Kindle Fire’s Silk browser now ported to work on other Android devices
It seems that Amazon’s Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, has now become the current favorite for devs to play around with – while this may in part be due to its dual-cored CPU, it is mostly due to all the superior hardware that its lowly $199 brings. The device recently got an early taste of Ice-Cream Sandwich and now, XDA devs have now ported the Silk browser that comes stock with the tablet to work on any Android device.
And we mean any Android device – be it a tablet or a smartphone – but only if it is rooted. The process seems painless enough if you have been sideloading APKs all this time, but in a nutshell, you’ll need to:
- Download the pack Here
- Use Root Explorer to copy the lib files to /system/lib set permissions the same as the others.
- Install all of the .apks like you would side load.
- Copy the silk apk from /data/app to /system/app
- Reboot and enjoy
Tell us below if it is better than the Dolphin or Skyfire browsers you are so used to and if not, why.
