New game: Crash Dive

[Gunfighter]

I have this game on my ASUS prime Tablet,My Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and my small Kindle fire. So I can take it with me at all times And it plays well on all of them.

[Onkel Neal]

How did you get it on your Kindle? I have a Fire HD 7", I would like to try the game on it.

[Gunfighter]

Hi Neal Checked out Amazon and they have Crash Dive in Apps Dept

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, thanks, I'll fire up my Kindle and see if I can get it to load.

[Onkel Neal]

Well, guess what? I turned on my Kindle Fire HDX 7", went to Amazon and yeah, the game is available and it seems to work great. I wonder why the Kindle is not listed as a platform on the Crash Dive website? I see there is a link to Amazon, but the page lists "Android" as the OS....

[PanicEnsues]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Well, guess what? I turned on my Kindle Fire HDX 7", went to Amazon and yeah, the game is available and it seems to work great. I wonder why the Kindle is not listed as a platform on the Crash Dive website? I see there is a link to Amazon, but the page lists "Android" as the OS....

Just because Kindle isn't a separate platform; it's an Android device, but with an Amazon-specific front-end. So if you were to bypass the Amazon AppStore and install any Android app's APK, it would work just like any other device.

Do most people not consider Kindle to be Android? If that's the perception, then you're right, I should list it as a platform.

Thanks,

-Scott

[Onkel Neal]

Goodness, my understanding was that the Kindle ran a neutered version of Android, where you cannot access the Google Play store, and consequently, cannot install apps like Google Maps, and other useful apps. I know I have visited the Amazon Kindle store and cannot find many of the Android apps I run on my LG phone. I could be mistaken.

Regular readers will know, but neither of these tablets have any Google services on-board. Amazon has a budding app store for any Android device, and the apps offered for the new Kindles are fully optimized and vetted for proper performance, but the quantity, and sometimes quality, pales when compared to Google Play.

If you're looking for a "regular" Android tablet, with full access to all of Google's services and apps, you should look elsewhere. If you're entrenched in the Amazon world of books, movies, music and apps, you're in for a treat.

http://www.androidcentral.com/kindle-fire-hdx-review

A lot of discussion has been about "sideloading" Google Apps onto a Kindle, maybe there is some distintion between "Google apps" and Android apps I failed to grasp.

Anyhoo, if Crash Dive runs on a Kindle Fire HDX, I would suiggest touting that, and also on the Amazon sale page
add something there....
Crash Dive
by Panic Ensues Software
Platform: Android

I see that there are categories on the Amazon site for
Appstore for Android and also Kindle Fire Apps

I don't understand!