The best part about installing the Play Store on your Fire Tablet is that it doesn’t necessitate any advanced “hacking” such as rooting or executing scripts from a computer. It’ll only take a few minutes to download and install a few APK files from your tablet, and you’ll be up and running with the Play Store in no time! Let’s get this party started.
Fixes for some of the most common issues
Troubleshooting
Here are some general troubleshooting recommendations if you’re facing a problem that isn’t covered above.
Restart the tablet.
This may seem self-evident, but it’s an excellent first step. Hold down the power button, touch the ‘Power Off’ option, and then press the power button again to turn your tablet back on. Open the Play Store from the home screen when it has rebooted to see if it works.
Delete the app’s data
I couldn’t sign into the Play Store until I purged the app’s local data when I first wrote this instruction. This will essentially restore the Play Store app to its original condition, which should resolve most issues. Open the Settings app, go to the ‘Apps & Notifications’ section (or whatever area has the word ‘Apps’ in it), and hit ‘Manage All Applications.’ Tap the Play Store when it appears in the list of apps. On this information screen, you must complete two steps. To stop the Play Store from functioning, first tap the ‘Force Stop’ button. Then go to the ‘Storage’ menu and select ‘Clear Data’ (also known as ‘Clear Storage’). Now go back to the Play Store app and test it out. If that doesn’t work, repeat the instructions above, but this time restart your tablet before attempting to open the Play Store. If it doesn’t work, force-stopping and wiping data for Google Play Services as well as the Play Store might help.
The tablet should be reset.
If you still can’t get the Play Store to work, your best bet is to restore your tablet to factory settings and try again. If you’re resetting up the tablet, make sure you don’t restore from a backup unless the backup was done before you attempted to install the Play Store. After that, there’s a lot to do Congratulations, the Google Play Store is now available on your Fire tablet! Give yourself a pat on the back. Now that the difficult portion is done, there are a few things you should do or remember.
Change the launcher and add new Google services
You can make your Fire tablet perform more like a standard Android phone or tablet with a little extra effort. It’s possible to make Chrome the default browser, add Google Assistant, and even change the home screen launcher. To get started, go to the link below and read our tutorial.
Install Google Play on all of your other devices
The simplest way to acquire the Play Store on a different user profile is to extract the APKs from the first profile and install them on the second. We only need to get the Play Services and Play Store files.
On the user profile with the Play Store already installed:
The two APKs have now been saved to your tablet’s internal storage in the ‘ML Manager’ folder. Because user profiles cannot access files from other profiles, you must copy the two APKs to a different location, log into the second profile, then copy them to the files of the second profile. Swiss Transfer, an internet application for transmitting files, is the simplest way to achieve this. If you selected the link option, write it down, enter it into Google Keep on the web and store it as a note, or save it in another way. It’s time to move to the second user profile now that you have all you need.
On the profile of the user who does not have access to the Play Store:
Return to the beginning of this tutorial and follow the instructions just as you did previously. Only download and install the first two items — Google Account Manager and Google Services Framework — when you arrive to the step where you have to download APKs. After you’ve installed those two apps, you’ll need to install the APKs from the first profile you copied.
Improve the performance of your tablet
Fire tablets aren’t the quickest gadgets on the market, but with a few simple tweaks, you might be able to make yours a little faster. The steps may be found in our complete Fire tablet performance guide.
