Chrome browser download for amazon fire tablet

For the most part, this provides an excellent way to both use your tablet and to browse the services offered through Amazon, but unfortunately, it also leads to a major problem: the Google Play Store is not offered through the device. Earlier Fire models required the Play Store to be pushed to your device from a Windows computer using ADB, something that no longer has to be done.

Depending on the age of your tablet, you may need to download different apps than a device running older software. Head into the settings menu and select Device Options, then look for Device Model at the bottom of this guide. Knowing which generation your device belongs to will help a lot throughout this guide. The first thing we have to do on your Amazon Fire tablet is dive into the settings menu. To open settings on your device, slide down from the top of your device to open the notifications tray and quick actions, then tap on the Settings icon.

Next up is the big part. On a standard Android tablet, installing apps outside of the Play Store would be as easy as installing the standard APK. All of these files can be downloaded using the Amazon Silk browser on your device. Every app held on APKMirror is free from the developer, without modifications or changes before being uploaded. The first app we need to download is Google Account Manager.

This is more complex than it used to be, because Amazon has finally updated the version of Android being used on their newer tablets. A download prompt will appear at the bottom of your display, and you can accept the prompt to begin the download.

Leave the notification in your tray for easy access in the next step. The next app is Google Services Framework. This version is designed to run on all devices with Android 5. Next up, we have Google Play Services. This is the app that will allow apps like YouTube to be authenticated and used on your device.

Installing this app is a bit more complicated than installing the other apps on this list, because there are two separate versions of the app for different tablets. If you own a Fire 7 tablet purchased prior to June —in other words, an 8th generation device or older— you should download this version here. Amazon switched the Fire 7 to bit processors with the ninth generation model, but older devices will still need to download the correct version of the APK. The final of the four apps is the Google Play Store itself.

This is the easiest of the four downloads, as all file versions work on Android 4. Download the most recent version here. For both Google Play Services and the Google Play Store, you should try to use the newest version of the app available. APKMirror will alert you when there is a newer version of the app available, which will be listed on the webpage below the information.

For Google Play Services, you should avoid the beta versions of the app by looking for the most recent stable version on the list beta versions are marked as such. For the Play Store itself, just download the most recent version. You should see a full list of the APKs you downloaded in the last step, each with its own notification, sorted by time. If you followed the steps above and downloaded each in the proper order, the fourth download should be on the top of the list, and the first download on the bottom, so that the order appears as such:.

Newer versions will not install on the device. Amazon would prefer you use the Silk browser and stay within the Amazon universe. They don't want you straying off into Google Land.

But there's no technical reason you can't install the Chrome browser on a Fire tablet. It won't void the warranty and in fact, will make the tablet even better. Fortunately, installing the Chrome browser onto a Fire tablet is easy. You can do it in less than two minutes simply by visiting one web page and clicking the download link to install. I show how in the video below. As noted in the above video, installing Chrome on your Kindle Fire is pretty easy. After that, click the downloaded file name to install.

When the install is complete, Chrome will be on your Kindle Fire. If you have a Google account, you can log into the Chrome browser on your Fire, and all your saved bookmarks and logins will show up.

As noted in the last part of the above video, if you want access to the full Google Play store, where you can choose from hundreds of thousands of apps to install on your Fire, you can do that as well.