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the Amazon fire phone is a pretty interesting device but it comes with the Amazon Appstore instead of the Google Play Store what if you want some other apps I'm Joe Levi with PocketNow here's how you can sideload apps onto your Amazon fire phone first thing we need to do is to go into our settings if you're like me and use it a lot you probably have a home screen item right there that you can just use to jump right into otherwise just pull down from the top hit the settings cog from here we want to go into applications and parental controls open that up and we now can allow non Amazon app installations tap there select the app installation as on read through the warning and if you accept that choose okay otherwise hit cancel this is the same warning that we're used to on other Android devices essentially it's saying you're going to be side loading something here and the app store can't be responsible for the stuff that you're not installing through it same is with Google Play so we're going to accept the risk and say ok and at that point we're done all we have to do now is fire up our silk browser and start looking for apks now ideally what you're going to want to do is download apk directly from the manufacturer so if you wanted to get ways for example see if ways has an apk for you you want to get something from Twitter see if Twitter has an apk most of the time they're going to distribute those through a Play Store not through their website so finding them might be a little bit interesting so let's say we want to download the Chrome apk we'll go ahead and search that you need to be very sure about where you're downloading this from to make sure it's a reputable place and that you're not downloading something malicious along with your apk so find what you think you want download and install it once you do it's going to be over here in your downloads and at that point you simply tap read through all of the permissions in this case I've already installed Chrome on the device and it's saying that this update doesn't require any new permissions if this were a new install I would see all of the permits and then I could simply hit the install button we'll go ahead and do that it takes just a moment to go through and install once that is all done I'm going to have a new icon that I can access or I can just simply hit the open button right there and now rather than using the silk browser I am using the fully functional Chrome browser right here on my Amazon fire phone as you can tell the process really isn't all that difficult the harder part however is finding those apks most of the time developers publish their apks through an app store like the Amazon App Store or the Google Play Store or some other third-party Play Store finding those apks can be tricky but not impossible so go out and find what you like and go ahead and side load it on your fire phone if you like this kind of information please give the video a thumbs up and of course be sure you've subscribed we just passed 700,000 people who are enjoying pocket now videos we're glad that you're one of them for pocket now showing off cool things that you can do with your devices I'm Joe Levi thank you very much for watching we'll catch you next time