Yesterday, Google has launched Google Currents (iOS/Android download here), a new publishing platform that lets users read web news like they would with an electronic magazine. Unfortunately, Amazon Kindle Fire owners have quickly realized that Currents was not available on the Amazon App Store. Worse, even sideloading it by copying the .apk (application file) to the Kindle didn’t work.
Fortunately, geeky Kindle Fire owner and XDA developer forums member “rooobbbbb” did not give up and found out what is going on: it turns out that Google Currents relies on a Google code libraries that don’t ship with the Kindle Fire. The excellent news is that it is possible to copy and activate that those libraries to finally get Currents working on the Kindle Fire. Here are the instructions that you can find from the XDA developers forums (thanks to Tom Benton who tipped me in a Google+ thread): (more…)
Install Google Currents on the Kindle Fire, By Ubergizmo.
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