Must Have Android Apps and Games?

wotzgoingon

I remeber a woman asked me to find her a satnav for her phone, I took her phone she never even had a google account. I set one up for her. She never even knew the play store was the app store, she was using the samsung store. It was a S4.

corkie

fryup wrote: »

hi folks,

i'm new to the whole smartphone world,

just want to know.. can i download the apps to my PC and then to my android phone??

TheTechGuy wrote: »

Why not just download them directly onto your phone in the app store?

It's possible to download them to your PC see here, but as TheTechGuy said why not just download them to your phone.

If you are downloading to your PC and then transferring to your device, you will need to turn on "Unknown sources" in security settings. This might not always work due to some games/apps needing an additional download.

Gran Hermano

ongarite wrote: »

Anyone here playing game called "Lyne".

Its a join the dots style puzzler with a nice minimal style design and audio.
Plenty of content in it and they release daily sets of levels too.

You should try dots by game dots http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88977976&postcount=25

Simple but bloody addictive.

White Heart Loon

fryup wrote: »

hi folks,

i'm new to the whole smartphone world,

just want to know.. can i download the apps to my PC and then to my android phone??

Go to the Play Store on your PC, sign into the same Google account and click download on any app and it will instantly start installing on your phone.

jester77

Google Now launcher is now available for nexus and play store devices.

fryup

TheTechGuy wrote: »

Why not just download them directly onto your phone in the app store?

eats into my data allowance

White Heart Loon

fryup wrote: »

eats into my data allowance

Use Wi-Fi

marcbrophy

jester77 wrote: »

Google Now launcher is now available for nexus and play store devices.

Cool, have this on my N5 and like it.
Gonna put it on the N7 now also.

There also a GEL settings Xposed module, so you can tweek with it a bit. Add/remove rows/columns for apps on the homescreen, that kinda thing (needs root).

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/xda-xposed-tuesday-google-experience-launcher-gel-settings-xda-developer-tv/

The Black Oil

Can anyone recommend an app for data usage? I find the stock thing a bit meh.

jgbyr

The Black Oil wrote: »

Can anyone recommend an app for data usage? I find the stock thing a bit meh.

3G watchdog.

Amalgam

Out There by Mi-Clos Studio

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miclos.google.games.outthere

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDH3PPJstuI

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Just picked this up, available from the Play store (see above), or the Humble Bundle game store, for a little bit cheaper.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/outthere_storefront



Looks interesting. Sort of FTL-ish, but more relaxed.

madmoe

jester77 wrote: »

Google Now launcher is now available for nexus and play store devices.

On the Nexus 10 will this give you the transparent bars at the top and the bottom guys?

Cheers,
M

marcbrophy

Guys, when you buy an Android game from Humble store, do you get a standalone apk or does it link to your play store account as a verified purchase?

Fluffy88

All the Humble Bundle deals I bought gave me a separate apk to install.

There is a Humble Bundle app, install it, login and it lists all your Humble Bundle purchases. You can install any of your Humble Bundle apps straight from their app.

Amalgam

Fluffy88 wrote: »

You can install any of your Humble Bundle apps straight from their app.

..as Fluffy88 stated. Very straightforward, you are notified of updates via the app too.

marcbrophy

Cool, thanks!

Although I already have 4 app stores on the phone! GPS, Amazon appstore, Aptoide, and F-Droid.
1 more won't hurt

_Whimsical_

marcbrophy wrote: »

Cool, thanks!

Although I already have 4 app stores on the phone! GPS, Amazon appstore, Aptoide, and F-Droid.
1 more won't hurt

Are Aptoid and F-Droid ok? Do they drain the battery or slow the phone at all?

marcbrophy

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Are Aptoid and F-Droid ok? Do they drain the battery or slow the phone at all?

F-Droid is fairly lightweight for me. I really ony have 1 or 2 apps associated to it, so it's grand.
Aptoide is a bit heavier as it tries to associate itself to all your apps, regardless of if you used it to install them or not. I just turn off 'check for updates' in the menu so that it doesn't run unless you've called it to the foreground.

To be honest, they are some of the first apps I install on a phone, so I wouldn't really know what the battery life is without them

Occono

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Are Aptoid and F-Droid ok? Do they drain the battery or slow the phone at all?

F-Droid has no DRM, and you can disable update-checking if you want.

kaisersose77

anyone using zeebox? are the push notification reminders slow to come/not coming at all today?

Just want to know if its my devices at fault.

Alpha Dog 1

You can buy a cable on Amazon for around 20 euro that will connect your nexus to your TV.

RangeR

Notifications+.
Get Android notifications sent to your PC.

Professey Chin

RangeR wrote: »

Notifications+.
Get Android notifications sent to your PC.

I use Pushbullet for this
So handy

SteM

You could try xbmc with the navi-x plug in.

MiCr0

Removing all references to a certain illegal app

Alpha Dog 1

MiCr0 wrote: »

Removing all references to a certain illegal app

Who said it was illegal?

tfitzgerald

Alpha Dog 1 wrote: »

Who said it was illegal?

If it's the site I mentioned I checked and I can't find anything about it being illegal. I think boards is just being a bit too p c here

MiCr0

There's no way that that content is being provided legally.
Tfitzgerald - can you elaborate on exactly how you checked?

tfitzgerald

MiCr0 wrote: »

There's no way that that content is being provided legally.
Tfitzgerald - can you elaborate on exactly how you checked?

Just google. Nothing about it being named. Like other sites like kickass

The_B_Man

Google Play is having some birthday promotion for their 2nd anniversary.
One or two free games, like Dungeon Keeper, but the rest are discounts on in-app purchases.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_300055b_play_birthday_inapp_gb