APK Expansion files on the Kindle Fire

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Is it possible to use the Android Expansion files with a Kindle Fire? Because the Kindle Fire doesn't use Google Play.

EDIT: Amazon allows the .apk to get bigger than 50MB, so no expansion files are needed.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '12 at 10:17

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Since expansion files are downloaded from the Google Play Store, I guess the answer is sadly no.

answered Aug 22 '12 at 10:17

Aerilys

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 11 '12 at 11:47

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What about just turn on "Allow Installation of Application From Unknown Sources" (Settings => Device) and then simple install .apk via any file manager?

answered Oct 11 '12 at 11:47

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Sure. But the question was about possibility itself. – Denis Maslov Oct 12 '12 at 15:36

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '15 at 10:24

It's just a zip, so sure. What's missing is the downloading. So you can add the obb as an asset in your fire release flavour and change the code that gets the ZipResourceFile to load zip from there.

For faster development in a fire debug flavour, you can always manually copy the file to the normal /andoird/obb location on the fire

APK Expansion files on the Kindle Fire

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