both app stores it is good to disable auto updates. and be careful before agreeing to "update all" ( if you prefer a google version, just ignore the regular notifications from amazon store saying this app needs an update )