More fun with apps, but first let me wish you a joyous holiday season and a happy new year just in case I don't get to it in the following days and weeks.
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I duly went to the Amazon app store and no luck. I then tried the Google Play store from my phone and found ToME but not Dungeon Sketch. A web search on the computer found Dungeon sketch but it said it was incompatible with my phone, I was able to download the apk file from the developers site because I really wanted to put it on the Kindle anyway.
I then spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out how to side load apps onto the Kindle Fire. There are some tutorials out there, I'll show you how I did it.
2. Once you've backed up the apps in question on your device, copy them to your computer.
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| Showing your files. |
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| In the App Manager selecting and backing up. |
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| Showing your backed up apps. |
3. Go to the Settings>Device menu on your Kindle Fire and allow 3rd party apps
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| Turn on 3rd party Apps |
4. Copy over the the app files to your Kindle, I chose to put them in the /backup/apps folder.
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| ES File manager on the Kindle. |
5. Open the /backup/apps folder on your Kindle. Your apps should now be there. Press on the icons to open them and you will be asked to install.
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| Showing them in the back up folder. |
6. Hit install. Congratulations you have side loaded your app.
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| Successfully side loaded. |
Unfortunately Dungeon Sketch was not supported on any of my devices. I am now set up to do some gaming on my phone or kindle. I also learned how to get screen captures on my phone. Fun stuff.
I also hope to have that Heraldry tutorial up soon, although at present it may be a post mortem of what I did rather than a step by step how to from scratch. We shall see.
Nice one Sean! Although I'm sure a few veins popped in my head just trying to understand it, its not you its me!!
ReplyDeleteNo problem about the name!
ReplyDeleteIt's an Adrian Mole quote/joke:
"I have just realized I have never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. This is what comes of living in a cul-de-sac." (Sunday, 9 May -- Growing Pains)
Very funny but very, very British!
I'm not sure if cul-de-sac is normal American terminology, it means dead end street.
Anyway, that's a pain it doesn't work, after all that as well!
It's also annoying because the program is Open Source so you could have helped update it, rather than start from scratch.