It's tough to find a good Android tablet these days, which is what makes Amazon's lineup so highly-seasoned. Non but does the visitor release new models at least once per year, but they're super affordable, priced equally low as just $50 for the entry-level Fire 7. Amazon's tablets run Burn down OS, a forked version of Android with a custom abode screen, and, nigh notably, scraps the Google Play Shop for Amazon'south own Appstore. While it does contain some popular apps and games, there'south only no replacement for the Play Store — especially when y'all're looking for apps like YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, and more.

Hither's the expert news: getting the Play Store on your Fire Tablet is super like shooting fish in a barrel, and we can walk yous correct through the process. This guide takes you through every required step for installing Google's own app store on your device, with instructions for models dating back to 2014. And if you're stuck, we besides have some troubleshooting steps at the end of this tutorial.

If you'd rather lookout man a video how-to, check out the guide above to run into how it works. Just brand sure to grab the download links from the written instructions below.

Important INFO

  1. Remove your tablet's microSD carte if you have one installed, unless you lot're using adoptable storage (e.g. your SD card storage is merged with your internal storage). If you lot don't remove the external SD, the Play Store and its required applications may be automatically installed to the microSD card, which tin can cause issues. Y'all can put the card back in one time you're done.
  2. There is no manner to manage a Fire tablet through Google Family Link, even later on the Play Store is installed.
  3. Apps installed through the Play Store might non piece of work with Amazon FreeTime app management. I haven't personally tested this, but that's what many people have reported in the comment section.
  4. Some apps hide themselves from the Play Store on Fire tablets, because Fire tablets are non SafetyNet-certified by Google (more info here). Netflix is 1 app that does this. For those applications, you lot can try finding them on the Amazon Appstore or downloading them on APKMirror.

Enable installation from unknown sources

The get-go footstep in this procedure is to enable apps to exist installed from outside the Amazon Appstore. This activeness allows you to open up and install applications from downloaded APK files, which is how we'll go the Play Store running.

Kickoff, go to the main 'Habitation' page on your habitation screen and open the Settings app. So tap the 'Security & Privacy category (older models might only say 'Security'), find the switch for 'Apps from Unknown Sources,' and plough it on.

If borer 'Apps from Unknown Sources' brings up a list of apps, you don't need to do anything. Yous may receive a popup when installing APKs, just you'll just take to tap the 'Allow' button when prompted. If you desire to skip a popup, make sure this pick is enabled for the Silk browser.

Now you're ready to download and install the APKs needed to get the Google Play Store running.

Install the Play Shop

The next step is to download the proper APK files for the Play Store. You technically have to install four different applications — Google Account Managing director, Google Services Framework, Google Play Services, and finally, the Google Play Store. The first 3 apps handle bones account services and add together APIs, while the last app is the store itself.

Because different Fire tablets run different versions of Android with varying hardware, the exact APKs you accept to install depends on what Fire tablet you accept. If yous're unsure which model you have, open up the Settings app over again, tap on 'Device Options & System' (information technology might also just be called 'Device Options'), and look at what is listed under 'Device Model. You also need to find out your Fire Bone version — this is listed in the 'System Updates' menu of 'Device Options & System' (or merely 'Device Options').

If yous're not already reading this on your Burn down tablet, open the Silk web browser and type https://flake.ly/apfiretablet into the accost bar to jump straight to this post.

For the Google Account Manager and Google Services Framework applications, observe the appropriate links for your device from the tabular array below and tap the primary 'Download APK' button on the linked page. Don't open up the downloaded files nonetheless, as we'll do that later. If you see a message well-nigh a newer version being available, ignore it — your tablet volition continue the apps updated after the install process is over.

GOOGLE Account MANAGER

GOOGLE SERVICES FRAMEWORK

For these concluding two applications, click the link for your device, then select the version closest to the top of the list which doesn't take "beta" in the name. Again, don't open the files all the same, and ignore any messages nigh newer versions beingness bachelor.

GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES

Fire Hard disk 10 (9th and 11th Gen), Burn down Hard disk eight (10th Gen) Google Play Services (64-fleck ARM, nodpi, Android 9.0+)
Fire 7 (9th Gen, 2019) Google Play Services (32-scrap ARM, nodpi, Android 6.0+)
Burn Hd 8 (eighth Gen, 2018) Google Play Services (64-bit ARM, nodpi, Android half dozen.0+)
Fire Hard disk x (seventh Gen and older), Fire Hd viii (7th Gen and older), Burn vii (7th Gen and older), Fire HD half-dozen, Burn HDX 8.9 Google Play Services (32-chip ARM, nodpi, Android v.0+)

GOOGLE PLAY STORE

Now it'south time to install the apps. Detect the Files app on your tablet (it might likewise be called 'Docs' or 'Documents') and open it. Then, find your device's Downloads folder. On almost Fire tablets, this is located in the side menu.

Finding downloaded APKs on a 2021 Fire Hard disk drive 10

Finding downloaded APKs on a 2018 Fire Hd 8

You should come across all 4 APK files. If non, go back and see which one you missed (or just download all of them for adept measure). Also, switch to the file list view if y'all haven't already, and then you can encounter the full names of each APK.

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Open up the apps in the below lodge, and when the installation is complete, press 'Washed' and not 'Open.' Installing the apps out of club will crusade the Play Store not to work. If you have an SD card, make sure to accept it out during these installations.

  1. com.google.gsf.login
  2. com.google.android.gsf
  3. com.google.android.gms
  4. com.android.vending

In one case you've installed all iv apps, concur downward the ability push button, and tap 'Restart' to restart your tablet. Older tablets might only take the option to ability off — if so, let the tablet shut down, and so hold downwardly on the power button to turn it back on.

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Restart (or power off and back on again) after you end installing the Play Store.

Later your Fire tablet has booted back upward, open up the new Play Store app from the home screen. From there, the Play Store should ask you to log in with your Google business relationship, after which you tin finally download and install apps.

Fixes for common problems

If the Play Store or other Google apps aren't working correctly, hither are some fixes for common issues.

"This business relationship already exists on your device"

If y'all get the error "This account already exists on your device" when signing into Chrome or another Google app, or if the app doesn't detect your Google account at all, follow these steps:

  1. Completely close the app you're having problems with (e.1000. swipe it away in the Recents/multi-tasking screen).
  2. Open up the Settings app, tap Apps & Permissions, so select 'Manage all applications.' These options might have dissimilar names, depending on your version of Fire OS.
  3. Observe the app you're having issues with in the list, tap on information technology, and select 'Permissions'.
  4. Switch all available permissions to 'On'. Enabling the Contacts permission alone did the trick in my testing, but you might as well enable everything for good measure.
  5. Open up the app again.

In Chrome's case, you also have to open the browser, tap on the Settings bill of fare, and tap the 'Continue as...' bluish button at the top of the screen.

Troubleshooting

If you're having a unlike issue than the ones listed to a higher place, here are some generic troubleshooting tips.

Reboot your tablet

To go everything settled, you'll want to restart your tablet. Concord down the power button, tap the 'Ability Off' option, and plow your tablet back on by holding downwards the ability button again. In one case it has booted back up, open the Play Store from the dwelling house screen and see if it works.

Clear app data

If you're having trouble signing into the Play Store, endeavour immigration the app'southward local information. This will substantially reset the Play Store app to its original state, and should fix virtually problems yous might meet.

Open the Settings app, select the 'Apps & Notifications' section (or whatever else has 'Apps' or 'Applications' in the proper noun), and tap 'Manage All Applications.' Find the Play Store in the listing of apps and tap it.

Y'all have to perform two steps on this info screen. First, press the 'Force Finish' push to stop the Play Store from running. So press the 'Storage' carte du jour option and tap 'Clear Data' (it might also be called 'Articulate storage'). Now render to the Play Store app and see if it works.

If that didn't aid, follow the above steps again, simply restart your tablet before trying to open the Play Shop. If that didn't work either, endeavour strength-stopping and clearing data for Google Play Services in add-on to the Play Store.

Reset the tablet

If you nonetheless can't get the Play Store to work, your best choice is probably to manufacturing plant-reset your tablet and attempt again. Make sure yous don't restore from a backup when yous're setting upwardly the tablet once again, unless the backup was made before you tried to install the Play Store.

Stuff to do after

With these steps finished, you're ready to start using the Google Play Store to install any apps and games your eye desires. If yous're looking for some places to first, here are a few things to go along in mind.

Add more than Google services and change the launcher

With a little chip of extra work, yous can brand your Fire tablet office much more like a regular Android phone or tablet. Setting Chrome as the default browser, adding Google Assistant, and even changing the home screen launcher is possible. Come across our guide at the below link to get started.

Install Google Play on other device profiles

Since the Play Store isn't a system-level application on Fire tablets, the install process only applies to the device profile yous've been using. If y'all want to add the Play Store for other users on the same device, the steps are a bit different, because Amazon'south Burn Bone won't allow you accept different versions of Play Services and the Play Store installed on each profile — thank you to Florian Wolters on Stack Overflow for pointing this out.

This procedure is extremely tedious that will probably have longer than the original guide. Believe it or not, the below steps are still the easiest way to go the Play Shop on other device profiles, with the fewest means of screwing something up.

The easiest fashion to become the Play Store on some other user profile is to excerpt the APKs already installed on the showtime contour and install them on the second profile. We only need to catch the files for Play Services and the Play Store.

On the user profile that already has the Play Store:

  1. Install ML Manager from the Play Store and open it.
  2. In the list of applications, discover Google Play Services, and tap the 'Excerpt' push button.
  3. Observe Google Play Store in the list, and tap the 'Excerpt' button.

Now the two APKs have been saved to the 'ML Manager' folder in your tablet's internal storage. Because user profiles can't admission the files from other profiles, you take to re-create the 2 APKs somewhere else, log into the 2nd profile, and copy them to the second contour's files. The easiest manner to exercise this is using Swiss Transfer, an online tool for sending files.

  1. Open up Swiss Transfer (swisstransfer.com) on your tablet's browser (Silk, Chrome, any) and accept the terms and conditions of employ.
  2. Tap the upload push button, tap the menu button on the right, and select 'Show internal storage.'
  3. While still in the file browser, open the left side menu and select your tablet (it should be the only particular that says how much storage is remaining).
  4. Open up the ML Manager folder, hold downward on one of the files until 'i selected' appears, then tap the 2d file. It should say '2 selected' at the height. Proceed going until you have all the APKs selected, then printing 'Open' at the top-correct.
  5. If the other user profile has an e-mail account prepare, fill out the email form to send the link in a message. Otherwise, tap the Link push button to merely create a link.
  6. Tap the 'Transfer' button.
  7. If yous chose the link choice, and then write it down, log into Google Keep on the web and put it in a notation, or save it with some other method.

At present yous accept everything you lot need, and then it's time to switch to the other user profile.

On the user profile that doesn't accept the Play Shop:

  1. Go to the link you got in the previous pace, either past typing the link in the address bar of your web browser, or past opening the e-mail Swiss Transfer sent (if y'all chose that option).
  2. Download the Cypher file with the two APKs inside.
  3. Open up the Amazon Appstore, search for 'ES File Explorer,' and download it.

At present, go back to the very start of this guide, and follow the instructions only similar earlier. When you get to the steps where you have to download APKs, but download and install the beginning two items — Google Business relationship Manager and Google Services Framework. In one case yous install those 2 apps, y'all demand to install the APKs you simply copied from the first profile.

  1. Open ES File Manager from the abode screen.
  2. Tap on the menu button at the tiptop-left, tap 'Local', and tap 'Download'.
  3. Tap the Cipher file you downloaded earlier (it's probably called 'Send-Archive').
  4. You should see ii APKs. Just like before, these have to exist installed in the correct society.
  5. Tap the one that starts with 'com.google.android.gms' (this one is Google Play Services), then tap 'Install'.
  6. At present tap the i that starts with 'com.android.vending' (this 1 is the Play Store), so tap 'Install'.

Now reboot your tablet again, log into the 2d profile, and see if the Play Store works. If you lot run across issues, take a look at the Troubleshooting department higher up.

Amend tablet operation

Fire tablets aren't the fastest devices in the globe, just you lot might exist able to make yours marginally faster with a few easy steps. Check out our full Burn tablet performance guide for the instructions.

There you have it — the ultimate guide to installing the Google Play Shop on Amazon's Burn tablets. If you run into whatever troubles, leave a comment, and we'll do our best to help. Your feedback might fifty-fifty assist us improve this guide!

Cheers: Zampacto (Fire 10 2019 help), Trevor (Chrome login fix)

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