Share your thoughts and experiences below. Although you won’t be able to play all of the same games and apps that you could with the Google Play Store, Aptoide is one the better alternatives that still works with the Firestick. Enjoy your Google Play Store/Aptoide app on your Fire TV Stick.Īs you’ve now seen, the Google Play Store is currently unavailable on the Amazon Firestick, so you’ll have to download an alternate play store.Select the app you want to install from the list.Browse or search for apps using the previously installed Aptoide Store.Install Google Play Store/Aptoide Apps on Your Fire TV Stick Aptoide launches, and it is ready to download/install apps from the Aptoide Store.ĥ.Choose “ Allow” to let Aptoide access your photos, media, and files.(This is a change from earlier versions of Fire OS, where the launcher used the launcher icon that you uploaded to the developer portal when. For commonality with Android, starting in Fire OS 5, Amazon uses icons from your APK. Scroll down the Aptoide page and select “ Download Aptoide TV.” The launcher icon for your app (sometimes called an 'app icon') is the icon that a user taps to start your app.In the URL/Search Term box of Downloader, use the Fire TV remote to type “.” The home page appears.Launch Downloader from your Fire Stick library.Since Google Play Store is no longer functional on a Fire TV Stick, you can install Aptoide (as previously mentioned) to obtain similar app store functionality.