GApps is the abbreviation of Google Apps. A set of handy apps that comes with almost every Android gadget pre-installed. In other words GApps is a package of apps which an Android user need to install and flash every time when installing a new custom ROM as you may not be able to use them on your Android device. This GApps packages consists of Gmail, Google Play Store, Google Maps, Google Search, YouTube, GTalk, Google Voice, Calendar, Goggles, Google Contacts, Google Drive, Keyboard and Google Hangouts.
If you want to root your Android device and flash Custom ROMs then no doubt that you’ll need to install GApps, as a Custom ROM like CyanogenMod, ParnoidAndroid, PAC-man, AOKP, SlimBean, OmniROM, Carbon and so on does not have these apps pre-installed as a Custom ROM like ParnoidAndroid, CyanogenMod, Carbon, SlimBean, PAC-man, AOKP, and OmniROM etc. Here we’ve given the direct download links to GApps/Google Apps based on KitKat and Jelly Bean for all Android Custom ROMs.
Download Google Apps for Android Devices:
Download Gapps for Android 4.4 KitKat Custom ROMs
Download Gapps for Android 4.3 Jelly Bean / CM 10.2 ROMs
Download Gapps for Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based ROM.
Download Gapps for Jelly Bean Android 4.2.x / CM 10.1
Download Gapps for Jelly Bean Android 4.1.x
Download GApps zip file for Other Android Versions
When a custom ROM firmware is installed on your Android device successfully, simply download the GApps file from the above links and you’ll need to flash it.
Don’t know that how to install GApps on your Android device? No problem, go ahead and follow our given step by step guide that how to install GApps on Android devices.
Steps To Install GApps (Google Apps)
After downloading the GApps from the given links above for your Android device. You’ll required to flash GApps by Custom Recovery, you can use TWRP or ClockworkMod for this purpose.
Step No 1:- After downloading the required GApps .zip file on your PC, just plug your Android device with your PC and transfer GApps zip file into the SD Card of your Android device.
Step No 2:- Next, you’ll need to reboot your device into the Recovery Mode.
Step No 3:- Select “Install Zip” and then “Choose Zip From SDcard”.
Step No 4:- Browse and choose the GApps .zip file that you’ve transferred in Step No 1.
Step No 5:- GApps installation will take a while after confirmation. Wait for the installation process to be finished successfully.
Step No 6:- Finally, go back to the Main Recovery Menu and choose the “Reboot” option or “Reboot System Now”.
That’s All! You’ve successfully downloaded and installed GApps (Google Apps) on your Android device. Let us know in the comments area below if you have any query regarding installing GApps.