I sometimes get emails about people complaining that they can’t download my games from Google Play.  What seems to happen is that the download starts but get’s interrupted with some kind of a bad data message.

Usually I am unable to help as the problem exists between the Google Play Store and the and user’s phone.  My games are hosted by Google not me.  Perhaps bad internet or some other Google caused error?

However recently I got an answer from a Flight Sim user (Evang) that figured out the issue.  It seems that if you buy a new phone or tablet and you try to download games before you updated your Google Play Store App, you may get this issue.  The issue can also occur if you let your Google Play Store App get to far behind the current version.

This makes sense as Google probably expects the user to keep its core apps up to date, especially because they involve the exchange of money and should be completely patched to prevent any security or performance issues.

So if you ever have issues downloading apps on your phone, update your Google Play Store App.