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#Set default launcher kindle fire install#
Pay a visit to GetJar, Only Android, Opera’s app store, or SlideMe on your Kindle Fire, however, and you can download and install hundreds of non-Amazon-approved apps. And good luck downloading apps from Play to your Kindle Fire–you can’t, unless you’re prepared to do some serious tinkering.
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Kindle Fire viewing the mobile GetJar app store.Amazon’s Kindle Fire app store is a far cry from the Google Play app store when it comes to selection. Select the Desktop: Optimize for desktop view option.
#Set default launcher kindle fire full#
To configure the browser to serve up the full desktop versions of websites, open the Kindle Fire Browser app, go to the bottom of the screen and enter the browser settings, and choose Desktop or mobile view.
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For me, the Kindle Fire has more than enough screen real estate to support full websites. Other badly stripped-down sites include CNN, ESPN, and Gmail.
#Set default launcher kindle fire android#
The mobile version of Facebook is fine when you’re on your iPhone or Android handset, but the stripped-down version seems inadequate on the Kindle Fire.
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View Full Websites, Not the Cruddy Mobile Versions If you found this post worth reading and want to kick in a buck or two to the author, click here. There are still a few little differences in the way the Fire does things-the settings menus and link-sharing dialogue are still FireOS’s, among other things-but if you’ve been frustrated that you couldn’t get the launcher to act like you wanted it to, this should allow you to change that. For more information, see LauncherHijack’s homepage on the XDA Android hacking forums.Ĭhanging the launcher brings the Fire up to about 90% as useful as a “real” Android tablet. Uncheck the box to hide system files and the Fire’s default launcher, “Home,” should appear in the list.Īnd that should be that.
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It helpfully told me I needed to change the launcher setting in my settings menu, but that’s a setting that the Fire’s settings menu doesn’t have.įortunately, as with many Fire annoyances, clever Android hackers out there have come up with a way around it, and you don’t even need to root your tablet to make it work. Some launchers will let you run them manually-but my favorite launcher, the Google Now launcher, won’t. The problem is, Amazon doesn’t provide any easy way to change launchers. I also missed having access to launcher widgets, and the ease of swiping left to get to the Google Assistant. There weren’t any huge annoyances, which is why it took so long to get fed up, but finally I got tired of the lack of an app drawer where I could access an app right away if I couldn’t remember what folder I’d put it in. I’ve enjoyed using my Fire HD 8 tablet as my “main” Android tablet these last few months, but I finally got fed up with some of the annoyances of the built-in Fire launcher.
#Set default launcher kindle fire apk#
There’s a link to a renamed and rebuilt APK file in the thread, and I’ve tried it and it does work-though the usual cautions about installing packages from unverified sources apply. As the posters to this XDA Developers forum thread determined, Amazon has apparently blocked any package by that specific name from running, and working around it is as simple as rebuilding the package with a new name. Update, : LauncherHijack, mentioned in the post below, has abruptly stopped working.