Specifications

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Not everyone who owns a Kindle Fire is situated in the US. As a result there are other services that you can call upon

to enable you to install apps and games.

Before doing this, however, you will need to ensure that your Kindle Fire is setup for installing apps from third party

locations. Open Settings > More > Device and switch Allow Installation of Applications from the default setting

OFF to ON. Your Kindle Fire will let you know that this isn’t necessarily safe – the choice is yours, but the following

resources can be trusted (there are many more that cannot be).

Most popular for this platform is the Opera App Store, available by visiting apps.opera.com in the Kindle Fire Browser.

Using common credit cards and PayPal you can purchase apps from this location, simply by selecting an app and tap-

ping the Download button.

Once you have done this, tap the Menu button in the middle of the browser toolbar and select Downloads. Here you

will see a progress bar for the download; once this has completed you can tap the downloaded app to begin the instal-

lation procedure – follow the on-screen instructions for guidance.

The following locations also provide apps that can be installed on your Kindle Fire:

• andappstore.com

• slideme.org

• m.getjar.com

It would be wise (for device safety) not to install any apps from any location that cannot be already found in the Ama-

zon App Store or the ofcial Google Play store for Android devices.

Google Play is not supported on the Amazon Kindle Fire, at least ofcially. See the appendix for more information.

4.3 Launching & Uninstalling Apps

There are two places on your Kindle Fire where you will nd your installed apps. The rst is the Apps screen on the

Newsstand menu, where native and newly installed apps can be found. These can be listed By Title or by the most

recently used, and the Search tool is provided to nd any that you can’t track down. Apps appear on their own News-

stand shelves in this view and scrolling up will provide more shelves.