It's no secret that in order to perform certain tasks on the tablet (whatever that is), you need special content. It can be applications, games or documents, music files, books or pictures. All this is what users upload to their mobile devices.
Android content
In fact, each gadget is just a shell capable of performing a certain set of functions. What makes it unique and so familiar to all of us is the media content. And we ourselves choose what kind of games, programs, documents and so on, based on our own taste.
Each of us has a wide choice. According to official information, about 50 thousand applications are downloaded daily to one of the largest content catalogs for Android - Google Play, or Play Market (for a tablet or phone - it does not play a role). This allows us to argue that constantly a huge number of people are working to diversify your gadget, to make working with it more convenient and productive.
Platform with content No. 1
There is a lot of content for the tablet and phone, so the natural question arises - how to figure it out, organize and filter it? And the solution can be called special platform-catalogs of applications, games, music and more.
Each such platform is a large directory with a clear structure and descriptions of all files. In that case, if the user needs to find, say, a program capable of playing the role of a notepad, he simply drives the keywords into the search field of such a directory, after which he gets clear results.
Your attention deserves the Play Market. For Android, it is the largest catalog of add-ons. It contains millions of files, each of which has descriptions, screenshots and reviews. This is very convenient, since such data simplifies the search for the necessary material. It is enough for the user to look at the ratings that were given by other owners of mobile devices. For this reason, this resource is the most popular.
What is the Play Market?
In general, the Play Market is a standard Android content search and download system. It is presented in several forms at once: as an application, using it directly from your tablet you can search and install programs; as well as an Internet resource that you can access from a browser. True, you should not overestimate the capabilities of the Play Market: Windows, like iOS, does not support applications hosted on it.
The structure of this catalog is extremely simple. On the left of the screen, the user sees the categories of products, among which he can choose the desired program, music, film, book. By entering the categories, you can see subcategories that are divided according to the interests of the user. In each of them, the Play Market program shows the most popular, interesting and high-quality products. Next to each you will see a rating (the number of stars is the ratings put by other users), as well as reviews. This is convenient: you do not need to make unnecessary transitions to understand what kind of program it is.
In addition, users have access to summarized application download statistics, which can tell about the popularity of this content, its prevalence.
How to install Play Market?
On most devices that run on the Android system, the Play Market application is installed by default. This means that as soon as you turn on your new tablet or phone, you will see the icon of this program in the menu or on the desktop. This greatly facilitates the work, because using the Play Market for the tablet, the user can download other applications that he needs to work. To do this, as noted above, is quite convenient and easy.
More complicated is the situation when PM is not installed by default. Then manufacturers, as a rule, offer their own, less popular products that work on the same principle. These are catalogs from where everyone can download the necessary materials. If you bought just such a device - do not worry. You can easily download this application. There is nothing special about how to install the Play Market - just download the installer file for this add-on (in .apk format). This can be done, for example, from the official Google Android website, as well as from any other Internet resource. The main thing is to be careful and download the latest version of the application software, since it will be displayed most correctly on your device. The installation itself does not have anything complicated - this is the usual procedure for launching an .apk file.
How to use Play Market?
So what to do after you have installed the Play Market for Android? First, decide what exactly you would like to install on your device. It's about what kind of content you want to download from the Market - it can be games, applications, and more. Once decided - try to find the desired file.
This can be done, as already noted, in several ways. The first and easiest is to use the search bar, which will display the application that is most relevant to what you are looking for. The second is the search for a program that takes one of the "top" positions in any category on the Play Market. Paid content or free you are looking for - does not play a role. Any file can be found in both ways.
Errors on the Play Market
Despite the fact that this application is a development of Google, the world's largest technology company, even it may produce some errors. For example, one of the most common is a message that can be seen without the Internet in the Play Market interface: "Check the connection and try again."
In the case of a real lack of an active network connection, such a message is the norm. It’s easy to remove it - just connect to the signal and see how the Play Market starts working again.
Another thing is when such an error occurs even with an active connection. Then this is really a problem. And as user reviews show, a message from the Play Market “Check the connection and try again” is seen by quite a lot of people, which indicates the prevalence of the problem. And it is serious enough, because it does not allow you to connect to the Market and download media content from there directly to your tablet.
We will write about how to deal with this in the next paragraph. Since this problem can have several reasons, we provide several solutions at once. Most likely, you will have to try more than one of them before the problem is fixed.
Play Market: check the connection and try again
So, let's start with the simplest options of why this application does not start. The solutions, of course, are also elementary. The first is the wrong date. Yes, if the date and time are set on your gadget that are not true, an application error may occur with the Play Market. Correcting everything is very easy - adjust the time settings and reboot your smartphone or tablet.
The second option is the wrong hosts file. You can find it in the system / hosts directory. It indicates the address to which the device directs the user. If there are entries besides the standard (127.0.0.1), you need to erase them.
The third version is some other errors, for example, the Freedom program or something else that blocks the connection of the program with the server. When using the first one to crack other games, by the way, do not forget about the possible further negative consequences for your system. One of them is the inability to enter PM. To fix such problems is quite simple - make a reset and, having received a “clean” device, you can again work in the Google Play Market.
If on your gadget this application was not installed from the very beginning - maybe the problem is that its version is not up to date. As already mentioned, try downloading the latest release.
Nothing helps. Play Market does not work
In addition to what was mentioned above, there are other ways to solve the problem of the inability to connect to the PM application directory. For example, it could be your internet connection. In this case, you need to check if your 3G connection is working, or WiFi (depending on what you are using).
If this is the problem, conduct an analysis and find out what caused the interruption. For example, your access point settings have been knocked down, and you just need to configure them again. Another example - your WiFi router has stopped connecting to the fixed network, which is why you can’t access the Internet from your tablet either . As a result, you see a message from the Play Market: “Check the connection and try again.”
Further actions
After you have completed the procedures described above, your problem should ideally be resolved. You just need to click the “Retry” button in the center of the screen, after which the program will try to connect to the server. If the connection really appeared and everything works fine - you will see the opened program directory on its main page. Next, you can proceed to the direct download of the necessary applications (or other content). You know how to do this - select the sections on the left, at the top there is a special search line. Everything is arranged intuitively simple and concise!
Note! In addition to thematic categories (we mentioned them above), there are also other program divisions on the Play Market. In particular, we are talking about the sections "Popular", "Recommended", "Gaining popularity" and so on. By learning to look for suitable materials in such sections, you can easily filter out all that is unnecessary. Plus, of course, user reviews and ratings will greatly help you.
Play Market for other platforms
Such a convenient tool as the PM catalog is so practical that many people are looking for an analogue to their platform. But this is not necessary, since Market is an exclusively Android solution. Therefore, under Windows Play Market is missing. From an ordinary personal computer running this operating system, you can only go to the catalog as an Internet resource and view a description, screenshots and reviews about any program, book, or movie. You won’t be able to view them, test them and, of course, install them on your device.
Play Market Analogs
However, there are other directories operating on other platforms. In particular, the Appstore runs on iOS, which is very similar to the Play Market, but works with iPhone and iPad devices. At the same time, installing the Play Market on them is, of course, impossible. These platforms are parallel, but completely different. However, some applications can be found on both.
In addition to the Appstore, we should also mention the platform with which devices running on Windows Phone (Nokia and Microsoft products) work - it's the Windows Phone Market. Although less popular, it also has hundreds of thousands of applications from different categories.
Directories such as the Samsung Store, Amazon and Blackberry can be called even less popular, but also quite full. The user can also download the necessary media content of both paid and free nature to them.
Other resources
The fact that the paid or free Play Market for the computer does not exist, you understand. But there are many other, less popular and well-known resources. These, for example, are some kind of torrent portals, news sites and simple forums dedicated to Android. On them, of course, you too can easily find the necessary application; perhaps with it will also be present the description and reviews of other users. But is it worth trusting such resources?
It’s up to you to decide. Some sites (for example, the largest Android community of Runet) really have enough authority to trust them and safely download applications and other content that has already been checked by the moderators of such sites. However, there are also small communities with only tens or hundreds of people. It’s probably not worth downloading materials from there. Perhaps the content posted there has some kind of malicious code that could damage your device.
Knowing how to install the Play Market, you can be sure that all the materials from it will meet certain criteria. This ensures the fact that all content there passes through strict moderation through which it is impossible to "push through" applications with viruses, for example. This is calming and actually gives confidence in the authenticity and security of the downloaded content. You will not worry if you see a lot of advertising banners on your device after a couple of days of use; will they install any additional software on your gadget and pick up another virus that steals data from cards? Everything posted on the Play Market is already selected material. To doubt his safety, as already noted, does not make sense.
conclusions
After studying this article, you understand why sometimes it happens that the Play Market does not work. If this happened to you, you should not think that the matter is in the resource itself. No, the error lies in the settings of your device and, frankly, it can be fixed without much difficulty.
If you don’t even have PM installed as a standard application, we recommend that you fix this and download the apk file for this resource. If you are an Android user, then you are simply obliged to look for the content there. Convenient navigation, constant updates, a rating and reputation system, as well as verification of all materials - this will guarantee you convenient work with the catalog.
Finally, if this doesn't seem enough to you, you can try your luck in the Samsung or Amazon markets. However, given the absolute leadership of PM in this industry, it’s hardly worth counting on a wider range of applications.
Also with the Play Market you can conveniently make online purchases. Now Google has introduced a special service that allows you to easily transfer money from your Wallet account to the content seller’s account. This is both convenient and safe due to a secure connection to the servers and a well-thought-out interface. Unlike other platforms (except the Appstore), on the Play Market you can really make purchases in a couple of clicks, acquiring the rights to use exclusive, multifunctional programs, reading full versions of books, completing additional levels in games and much more. This, in turn, positively stimulates both developers from this field and the users themselves, who receive more and more high-quality content, expanding the capabilities of their devices.