
It has a great set of tools, plus features such as AI photo effects, stickers, text overlays, and backgrounds to enhance your photos. Now you’re properly prepared to enjoy the Kindle Fire and all it has to offer.After testing more than a dozen popular apps, our pick of the best photo editing apps overall is PicsArt. Then visit in the Kindle Fire web browser and you’ll have access to a plethora of Android apps. Go to the settings gear > “Device” and turn “Allow Installation of Applications” to “On”. The Amazon Appstore is nice, but it doesn’t have a lot of popular Android apps. Upload your music files to Amazon Cloud Play er and stream your entire music library right to your Kindle Fire without taking up any precious memory. Go into the Browser and select “Menu” > “Settings” and change the “Desktop or mobile view” setting to “Desktop”.

The device is fully capable of displaying full versions of web pages just fine though. Such pages are limited in the features they include.

Change the User Agent in the Browserīy default, the Kindle Fire is setup to optimize for each web site, which often means the mobile versions of web pages. You’ll have to use the Manage your Kindle section of Amazon’s website to do things like change the device name, manage archiving, videos and music. Many of the functions of the Kindle Fire are based in “The Cloud”. Get familiar with the “Manage your Kindle” section on Download ES File Explorer or AndroXplorer from the Amazon Appstore and you can view any file on the device as well as install Android APK app files. Download a file managerĪt some point, you’re probably going to want to view individual files that are saved on your Kindle Fire. You can transfer PDF, TXT and PRC formatted documents to the device using a USB cable, or send them to the email address listed within the ‘Docs’ app and they’ll instantly be available to read on the device. Learn about the system the Kindle Fire uses for documents. If that doesn’t satisfy your need to read, there are many third-party sites that have free books available in PDF format such as PlaneteBook, Google Books and ManyBooks. Many classic public-domain books are available for free on Amazon. Stock up on free ebooksĭon’t have enough money to build an impressive ebook library on your Kindle Fire? That’s OK. If you have a cable from an existing smartphone or other device, it will work with your Kindle Fire.

You’ll want to purchase a micro-USB to standard USB cable since it doesn’t come with one. Chances are that at some point you’ll want to transfer files from your computer to your Kindle Fire.
