Must Have Android Apps and Games?

dulpit

Thargor wrote: »

Im going to give it a try, Swiftkey changed to some neural sh1te a while back and it was never the same, seemed to stop learning from me.

Are you sure you're not using the Swiftkey Neural Alpha? It's a different app to the main one?

The high horse brigade

I've moved to Gboard, early days yet but it's ok so far

BionicRasher

Fysh wrote: »

Hi folks, I'm hoping some of ye here can help point me in the right direction. I've recently switched to a Nexus 5x and am struggling with some of the customisation.

First - sound profiles. I see a lot of apps that use GPS or network location as triggers for setting profiles, but that's not what I want. I'm looking for 2 things:
1) The ability to control all volume settings within one app, and create profiles with these settings, and
2) The ability to schedule changes at specific times to particular profiles.

So e.g. I want to be able to set a schedule where, Monday to Friday at 8:45, a quiet profile kicks in.

I've toyed with Llama, which can sort of do some of what I want, but it seems imperfect as the way I'm using it is kind of working around its intended function?

Secondly - notification sounds. I'm baffled at the inconsistency of notification sound handling. Some apps let you set whatever sound you like, others only let you choose from their sounds, and others still let you choose either your default notification sound or their set of sounds.

What I want is a way to forcibly assign each app its own notification sound, so that I can know from the notification which app is triggering it. I don't mind paying for an app to do this, but I'd prefer to buy something that's recommended.

Any suggestions?

Automateit is great
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage

Try the free one first but it's always the first app i install.
Much easier than Tasker but almost as powerful

OldMrBrennan83

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sentient_6

Patww79 wrote: »

AA's apps of 2016.

http://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-apps-released-2016-733785/

Saw this yesterday and installed Brave browser out of the list, its great, Chrome with built-in ad block basically.

jeffk

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Bought Swipe for Facebook for 1.50 as its on special and loving it :cool:

OldMrBrennan83

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jeffk

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Yeah they did, theres about 5 different options for messages

jeffk

sentient_6 wrote: »

Saw this yesterday and installed Brave browser out of the list, its great, Chrome with built-in ad block basically.

Shame the account/bookmark sync option isnt there(yet?)

sentient_6

jeffk wrote: »

Shame the account/bookmark sync option isnt there(yet?)

Ya, iv all my passwords in Chrome, 90% of my mobile browsing is boards though so im mostly grand after signing in!

SuprSi

I installed Brave, but even after logging into Boards the layout is completely different to the touch site in Chrome. I also don't get the option to switch to the full site, to see if I could switch back. Has this happened to anyone else?

sentient_6

SuprSi wrote: »

I installed Brave, but even after logging into Boards the layout is completely different to the touch site in Chrome. I also don't get the option to switch to the full site, to see if I could switch back. Has this happened to anyone else?

My layout on the touch site is exactly as it should be and there's the full site link at the very bottom. Odd!

SuprSi

It was loading the newer desktop site and I couldn't find an option to change too the touch site. I had to change to the legacy desktop site and use the option at the bottom of the page to switch to touch. Panic over

smilerf

Installed brave just there.. Love it
I was forever pressing the adds here by mistake

DopeTech

smilerf wrote: »

Installed brave just there.. Love it
I was forever pressing the adds here by mistake

If only you could hide the brave icon beside the address bar. It would be much better suited in the menu dropdown in my opinion. Apart from that though I love it. One of the main reasons I root my phones is for adblocker but since android pay was launched I can't use it if rooted. This gives me the best of both worlds.

god's toy

FrostyJim wrote: »

If only you could hide the brave icon beside the address bar. It would be much better suited in the menu dropdown in my opinion. Apart from that though I love it. One of the main reasons I root my phones is for adblocker but since android pay was launched I can't use it if rooted. This gives me the best of both worlds.

If Brave doesn't work out for you, you can use firefox on android as it works with all the add-ons the desktop version does. E.G. you can load up ad block extension like uBlock Origin and have full desktop sync with your other devices and desktop computers ect.

Thargor

Gboard would want to start learning and improving fast or Im going back to Swiftkey, its actually shockingly bad.

Another annoying thing about it is that for some text fields like a search in Google Now it turns off its suggestions and its just a standard keyboard, I cant find a way to tell it to always be suggesting words to me.

sentient_6

Thargor wrote: »

Gboard would want to start learning and improving fast or Im going back to Swiftkey, its actually shockingly bad.

Another annoying thing about it is that for some text fields like a search in Google Now it turns off its suggestions and its just a standard keyboard, I cant find a way to tell it to always be suggesting words to me.

And search in Chrome, instant uninstall there a couple of weeks ago. SwiftKey is still the best imo.

Thargor

dulpit wrote: »

Are you sure you're not using the Swiftkey Neural Alpha? It's a different app to the main one?

Doh, back to Swiftkey I go

youcancallmeal

Anyone with brave browser know if it's possible to sync favourites from chrome or even import them

smilerf

youcancallmeal wrote: »

Anyone with brave browser know if it's possible to sync favourites from chrome or even import them

not that I can see

jozi

Can you import them as a html file?

Going to give this browser a go, looks identical to chrome to me but with ad block, or am I looking at something else?

sentient_6

jozi wrote: »

Can you import them as a html file?

Going to give this browser a go, looks identical to chrome to me but with ad block, or am I looking at something else?

It is chrome, or a modified build of it more like.

Alf Stewart.

youcancallmeal wrote: »

Anyone with brave browser know if it's possible to sync favourites from chrome or even import them

I just jump from chrome to brave, copying and pasting URLs as I go, turn bookmarking them.


I found it relatively painless.

Ghost Train

Limbo, from Playdead is a great game, seems to be €0.50 at the moment

The high horse brigade

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

I just jump from chrome to brave, copying and pasting URLs as I go, turn bookmarking them.


I found it relatively painless.

You must have very few bookmarks, my chrome has hundreds in separate folders. There must be some way to sync

Thargor

Why do you need hundreds of bookmarks?

The high horse brigade

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You must have very few bookmarks, my chrome has hundreds in separate folders. There must be some way to sync

You are the electronic equivalent of a hoarder lol.
I know where you are coming from though, if only there was an industry standard for bookmarks allowing them to be copied between any browser. I might only have a dozen or so bookmarks but more importantly for me, chrome remembers dozens of passwords for me across PC, Tablet and phone. That's not so easy to copy across as I would end up having to reset dozens of passwords. (I could have used a separate password manager - I know!)

Blacktie.

Thargor wrote: »

Why do you need hundreds of bookmarks?

See an article you want to read but don;t have time right now. Bookmark it and get back to it later. Never end up getting back to it and accumulate massive amounts of bookmarks.

OldMrBrennan83

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Blacktie.

Patww79 wrote: »

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It's actually something I used to do. Now I use evernote and together with the widget on my phone I actually do read them all.

The high horse brigade

Thargor wrote: »

Why do you need hundreds of bookmarks?

I don't really, but they pop up in Chrome searches which makes them very easy to find later on mobile and desktop. I've been bookmarking for years on desktop, had bookmarks synced using Foxmarks once (became Xmarks, then got bought by Lastpass), then moved them to Chrome, this has carried on the tradition. I do do an annual cleanout bit I'm using Pocket more and more now just not for Chrome bookmarks

Cianos

Any recommendations along the lines of Boom Beach or other strategy type games but a bit more involved?

Alf Stewart.

Tried Gboard, thought it was ok, nothing spectacular.

For me, the keyboard I always end up going back to is swpye/dragon.

Unless the others are missing the text selection and copy paste functions, ease and simplicity it has, because its not something I've seen on them, and why I keep going back.

The high horse brigade

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Tried Gboard, thought it was ok, nothing spectacular.

For me, the keyboard I always end up going back to is swpye/dragon.

Unless the others are missing the text selection and copy paste functions, ease and simplicity it has, because its not something I've seen on them, and why I keep going back.

Me also, no keyboard swipes like Swype and I can't live without the copy and paste gestures. I try other keyboards but always come back. I have an Xposed module giving me Google voice instead of Dragon

kaisersose77

Anyone using UK version of iPlayer radio? Global version works fine but UK version just crashes for me. Wanted to check out Chromecast option and also see if it has a programme reminder option.

Bob Z

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You must have very few bookmarks, my chrome has hundreds in separate folders. There must be some way to sync

You could use something Google bookmarks(which is separate to chrome)

Bob Z

Ghost Train wrote: »

Limbo, from Playdead is a great game, seems to be €0.50 at the moment

Back up to full price again

Discodog

I use Eversync to sync bookmarks & dial between my pc & phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fvd.eversync&hl=en-GB

jozi

Hoping someone might know of an app which can do the following for creating shopping lists:

Be shareable on multiple devices and have default sets that can be added to a list.

Over the course of a month we regularly eat the same meals and it would save time having to type up the same list of ingredients each time if we could just add meals A,B,C one week and A,D,G the following week to a shopping list from a template.

Anyone got any idea's? I have todoist but you need to be premium and I can't see any way to facilitate this on Andy.Do

donspeekinglesh

Our Groceries can do that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.headcode.ourgroceries

Bluefoam

jozi wrote: »

any way to facilitate this on Andy.Do

I recently got rid of Any.Do

There were some really strange things happening with my launcher... when I missed calls... I would get big graphics across my screen etc. I couldn't figure out where the hell they were coming from, but eventually traced them back to the Any.Do app, which had incleded changes to your launcher without much warning during an inoquous app update... I'll never use the app again, can't be trusted.

jozi

It does look like it will work but the app looks terrible! It has ads in every view and cost almost 4e to purchase.

Bluefoam

Example:

OldMrBrennan83

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jozi

Thats a setting in And.Do that you can set a reminder to call someone back. It can be disabled in settings, I think it's called "Missed Call".

Bluefoam

jozi wrote: »

Thats a setting in And.Do that you can set a reminder to call someone back. It can be disabled in settings, I think it's called "Missed Call".

That may be correct, but they enabled it on my phone, took over my launcher without notifying me and made it very difficult for me to find the source of the problem... Once I see any messing like that, I delete the app... I keep my phone very neat and tidy, no messing, no fancy launchers, functions etc... no games, no unnecessary apps, no bloatware...

Thats why I'm a big HTC fanboy... Their interface looks great, is useful and simple, no bull****.

jozi

It's a default setting like their And.Do Moment, it's on by default and can be turned of.

I'm with you on keeping the phone nice and clean etc which was why I have Andy.Do I like it's simple clean interface and when I have a reminder I like how it pops up. I'm not a fan of their Any do moment or mised calls notification.

If only it could have list templates with default tasks I can add for shopping

ShoulderChip

I got a 50 quid play voucher bundled with my phone, any suggestions for how to use it (no interest in movies or books)

ShoulderChip

ShoulderChip wrote: »

I got a 50 quid play voucher bundled with my phone, any suggestions for how to use it (no interest in movies or books)

SwiftKey