Must Have Android Apps and Games?

srsly78

You don't need to actually use chrome on your phone to benefit from "chrome2phone". It works fine with all browsers, just needs chrome on desktop.

dulpit

srsly78 wrote: »

You don't need to actually use chrome on your phone to benefit from "chrome2phone". It works fine with all browsers, just needs chrome on desktop.

He's not talking about Chrome to Phone, what he means is that you can have your bookmarks/etc. synced between Chrome browser on PC & phone, not just send links across...

xxyyzz

I like using Chrome on the SGS2 but I have terrible problems entering text into a textbox on forms. I find its next to impossible to go back and change text that I entered on a previous line by either moving the cursor with the arrow keys or just touching the screen where I want to change the text. The cursor starts jumping around all over the place. I suspect touchwiz is part of the problem, maybe there's a conflict with it and swiftkey but the issue seems to happen more using Chrome than with the stock browser. Aside from that Chrome is excellent.

dulpit

xxyyzz wrote: »

I like using Chrome on the SGS2 but I have terrible problems entering text into a textbox on forms. I find its next to impossible to go back and change text that I entered on a previous line by either moving the cursor with the arrow keys or just touching the screen where I want to change the text. The cursor starts jumping around all over the place. I suspect touchwiz is part of the problem, maybe there's a conflict with it and swiftkey but the issue seems to happen more using Chrome than with the stock browser. Aside from that Chrome is excellent.

Might be swiftkey, I have same issue using a Sensation (with Elegancia ROM) on it.

Kenny Logins

xxyyzz wrote: »

I like using Chrome on the SGS2 but I have terrible problems entering text into a textbox on forms. I find its next to impossible to go back and change text that I entered on a previous line by either moving the cursor with the arrow keys or just touching the screen where I want to change the text. The cursor starts jumping around all over the place. I suspect touchwiz is part of the problem, maybe there's a conflict with it and swiftkey but the issue seems to happen more using Chrome than with the stock browser. Aside from that Chrome is excellent.

I get that too, standard keyboard. Any browser.

jaqian

+1 here for Dolphin.

I rooted my phone (Galaxy Mini) had terrible problem running out of space and discovered the stock browser was huge so uninstalled and now use Dolphin.

Btw Link2SD and 8gb card sorted all my problems :-)

bboyle18

Hey

I thought some of you might be interested in a new app I developed. Its a Sopranos Quiz app that has over 200 trivia questions on The Sopranos TV show.
Theres 6 levels where you work your way up from being a Soprano Associate to Boss.
Its good fun so it might be worth checking out. Heres the link http://goo.gl/WljgL

Thanks

Brian

RUCKING FETARD

Go offline with Google Maps for Android

subway

checking this out now, although i have a feeling it will still need data for route finding, which would limit the usefuless somewhat

mickoneill30

subway wrote: »

checking this out now, although i have a feeling it will still need data for route finding, which would limit the usefuless somewhat

Also, Irelands maps aren't available offline for some reason. They used to be in the labs cache feature which I used, but they've turned that off with this update.

Spud83

bboyle18 wrote: »

Hey

I thought some of you might be interested in a new app I developed. Its a Sopranos Quiz app that has over 200 trivia questions on The Sopranos TV show.
Theres 6 levels where you work your way up from being a Soprano Associate to Boss.
Its good fun so it might be worth checking out. Heres the link http://goo.gl/WljgL

Thanks

Brian

Downloaded this last night, currently only a Capo. Certainly a challenging quiz, but well put together. Good job, worth the 79c.

Sconsey

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

Go offline with Google Maps for Android

I don't really get this at all, you can only save maps zoomed to a fairly high level and (apparently, I havent tested) you can't use navigation on an offline map....it's like they had a good idea and then looked for ways to make it useless!

subway

mickoneill30 wrote: »

Also, Irelands maps aren't available offline for some reason. They used to be in the labs cache feature which I used, but they've turned that off with this update.

i downloaded ireland maps no problem.
it was seriously slow, but they are there now.
no directions offline however

irishgeo

subway wrote: »

i downloaded ireland maps no problem.
it was seriously slow, but they are there now.
no directions offline however

i assume it the voice part thats the problem.

subway

voice part?

Professey Chin

Its that it actually needs to communicate with the server to figure out different routes

subway

i know, just pointing out that calling it "offline mode" is a little bit of a misnomer since numerous features dont work.
a navigation app doesnt "need" to communicate with a server in order to route finding. google have chosen to set its maps app up this way, which is unfortunate as its useless if you dont have data roaming or access to wifi.

that wouldnt answer my question about the "voice part", as i'm not really sure what irishgeo meant.

Professey Chin

subway wrote: »

i know, just pointing out that calling it "offline mode" is a little bit of a misnomer since numerous features dont work.
a navigation app doesnt "need" to communicate with a server in order to route finding. google have chosen to set its maps app up this way, which is unfortunate as its useless if you dont have data roaming or access to wifi.

that wouldnt answer my question about the "voice part", as i'm not really sure what irishgeo meant.

Its not Google Navigation offline mode. Its Google Maps offline mode.
And the phone has a TTS engine built in.

subway

you can get directions in maps, without using navigation...
the navigation app doesnt need to be online afaik, maps pushes the directions to it.

i know the phone has a TTS engine, thats why I'm not sure what irishgeo is talking about.

Krusty_Clown

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Its not Google Navigation offline mode. Its Google Maps offline mode.
And the phone has a TTS engine built in.

I managed to get the Dublin maps (approx 45 megs), using the 'scroll to England and scroll back' method, but unfortunately it doesn't seem work for Galway/West Coast of Ireland.

Atomic Pineapple

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

I managed to get the Dublin maps (approx 45 megs), using the 'scroll to England and scroll back' method, but unfortunately it doesn't seem work for Galway/West Coast of Ireland.

It does for me but seems to be a bug in it, if I start over Dublin and zoom out until it says I'm zoomed out too far then zoom back in until its acceptable and then move across to the west I can download the maps there, or any part of Ireland even.

Professey Chin

subway wrote: »

you can get directions in maps, without using navigation...
the navigation app doesnt need to be online afaik, maps pushes the directions to it.

i know the phone has a TTS engine, thats why I'm not sure what irishgeo is talking about.

I thought it checked for traffic and changes when you try navigate. Then again I could just be gone mad.

draffodx wrote: »

It does for me but seems to be a bug in it, if I start over Dublin and zoom out until it says I'm zoomed out too far then zoom back in until its acceptable and then move across to the west I can download the maps there, or any part of Ireland even.

I have most of ireland downloaded now :pac:
I also have absolutely no reason to use it.....its purely to take up some memory. How people fill their phones is beyond me

subway

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

I thought it checked for traffic and changes when you try navigate. Then again I could just be gone mad.


I have most of ireland downloaded now :pac:
I also have absolutely no reason to use it.....its purely to take up some memory. How people fill their phones is beyond me

it probably does, i havent used it much as have sat nav in the car and cant use it abroad.
my point is that the general sequence is load point on map, click directions, click navigate. whether the directions actually get pushed or not and it does route finding on the fly gets away from my point slightly.
in that there is no need for navigation to be done in the cloud, its a nice feature, but basic routefinding shoul be done on the phone and then extra info downloaded from the cloud when data permits.
whether thats for navigation or just for the standard "directions" i think its the same engine on the server side.

Damoedge

If you ever wanted apps that are not available in the irish play store try this handy app, it gives you a list of all the stores/markets available around the world and you can download them straight to your phone

http://www.androidfreeware.net/download-all-app-stores.html

Some good free goodies there too

Dont all thank me at once

BopNiblets

The new Youtube update is nice, really like the layout.

RUCKING FETARD

Sleipnir Linker: Push Content & Associated Actions From Desktop Browser To Android

Krusty_Clown

subway wrote: »

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

I thought it checked for traffic and changes when you try navigate. Then again I could just be gone mad.


I have most of ireland downloaded now :pac:
I also have absolutely no reason to use it.....its purely to take up some memory. How people fill their phones is beyond me

it probably does, i havent used it much as have sat nav in the car and cant use it abroad.
my point is that the general sequence is load point on map, click directions, click navigate. whether the directions actually get pushed or not and it does route finding on the fly gets away from my point slightly.
in that there is no need for navigation to be done in the cloud, its a nice feature, but basic routefinding shoul be done on the phone and then extra info downloaded from the cloud when data permits.
whether thats for navigation or just for the standard "directions" i think its the same engine on the server side.

How can it plot routes on the phone, when the maps have not been retrieved to the phone in advance? That's why it's plotted in the cloud. I don't think offline mode is going to change this architecture.

I mean if you were going to travel thousands of miles across the US (extreme example!), you wouldn't want it to pull down 2 gigs of maps before it can plot the route.

griffdaddy

Didn't know there was a Sopcast app for Android. It's not on the market. Haven't tried it yet cause I'm in work.
http://www.sopcast.org/docs/android.html

Ste-

griffdaddy wrote: »

Didn't know there was a Sopcast app for Android. It's not on the market. Haven't tried it yet cause I'm in work.
http://www.sopcast.org/docs/android.html

I've been using it for a few months.
The audio lags behind teh video in most cases. Watchable tho as most streams of football have foreign language that I can't understand anyway.

polaris68

I'll give this a try on my Logitech Revue.