Google Play Store was at first known and launched as Android Market. Google Play Store is Google’s official store that has all the apps, games, and other content for your Android device. Google Play Store is a large place and offers a lot of content for its users. This also includes Google Play Music, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies & TV, and Google Play Newsstand. Each of these apps is installed individually on your Android device along with the Google Play Store where you can download and purchase apps and media.
All the apps might not be available in all the countries. So you might not be able to download one or two items. Google has been working on this all the services will be available globally at a point in time. You can download and install the applications for free or by paying something for each one of them.
Google Play Store had 82 billion app downloads in 2016 and reached over 3.5 million apps published in 2017. Apart from that, it has been the topic of various issues related to security where malicious software has been approved and uploaded to the store and downloaded by many.
Recently, Android device users have reported an issue related to Google Play Store. Users said that they have been experiencing Error Code 505 while installing any application. Users said that because of this error, they are not able to install any application. Users said that they were successfully able to download their choice of app or game. The download was completed but before the installation process failed every time because of the Error Code 505. Some users also reported that the error appeared while installing some specific applications.
If you are facing the same type of issue, there are a few things you can try to fix this issue by yourself –
- Check if the Download Manager is turned on or not.
- Make sure that you are using the latest version of OS on your Android device.
- Clear the cache memory from Google services framework and Google Play Store.
- Make sure that you don’t install any third-party apps on your Android device.