Favorite Android (Google Play hosted) games -- premium & IAP

[ExedExes]

I'm fairly certain Google Play can be easily sideloaded on this. So I guess I just want to know that it would handle the usual games. Like say Fire Emblem Heroes as an example. That'd work fine on this?

It can. The 5th generation tablets and up, at least. I sideloaded a ton of stuff on my Fire 10 before I finally got a smartphone, but:

1) Not everything played nice with it. I say 90% of everything did.
2) Future Amazon system updates MAY affect the Google services required for Play store (in my experience, it didn't)
3) I ended up doing a factory reset after I found that all the sideloading I did was a huge drain on the battery, even when I wasn't using the tablet. Since the factory reset, I stayed with the stock Amazon apps and no more battery issues.

Keep in mind that although Amazon's appstore will never have nearly the same selection as Google's, the Actually Free apps there are very nice.

[noiseredux]

Exed, I think you missed my more recent post as I said I had indeed side-loaded the Google Play app, and now I'm just needing to see if I can use the developers mode to get rid of some bloatware or set apps to auto-download/install to the SD card if possible.

[Tanooki]

Exed, I think you missed my more recent post as I said I had indeed side-loaded the Google Play app, and now I'm just needing to see if I can use the developers mode to get rid of some bloatware or set apps to auto-download/install to the SD card if possible.

You tried these sites?

http://kindlefireforkid.com/how-to-enab ... ons-again/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-things-d ... ndle-fire/

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/usb-de ... e-fire-hd/

[ExedExes]

Exed, I think you missed my more recent post as I said I had indeed side-loaded the Google Play app, and now I'm just needing to see if I can use the developers mode to get rid of some bloatware or set apps to auto-download/install to the SD card if possible.

Missed that! I used developer mode to sideload, but that was it. As far as the SD card app auto install, that option is under Settings > Storage > SD Card > Install Supported Apps On Your SD Card (card must be inserted first)

[noiseredux]

Yes, but Play Store ignores that and downloads to internal.

[Tanooki]

I don't think so, at least not on my tablet. I set it up to use only the SD card. When I download anything new it goes to the card, I don't have to go in to the settings move it like those steps he just wrote up there. I used to when they first introduced it on the Nexus tablet I formerly have but I haven't in the latest two M and N versions.

[noiseredux]

Might be the android version? When i try to download xcom i am told not enough space when i have over 100gb free on the sd card.

[Tanooki]

I don't know. What I can tell you is just what I've had happen as I have 2 abnormally larger games that you don't usually see so large. DOOM 3 BFG and Bard's Tale and both of them went straight to the card as they'd neither fit on the tablet itself.

[noiseredux]

at any rate, I attempted to side-load XCOM but still had no luck... I downloaded it to my phone - but I don't play games on my phone (outside of VR). I then used Backup & Restore app to archive the apk; moved that to the SD card on the tablet and launched it. It installed and started the game up.... but then said that the additional required download failed. :\

To note: getting into the developer mode was as easy as Tanooki indicated (just tapping the system version 7 times), but unfortunately I see no options there to be able to gain full access to moving BLOATWARE to SD (or just deleting it altogether).

I'd love to gain a bit more power over storage management, and I've never rooted an Android device before (and not sure I want to).

[Tanooki]

I feel bad not mentioning this.



Just download that, and it should have a companion useful app too for clearing memory, optimizing power usage, killing annoying ass processes, and other goodies.

The primary one though you can nuke anything off that tablet by just digging around to find it. It's like developer tools on crack. Shield tablet/tv/handheld comes with TRINE 2 the deluxe one worth a few GB. They refuse to let you erase it. I used that tool and wiped that crap right off my tablet unlocking 25% more free space.

Grab that, figure out how to use it (it's not bad but I can't explain it well in here) find the turds you don't want, kill the process, then delete it. You may still like me have the icon for it and a teeny former placeholder shell of what was there. But hell if you can recover 75-90%(guess) of that wasted space it's a win. And if you need it back, depending how your Amazon works maybe it will just redownload the missing files (nvidia shield does this with google play.)

That tool also has a nice windows like recycle bin and checker for wasted space. You can use that to remove left over garbage from uninstalled programs, old files, temp files, etc that are space eating garbage.