Must Have Android Apps and Games?

same ol sh1te · 10-06-2014 10:46am

Worztron wrote: »

Can someone recommend a good task killer? Or are those types of apps pointless?

Say near bedtime when you just want your alarm to run, surely a task killer would be handy then?

You don't need task killer on Android
http://www.howtogeek.com/127388/htg-explains-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-task-killer-on-android/

RangeR · 10-06-2014 11:37am

Worztron wrote: »

Can someone recommend a good task killer? Or are those types of apps pointless?

Say near bedtime when you just want your alarm to run, surely a task killer would be handy then?

You don't need task killer. You need Llama [also mentioned number times

]

The_B_Man · 10-06-2014 11:44am

jeffk wrote: »

A sticked thread for must use apps is needed.

Ive given advice numerous times to little thanks and then a few replies later people ask for an app to do something i and others already recommended.

Maybe PM a mod with a categorised list of apps (eg "Battery Savers", "File Management", "Games") to put in the First Post and just direct people there. A lot of great apps and recommendations do get lost in the numerous (438?) pages of this thread.

jeffk · 10-06-2014 11:46am

The_B_Man wrote: »

Maybe PM a mod with a categorised list of apps (eg "Battery Savers", "File Management", "Games") to put in the First Post and just direct people there. A lot of great apps and recommendations do get lost in the numerous (438?) pages of this thread.

Think ill do that

jeffk · 10-06-2014 12:21pm

daytob · 10-06-2014 12:25pm

some of those links arent working for me

The_B_Man · 10-06-2014 12:42pm

Ye the ES File Explorer one is broken!! :P:p:P:p

jeffk · 10-06-2014 1:11pm

Edited the links to the right one as of now.

The lean data and kinscreen for example the company name changed from the links i had ,also the sofascore one added brazil into its name.

If/when the links are wrong again you can use google or search in the play store :P

Davy · 10-06-2014 3:59pm

jeffk wrote: »

PM sent and heres the list,

Added to post #1

Professey Chin · 10-06-2014 4:01pm

Davy wrote: »

Added to post #1

Jesus the 1st few pages on this thread show how far android has come :eek:

rwg · 10-06-2014 6:55pm

why does WorldCup Livescore app need access to call information?

BopNiblets · 10-06-2014 9:10pm

RangeR wrote: »

You don't need task killer. You need Llama [also mentioned number times ]

I prefer Condi, much easier interface

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=il.co.kix.minitasker

The_B_Man · 10-06-2014 9:57pm

rwg wrote: »

why does WorldCup Livescore app need access to call information?

Is it call history or call state? Call history is unnecessary but some apps use call state to handle the situation where u get a phone call while using the app. It then has to go into a kinda hibernate mode so that when the call ends, it can continue where it left off, without losing any data.

Basically it means that when the call ends, it doesnt go back to the apps home screen.

Rucking_Fetard · 11-06-2014 12:04am

1Password

1Password creates strong, unique passwords for every site, remembers them all for you, and logs you in with a single tap. It’s the best way to stay secure and the fastest way to use the web.

Try 1Password today! Through August 1, everyone can try our premium features for free!

- Generate strong, unique passwords for every site and login with a tap
- Let 1Password remember your passwords so you don’t have to
- Sync your passwords and secure wallet items to PC, Mac, iPhone, and iPad
- Protect your data behind a single Master Password
- Secure with military grade 256-bit AES encryption
- Auto-Lock keeps your data protected even if your device is lost or stolen

SECURE YOUR LIFE

1Password is a beautiful, secure app for passwords and beyond. Never leave vital information at home again.

- Create, edit, and use all sorts of items, including: Credit Cards, Secure Notes, Passports, Bank Accounts, and much more
- Mark your most-used items as Favorites for quick access
- Organize your items into Folders
- View attachments added from PC or Mac
- Find what you need quickly with powerful search
- Customize your items to save everything you need

EVERY DEVICE HAS EVERY LOGIN

1Password keeps your life in sync with other editions including 1Password for PC, Mac, iPhone, and iPad, sold separately at 1Password.com.

- Dropbox support for automatic cross-platform sync
- Use Folder Sync to keep your data in sync without using the cloud

Mantis Toboggan · 11-06-2014 9:15am

SwiftKey is free from today!

Brilliant app!

SteM · 11-06-2014 9:41am

Buddy Holly wrote: »

SwiftKey is free from today!

Brilliant app!

Yeah, best keyboard imo. Has support for emoji now too which it didn't before.

Mars Bar · 11-06-2014 10:59am

SteM wrote: »

Yeah, best keyboard imo. Has support for emoji now too which it didn't before.

Is there a way to stop the space being entered automatically after typing a word?

Fluffy88 · 11-06-2014 11:23am

Mars Bar wrote: »

Is there a way to stop the space being entered automatically after typing a word?

I don't think so, but it's actually quite intelligent so you don't need to turn it off.
If you hit space then type a ? or . or , or something like that, it will automatically place the punctuation directly after the word.

Some of the little things like that are slightly different to the Google keyboard but take a day or two with it and you'll get used to the differences.

EDIT: Is there a particular reason you ask??

marcbrophy · 11-06-2014 11:30am

^^^
maybheritestxtslikdis? :P

dahat · 11-06-2014 11:36am

Love the look of it already, bye bye space bar!

SteM · 11-06-2014 11:47am

Mars Bar wrote: »

Is there a way to stop the space being entered automatically after typing a word?

Not that I can see. It's a feature I like so I've never looked to turn it off before.

marcbrophy · 11-06-2014 11:57am

I've been testing the beta of this version of Swiftkey for the last few months now.
Overall it's pretty good.

As someone who has previously purchased this, they are giving you a free theme pack from their store worth $4.99, so make sure if you bought it before to get your free theme pack for a choice of extra themes

There's one called spotlight blue that I like, has no visible buttons!

muirsheen · 11-06-2014 12:29pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

I've been testing the beta of this version of Swiftkey for the last few months now.
Overall it's pretty good.

As someone who has previously purchased this, they are giving you a free theme pack from their store worth $4.99, so make sure if you bought it before to get your free theme pack for a choice of extra themes

There's one called spotlight blue that I like, has no visible buttons!

How do I go about doing this? thanks

Mars Bar · 11-06-2014 12:40pm

Fluffy88 wrote: »

I don't think so, but it's actually quite intelligent so you don't need to turn it off.
If you hit space then type a ? or . or , or something like that, it will automatically place the punctuation directly after the word.

Some of the little things like that are slightly different to the Google keyboard but take a day or two with it and you'll get used to the differences.

EDIT: Is there a particular reason you ask??

Habit of hitting the space bar! I've been double spacing all afternoon!

dulpit · 11-06-2014 12:41pm

muirsheen wrote: »

How do I go about doing this? thanks

Go to themes and then store.

On the word thing, it can be awkward to enter an email address at times, but other than that it's by far the best keyboard out there.

marcbrophy · 11-06-2014 12:42pm

muirsheen wrote: »

How do I go about doing this? thanks

Find Swiftkey in your app drawer and open it.
Under Settings, tap on Themes.
Tap the Swiftkey Store button.
Tap on Packs.
You should see a Premier pack that shows as Free €4.99.
Tap on this and your themes will download.

I got an email from them this morning to say that I was been given this for free, cos I had bought the main app in the past.

I hope it's the same for everyone

batistuta9 · 11-06-2014 12:53pm

jeffk wrote: »

Id say its more a pisstake/dig at me as i have made a few posts about battery saving ideas/apps.

Autosync is the main problem,after that people say screen brightness,use 2g where possible,screen timeout,use greenify,stop apps running at boot,turn off data/wifi/bluetooth when not in use

it wasn't a pisstake/dig at you, it was meant to be a joke (agreeing with you that no one reads the thread, then asking for battery apps, that you posted a lot about) but nobody go it, maybe i should've used a smiley

i don't use any battery saver apps myself, I:
keep brightness down most of the time
turn off connections when i'm not using them
sync manually

donegal. · 11-06-2014 1:16pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

Find Swiftkey in your app drawer and open it.
Under Settings, tap on Themes.
Tap the Swiftkey Store button.
Tap on Packs.
You should see a Premier pack that shows as Free €4.99.
Tap on this and your themes will download.

I got an email from them this morning to say that I was been given this for free, cos I had bought the main app in the past.

I hope it's the same for everyone

after getting swiftkey for free today, the premier pack is €4.49

BenEadir · 11-06-2014 1:28pm

donegal. wrote: »

after getting swiftkey for free today, the premier pack is €4.49

I'd say they just switched their business model from users paying a fee for the app to users getting the app free then paying for premium options if they want them.

Ben

SteM · 11-06-2014 1:30pm

donegal. wrote: »

after getting swiftkey for free today, the premier pack is €4.49

The premier pack is only free for people that have paid for Swiftkey in the past. If you got Swiftkey for free today then you will have to pay for the pack.

jeffk · 11-06-2014 3:07pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

it wasn't a pisstake/dig at you, it was meant to be a joke (agreeing with you that no one reads the thread, then asking for battery apps, that you posted a lot about) but nobody go it, maybe i should've used a smiley

i don't use any battery saver apps myself, I:
keep brightness down most of the time
turn off connections when i'm not using them
sync manually

Sorry,I take it back so.

I THINK most people want one app that turns autosync on/off,data on/off,controls brightness etc and expect miracles. To get a decent return unfortunaley you need to put in some manual work like you said and/or combine it with certain apps that do it.

By in large I found all battery saver apps crap and ive even paid for a few(easy to get a refund on google play)

TimeToShine · 11-06-2014 3:09pm

Buddy Holly wrote: »

SwiftKey is free from today!

Brilliant app!

I paid money for it!

:mad:

Still a great app.

edit: Just saw us loyal old dogs get a free premier pack. My fury has subsided dramatically.

same ol sh1te · 11-06-2014 3:41pm

As someone who paid for Swiftkey in the past I gave it another go there but have gone back to Swype once again (for the umpteenth time). The Swiftkey predictions are good, but it's Flow is very poor for swiping, the Google default keybaord has better swiping. I keep going back to Swiftkey to see if they improve the Flow actions but it doesn't seem to be an area they're focusing on. The Swype keyboard has it's niggles but is the best of the lot for swiping as it allows you to quickly select and edit words, quickly capitalise first letter of the word or the full word and has gesture shortcuts for ctrl + c and ctrl + v.

madmoe · 11-06-2014 3:52pm

TimeToShine wrote: »

I paid money for it!

:mad:

Still a great app.

edit: Just saw us loyal old dogs get a free premier pack. My fury has subsided dramatically.

I don't ever remember paying for SwiftKey in the past but the premium pack was free today ;-)

Cheers,
M

11-06-2014 4:29pm

TimeToShine wrote: »

I paid money for it!

:mad:

Still a great app.

edit: Just saw us loyal old dogs get a free premier pack. My fury has subsided dramatically.

It's worse if you had paid for the old Swiftkey Tablet app in the past as well....b*stards aren't getting another penny off me! :pac:

sentient_6 · 11-06-2014 7:53pm

madmoe wrote: »

I don't ever remember paying for SwiftKey in the past but the premium pack was free today ;-)

Cheers,
M

Is the premium pack just a few themes btw or am I missing something? Bit skimpy! The only one i use is holo which is standard anyway.

waynegalway · 12-06-2014 8:15am

sentient_6 wrote: »

Is the premium pack just a few themes btw or am I missing something? Bit skimpy! The only one i use is holo which is standard anyway.

I thought that too. And you have to sign in to their cloud services to get them. I signed out after seeing that it wasn't for me, and the themes that came with the premium pack disappeared.

The_B_Man · 12-06-2014 10:35am

I got SwiftKey via the Amazon app store a while back in the "Free App of the Day" section. I removed it and installed the one today from Google Play. I got the premium theme pack. its all a bit meh though.

FYI, you can disable the space bar stuff by going into the settings and "Advanced" and you'll see the first option there to configure what the space bar does.

There's also an option for the ladies underneath....:cool:

jeffk · 12-06-2014 10:40am

Tried swiftkey and swype and never found anything that google keyboard couldn’t do. They feel bloated and seem to be slower all round and google have the swipe function included. Also the predicative seems to be way off in swiftkey/swype.

A good tip for people is to freeze an old app, try out the new one and if they don’t like it, uninstall and defrost the old app with settings etc intact

Apps to freeze/defrost

Link2SD
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
Titanium Backup ★ root
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup

Also depending on the app/android version there could be a disable button in the manage apps section

Mantis Toboggan · 12-06-2014 10:46am

The predictions on SwiftKey are way ahead of Googles keyboard. Once you use it for a period of time it starts predicting everything I say.

same ol sh1te · 12-06-2014 10:46am

There is no need to freeze, you can have several keyboards installed, just change the one set to default. I sometimes manually change to the hackers keyboard before I open an ssh client as it has a tab key and change back after

jeffk · 12-06-2014 10:51am

Buddy Holly wrote: »

The predictions on SwiftKey are way ahead of Googles keyboard. Once you use it for a period of time it starts predicting everything I say.

It was doing my head in and mad slow, google flys along and doesn't make up random words for what i put in. Each to their own

jeffk · 12-06-2014 10:52am

same ol sh1te wrote: »

There is no need to freeze, you can have several keyboards installed, just change the one set to default. I sometimes manually change to the hackers keyboard before I open an ssh client as it has a tab key and change back after

I meant more in general,it came in under keyboards as a lot of people where on about trying different ones and some people might think you have to uninstall before you install a new one.

same ol sh1te · 12-06-2014 10:59am

jeffk wrote: »

It was doing my head in and mad slow, google flys along and doesn't make up random words for what i put in. Each to their own

Random words? You only get random words at the start, Swiftkey learns from you and over a few days/weeks learns your language, even the txt speak you use. If course, you got to select those random words when they are right. I'd honestly still be using Swiftkey if I didn't get used to swiping.

jeffk · 12-06-2014 11:07am

same ol sh1te wrote: »

Random words? You only get random words at the start, Swiftkey learns from you and over a few days/weeks learns your language, even the txt speak you use. If course, you got to select those random words when they are right. I'd honestly still be using Swiftkey if I didn't get used to swiping.

Ill give it a longer trial so, do you sign in for it to learn off facebook etc?

same ol sh1te · 12-06-2014 11:15am

jeffk wrote: »

Ill give it a longer trial so, do you sign in for it to learn off facebook etc?

Yes, and Google and Twitter etc, it will learn your contacts and the language you use. I'd say it takes 2-3 weeks to train.

marcbrophy · 12-06-2014 11:24am

It can also learn off your existing sms, what words you use.
I do that with it, I don't post to FB enough for it to learn anything from that.
That and I try and limit the amount of things that access my FB account.
Seems like every f'ing app you d/l these days wants to link to that f'ing website :mad:

same ol sh1te · 12-06-2014 11:31am

marcbrophy wrote: »

It can also learn off your existing sms, what words you use.
I do that with it, I don't post to FB enough for it to learn anything from that.
That and I try and limit the amount of things that access my FB account.
Seems like every f'ing app you d/l these days wants to link to that f'ing website :mad:

And Google is fine.......:D
Honestly, if you're worried about tracking stop going round with a Google smartphone with GPS in your pocket and go back to a dumb phone

marcbrophy · 12-06-2014 11:48am

same ol sh1te wrote: »

And Google is fine.......:D
Honestly, if you're worried about tracking stop going round with a Google smartphone with GPS in your pocket and go back to a dumb phone

I couldn't give a flying fcuk about tracking dude

I just have an aversion to everything in the world wanting me to have a FB account and wanting access to said FB account

Google can have my left arm if it wants it :P

Fresh Pots · 12-06-2014 12:01pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

I couldn't give a flying fcuk about tracking dude
I just have an aversion to everything in the world wanting me to have a FB account and wanting access to said FB account

Google can have my left arm if it wants it :P

You don't have to link your fb if you don't want!

Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Comments