Chapter 11

Ten Apps That Add Functionality to Kindle Fire HDX

In This Chapter

arrow Writing and drawing with your Kindle Fire HDX

arrow Going by the numbers

arrow Getting alarms

arrow Monitoring your connection

Any mobile device today, from a smartphone to a tablet, depends on the thousands of apps that make a world of features available.

Kindle Fire HDX has functionality built in for consuming books, periodicals, music, and video, as well as a contact management and calendar app, web browser, and e-mail client. However, there are some tools that many of us have grown used to having available that you can easily acquire by adding apps to the device.

Amazon Appstore, which you learn the ins and outs of using in Chapter 4, contains thousands of cool apps for you to explore. To help you flesh out the basic tools in Kindle Fire HDX, in this chapter, I provide reviews of apps such as a note taker and unit converter that meet your day-to-day needs and whet your appetite. Most of these are free.

From a nutrition guide to a very cool drawing app, these apps will provide you fun and useful functionality for your ...

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