To install applications on an Android phone, you can use the Google Play Store site . Searching for apps from Google Play on your PC is certainly simpler and faster than searching by phone or tablet and allows you to have a more complete overview.
From the Google Play website, after logging in with the Google account, choosing an application, you can press the " Install " or " Buy " button so, automatically, the Android phone or tablet, if connected to the internet, download and installation of the relevant app begins.
UPDATE : This function is no longer available, therefore read:
- How to uninstall apps from Android quickly and completely .
- How to update Android apps
For a few days, the Google Play site has been enhanced and allows today not only to install applications, but also to update them to the new version and remove them, directly from the computer and without the need to make connections between PC and mobile phone.
In addition, from the personal page on Google Play that each user sees after logging in, you can reinstall, if you wish, all the applications previously downloaded or purchased and which have then been uninstalled.
There is therefore a list of the applications used which can thus be put back into the mobile phone without having to search for them a second time.
To uninstall or update applications from your computer, open play.google.com/apps and click on the My Android Apps link in the upper right corner.
The page shows, at the top, all the installed applications installed on your Android phone or tablet.
The first are those with a new version that can be updated with the relative button.
All applications, both those to be updated and not, can be removed from the mobile phone by clicking the trash can button.
If the mobile phone is connected to the internet, the uninstallation command will be executed.
To scroll the list of apps, you can use the squares below the first 9 displayed.
Below instead is the entire list of applications that have been downloaded in the past, but which are no longer installed on the phone.
Since these have already been purchased (even if free), they can be reinstalled at any time.
In this way it becomes quick and easy to add or remove applications from the phone according to the preferences and needs of the moment.
It also comes in handy to keep your phone chock full of apps that you hardly ever use, which can be removed and then reinstalled when needed.
All this, almost removes any need to connect the Android phone to the computer and allows you to manage Android via the internet only with a Google account, also considering that photos, music, videos and other files can be synchronized between PC and mobile phone through applications such as Dropbox or Google Drive.
