Must Have Android Apps and Games?

RangeR

Thargor wrote: »

Because when I look back over the great gaming moments of my life like collecting all the Materia in Final Fantasy 7 or victories in the Civilizations/Total Wars I wont include the time I spent €1.50 on buying enough gameloft points to make a game go from completely impossible to piss easy, it doesnt really carry the same level of satisfaction, either let people play it properly for the first couple of levels and then pay if they want to carry on or display ads to make the game viable and fully playable, the direction they're heading in now for a lot of the new stuff is "Insert €2 to win game".

The problem is, these companies are trying a few different business models to see what get's people handing over their hard earned [The other problem is that the great unwashed want everything but not willing to pay for the pleasure]. Currently, most people don't want to "buy" apps for their phones. So there's a little carrot and stick in the freemium approach.

Some of these business models are now making their way over to the console market. It's a sad day. Some of these business models will kick the bucket soon. Some won't. In reality, a lot of people seem to be handing over money for the freemium apps. They wouldn't exist if there was no market.

If people stopped paying for micro transactions [where did that come from, there is nothing micro about them] then companies will stop using them.

However, people being people, they will ALWAYS choose something that is too good to be true, regardless of the realities. It's a fact of life.

evolutionqy7

Thargor wrote: »

Because when I look back over the great gaming moments of my life like collecting all the Materia in Final Fantasy 7 or victories in the Civilizations/Total Wars I wont include the time I spent €1.50 on buying enough gameloft points to make a game go from completely impossible to piss easy, it doesnt really carry the same level of satisfaction, either let people play it properly for the first couple of levels and then pay if they want to carry on or display ads to make the game viable and fully playable, the direction they're heading in now for a lot of the new stuff is "Insert €2 to win game".

I think the majority of that has to do with Piracy and Trial Play. Dead Trigger is a great example, brilliant game, developers couldn't make money of a paid version cause it was pirated so much, so with little tweaking they turned it into a freemium and make money that way. Make money of game play and not the actual game.

Squeaky the Squirrel

Thargor wrote: »

Because when I look back over the great gaming moments of my life like collecting all the Materia in Final Fantasy 7

deco nate

can anyone point me to a facebook app that works,free app..the stock app is ****e..cheers guys an gals

KERSPLAT!

What's shîte about it?

AlmightyCushion

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

What's shîte about it?

Have you used it? It's slow (although that has improved somewhat). Some images or videos don't load the preview or take some time to load it. When use the search box, it sometimes doesn't refine the search based on what you are typing. The infinite scroll thing gets stuck loading additional content and will just sit there for ever.

That's all I've got off the top of my head. It really is crap.

Kiith

Its probably been mentioned before, but Vector is a fantastic parkour type game. Been having a lot of fun with it these last few days, and since the last update, it's not been getting anywhere near as much slowdown.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nekki.vector

tallus

deco nate wrote: »

can anyone point me to a facebook app that works,free app..the stock app is ****e..cheers guys an gals

Friendcaster works pretty well.

EGriff

The official Facebook app works great on my phone. It used to be totally rubbish for a long time but they fixed it up nicely.

Maybe its not optimised properly for different phones or android versions.

evolutionqy7

EGriff wrote: »

The official Facebook app works great on my phone. It used to be totally rubbish for a long time but they fixed it up nicely.

Maybe its not optimised properly for different phones or android versions.

It's still pretty crap, it's slow to refresh timeliness, slow to load pictures. Generally going on the web version is faster. It was the same on s3 and note 2 for me.

Its nowhere near as bad as it used to be, but still pretty slow compares to other apps.

KERSPLAT!

Yep, same here. It can be a little slow at times but for the most part it's fine

AwayWithFaries

tallus wrote: »

Friendcaster works pretty well.

I'll second that. I've being using Friendcaster since Christmas, works pretty well.

Mars Bar

I hate the Facebook app. I often have to press news feed numerous times for the option to choose most recent first. It'll stall when you are scrolling and then go berserk.
The size of the app and the updates is monstrous too. I would love to be able to delete it.

deco nate

pretty much every thing that chushion,evo and mars bar said.

and im usin a note 2(4.1.2).plenty of grunt under the hood.

usin friendcaster now works alot better,just have to get used to it

AlmightyCushion

deco nate wrote: »

pretty much every thing that chushion,evo and mars bar said.

and im usin a note 2(4.1.2).plenty of grunt under the hood.

usin friendcaster now works alot better,just have to get used to it

I'm using an S3 so, much like yourself, it's not a lack of horsepower that's causing it. It's one of the reasons I hope Google+ takes off, at least Google know how to make some decent apps.

danniemcq

Mars Bar wrote: »

I hate the Facebook app. I often have to press news feed numerous times for the option to choose most recent first. It'll stall when you are scrolling and then go berserk.
The size of the app and the updates is monstrous too. I would love to be able to delete it.

if you root your phone you can delete it from the phone (assuming its bloatware that came with the phone)

jester77

Mars Bar wrote: »

I hate the Facebook app. I often have to press news feed numerous times for the option to choose most recent first. It'll stall when you are scrolling and then go berserk.
The size of the app and the updates is monstrous too. I would love to be able to delete it.

I'm amazed the app works at all, and the fact they can even boast about things like this leaves little hope for the app improving.

Professey Chin

jester77 wrote: »

I'm amazed the app works at all, and the fact they can even boast about things like this leaves little hope for the app improving.

Saw that yesterday. Basically admitting they can't write an app properly and had to hack the sh1t out of how android runs it instead of fixing their own work then trying to make it sound like a good thing.

While I'm here actually, people should give Fast for Facebook a try. It's not a bad app

Mars Bar

danniemcq wrote: »

if you root your phone you can delete it from the phone (assuming its bloatware that came with the phone)

I really don't want to go down that root (pun intended! :pac:)

What agreement has facebook got to make the app un-deletable unless rooted?

The_B_Man

jester77 wrote: »

I'm amazed the app works at all, and the fact they can even boast about things like this leaves little hope for the app improving.

Here's a link from the comments:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/81abb6fb7332dfe62ff596ffb250d8aec61895df%5E!/#F0

Sickening!! :eek:

Atomic Pineapple

Mars Bar wrote: »

What agreement has facebook got to make the app un-deletable unless rooted?

They don't, either the device manufacturer or your carrier will have put the application on the ROM supplied with the device as a native application thus making it impossible to uninstall it.

the whole year inn

I usually use the browser or flipboard.

Flipbord is a nice app and you can have twitter and other feeds .
Check it out!

danniemcq

Mars Bar wrote: »

I really don't want to go down that root (pun intended! :pac:)

What agreement has facebook got to make the app un-deletable unless rooted?

just out of curiousity i have 2 questions,

What make of phone do you have

And is there any special reason for not wanting to root?

Mars Bar

danniemcq wrote: »

just out of curiousity i have 2 questions,

What make of phone do you have

And is there any special reason for not wanting to root?

Sony Ericsson Ray.

Because I did it with my X8 and it was effort and the phone borked not long after rooting. There's so many roms and XDA forums are a mess that I wouldn't even know where to begin this time.

danniemcq

Mars Bar wrote: »

Sony Ericsson Ray.

Because I did it with my X8 and it was effort and the phone borked not long after rooting. There's so many roms and XDA forums are a mess that I wouldn't even know where to begin this time.

yeah xda can be a bit of a nightmare.

there is a handy guide here

http://www.android.gs/how-to-root-the-sony-ericsson-xperia-ray-running-on-android-4-0-3-ics-firmware/

seems like someone has made a standalone that does all the work for ya!

but i know once bitten twice shy but warranty does cover rooted phones so i don't blame you for being wary!

there is other options though if you wanna mess with your phone a bit to get rid of FB

http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-remove-bloatware-from-android-devices-the-easy-way-without-root/

rogieop

ive tried a failed miserably to root my htc sensation xl(biggest load of crap ever btw) one more than one occasion.

Anybody have a 100% fool proof way of doing it?

danniemcq

rogieop wrote: »

ive tried a failed miserably to root my htc sensation xl(biggest load of crap ever btw) one more than one occasion.

Anybody have a 100% fool proof way of doing it?

HTCs are nightmares!

I have 2 mates trying to do it this evening (well they said they were) I'll see if i can find what guide they are using

Tango One

Free anti theft app and a month free Premium access with this code XDADEVELOPERS
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seiboldsoft.ssspy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155841

rogieop

Anybody know of a battleships game available for both android and iphone that you can play against other players online with?

BopNiblets

rogieop wrote: »

Anybody know of a battleships game available for both android and iphone that you can play against other players online with?

BattleFriends at Sea?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tequilamobile.warshipslive