Must Have Android Apps and Games?

corkie wrote: »

Some toggles will disappear from the panel if there not used regularly!

To get the Flash Light/Torch toggle back open your camera app and it will reappear in the drop-down!

Never had any of mine go, on AOSP so it must be a third party ROM thing

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

I'm on Lollipop and she ain't got no "built in quick tile on the drop down notification shade for turning on LED" on her.

Depending on phone, Lollipop versions you will have will vary like the wind.

You should be able to edit the drop down notifications and add it. I just did. I'd wondered where the flashlight was gone!

Amalgam wrote: »

OsmAnd+ Maps & Navigation OsmAnd

Paid/Support (€6.49): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand.plus&hl=en

Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand&hl=en



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Having a proper, full, offline country map is a Godsend. I'm partial to the vector style of map display that OsmAnd offer, very reminiscent of road maps supplied by Ordnance Survey Ireland. (osi.ie)

Vector mapping that to me, beats the likes of Google and Bing, from the point of view of aesthetics.

I haven't tried the free version, but the paid app allows the download of any country that you care to view, Ireland is a vector map download of about 150MB, give or take.

A crowd sourced manner of mapping, evolves thanks to, possibly, *your* input.

There are issues with the UI, having to enter a full address to 'go to', can be tiresome, if you're looking for wildcard searches, Google/Bing will provide a more instant experience, but for offline use, it works great.

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Exactly what I was looking for thanks.

Lads Samsung Touchwiz may as well not be android at all. They butcher it.

Missing on my note 4. Hardly on the 5.1 update is it?

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Missing on my note 4. Hardly on the 5.1 update is it?

I had it on 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1 and 5.1.1, its the same 8 all the time

I had an app on my phone that a allowed you to place photos in magazine covers for fun. It had lots of templates and you could put any picture in them. Does anybody know which one i am talking about. i can find it

Yip photofunia I think good app..

Farm Heroes Saga.

Captain Flaps wrote: »

Please don't use King games. They really are the most awful of publishers

I am full of self loathing for the fact that I got totally addicted to Bubble Witch Saga :-(

The secret is to have a stern talking to yourself about never being that person who either pays for in-game content or logs into any game with facebook account.

nedd wrote: »

The secret is to have a stern talking to yourself about never being that person who either pays for in-game content

I'm ok with paying for ingame content provided it adds content and isn't just 'pay to skip this artificial waiting period!' type microtransactions. TBH though, I'd usually just buy games that cost a nominal fee to make sure I'm not supporting the freemium model where possible.

Mr E wrote: »

King games are OK. I usually get to level 60 or 70 in most before they get too hard to continue (without paying for powerups).

Then I delete them.

Kind of disappointed to see a mod of Mobile Games defending King. They are an awful company, bullies, trademark trolls, and blatant ripoff masters. They specialise in copying popular games, trademarking everything they can and attempting to get similar games pulled from the store even if they've been around longer.

Crators of ScamperGhost demonstrate how, after failing to reach an agreement about licensing, King contracted another developer to clone the game here.

Creator of CandySwipe, released 2 years before Candy Crush and clearly ripped off by King in its entirety, pens open letter to King following their successful quashing of his existing Trademark here and shows the obvious similarities between the apps here.

King Acknowledges that Banner Saga has nothing at all in common with their games but still seeks to get it removed from App Stores here and here.

Creator of a candy themed casino game has game pulled for using 'Candy' in the title here.

There are many, many more examples, but the point is that King, a company built on creating knockoffs of existing popular games, also goes out of its way to kill off other games using names even VAGUELY similar to their own. They're a cancer on the games industry in general.

This isn't a personal dig at you, it just really bothers me that they can pull in so much revenue from such shady practices. I've long ago boycotted all of their games and will continue to do so.

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