apk files we tried, we copied over from the Droid X. Another method, which is a bit easier, is simple emailing the files as attachments to an email account you can access on your Kindle. So next, we just had to plug the phone into the computer with the cable, copy the files to the PC, and then over to the kindle (via data cable). Copy them from your Android phone using this method I just described. Don’t trust downloading them off some shifty website on the web. apk files (from the programs we wanted) on the SD card, in a folder named backup/apps. We backed up a copy of the apps we wanted to transfer over, by using Astro file manager (a free app in the Android Market). We wanted to put dropbox on my wife’s Kindle, just like we can run the app on our Android phones. Maybe it’s due to the fact that the Kindle Fire’s hardware is slightly different, but it’s pretty annoying. The problem is, the Amazon Kindle Fire app store doesn’t support all of the Android apps found in the Android Market. Just about every app will work, due to the fact that the Kindle Fire tablet runs on the Android OS. This post is for Kindle Fire users the rest of you can move along (unless you want to be bored, or if you enjoy absorbing useless tech knowledge).įirst of all, for those that might not be aware, you can sideload apps from the Android Market on your Kindle Fire.
Here’s why I think it happened to us, and this is what we did to fix it. “There is a problem parsing the package” is the error message you might get when trying to sideload apps on your new, shiny Kindle Fire.