“Installing External Apps on Your Fire TV Stick: A Step-By-Step Guide”
If you want to get the most out of your Amazon Fire TV Stick, you should not only know the best tricks for this device, but eventually, you should know how to increase storage with a USB to install more applications. And the programs define a large part of the user experience, since they allow you to enjoy all the content. To do this, you can access the Appstore and download them.
However, it is not a secret that outside the Appstore there are also many other applications interesting and that can make you enjoy your Fire TV Stick even more. But installing them from external sources is not as easy as you might imagine, although it is not impossible either. And we have prepared this post to tell you all about it.
Requirements to install external APKs on your Fire TV Stick
To install APKs from external sources, you need to have developer options and Apps of unknown origin activated.
It is important to note that in order to install applications from sources outside the Appstore on your Fire TV Stick, you must meet a very important requirement, which is to activate the developer options.
By default, this is a feature that is disabled with the intention of protecting the system of potentially harmful files that the user downloads outside the store. However, you can activate the function easily by repeatedly clicking on an option within the device’s configuration.
We have a post where we explain everything about activating developer options on your Fire TV Stick. However, you must be very careful when downloading and installing programs from the Internet. It is recommended that you use trustworthy and secure websites, otherwise you could expose your computer to being infected by some type of malware that spreads throughout your home WiFi network.
Steps to install external APK applications on the Amazon Fire TV Stick
Having said all the above, you should know that the process of installing APKs external to the Appstore is extremely simple, although it requires that you follow some steps, which we will tell you below. They won’t take you more than a couple of minutes.
With developer options enabled, you must enable the installation of Apps of unknown origin found in this menu. By doing this, you will have unlocked the ability to install APKs outside the store.
So, now you can use a browser like Firefox, or an application like Downloader, which integrates a file manager and browser.
To find Downloader or the browser you want, you must access the menu Utilities.
Once you have installed any of these programs, from the browser you must access the web page that stores the APK you want to download. Again, you must make sure that it is reliable. You must search for the APK that interests you and download it. At the end of the download process, you must click on this file to start the installation. As we have mentioned, for this installation to be successful, you must have activated previously installing applications of unknown origin. This will be all, since you can now enjoy this new application.