Must Have Android Apps and Games?

EoinMcLovin

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Downloaded it, seemed quite complicated tbh.

However, share it did my job.

Basically, you select what it is you want to share, the app gives you a link.

Then it turns your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot, which you connect with (using the ereader) then you go to said link, and it downloads it in seconds.

Very nifty.

Highly recommended.

Xender is another good file sharing app. I use it to transfer videos from Android to iPad.

Zombienosh

So Cloud magic just killed itself....

CloudMagic is now Newton. And it’s not just the name that’s changed.*

Newton supercharges your email with powerful features like:

● Read Receipts
● Send Later
● Sender Profile
● Snooze
● Connected Apps
● Undo Send

You will be started off with a 14-day free trial, during which you can access all the features. Once the trial ends, you can subscribe to Newton for $49.99 per year or continue using the app without the premium features.


So I'll be looking for a new mailbox app.

Any recommendations?

GustavoFring

Been using Nine the last couple of years and can't fault it. Once the trial is up I think it's about €10 for the full version.

stevenmu

Auralux 2 has apparently been out in the play store for a while. I was a big fan of the original but only found this recently. The core gameplay is pretty much the same but there's some nice upgrades included.

- It gets a graphical overhaul making it more 3D, it looks very nice, but maybe isn't quite as good for zooming in and out.

- Levels are split into "constellations", and each constellation has a special gameplay feature, things like walls, fog, moving planets, supernovae etc. The basic constellation is free, and is rehashes of levels from the first game. The other constellations have new levels, and you get 2 free levels per constellation.

- You can speed up the game with 3 speed settings. This is a big improvement, especially at parts of the game where you are just waiting to grow your forces.

It's still a very solid game, but could get expensive if you want to buy all the levels

edit: just remembered some other improvements

- There's some shortcuts for commonly repeated actions, such as selecting all, or repeating the last command
- The AI is improved and is more aggressive
- There's a multiplayer mode which I haven't tried yet

dragona

Zombienosh wrote: »

So Cloud magic just killed itself....

CloudMagic is now Newton. And it’s not just the name that’s changed.*

Newton supercharges your email with powerful features like:

● Read Receipts
● Send Later
● Sender Profile
● Snooze
● Connected Apps
● Undo Send

You will be started off with a 14-day free trial, during which you can access all the features. Once the trial ends, you can subscribe to Newton for $49.99 per year or continue using the app without the premium features.


So I'll be looking for a new mailbox app.

Any recommendations?

Type mail is excellent

Julez

Anybody tried Motorsport Manager, it's currently only 10c, great little management sim for the price!

jozi

The subscription is only for advanced features, I believe it will still work after the trial.

Agreed though that they just killed themselves! I'm going wait and see can I still use it as I do now once the trial is over otherwise I'll also be looking for a new email app

donspeekinglesh

Julez wrote: »

Anybody tried Motorsport Manager, it's currently only 10c, great little management sim for the price!

Yes, great game. (And PC version coming soon)

nedd

Badland 2 is out. Fun game and easy to play.

Badland 2

Riddled with ads, and some of them are opening Chrome to tell me about Beautiful Ladies. Not very impressed.

€3.99 to remove ads and unlock all levels.

I rarely play any games but I downloaded Two Dots several weeks ago on the recommendation of my 11 year old. At level 298 now. Great game and since I keep running out of lives, it stops me from playing it 24hrs a day.

Mr E

Google Trips has just launched. Looks like a brilliant app for travelers.

Let Ashley explain the benefits better than I could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ign2GmVEflw

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.travel.onthego
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/19/12943054/google-trips-travel-app-android-ios

Thargor

Just what I was looking for thanks.

OldMrBrennan83

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JohnK

Looks good alright but its a pity you can't manually add reservation details. I've a trip coming up in a few weeks but since I booked through a travel agent I don't have any of the original booking confirmation emails for it to process.

batistuta9

Any recommendations for a calender with a week view widget?

Mr E

Try the agenda widget in Today Calendar

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.underwood.calendar_beta

batistuta9

Mr E wrote: »

Try the agenda widget in Today Calendar

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.underwood.calendar_beta

Does that only show 1 day at a time?

ShooterSF

Mr E wrote: »

Google Trips has just launched. Looks like a brilliant app for travelers.

Let Ashley explain the benefits better than I could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ign2GmVEflw

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.travel.onthego
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/19/12943054/google-trips-travel-app-android-ios

She thinks she's sooooo great. I might get lost on holidays but at least when I do I'm lost with friends.


Imaginary friends are still friends.

Uriel.

ShooterSF wrote: »

She thinks she's sooooo great. I might get lost on holidays but at least when I do I'm lost with friends.


Imaginary friends are still friends.

I'd have no problem going on holidays with her.....

Mr E

batistuta9 wrote: »

Does that only show 1 day at a time?

Nope, you asked for a weekly view? It has an agenda widget that can show you all appointments/events for the week.

batistuta9

Mr E wrote: »

Nope, you asked for a weekly view? It has an agenda widget that can show you all appointments/events for the week.

Yeah. installed it on an old phone & could only see one day with it, might try it again later.

Discodog

batistuta9 wrote: »

Any recommendations for a calender with a week view widget?

Agenda Widget http://www.androidagendawidget.com/ from the Play Store is superb. Uses Google Calendar & Tasks. It's very customisable & the widget can be made full page.

Might take a while to get it exactly as you want but then it works really well.

Mr E

batistuta9 wrote: »

Yeah. installed it on an old phone & could only see one day with it, might try it again later.

Here is how it looks for me. I have 8 different calendars and you can pick and choose what ones to show on the widget (visible in mine are light blue for cinema releases, blue for work and red for personal).

batistuta9

That's pretty much the same as the stock widget I've got. I was using business calendar 2 but it started having issues with google Calender's that were supposed to be synced.
the current day always was on the LHS too which was good

Serious time to be checking that DB server :pac:

The timetable view on the bottom is the kind was after.

OldMrBrennan83

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Keith186

Patww79 wrote: »

Allo arrived today. Appearing in the play store for some already but the apk's are out also. Been using it and seems pretty good so far. You can send messages to people who don't have it yet and they'll get a notification and can reply from there with the option to install also. The assistant seems useful too, though I haven't used it in-conversation yet.

Needs multi device and tablet support though or it offers nothing over Whatsapp.

Haven't used it yet but it read about it earlier. I believe the notifications only work is USA, Brazil and India for people who don't have the app, or have I got that wrong? Do people on iOS or windows mobile get the same notification do you know?

OldMrBrennan83

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2RockMountain

Is it strange or concerning that the new Lotto app isn't available in the Play Store?

https://www.lottery.ie/en/Social-Application/Android-App

OldMrBrennan83

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jeffk

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Yeah they don't allow anything to do with gambling

I use sofascore ad free because it was pulled twice from play store over gambling stuff they added and got adfree as a golden handshake