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Help How do I transfer playstore app to Amazon Fire7 tablet

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I bought ireal Pro (technimo) for my Nexus7, It got trashed so downloaded again for free via google play to my S5. Now I want to get rid of S5 and put my apps on Amazon Fire.

My Google Play account says no active device even though it shows the connected device! I've contacted Google and they say the Amazon Fire is not compatible and that apps from the play store wont work properly:

"My name is Richard, part of the support team here at Google, and I have been looking over your case today.
I can confirm that my previous colleague was correct by saying that the Amazon Fire isn’t currently supported for use with the Google Play Store app or with play.google.com. Some hardware manufacturers may use Android as an operating software, but alter the software itself, thus making it different to the original android software that we troubleshoot here for at Google.

In these cases, although sometimes you may be able to get Google Play on the device, it may not function correctly. As such, we are unfortunately not able to assist in this case, and we would recommend to contact Amazon Fire support for further help."


I've told Google that I think they are talking rubbish as I have installed Google Play on my Amazon fire and have downloaded free apps from Google Play and they work. (But I cant do it via the browser to play store - I get no active devices).

I downloaded an apk extractor app, extracted the ireal app from my Samsung S5 to an sdk card, then put the sdk card in the Amazon fire tablet and installed the app from the SDK card - The ireal pro app installs, configures, loads and runs perfectly well BUT has an annoying popup box that says "Licensing Error - suggestion, check internet connection, status of order.."

Google is sticking to their same answer about compatibility and not helping. I don't want to (shouldn't have to) root the tablet to hack the licensing function.

Can anyone tell me how I can get my purchased app to run on the Amazon Fire.

Many thanks
 
Are you signing in on the device using your Gmail account? That may correct the issue
 
Dannydet said:
Are you signing in on the device using your Gmail account? That may correct the issue
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Yes, I have tried signing in via all of my associated email addresses but none of them show the ireal Pro app as being installed on any of my registered devices.

There is the possibility that I changed my primary account associated email address in the past. If I did, I cant remember what it might have been - I have told google the date, last a four digits of the card through which I bought the app and the credit cards associated address so that they might confirm the email account but they are not playing ball.

Any idea what I should do?

Cheers
 
Dannydet said:
Have you tried contacting the app developers? Go straight to the source?
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They probably haven't even tested it on this device. FireOS is Amazon's own flavour of Android. If you didn't get the app from the Amazon store, then there's no guarantee it'll work on the Fire tablet.
 
LV426 said:
They probably haven't even tested it on this device. FireOS is Amazon's own flavour of Android. If you didn't get the app from the Amazon store, then there's no guarantee it'll work on the Fire tablet.
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But it does work, perfectly except for the licensing box that keeps popping up.
 
In order for Play Services and the Play Store to work on a device, manufacturers need to pay Google a licensing fee. Amazon choose not to do that so Google aren't obliged to provide any support on a device they've no real connection with (other than the fact that it runs a heavily forked, almost unrecognisable version of their OS).

The reason you get the error is that the app is coded to check for a license via Play Services, which it obviously can't do as Play Services isn't there.

If you're not willing to root to install GPS or Google Apps, your best bet is to contact the developer, explain your position and see if they'd be willing to send you an APK which slips the license check.
 
You cannot rin play store even if play services installed because tge rewuired gapps are misding and those cant be installed because the OS to Amazon Fire restricts those apps your pretty much using the app store from amazon
 
El Presidente said:
In order for Play Services and the Play Store to work on a device, manufacturers need to pay Google a licensing fee. Amazon choose not to do that so Google aren't obliged to provide any support on a device they've no real connection with (other than the fact that it runs a heavily forked, almost unrecognisable version of their OS).

The reason you get the error is that the app is coded to check for a license via Play Services, which it obviously can't do as Play Services isn't there.

If you're not willing to root to install GPS or Google Apps, your best bet is to contact the developer, explain your position and see if they'd be willing to send you an APK which slips the license check.
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Cheers, I have been in touch with Technimo, the app developer - They were pretty responsive and asked me to let them know what Google had to say about the issues that I was experiencing. So maybe they might do just that.

The app is only about 12 quid but its more about the principal of buying it again than the actual cost.

Thanks for your advice.
 
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