You can imagine my frustration when I came to learn that the developers of Spotify had made it a region restricted application.
In short, it was not available for download in my country. Instead, I found a couple of workarounds where you can manage to install any compatible app or game on your Android device. Yes, this means even if the developer has made their app restricted to select regions.
Here are a few ways to install Android region restricted apps or games to your device, particularly if they are not available in your country at all. A VPN app will help you to mask your location and trick the Google Play Store into believing that you are from a different physical location different from your actual location. There are a lot of Android VPN apps available which let you change your location to a different country.
The only trick is figuring out which market the app or game you want to download is officially available and to mimic or spoof the location. As part of this tutorial, I have used the Express VPN app which is a popular VPN app with options to manually or automatically connect to an optimal location.
Now open the Express VPN app or the one you downloaded and then select the location where the app or game you want to install is officially available. For this tutorial, I have used the Pandora Music app which also happens to be unavailable in my country but is officially available in the US. Tap on storage and then select the clear data and clear cache options from the app. Now go back to the main page of the app, often the one just before where you are now, and select force stop to stop the app from running.
Once you have completed the above step, on your phone search for the app you want to install on Google Play and then click on the associated Google Play Store link from the search results. This will launch the Play Store on your device. Here is how to download apps not available in your country Android. Virtual Private Network, lets the user create a secure connection to another network over Internet.
A VPN can be used to protect browsing activity from prying eyes while using public network and it also lets you access region restricted websites. You need to use the help of a third-party app. You can download one of them. We will take the example of Turbo VPN in this article to explain how to download apps not available in your country Android.
Note: Do not try to go to Google Play Store directly and download the app. To know which one to pick check out our review of the best Andriod VPNs. However in a more recent twist the actual downloading of Android apps out of country is now being restricted in many cases. I found myself in a similar situation in that I was unable to download a specific app abroad because it was restricted to the UK, this type of situation is quite common in other countries too with apps being restricted to being installed in the US, India, Australia etc.
It doesn't actually matter where you're from, apps can be restricted to certain countries which makes them impossible to install in the first instance. I, like yourself no doubt, tried various methods to download the app I required, this included visiting the Google Play store while connected to a VPN server, attempting to edit my location details in the Google play settings plus a whole host of other workarounds I could think of, none that worked. I then happened across a website called APK Downloader.
There are a few similar out there but this is actually one of the best because it isn't covered in adverts and actually works correctly. The first site I discovered downloaded the initial version of the app which was old but with APK Downloader it downloads the latest version.
Firstly you would visit Google Play and find the app. Then highlight the section of the URL as highlighted below. Next step is to simply install the app on your device. In AppBrain App Market, when searching the app you will notice that the country restriction will be bypassed.
This is not an illegal way as you still have to pay for the apps that are not free. Follow the guide —. This will do it for you.
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