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Must Have Android Apps and Games? (Part II)

Davy

This thread is for posting essential apps and games.

Please post a link and a short note on it if you can.

PART I of this thread is HERE

Let the suggestions continue.....

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marcbrophy

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Solid explorer has all of them, I've been using it for years

Really?
Help a fool out!
I have solid installed for actual years, but never knew it did that!
:pac:

The high horse brigade

marcbrophy wrote: »

Really?
Help a fool out!
I have solid installed for actual years, but never knew it did that!
:pac:

Go into storage manager in settings. Some integrations like mega are paid extras

marcbrophy

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Go into storage manager in settings. Some integrations like mega are paid extras

Thanks

corkie

37 temporarily free and 48 on-sale apps and games for the weekend

Also MX Player, if your still using official version has been updated with chromecast support for local media (on device), no network streams local or otherwise.

We’ve given your watch experience an upgrade. Cast your favourite videos on the big screen using your Chromecast device. The overall look and feel of the app also received major enhancements making your experience better than before!

corkie

19 best new Android games released this week including Flashback Mobile, Plants vs. Zombies 3 Pre-Alpha, and It’s Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile

As a followup to SCRCPY, an alternative needs root and be on the same network as well.

RemoDroid

This is a remote control app, which allows you to control Android devices with any other Android phone, PC or Mac.

The App is currently in a beta state, that means it is buggy and might not work with all devices.
The app is mainly developed for remote control of Android TV sticks but as well works with a wide range of smart phones and tablets.

There is other alternative for remote sharing teamviewer, or Airdroid. But these are paid options.

AirDroid launches new screen mirroring app for remote tech support

G1032

corkie wrote: »

37 temporarily free and 48 on-sale apps and games for the weekend

Also MX Player, if your still using official version has been updated with chromecast support for local media (on device), no network streams local or otherwise.

MX Player Pro hasn't received the Chromecast update. Seems bizarre that the not paid version gets the upgrade first? Any idea why this is?

S.M.B.

Hadn't seen realised that. Will be nice to get that. Says its "on its way".

corkie

30 temporarily free and 42 on-sale apps and games to start the week

[XDA] Share to Computer is an open source app to send text/files/images from mobile to PC

Handy if you want to share to not your own PC, but Windows and Linux have Samba Server, which you could just copy files across using Solid Explorer etc.

Another app I have used in the past is Superbeam (Paid for pro years ago).

[XDA] Face Pause uses face detection to pause games and videos when you’re not looking

[XDA] WeNote is a Google Keep alternative with a built-in calendar and Google Drive sync

Most of the features are available in the free version of the app, but there are a few premium features such as audio sound recording, adding a Note list home widget, and getting access to more themes and icon packs. Unlocking these premium features separately costs $4.99 for each feature, or you can unlock all features by paying $16.99. That’s a pretty steep price, but if you find yourself using this app a lot, you may want to show support to the developer.

corkie

FilePursuit Pro €23.99 to Free.

FilePursuit provides a very powerful file indexing and search service allowing you to find a file among millions of files located on web servers. Our database is updated daily by our robots that crawl through free access internet resources.

It's a file search engine where links are given by people all over the globe. It provides high-quality file search among the enormous number of files available on the web.

Posting as an extra post, because I don't know how long the deal is available for.

Available on the playstore, so see no problems sharing. App can be used for questionable purposes, but so can any search engine.

corkie

15 temporarily free and 20 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday

corkie

38 temporarily free and 61 on-sale apps and games for Friday

5 smart questions that'll smother most Android security scares
Start asking the right questions — and stop freaking out.

Who's behind the "research" driving this story, and what's their motivation?

Is this threat related to something I'm likely to download and install, or does it revolve around some weird random app no normal person would ever encounter?

On the off-chance that I did somehow install the trigger, would my phone automatically protect me from anything harmful?

If all systems failed (including my own common sense) and I managed not only to find Android malware but also to install it and get it running on my device, what would actually happen as a result?

Has any normal user actually been affected by this in the real world?

^^^ Questions are answered and expanded on in link!

Mr E

Or just lock your phone.

corkie

42 temporarily free and 60 on-sale apps and games for Monday

18 best new Android games released this last week including DOOM, DOOM II, and Pavilion: Touch Edition

Freeview's mobile app is now available for Android smartphones
^^^ Haven't checked this out yet! Could be region locked or require UK details?
Wouldn't let me install from playstore, needs a UK google account.
Edit: - Waste of time just a guide and launcher for other players.

How to Run Android on PC with Phoenix OS <<< Full OS and not an emulator.
^^^ Gave this a trial run on USB Disk, Android Interface does not really work without touch.

corkie

20 temporarily free and 14 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday

Post-it releases Android app to scan and organize sticky notes, only five years after iOS
^^^ Post-it®[Play]

How to Send Self-Destructing Messages in Gmail
The art of the ephemeral email

Android ransomware is back
ESET researchers discover a new Android ransomware family that attempts to spread to victims’ contacts and deploys some unusual tricks

Android/Filecoder.C has been active since at least July 12th, 2019. Within the campaign we discovered, Android/Filecoder.C has been distributed via malicious posts on Reddit and the “XDA Developers” forum, a forum for Android developers. We reported the malicious activity to XDA Developers and Reddit. The posts on the XDA Developers forum were removed swiftly; the malicious Reddit profile was still up at the time of publication.

McMurphy

Anyone know what's happened to the national lottery app here?(Irish lottery)

Has it been removed from the play store?

Suckit

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Anyone know what's happened to the national lottery app here?(Irish lottery)

Has it been removed from the play store?

Doesn't seem to be. I just searche lotto and it was the first result.

Do you have a vpn on? It mightn't show if you do.

marcbrophy

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Anyone know what's happened to the national lottery app here?(Irish lottery)

Has it been removed from the play store?

Seems to be still there Johnny!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agency.lotto

McMurphy

Suckit wrote: »

Doesn't seem to be. I just searche lotto and it was the first result.

Do you have a vpn on? It mightn't show if you do.

marcbrophy wrote: »

Seems to be still there Johnny!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agency.lotto

Strange.... I'm using a pocophone, and I'm getting this.

Screenshot-2019-08-02-19-42-02-652-com-android-vending.png

Must check what region I have the phone set to.

marcbrophy

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Strange.... I'm using a pocophone, and I'm getting this.

[/IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/3xXCMDRL/Screenshot-2019-08-02-19-42-02-652-com-android-vending.png[/IMG]

Must check what region I have the phone set to.

It is a geo-locked app, so make sure you've no smart DNS's or VPNs in use

McMurphy

marcbrophy wrote: »

It is a geo-locked app, so make sure you've no smart DNS's or VPNs in use

No, none in use at present, stranger still is that it comes up on a search of the play store but when I select it to download I get the screen shown above.

I miss being able to scan my ticket, but will live without the app.

Suckit

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

No, none in use at present, stranger still is that it comes up on a search of the play store but when I select it to download I get the screen shown above.

I miss being able to scan my ticket, but will live without the app.

Here it is - You can sideload it

http://www.mediafire.com/file/p20wffbbhzvwe3m/com.agency.lotto.1557388263.apk/file

banie01

Thanks for that Suckit, never heard of that store iteration before.

Suckit

banie01 wrote: »

Thanks for that Suckit, never heard of that store iteration before.

Yeah, it's good. I use it for my devices (I don't use Play Store). Sorry I deleted it in last post because I thought it may have been a bit too much just for one app (and may still have the same region issues, so may have not been a solution).

Aurora
Yalp (Fork) - not yet fully working
Yalp was the original, and Aurora was a fork of Yalp, but Yalp stopped working about a month or so ago (maybe a few months actually) and Aurora was rewritten from the ground up.

I find it better to download F-Droid and use Aurora only if I need a Play Store App or maybe a game.

F-Droid is considered the most secure store and only offers FOSS (Free Open Source Software) apps with no tracking and all the other undesirable stuff that comes with many apps.

corkie

25 temporarily free and 38 on-sale apps and games, including Majesty and Majesty: Northern Kingdom

Another good site to get apk's from is https://www.apkmirror.com/

Or region locked apps from playstore:-
https://apkcombo.com/en-ie/apk-downloader/
https://apkcombo.com/en-ie/apk-downloader/?q=com.agency.lotto

geecee

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

No, none in use at present, stranger still is that it comes up on a search of the play store but when I select it to download I get the screen shown above.

I miss being able to scan my ticket, but will live without the app.

Are you on UPC?/Virgin/NTL If so disable your Wi-Fi and try from your mobile carrier...
These days with UPC being pan European, you often get weird IP addresses from the Liberty Global network which means you fail Geo-lock checks.... Damn annoying!

corkie

21 temporarily free and 20 on-sale apps and games to start the week

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19 best new (and 1 WTF) Android games released this last week including Gundam Battle: Gunpla Warfare, Hamsterdam, and Battle Chasers: Nightwar

Liamalone

Anyone know if any data recovery apps? Had to factory reset phone and lot photays:(

GBX

Liamalone wrote: »

Anyone know if any data recovery apps? Had to factory reset phone and lot photays:(

Had you Google Photos installed before? If so they might be backed up there. Install it and see if they are.

Liamalone

GBX wrote: »

Had you Google Photos installed before? If so they might be backed up there. Install it and see if they are.

Negative on that one

banie01

Liamalone wrote: »

Negative on that one

Recuva is usually my default go to for trying to recover data.