Must Have Android Apps and Games?

same ol sh1te

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/shortpaste-autoshorten-copied-urls-t2809804
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mohammad.adib.shortpaste

corkie

XON Episode 1 <<< Playstore link.


Don't play this if you want to try and solve the game yourself!

A good puzzle adventure game to be used with the chromecast mirroring.


The walking dead and X-plane 9 also work well with mirroring.

Anyone else have some recommendations for apps that work well with mirroring to chromecast?

Mantis Toboggan

Rte news now app has finally been updated.

same ol sh1te

Buddy Holly wrote: »

Rte news now app has finally been updated.

Yeah, decent job too, now has side swipe. It's finally better than the mobile site

dastardly00

Thargor wrote: »

Backed this project last night, he's shipping them in July whether he meets his goal or not:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wantcardboard-google-cardboard-kits

I went on the website just now as I was thinking of signing up too, but the deadline has passed

Let us know when you get the kit!

Thargor

dastardly00 wrote: »

I went on the website just now as I was thinking of signing up too, but the deadline has passed

Let us know when you get the kit!

I think I should have saved a tenner and got something like this from Ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014-New-Google-Cardboard-Valencia-Quality-3d-Vr-Virtual-Reality-Glasses-/251588044512?pt=US_3D_TV_Glasses_Accessories&hash=item3a93d0e6e0

Even coming from China I probably would have had it before having to wait for the campaign to close on Indiegogo.

jozi

Anyone know of a good app that you can log working hrs in? I've got a spreadsheet but I may ad well make use of my phone

Thargor

Swiftkey really starting to piss me off now, seems to be a new notification about utter bullsh1t features in my taskbar every morning, spam emails in my Gmail etc, except now today I go to send a text, keyboard takes an age to appear, just as I go to retry it finally loads a stupid offer about 10 free keyboard themes if I sign in, its a fcuking keyboard, I dont want to be part of their "community" :mad:

One more and I'm off to Swype.

same ol sh1te

Thargor wrote: »

One more and I'm off to Swype.

Swype is better for swiping IMO and has ctrl+c and ctrl+v shortcuts. Swiftkey Flow is nowhere near as good for swiping users. If only I could get predictions as good in Swype as they are in Swiftkey I'd have the perfect keyboard

Thargor

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission

Good news, anything with in-app purchases is losing its "free" tag in the android store.

Mantis Toboggan

Thargor wrote: »

Swiftkey really starting to piss me off now, seems to be a new notification about utter bullsh1t features in my taskbar every morning, spam emails in my Gmail etc, except now today I go to send a text, keyboard takes an age to appear, just as I go to retry it finally loads a stupid offer about 10 free keyboard themes if I sign in, its a fcuking keyboard, I dont want to be part of their "community" :mad:

One more and I'm off to Swype.

Not sure why that's happening, haven't experienced any of that.

beardo81

jozi wrote: »

Anyone know of a good app that you can log working hrs in? I've got a spreadsheet but I may ad well make use of my phone

I use an app called Time Recording, no link as I'm on phone, search for it in Play Store. Easy to use, has a widget and will back your hours up to Google drive automatically if you want.

Saadyst

Thargor wrote: »

Swiftkey really starting to piss me off now, seems to be a new notification about utter bullsh1t features in my taskbar every morning, spam emails in my Gmail etc, except now today I go to send a text, keyboard takes an age to appear, just as I go to retry it finally loads a stupid offer about 10 free keyboard themes if I sign in, its a fcuking keyboard, I dont want to be part of their "community" :mad:

One more and I'm off to Swype.

Go into the advanced settings and disable notifications..

AlanS181824

Leo's Fortune is amazing.

Got it when it was €3.69, they raised the price to €4.49 though now the cheeky dev!

OldMrBrennan83

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RoryMac

Patww79 wrote: »

Pity it scrolls like the erosion of stone.

Doesn't even load the content for me, worked the first time I opened it but since then just sits there with a blank page

Zaph

The content is there for me, but there's no sense to the order anything is in on the home page, it's just random. At the moment the top 10 stories on the front page for me are as follows:

News - 2 minutes ago
News - 1 hour ago
News - 13 minutes ago
GAA - 1 hour ago
Entertainment - 3 hours ago
News - 4 hours ago
News - 1 hour ago
Business - sometime yesterday
Golf - 4 hours ago
Entertainment - 3 hours ago

That's just shabby. I regularly used the app, but I can't see myself bothering too much any more.

Dozen Wicked Words

RoryMac wrote: »

Doesn't even load the content for me, worked the first time I opened it but since then just sits there with a blank page

I get content maybe once in 9 or 10 attempts. Old app was imperfect but at least it's content was accessible.

_Whimsical_

There really should be an option to downgrade apps.

Ste-

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

There really should be an option to downgrade apps.

Always keep a backup

Iseedeadpixels

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

There really should be an option to downgrade apps.

Ste- wrote: »

Always keep a backup

Do a Google search I got a older version of Facebook that way.

Worztron

Hi.

Does anyone know of an app that I can sync with a folder on my computer and have those files copied directly to the external SD card on my Android phone? I tried Dropbox and did not see a way for this to be done.

Fresh Pots

Worztron wrote: »

Hi.

Does anyone know of an app that I can sync with a folder on my computer and have those files copied directly to the external SD card on my Android phone? I tried Dropbox and did not see a way for this to be done.

Dropsync will do it.

dinneenp

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/09/best-android-games-2014-monument-valley-the-room-two
Guardian 40 best goes of 2014 so far.

loyatemu

Zaph wrote: »

The content is there for me, but there's no sense to the order anything is in on the home page, it's just random. At the moment the top 10 stories on the front page for me are as follows:

News - 2 minutes ago
News - 1 hour ago
News - 13 minutes ago
GAA - 1 hour ago
Entertainment - 3 hours ago
News - 4 hours ago
News - 1 hour ago
Business - sometime yesterday
Golf - 4 hours ago
Entertainment - 3 hours ago

That's just shabby. I regularly used the app, but I can't see myself bothering too much any more.

Got a notification from RTE app this morning about some breaking news story. Tapped on the notification, the app opened and the story wasn't even there...

Mantis Toboggan

loyatemu wrote: »

Got a notification from RTE app this morning about some breaking news story. Tapped on the notification, the app opened and the story wasn't even there...

Same as that, works grand on wifi, terrible on data.

RainyDay

Worztron wrote: »

Hi.

Does anyone know of an app that I can sync with a folder on my computer and have those files copied directly to the external SD card on my Android phone? I tried Dropbox and did not see a way for this to be done.

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Dropsync will do it.

Will Dropsync do the reverse - move files (my latest photos) off my phone onto a designated folder on my laptop, and delete the original from my phone?

dulpit

All RTÉ apps seem to brutal for streaming, have issues streaming their radio on TuneIn too, and it's never a connection problem (Newstalk will work fine in same settings). Fierce annoying.

Mantis Toboggan

Speaking of tunein pro, I've found it very poor lately. They changed the UI a while back which I don't like and it's constantly Disconnecting and buffering, even on a good connection.

Worztron

Hi.

Is there a podcast app that you can download the podcasts to the external SD card instead of the limited internal phone storage?

Cheers.

Lucas Hood

Worztron wrote: »

Hi.

Is there a podcast st app that you can download the podcasts to the external SD card instead of the limited internal phone storage?

Cheers.

Pocketcasts give you this option.

Worztron

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Pocketcasts give you this option.

Hi Lucas. Any free alternative?

scottmcb04

Worztron wrote: »

Hi Lucas. Any free alternative?

I use podcast addict and fairly sure it does that for me...

Worztron

scottmcb04 wrote: »

I use podcast addict and fairly sure it does that for me...

This the one?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict&hl=en

Soccer stars by miniclip is a decent game. Basically it's 5-a-side air hockey against human opponents.

scottmcb04

Worztron wrote: »

This the one?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict&hl=en

yeah, ya might have to do a wee bit messing around to get it to work though...

timetogo

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Pocketcasts give you this option.

Beyondpod does it too.

gerrybbadd

My favourite is Podcast Republic. Awesome app

Worztron

gerrybbadd wrote: »

My favourite is Podcast Republic. Awesome app

+1

Thargor

dulpit wrote: »

All RTÉ apps seem to brutal for streaming, have issues streaming their radio on TuneIn too, and it's never a connection problem (Newstalk will work fine in same settings). Fierce annoying.

RTE is a piece of ****, couldnt manage to stream 15 minutes of the World Cup on it, just error after error, watched about 6 matches on FilmOn without a single issue.

Bloodwing

Worztron wrote: »

Hi.

Is there a podcast app that you can download the podcasts to the external SD card instead of the limited internal phone storage?

Cheers.

Player FM will allow you to save to the SD card as well.

Worztron

What's a 'virtual podcast'? I've seen that option in a few podcast apps.

Edit: This explains it: http://www.beyondpod.com/Android/help/VirtualFeeds.htm

Newhand

I fully recommend a game called Tiny Thief. Had it sitting on my phone for ages now and just didn't have a chance to try it, which was a mistake as it is a nice little puzzler.

timetogo

Just installed Hola. It's a free VPN app and is very easy to use. I tried it out on Netflix and it works fine for the US content.

daytob

yeah love this, watch everything on netflix.co.uk then switch it on and watch the american stuff

dahat

daytob wrote: »

yeah love this, watch everything on netflix.co.uk then switch it on and watch the american stuff

Can this new used with the Netflix android app at all?

daytob

dahat wrote: »

Can this new used with the Netflix android app at all?

huh?

jeffk

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.link2sdplus&hl=en

http://tutorial-fornewbie.blogspot.ie/2013/04/how-to-use-link2sd-on-android-device.html

For anyone with low space issues, link2sd (or plus to unlock all options and move everything) and the above tutorial is a great help.

Basically you wipe your SD card and reparation it, then you link files from your internal memory to the smaller partition and keep the larger one for pictures/music etc.

I done it and ended up with loads of free space and i have all my apps on my internal memory,I don't need to move any to my SD card.

dahat

daytob wrote: »

huh?

Thought the same reading it back myself.
Doesn't matter now anyway as I just tried it out.

Lucas Hood

dahat wrote: »

Thought the same reading it back myself.
Doesn't matter now anyway as I just tried it out.

Did it work?