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How to download and run GTA 5 on Android devices

GTA 5 has been most popular game for last decades, people buy this luxury video game for hundreds of dollars but very few knows they can actually play it on mobile.

There are numerous ways to run GTA 5 on mobile devices including using online streaming service, cloud server or apk installation(Android only).

Each of those methods have their own advantages and weaknesses, so let's go through each of them and choose the easiest, most practical and comfortable method to play GTA V on mobile or tablet PC.

First of all, don't get confused by term "Tablet PC", it may be containing word PC but tablets, whenever it's Apple's iPad or Android Tablet, is basically smartphone with bigger screen and some modifications what includes no sim support in common cases.

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Now let's dive in to Grand Theft Auto mobile play-ways...
The streaming apps allows you to play GTA on mobile but you need active internet connection on your mobile device and internet connected computer with GTA V installed and running in it.
So you actually play GTA 5 on pc while using your phone's screen as monitor and controller.

Well, that may be fun if you want to experience Big Game on your smartphone but not really practical for daily uses and probably not what you were searching for.

The second method is more practical and useful as you don't need to even have PC or GTA copy, you're using network connected gaming PC to stream the game through cloud.

The big disadvantage of that option is requirement of high speed internet and payment for provider company, it doesn't usually comes cheap for daily playing. Still, if you want you can play GTA 5 on Android or iOS for some extra fees, also not bad for some one-time fun!

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Third and probably the best method is unfortunately only available for Android for now, however iOS version may come out anytime.
This option let's you actually download and install GTA 5 Apk within cache on Android device and play it anytime - no internet required!

The downside is your need minimum 4Gb of free space on internal storage to install the game and if do download and decompress with the phone, then you will need mighty 8Gb of free space.
Not 8Gb nor 4Gb is small for mobile or tablet devices as they usually have total memory of 32/64 Gigabytes and Operating System takes big part of it.

Still, if storage isn't big problem for you then it's quite good way to download and play GTA 5 for Android, after all it's completely free and works fine with offline mode.

If you are unaware of technic to install apk within cache, you can easily do it with YouTube videos but the major difference between most of Android games and GTA 5 Android is that you need to move cache folder to Android>Data folder instead of traditional Obb folder.

After cache move is done, only two steps left, install apk and enjoy the game!

There are 3 most useful options listed above to really play one of the most popular console game on your pocket device, enjoy and stay updated!