Whats next? While you cant yet root the tablet or replace the operating system with a custom ROM, you can disable a bunch of Amazon apps and features.Dont need the Amazon Appstore, want to disable the Weather, Prime Video, or Kindle apps? Or maybe you want to prevent your tablet from automatically downloading and installing Fire OS updates.Heres how to do that.Enable Developer Options and USB DebuggingOn your tablet, take the following steps:Enable Developer Options by navigating to Settings -> Device Options -> About Fire Tablet and then tapping the serial number for your tablet 7 times.Tap the back button to go back to Device Options.Scroll down and select Developer Options.Slide the toggle for Developer Options to On.Scroll down until you find USB Debugging and slide the toggle to the on position.Set up adb (Android Debug Bridge)Connect your tablet to a computer with a USB cableOn your computer, download the Android SDK Platform Tools from Google (available for Windows, Mac, or Linux)Unzip the file you just loaded and make note of the directory where youve unzipped it.Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to that folder.Type adb devices (without the quotation marks) to see if our computer detects your tablet.
So youve installed the Google Play Store on Amazons Fire HD 8 (2020) tablet.