Must Have Android Apps and Games?

OldMrBrennan83

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RainyDay

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Not if it's either saved for offline listening or cached while on WiFi

Last time I looked, it wasn't possible to set the entire library to be saved offline in Google Play Music - has this changed?

Downloaded SwiftKey and it's awful. Swype is so much better

Mantis Toboggan

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Downloaded SwiftKey and it's awful. Swype is so much better

Keep with it, it gets better each day, after a few weeks you won't even have to press letters!

shrapnel222

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Not if it's either saved for offline listening or cached while on WiFi

fair enough but that just means you downloaded it to your device or am i missing something?

OldMrBrennan83

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EagererBeaver

shrapnel222 wrote: »

fair enough but that just means you downloaded it to your device or am i missing something?

Yes, but I do it all at the click of a button in the app (or a couple of clicks of buttons) and reverse it just as easily when I decide it's time for a change rather than manually transferring files onto and off my phone from, say a PC, all the time.

EagererBeaver

RainyDay wrote: »

Last time I looked, it wasn't possible to set the entire library to be saved offline in Google Play Music - has this changed?

I've no idea. I didn't say it had?

Thargor

Google Music is creating albums from folders I dont want it to, like in the middle of my music collection there will be an album called Ringtones, any clue how to get rid of it?

OldMrBrennan83

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jgbyr

Patww79 wrote: »

There will be no way of differentiating that as all it will see is audio files in a folder. Make a new folder with the music you want and only sync that.

How do you do this? I tried & when I play music it still pulls in any music files on the device. Thanks

Thargor

jgbyr wrote: »

How do you do this? I tried & when I play music it still pulls in any music files on the device. Thanks

My exact problem, its even going into game folders and pulling out random audio files from the game if it uses an mp3 or wav and posting them as albums, very annoying.

OldMrBrennan83

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RainyDay

EagererBeaver wrote: »

I've no idea. I didn't say it had?

So when you said "saved for offline listening", what were you referring to?

irishgeo

Thargor wrote: »

My exact problem, its even going into game folders and pulling out random audio files from the game if it uses an mp3 or wav and posting them as albums, very annoying.

Can't you put a file in the directories to stop it indexing .Noindex file.

Thargor

That seems to be an Apple feature? Anyway I have about 100 folders, the designers must have forseen this...

OldMrBrennan83

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jgbyr

irishgeo wrote: »

Can't you put a file in the directories to stop it indexing .Noindex file.

I tried this & my ringtones etc no longer worked. I'm now using Rocket Player & find it very good. It allows you to set the music folder.

EagererBeaver

RainyDay wrote: »

So when you said "saved for offline listening", what were you referring to?

That I could save tracks, albums, playlists etc for offline listening...

I don't believe I ever mentioned anything about saving my entire music collection?!

DanC90

Patww79 wrote:

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There is a program on Windows called Play Music Manager that allows you to choose which folder/s you want it to search in. It's a pain to find it sometimes but AFAIK I still have the installer saved on my hard drive so if anyone needs it I'll put it on Google Drive and share it.

I personally love using Play Music, I have a lot of my music saved on my computer and now it's all stored in the cloud for me too, if anything were to ever happen to my computer I could use Play Music to restore all my music back to it so it doubles as a music backup of sorts.. When you know your going to be traveling it's easy to download albums or playlists to your phone for offline playback and once you no longer need them you just press a button to remove them from memory.

It's not as easy to just pick up and use as Spotify but with a bit of time setting it up you'll be able to have all of your music with you and still stream anything else in a similar way to Spotify if you pay the monthly fee.

mossym

sentient_6 wrote: »

For me must have Android app for music is DoubleTwist.

thanks for mentioning this, just tried it and loving it. all music and podcasts in one place. probably going to buy the pro version for the airplay support

patmac

Traffic Rider is good fun
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skgames.trafficrider&hl=en

RainyDay

Patww79 wrote: »

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Thanks - any idea if you add your entire library to a playlist and then save it for playing offline?

OldMrBrennan83

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ShooterSF

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Keep with it, it gets better each day, after a few weeks you won't even have to press letters!

Yep. these days I just look at my phone and it types the message for me Wish it would support Esperanto though. Have to switch keyboards when Im typing in it or it messes up my predictions by adding words to the dictionary...

As for recommendations I really like Textra for messaging. Fits the android look really well, clean but customisable.

vibe666

Can anyone recommend a free Android app to use as a Windows mouse/keyboard?

I have an i3 NUC running Windows 10 as a HTPC with a Mele F10 Pro air mouse and geniuses which all work great, but yt? Would be handy to have a backup controller that will work when the F10 is charging etc.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I've had a look, but they mostly seem to be paid apps I've found and half the comments are from people looking for a refund, which doesn't instill much confidence!

BigCon

Unified remote is excellent

Amalgam

vibe666 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a free Android app to use as a Windows mouse/keyboard?

I have an i3 NUC running Windows 10 as a HTPC...!

I bookmarked this with a view on getting a NUC at some point.. Intel themselves have an app, vibe666.



Intel® Remote Keyboard Intel Corporation

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

54and56

Amalgam wrote: »

I bookmarked this with a view on getting a NUC at some point.. Intel themselves have an app, vibe666.



Intel® Remote Keyboard Intel Corporation

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

I have a Dell Win 10 mini PC as my HTPC, don't suppose this app would work with that? I use a Logitech K400 keyboard to control it which I and the kids etc find very good but it would be nice to have something on my phone.

T-b0n3

BigCon wrote: »

Unified remote is excellent

I also use Unified Remote and would be lost without it.

+1

ShooterSF

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

I have a Dell Win 10 mini PC as my HTPC, don't suppose this app would work with that? I use a Logitech K400 keyboard to control it which I and the kids etc find very good but it would be nice to have something on my phone.

You don't use kodi as a front end by any chance? If so yatse is brilliant...

What are the best modules for xPosed?

DopeTech

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What are the best modules for xPosed?

Was going to start a thread in this a while back but then I thought we may not be able to discuss some of the better modules as they help you no pay for things etc.

Ones I use are

CustomText- to remove the carrier name from the status bar of my phone.
Disable fullscreen keyboard - stops keyboard going full screen in landscape mode.
Enhanced toast - hide toast messages in any app you want.
Gravitybox [LP] - lots of things you can edit with this.
Xnotifications - choose to hide any notifications such as the persistent headset connected icon you get on some phones.

Two different YouTube ones

FrostyJim

FrostyJim wrote: »

Was going to start a thread in this a while back but then I thought we may not be able to discuss some of the better modules as they help you no pay for things etc.

You'll most definitely have to PM me those ones *cough*

But the likes of Amplify, Greenify, Boot Manager. Is there any other useful ones?

DopeTech

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You'll most definitely have to PM me those ones *cough*

But the likes of Amplify, Greenify, Boot Manager. Is there any other useful ones?

All above, I edited my post!

mass_debater

MinMin guard is another, block in app ads. Also YouTube adblock.

Be careful of the modules, some if them haven't been updated for some time and could leave you needing a Rom flash to fix.

YouTube adblocker breaks the skip ad button when you're streaming to Chromecast, I've noticed.

dulpit

I assume xposed needs root to work, right?

duridian

dulpit wrote: »

I assume xposed needs root to work, right?

Correct.

(Well, theoretically, I suppose you could install the Xposed framework on an unrooted device with an unlocked bootloader via a custom recovery. But without root it wouldn't be able to do anything with modules.
The unlocking of bootloader is still the part that most manufacturers object to when it comes to warranty.)

dulpit

duridian wrote: »

Correct.

Bah.

Mimikyu

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OldMrBrennan83

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Allyall

Google Keep?

https://www.google.com/keep/


I use it and like it a lot, but when I recommended it to a friend of mine, he wasn't so keen on it.

What suits someone etc..

OldMrBrennan83

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XxMCRxBabyxX

Patww79 wrote: »

I use Keep for a lot of things and find it great, but I want to separate stuff by customer or project so I'd like folders and Keep doesn't have anything bar the 8 colours for distinction between note types.

You can label notes which creates sections for each.

OldMrBrennan83

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nedd

Patww79 wrote: »

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I use OneNote in work, we have OneDrive for Business and I have my OneNote file saved there. I can add notes to it from any device. Android app is a little flaky at times.

OldMrBrennan83

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corkie

Patww79 wrote: »

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BubbleUPnP, localcast or allcast. Using the chromecast feature of the nexus player.

OldMrBrennan83

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