Amazon Fire Tablet

aardvaak

Heedtheadvice said:

Ardvaark. Calm down. You clearly have not understood what poster are telling you.

I have a Fire 8 . I can download the Barclays app.

First you need to understand that Amazon provide the operating system on their tablets and call it Fire OS.

It is a specific version of Android OS tailored by them to be more restictive and point you towards their products and sales.

What you need to do is install little programs that add the missing operating system bits so that you can then use all the generic bog standard Android applications such as the Google Play store application and through that the bank app.

The little extra progs you need to instal are called APKs and you have been given the links to the instructions how to do it above.

Just follow those and then the Google Playstore will be installed on your Fire (rather than you 'looking' at it on your browser - not the same thing at all!!!!)

The process to instal APKs is not for the faint hearted -especially if you cannot follow step by step instructions with maybe a few options!

Once you have done that you can open the Play store from the icon on your tablet to run that programme. (Not open a browser such as the Silk Browser provided by Amazon!).

Then search in the Playstore app from your banks app and install that.

Posters have tried to tell you that, in perhaps fewer words, but you obviosly did not understand. If I can do it so can you but do not blame someone else if you mess it up! Good Luck.

Where do I find these APKs

DoaM

At least two posts on this thread have already given you links to the exact instructions you need! Sheesh!

And you say you read and understand posts?

JJ_Egan

OP APK is roughly the name given to Android Apps   . GMail.apk etc .

Download an app from Play Store and its an APK  .

Other services like aptoid supply copies of these APKs .

But you would be better off not using for banking .

Heedtheadvice

aardvaak said:

Where do I find these APKs

  As has been posted above...jeeeeze!!!!

See, for example, the link given by Doam on post 11 (I think it was) of page 1 that gives you instructions at the "How to Geek" web page.

aardvaak

aardvaak said:

Heedtheadvice said:

Ardvaark. Calm down. You clearly have not understood what poster are telling you.

I have a Fire 8 . I can download the Barclays app.

First you need to understand that Amazon provide the operating system on their tablets and call it Fire OS.

It is a specific version of Android OS tailored by them to be more restictive and point you towards their products and sales.

What you need to do is install little programs that add the missing operating system bits so that you can then use all the generic bog standard Android applications such as the Google Play store application and through that the bank app.

The little extra progs you need to instal are called APKs and you have been given the links to the instructions how to do it above.

Just follow those and then the Google Playstore will be installed on your Fire (rather than you 'looking' at it on your browser - not the same thing at all!!!!)

The process to instal APKs is not for the faint hearted -especially if you cannot follow step by step instructions with maybe a few options!

Once you have done that you can open the Play store from the icon on your tablet to run that programme. (Not open a browser such as the Silk Browser provided by Amazon!).

Then search in the Playstore app from your banks app and install that.

Posters have tried to tell you that, in perhaps fewer words, but you obviosly did not understand. If I can do it so can you but do not blame someone else if you mess it up! Good Luck.

Where do I find these APKs

I have now successfully got the Barclays app on my tablet - the only thing now is I can not activate it it says activation denied.

DoaM

I guess the way the device reports itself to the app breaches what the app allows. (Look for the SafetyNet Helper Sample "attest" app, install that from the Play store. Run it and see if you get a green result ... if you don't then it likely means that the Fire tablet isn't compatible. I've just tried it with my own Fire 7 tablet and I get a red result. I haven't tried to use any banking apps on my Fire tablet).

JJ_Egan

Sell the tablet and buy an Android tablet .

Farway

JJ_Egan said:

Sell the tablet and buy an Android tablet .

Probably the best advice

aardvaak

I have now spoken to Barclays who say the Amazon Fire 7 is a android device and is not compatible with the app - if so how on earth have others done it?

aardvaak

aardvaak said:

Heedtheadvice said:

Ardvaark. Calm down. You clearly have not understood what poster are telling you.

I have a Fire 8 . I can download the Barclays app.

First you need to understand that Amazon provide the operating system on their tablets and call it Fire OS.

It is a specific version of Android OS tailored by them to be more restictive and point you towards their products and sales.

What you need to do is install little programs that add the missing operating system bits so that you can then use all the generic bog standard Android applications such as the Google Play store application and through that the bank app.

The little extra progs you need to instal are called APKs and you have been given the links to the instructions how to do it above.

Just follow those and then the Google Playstore will be installed on your Fire (rather than you 'looking' at it on your browser - not the same thing at all!!!!)

The process to instal APKs is not for the faint hearted -especially if you cannot follow step by step instructions with maybe a few options!

Once you have done that you can open the Play store from the icon on your tablet to run that programme. (Not open a browser such as the Silk Browser provided by Amazon!).

Then search in the Playstore app from your banks app and install that.

Posters have tried to tell you that, in perhaps fewer words, but you obviosly did not understand. If I can do it so can you but do not blame someone else if you mess it up! Good Luck.

Where do I find these APKs

Barclays now say Amazon Fire 7 is not compatible with the app.

Do you have a Fire 7?

Head the advice - How did you do it?