Quick Answer: What Operating System Does Amazon Fire Use?
Contents Is an Amazon Fire an Android Device? Amazon’s Fire Tablet Normally Restricts You to the Amazon Appstore. but the Fire Tablet Runs Fire Os, Which Is...
Is an Amazon Fire an Android device?
Amazon’s Fire Tablet normally restricts you to the Amazon Appstore.
But the Fire Tablet runs Fire OS, which is based on Android.
You can install Google’s Play Store and gain access to every Android app, including Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, Hangouts, and the over one million apps in Google Play.
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Can I run Android apps on Amazon Fire?
The Kindle Fire tablets use Amazon’s Appstore instead, which has many, but not all of those Google Play Apps. But that’s OK. If you have any other Android device and a PC or Mac around, you can use free tools to load almost any free Android app onto the Kindle Fire.
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