You are the lucky owner of an Android smartphone or tablet, but maybe this new universe is still unknown to you and the Google system is brand new, especially if you come from an old phone.
Among the things to know how to use on Android, there is undoubtedly the Play Store, an online store offered by Google to download free or paid content (utilities, games, emulators, themes, music, films, etc.) to your mobile device. I therefore offer you a simple and effective way to find out everything about the store, but also how to install Google Play.
Summary:
Introduction
How to use the Google Play Store
Navigate the Google store
Download free or paid content
And the Play Store app for Android in all of this?
Conclusion
Introduction
In the early days of Android's history, the Mountain View firm offered the first version of its system with the Android Market, an online store designed to be able to download applications for its smartphone (at the time it there were hardly any tablets), open to the general public from October 22, 2008. In addition, Google had founded the services Google Music, Google Books and Google Films.
It was on March 6, 2012 that all these services merged to give the Google Play Store, as we know it today and which allows you to find all this content on a single interface.
How to use the Google Play Store
To keep it simple, you can first go through your computer and go to the Play Store address by clicking here. You will end up on an interface similar to the one shown in the image above.
Navigate the Google store
We will focus on the menu on the left. You can find several categories there which are as follows:
Some of the sections of the store are directly accessible from the home page like new releases, low cost content, bestsellers, free movies or music of the week, and other such sections.
If you go to the party “Applications”, you will first find the recommendations and favorites of Internet users. Then, you will find some categories of applications such as photography, travel applications or anything related to sport for example.
Let's move on to the category of "Movies". This will categorize all available content according to best sellers, new releases, and different genres such as animated, sci-fi, action, horror movies and anything else that might interest you. from near or far.
You can also watch the trailer for one of these films by hovering your mouse cursor over the image and clicking on the small triangle symbol.
On the side of “Music” now, the different tracks will be offered according to the genres (rock, metal, rap, r & b, hip-hop, classical, etc.), also the new releases and the best rated music and a free track for the week.
By clicking on one of the albums, you have the possibility to access all the titles present in the latter and to have an extract (far from being short) of each of the titles, in order tolisten to the songs you like, by hovering the cursor over the song number, which will bring up the play symbol.
It remains for us to see the last content section, the "Books". If you like to read a book and we don't mind reading on the screen of a smartphone or tablet, you will find in this section several books, from unmissable books to fantastic, erotic books, so-called “rose water” novels, comics (no manga unfortunately) and some stories from famous authors of French literature. Note that and should appeal to reading lovers of all kinds.
We will no doubt appreciate that some books offer a free sample, always a plus before deciding to buy, like this excerpt from a Twilight novel which should appeal to young ladies:
Now that we have taken a look at the different content offered on the Play Store, there remains a section called “Devices”. The latter quite simply offers smartphones and tablets from Google (Nexus 4 out of stock which will soon be replaced by the Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 10), as well as its laptop Chromebook.
A very good way to see what the Mountain View firm offers for Android users at the level of mobile devices. Now that we have done the tour of the store, let's see how to proceed to the checkout or simply.
Download free or paid content
You've taken your little tour of the Play Store and spotted some cool apps, or would like to buy the latest movie released earlier in theaters. Never mind, we'll see together.
First, let's see for example how to use the search engine. For this tutorial, I would like to download a free book. So I can go directly to the books section or just type “free books” in the search bar, and end up with this results page:
Here, take for example the “Book of Riddles” by clicking on it.
A window opens showing the permissions that will be obtained by the content and whether it is compatible with your Android device. It only remains to click on the button "Install" to download everything:
There you have it, you just grabbed some free content from the Play Store. For multimedia content or a paid application, the handling is the same but you will have to click on the button "To buy" which shows the amount next to it.
A window will open in turn and ask you to enter your bank details or to enter a Google gift code if you have one.
If you don't want to buy right away, there's nothing stopping you from pressing the button “Add to wishlist”. Thus, via the left menu detailed earlier, you will be able to find all the content placed in this list:
And the Play Store app for Android in all of this?
Nothing could be simpler, if you have the Google application on your smartphone or tablet, launch it and you will see that it is identical (with a few details). Also note that a category "Games" is differentiated from the category “Applications” on mobile devices.
You will also find them there to give their opinion on a content or a note. You can also manage the applications you have downloaded from your device and update them if necessary or uninstall them.
Now you know the basics about using and using the Google Play Store app.
Conclusion
I hope that this tutorial will have been very useful for you if you had never approached the Android system before and that you will have no trouble using it and in particular the Google Play Store.
The latter will have evolved well since 2008 and there are over a million applications available on the store, a figure that continues to evolve, despite the withdrawals made by the company for unwanted programs or deemed illegal by their content. The Play Store still has a bright future ahead of it and we already know that it has overtaken the Apple Store in number of downloads.
All your questions are welcome in the comments., or your remarks if you have anything to add or need clarification.
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