One of the problems that can most affect our user experience on Android is when can't download apps. A mobile device without applications becomes a lifelong phone, with which we can call and little else.
Thanks to the wide range of applications that we have at our disposal in the Play Store, we can do practically anything we can think ofFrom sending documents by mail, making video conferences, writing any type of document or spreadsheet, checking the weather ...
The reasons why our terminal does not allow us to download applications are different and are not always related. If you have come this far, why you can't download apps from the Play StoreHere are the steps to follow to overcome this problem.
Check your internet connection
The first thing to check when our terminal does not allow us to download applications is if we have an internet connection. To do this, we just need to check if the top bar, where the time is shown, also shows an icon in the shape of an inverted cone (Wi-Fi) or a data connection of the type 3G, 4G, EDGE or 5G.
If none of these icons are displayed on the top bar of the screen, it means that we don't have internet connection, so the first thing we must do is solve this problem. The fastest method is to access the control center by sliding your finger from the top of the screen and checking if the icon for the Wi-Fi connection and the data connection (mobile data) are activated.
Do you have enough space?
Another reason why our terminal may not be able to download the applications we need is found in the storage space of our terminal. If our device is full, the Play Store will show us a message inviting us to delete applications that we no longer use.
If no poster is shown, we can do the check manually through the settings of our device, accessing the Storage menu. Within this menu, the space occupied by the system, the space occupied by applications, the space occupied by images and videos, the space occupied by documents and files and the free space along with the total space of the terminal.
If you cannot, or want, or delete any of the applications, images, videos or data stored in your terminal, the fastest solution is to buy a microSD card and moving part of the content of the terminal to the external card.
If your terminal does not have a slot to expand the storage space through a microSD card, the only solution is to move images and videos to our PC that we do not need to always have on hand in our terminal to gain free space.
Check that the application is compatible with your device
As Google launches new versions of Android, many are the applications that are updated to offer the new functional that have been included. If the button to download applications from the Play Store does not appear, we must check in the details of the application that it is compatible with the version that we have installed on our computer.
The big developers (Facebook, Microsoft, Google ...) allow users with older versions, keep downloading older versions.
However, most developers, for different reasons, cannot maintain two applications in the Google store, so if you cannot install a specific application for not be your device compatible with that version, the only thing you can do is go through APK Mirror and download an older version.
Clear the cache of the Play Store
It is likely that the problem is not on the device itself other than the Play Store application. To rule out that this is the problem, we must empty the application cache. This process will delete all physical data that the application stores on our device to load the content in a much faster way.
The next time we start the application again, it will take a little longer than normal to start and display all the available content. To clear the cache of the Play Store, we access the settings of our device, click on programs and look for the Google Play Store and we access the cache data To eliminate them.
Restart your device
Retreat on time is a victory. This saying can be applied to any operating system. When we are experiencing operating problems on a device managed by an operating system, in our case Android, and none of the previous solutions work, the best we can do is restart our device.
When we restart our device, the terminal starts again putting "everything in its place". In this way, if none of the previous solutions have solved the problem when installing applications, it is likely that it is a process so simple as well as absurd, solve it.
To restart the device, we must press and hold the button with which we turn off the screen of our terminal until a menu appears that Invites us to Shut Down or Restart the device. Once it has turned off completely, we press and hold the same button again until the screen turns on or the terminal vibrates.
Doesn't have Android services
To download applications directly from the Play Store, it is necessary whether or not our terminal has Google services installed. Google services is much more than just an application. Through Google services we can have access to all the applications that Google makes available to us, applications so that for many users, they have become essential.
After the veto of the American government to Huawei, this manufacturer does not include Google services, so we are forced to resort to Huawei's own store called AppGallery. All the applications available in this store work on all the terminals of this manufacturer.
However, if you copy an apk to a Huawei mobile that does not have Google services, it will not work, since needs the libraries that Google includes through Google Services, libraries necessary for the operation of the application.
