Amazon's Appstore Doesn't Work on Android 12 for Some Reason - Gizmodo

If you’re an Amazon Fire Tablet user, you might have downloaded the Amazon Appstore on your Android phone, perhaps because you got an app for free from Amazon and you don’t want to pay for it again through the Google Play store.

An October 2021 thread dating back to when Android 12 began rolling out to devices titled “Amazon Appstore not working after android 12 [sic] update” is followed by numerous replies detailing the same ailment.

Amazon told The Verge it’s aware of the issue impacting app performance, adding that it doesn’t seem to affect Amazon Fire Tablets or Fire TV devices.

When you download the Amazon Appstore on an Android 12 device, as I did on the Pixel 6 Pro, there’s a giant banner at the top that says: “We’re excited about Android 12 too.