How To Add the Google Play Store to Kindle Fire 7 5th generation

I just added the Google Play store to my old Kindle Fire 7 5th generation. It was super easy and it actually worked!

Here's how I did it:

Make sure you have a Kindle Fire 7 5th generation by going to Settings, Device Options, Device Model

If Device Model says Fire(5th Generation), then do the following:

Go to Settings, Security & Privacy, click Apps from Unknown Sources to allow the installation of non Amazon appstore apps

Open the Silk browser

Click on this link to download and install the Google Account Manager APK

When that is finished,

Click on this link to download and install the Google Services Framework APK

When that is finished,

Click on this link to download and install the Google Play Services APK

When that is finished,

Click on this link to download and install the Google Play Store APK

For each of the above links, click the Download button on each page. The apk will download. Click the Open button. Click Next until you get to Install. Click Install. The APK will then install. Proceed to the next link and do the same thing.

When all 4 APK's have been downloaded and installed, there should be a Google Play Store app on your Kindle.

You will have to log in to your Google account. After that you can download apps like you would on an Android device. This works because the Kindle's Fire operating system is based on Android.

So far I have installed Ebay and Etsy on my Kindle Fire 7. They both work great!


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The other day I was trying to view the contents of a jar file by entering this on the command line:

jar tf jarfilename.jar

I got the following error:

'jar' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

To fix this error:

Make sure a JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the location of your Java installation, such as C:\Program Files(x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_25

Then add the following to the PATH environment variable to include the Java installation's bin directory: %JAVA_HOME%\bin


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