If we need to buy any product for daily use, we visit a departmental store/super market where you find thousands of products useful for daily lifestyle. In the same way, Google play-store is a store for all Android mobile phones. You could browse and download apps: some of them are for free and some of them charge a nominal price.
Google play-store is a digital media store offering music, magazines, books, movies, and television programs. Earlier it was named as Android Market. Mobile applications are developed using Android software development kit(SDK) and published through Google.
Faster to use:
If you wish to wish access any website you generally open your browser then in the url you will need to type site name, then you may require to login. If you're regularly visiting the site, then to make things smoother and faster, download that website app and install it on your phone.
Once you have installed then login into mobile app then start using it directly from your wall paper, which is an easier process than to go to browser then access the site. Google play-store itself is an app which comes pre-installed with your phone or you could install it from your browser. If you don't have Google play-store app and don't have browser then you need to visit mobile phone service center, where they will install it for you.
Google has introduced the Google play on March 6, 2012. Google Play is a digital distribution service which operates on Android app. It works as an official app store for the Android operating system which allows browsing and downloading applications developed by using Android software development kit (SDK) and published with the help of Google.
Services provided by Google Play Store:
There are various services provided by the Google Play including Google Play Books, Google Play Games, Google Play Movies & TV, Google Play Music and Google News stand. Several applications are available via Google Play at reasonable costs which can be downloaded to a device with the help of Play Store mobile app or by installing the application in a device from the website of Google Play.
Downloading Apps from Play Store:
There are about 82 billion app downloads in 2016 and more than 2.7 million more apps were published in 2017 to which many people reached. Users are also allowed to download the Android applications in an alternative way with the help of third party app store. Play Store applications are self-contained Android Package files (APK) which is similar to .exe files for installing programs on the computers. In Android devices, there is an “Unknown sources” feature in Settings in which users can avoid the Play Store and install APKs from a new sources. Many apps can be installed in a memory card of the smartphone depending on the designer favorites.
History of Installed Apps
The Play Store also provides a history of all the installed apps which have been deleted in the list. There is also an option to remove apps from the history. Google Play Store is a closed- source system process which offers APIs for the Google services. It is installed automatically in all the devices which are operating on Android 2.2. By using Play Services, Google can add new system functionality and update apps.
Google Play gift cards are presently available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Google Play (formerly known as the Android Market) is operated and developed by Google. It serves as an official Android app (developed with the Android software development kit) and digital media store for people who are interested in getting the latest apps, games, music, magazines, books, movies, television programs, articles to their Smartphones and tablets.
The Google Play Store is a pre-installed feature of most of the Android devices where some items are free, but for some higher end items, you need to pay from your pocket. As it is a pre-installed feature of the Android devices, users can directly download and install the items to their Android Smartphones and tablets from the Play Store mobile app, or by installing the app to their Android Smartphones and tablets from the Google Play website.
In Android devices, the Google Play Store is only the one used to browse, purchase, download, and install the virus free applications and games from Google and third-party developers. The Google Play Store uses a malware scanner to scans apps thoroughly before making them available for download.
Today, the Google Play Store is also available on Chromebook using Chrome OS version 53 and up. So now, in addition to the Smartphones and tablets, Android apps are also available on laptops and PCs.
How to access the Google Play Store in Android Devices?
To access the store, you need to have a Google account, therefore, create a Google account (Gmail Account) using your Mobile phone or PC if you have not created the Google account earlier.
These are the steps, you need to go through to purchase, download and install the Google Play Store apps.
1) Access the Android device's Apps Icon: In your Android device, search the device’s app icon and open it. In most of the Android devices, the app’s icon is placed in the lower right corner of the screen.
2) Click on the “Play Store” icon: When you open the device’s app, there will be many apps available inside it, among all, find the "Play Store" icon that looks like a white bag with multicolored triangle picture on it.
3) Login to Your Google Account: Once you click on the "Play Store" icon, it will ask you to login to your Google account If you have not login earlier before accessing the play store.
If you have multiple Google account and the first time you are accessing the Play Store, choose and use the Google account which you can always use in the future to get items from the Google play store, because, purchases are not handy between different Google accounts, you will need to log into the account which you had already used before for purchasing.
4) Keep an Alternate Google Account: You should keep an alternate Google account to access the Google Play Store items, because, it may happen, you forget the password of the main Google account which you frequently use to access items of the Google Play Store.
To keep an alternate Google account for the Google Play Store, go to the “Settings” >> Accounts >> Add Account >> Google, and then follow the give instructions to add an alternative Google account. Likewise, you will be having two accounts to access the Google Play Store items.
5) Open the Google Play Store and Select the Items: Open the Google Play Store and make your choices from the items present in the store.
Or, use the search box to search the item of your choice.
6) Purchase, download and install the items: Once you have selected the items, look at the detail provided with the items with the prices, if the item is free, directly download and install it, but if the item includes a little fee, first purchase, and then download and install it.
If the item is already there in your device which you are trying to download, you won't get an “Install” button, only the "Update”, "Uninstall”, and "Open" button will be there.
Using “Uninstall” button, you can uninstall all unwanted items from your Android device which are no longer use for you.
How to access the Google Play Store in Chromebook?
1) Make sure, your Chromebook is on Chrome OS version 53 and up.
2) Sign-in to your Google account and get the Google Play Store app (Android apps): Go to the Settings >> Google Play Store and enable it >> Accept all terms and conditions >> Click on “Agree” and then “Accept” button.
3) Find, download and install the Androids apps in Chromebook same as Android devices.
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