RELATED: How to Make the $50 Amazon Fire Tablet More Like Stock Android (Without Rooting) Disable Amazon-Specific Junk You Don’t Want With one click and a fifteen dollar bill, those ads are gone for good. You’ll need to grab an additional app called LauncherHijack, which is what will enable you to actually use your new launcher.

Just like sideloading the Play Store, this is a simple and straightforward process, but it’s a bit more complicated than simply installing a new launcher from the Play Store and running with it. The stock launcher on Fire OS isn’t really that bad, but if you’re looking to customize your tablet a bit more (or just want a more stock Android-like feel), then installing a new launcher is the way to go. RELATED: How to Use a Different Home Screen Launcher on the Amazon Fire Tablet (Without Rooting It) The process doesn’t require a rooted device and is fairly straightforward-it’s little more than a few app downloads-so hit up this guide and get to work. But since Fire OS is based off of Android, you can easily sideload the Google Play Store for full access to everything Google has to offer. The Appstore isn’t necessarily bad, but it’s definitely a few steps behind the Google Play Store in terms of content and updates. However, Google hasn’t specified if or when this will happen.RELATED: How to Install the Google Play Store on an Amazon Fire Tabletīy default, the Fire Tablet line ships with the Amazon Appstore. Google might eventually kill Meet in favour of Duo Meet (which, again, is being rebranded to Meet), and the company says it will tell users when they should make the switch. Meet users, on the other hand, will need to switch apps unless they’re fine using the current Meet experience, sans Duo features. What this all means for users is if you’ve got Duo installed, you can just keep using it - all the changes will arrive automatically over time. Alongside the change, Google says the ‘’ website will start redirecting to ‘/calling’ over the next few months. Next up, Google plans to transform the existing Google Meet app into the new Meet/Duo hybrid.

Soon, the Google Duo app will just be Google Meet. Google first announced this process back in June, but The Verge reports it’s starting today, although really, it started a month ago when Google pushed an update to its Duo video chat app that will add features from Google Meet to Duo.ĭuo, which Google had positioned as a competitor to Apple’s FaceTime, is now getting another update to the Android and iOS Duo apps that will change the Duo icon to the Meet icon as part of the rebranding effort. It started with putting Meet into Duo and will ultimately end with Duo becoming Meet and Meet staying Meet until Google kills it in favour of Duo Meet (which sounds like a Subway order).Ĭonfused? Well, it wouldn’t be a Google communication platform if it weren’t needlessly complicated. Google has started the process of merging Duo and Meet.

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