It looks like Google's altercation with Amazon won't end anytime soon. A war has been brewing anytime back Amazon pulled Chromecast, Apple TV, and added aggressive accessories from their abundance in 2015, but the latest barter is a huge draft to bodies application Amazon Fire tablets and alive TV sticks.
The XDA Portal aggregation reported that Google is now blocking the accession of Gapps (Google's own first-party Android apps) on uncertified devices. Android accessories that accept passed Google's affinity and acceptance tests will see no change, but added accessories that run actionable angled versions of Android will abundantly suffer.
Chief amid these types of uncertified accessories are Amazon's Fire OS models — Fire TV, Kindle Fire tablets, and added articles with the Fire branding. These accessories all run a angled adaptation of Google's Android and accept benefited abundantly by accepting accessible admission to Google's library of Android apps. This will no best be the case.
Without the adeptness to install Google apps, Fire OS users will no best be able to admission the Google Play Store, which is the world's better app store.
Previously, accepting the Google Play Abundance on a Fire accessory was simple — aloof sideload the app and pretend you accept a certified Android device. The abject OS is the aforementioned as Google's adaptation of Android, so Amazon barter with a little adequacy could again use official Android apps on the actionable Android anchorage that is Fire OS. That ends now.
If the device's operating arrangement has a body date of March 16, 2018 or newer, Google apps will now alpha blockage to see if the accessory is certified. This action relies on Android's SafetyNet system, which is not present on Fire OS devices. Therefore, as anon as your Fire OS accessory gets an amend from actuality on out, Google Apps, including the Play Store, will stop working.
Third-party apps you've ahead installed on your Fire OS accessory through the Google Play Abundance will abide to work, but the abundance itself should cease working. The alone absolute way about this affair would be to basis your Fire OS accessory and use article like Magisk to ambush Google apps into cerebration the accessory is certified.
A added acceptable another may be to sideload the Yalp Store, which at the time of this writing, still allows you to download and install apps from the Google Play Abundance on an uncertified device. The interface isn't as pretty, but it gets the job done. You can apprehend added about that action below.
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