Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Just recently got myself the HTC One, don't have much of an interest in games really but I'd like to download something to test out the display on the One. Any recommendations? Free ideally because I'll probably uninstall it almost immediately.

Would 3dMark do?

Angry Birds: Star Wars 2 is out now. Good fun!

Thargor wrote: »

Ill never touch another Angry Birds, interesting for 5 mins when touchscreens were a novelty, nowadays pure sh1te.

Opinions are like Arsehloles, everybody's got one and most are full of sh1te!

I don't really mean that, I just love that saying.

Angry Birds has got a little stale and they are trying to make it better with in app purchases which just makes it more cumbersome.

That said the nostalgia hit from Angry Birds Star Wars when it first came out was great.

madmoe wrote: »

Did it say this when you signed in? I don't seem to remember it saying anything about the extra 10GB!?

Yup and when I check my google drive it now says 15GB

It was 15 for me before as well!? Will be nice to see it go to 25GB :-)

killbillvol2 wrote: »

It was 15 GB before you signed up. The extra 10 GB will be added in the coming weeks.

Didn't realize it went up to 15Gb in May

HeadPig wrote: »

Best keyboard for htc one? Paid or free, whatever it takes. The stock keyboard is breaking my heart and due to some fault the google keyboard won't install on htc one

SwiftKey.

I like swype and the beta version is free

Alpha Dog 1 wrote: »

SwiftKey.

waynegalway wrote: »

+1 for SwiftKey.

I tried 3 or 4 in the early days of having an android, and I found SwiftKey to be ahead of the field. Swype had the edge on speed, but now that SwiftKey has Flow, it's the class leader imo

dulpit wrote: »

SwiftKey by a long long shot...

No contest. I've tried them all and Swiftkey is the business.

RainyDay wrote: »

I use Swiftkey, and the word predictions are very effective, but I couldn't quite get the hang of the flow. Any advice?

Hard to advise, really, other than to say keep trying it and it will just click for you.

Make sure you don't take your finger off in the middle of spelling a word, though. When you start using it first and you're used to traditional typing, it might be awkward to keep yr finger on the screen , but that's the way to do it. If you lift your finger in the middle of a word, swiftkey will think you're on the next word.

Also, I find it helps if you know your way around a keyboard layout pretty well. That way your finger is heading for the next letter almost on autopilot. If you're not sure where the next letter is, and you're finger heads off in the wrong direction, sometimes it's too late and even if you double back you'll end up with a different word.

It's like anything, practice is key. I use an iPad and the standard keyboard on that does my head in after getting used to swiftkey on my One.

thesandeman wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but where are the Smileys on Google Keyboard? I think I found them before but now I can't figure out how to get them up again?

I think they removed them - fairly sure I remember them from the first time I used it but they don't seem to be there now.

jonski wrote: »

Bottom right hand corner , there is one smiley face , press and hold it and the rest pop up .

Not on my keyboard and hasnt been for awhile either.

I started using the google kb swipe but lately it started to wreck my head not swiping what I wanted so I'm back on the swype beta which works much better.


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I think they want you to use the emoji keyboard instead

dulpit wrote: »

SwiftKey by a long long shot...

Hi all, I've been a Swype fan for a very long time but also like SwftKey apart from the fact I can't figure out how to add words to the custom dictionary and delete words from the regular/custom dictionary.

Help??

Ben