Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Professey Chin

madmoe wrote: »

Where would one acquire this then :-)

Got it from here
http://www.whatsapp.com/android/

eoferrall

madmoe wrote: »

Where would one acquire this then :-)

download from whatsapp website, and install in apk

http://www.whatsapp.com/android/

edit: chinpool beat me!

M cebee

i want to install whatsapp on my sons wi-fi tablet

does he need a phone number for verification?

Star Lord

Yup, only works on phones unless it has a SIM I think.

dulpit

A buddy of mine showed me the Simpsons: Tapped Out game yesterday, so picked it up and played it last night and today. I can see why people get addicted to these things, it's very good and very very addictive...

irishgeo

Permanent TSB mobile banking app is outhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nearform.ptsb#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLm5lYXJmb3JtLnB0c2IiXQ..

jester77

Qualcomm have released a beta version of their Snapdragon battery managing app. If you have battery issues and run a snapdragon processor then this might be useful. It learns the usage patterns of your phone and tries to conserve battery based off of these.

dulpit

Swiftkey has updated to version 4. Free upgrade for those who already own the app, includes flow (which is like swype).

Best keyboard app for android got a little bit better in my mind (plus you can download the Irish language if you want).

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey

Note: might not yet be updated to V4 here, at home my appstore thinks I'm in America :pac:

danniemcq

i think swift key is only 2 quid today too

madmoe

dulpit wrote: »

Swiftkey has updated to version 4. Free upgrade for those who already own the app, includes flow (which is like swype).

Best keyboard app for android got a little bit better in my mind (plus you can download the Irish language if you want).

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey

Note: might not yet be updated to V4 here, at home my appstore thinks I'm in America :pac:

Using and love it......but swipe backwards does not delete wrong words anymore :-(

Professey Chin

madmoe wrote: »

Using and love it......but swipe backwards does not delete wrong words anymore :-(

It does with flow disabled. Otherwise it gets confused as to if youre trying to type so they just turned it off

madmoe

Chinpool wrote: »

It does with flow disabled. Otherwise it gets confused as to if youre trying to type so they just turned it off

Ahhhhhh.....that makes sense.....but I still miss it!

evolutionqy7

I'll see how it goes. I've been pretty happy with stock galaxy note 2 keyboard using swipe on that. All the times before I tried swift key it worked great in the start then started ducking up later so ended up deleting it. Will see how it goes this time. Swipe working ok anyway.

danniemcq

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I'll see how it goes. I've been pretty happy with stock galaxy note 2 keyboard using swipe on that. All the times before I tried swift key it worked great in the start then started ducking up later so ended up deleting it. Will see how it goes this time. Swipe working ok anyway.

did you post this from your phone?

evolutionqy7

danniemcq wrote: »

did you post this from your phone?

I think we all know what ducking stands for at this stage

brian ireland

daftdave

brian ireland wrote: »

thanks for that, looks awsome.

Columbia

Live score addicts is great, I never miss a notification (they frequently never arrived with other similar apps).

I just installed Swiftkey 4 last night. I had tried Swype before and uninstalled it (didn't work as well as Swiftkey, and took up about 4 times as much memory), so I was all ready to revert back to Swiftkey 3. However I like v4 a lot, it's a big improvement on v3, which itself was already great.

Mars Bar

I'm enjoying The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
Wish there was easier ways to get donuts though.

Mars Bar

whoops

jimmynokia

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm enjoying The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
Wish there was easier ways to get donuts though.

So good you had to say it twice

demanufactured

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwarebakery.drivedroid&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Ddrivedroid

evolutionqy7

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm enjoying The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
Wish there was easier ways to get donuts though.

There is buy them hehe, there was a hacked app but EA fixed the loops though.

It ducks up the game though so I find it silly. You can fly through the game if you have more donuts

Liamalone

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

There is buy them hehe, there was a hacked app but EA fixed the loops though.

It ducks up the game though so I find it silly. You can fly through the game if you have more donuts

What is the aim if the 'game'? I'm struggling to figure it out tbh

evolutionqy7

Liamalone wrote: »

What is the aim if the 'game'? I'm struggling to figure it out tbh

Build the Simpsons town? Recover lost characters
I don't have a lot of time to play games. So the requirement of only getting on once every couple of hours is great

thebman

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Build the Simpsons town? Recover lost characters
I don't have a lot of time to play games. So the requirement of only getting on once every couple of hours is great

Yeah, you can get other apps that work similarly (i.e pay to advance quicker by buying special items) and although you progress more slowly, if you enjoy the games, there are a lot of them out there that don't require you to pay to play and can keep you entertained if you have a few of them.

I play the simpsons ones now but used to play myclinic for android which you can win the special items by spinning a wheel (winning streak style) and you have a reasonable chance of winning the gold coins. I never paid anything and by the time I stopped playing had a few hundred of the coins and could buy anything I wanted.

thebman

I made a politics.ie app that goes to the mobile site if anyone wants it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brim4brim.politics_ie

Admittedly, it would be more popular over there :P

BopNiblets

Puzzle Retreat, a well designed puzzle game, slide blocks into holes in the right order:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thevoxelagents.puzzleretreat

thebman

Ok my boards.ie touch app is up now.

Again just a web view app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brim4brim.boards_ie&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icmltNGJyaW0uYm9hcmRzX2llIl0.

god's toy

thebman wrote: »

Ok my boards.ie touch app is up now.

Again just a web view app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brim4brim.boards_ie&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icmltNGJyaW0uYm9hcmRzX2llIl0.

Thanks! looking good.

So the ads i'm seeing within the threads of boards while using this app are from boards alone?

thebman

god's toy wrote: »

Thanks! looking good.

So the ads i'm seeing within the threads of boards while using this app are from boards alone?

Yeah, I've no ads in it. I don't make any money out of it.

evolutionqy7

thebman wrote: »

Ok my boards.ie touch app is up now.

Again just a web view app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brim4brim.boards_ie&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icmltNGJyaW0uYm9hcmRzX2llIl0.

Is there any point to this? I mean most android phones can add a bookmark to the homepage that looks like an app

Uriel.

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Is there any point to this? I mean most android phones can add a bookmark to the homepage that looks like an app

Yep like in the bottom left of my home screen. Don't understand the point but maybe I'm missing something

donalg1

Does anyone know of a good weather forecast app, Met Eireann seem to only want to tell me what the weather is like today, which is as useful as looking out the window.

Delboy5

donalg1 wrote: »

Does anyone know of a good weather forecast app, Met Eireann seem to only want to tell me what the weather is like today, which is as useful as looking out the window.

Check out the 1Weather app, i think its cool

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handmark.expressweather&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oYW5kbWFyay5leHByZXNzd2VhdGhlciJd

thebman

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Is there any point to this? I mean most android phones can add a bookmark to the homepage that looks like an app

Well the point is that most users don't know that is possible.

It requires a certain level of knowledge that most people don't have about Android so it is an ease of use thing.

Also some sites don't populate with an icon in the drawer, they use the generic built in one so if you add a few, the icons aren't distinguishable at a glance.

So it is mostly a usability thing.

You could also just bookmark boards in the web browser but most people don't and want as few touches as possible to get to their most used sites.

Most people will search the store for an app and assume if they don't find one that it isn't possible to use that site on their phone as most people don't know the touch site exists unless they try to reach it with their phone browser.

So in short, there is a point to it...

evolutionqy7

thebman wrote: »

Well the point is that most users don't know that is possible.

It requires a certain level of knowledge that most people don't have about Android so it is an ease of use thing.

Also some sites don't populate with an icon in the drawer, they use the generic built in one so if you add a few, the icons aren't distinguishable at a glance.

So it is mostly a usability thing.

You could also just bookmark boards in the web browser but most people don't and want as few touches as possible to get to their most used sites.

Most people will search the store for an app and assume if they don't find one that it isn't possible to use that site on their phone as most people don't know the touch site exists unless they try to reach it with their phone browser.

So in short, there is a point to it...

I still don't see the point. If their that uneducated they shouldn't be using a smartphone.. This is just dumbing down the society

RangeR

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I still don't see the point. If their that uneducated they shouldn't be using a smartphone.. This is just dumbing down the society

That's a very ignorant comment. Smartphones aren't just for techies. By your view [and I assume you are just trying to be funny], most people shouldn't be allowed on a computer not have access to the interwebs.

Kenny Logins

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Is there any point to this?

No..

Discodog

donalg1 wrote: »

Does anyone know of a good weather forecast app, Met Eireann seem to only want to tell me what the weather is like today, which is as useful as looking out the window.

yr.no is one of the best & it has a widget.

cullenswood

donalg1 wrote: »

Does anyone know of a good weather forecast app, Met Eireann seem to only want to tell me what the weather is like today, which is as useful as looking out the window.

The Met Eireann app gives a detailed forecast for the today and tomorrow. It also gives an outlook forecast for the next five days.

I am not sure what else you would need from a weather app. The ones that give 10, 15, 20 day forecasts are bullsh1t as it is impossible to predict that far ahead, and also, would other agencies not have to take their lead from the national weather agency?

donalg1

Discodog wrote: »

yr.no is one of the best & it has a widget.

Just had a look at that, looks perfect exactly what I wanted.

evolutionqy7

RangeR wrote: »

That's a very ignorant comment. Smartphones aren't just for techies. By your view [and I assume you are just trying to be funny], most people shouldn't be allowed on a computer not have access to the interwebs.

Not trying to be ignorant or funny. Its just a simple function, its not rocket science.
If they can manage to register for a Google Mail account to access the play store, I'm sure it cant be a massive leap to bookmark it.

As I said I hate these sort of apps, because I categorize them as marketplace spam. Fair play for making the effort, but I wouldn't even call it an app. Its just a shortcut to a website.

thebman

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Not trying to be ignorant or funny. Its just a simple function, its not rocket science.
If they can manage to register for a Google Mail account to access the play store, I'm sure it cant be a massive leap to bookmark it.

As I said I hate these sort of apps, because I categorize them as marketplace spam. Fair play for making the effort, but I wouldn't even call it an app. Its just a shortcut to a website.

It does completely ignore reality though. Many people get help to get the phone and mail accounts setup and are shown how to search the store and that is all they know.

By your logic, the terminal is good enough and everyone else should stop being ignorant of the commands.

It completely ignores that for many, bookmarking a site in the browser app and then adding a widget from the home screen that points at the bookmark created by the browser app is horribly unintuitive.

Personally I didn't even know you could do it before I wrote my first web app for myself and I don't want those shortcuts on my home screen as I access everything else through the drawer.

Same way if I want to access alarms I can tap the clock widget but I usually go through the app drawer as it is how I access things.

So it does serve a purpose but it depends on your preferences on how you want to do things on your phone.

You only consider it spam because it isn't your preference and you consider a bookmark on your home screen or in the browser good enough.

RangeR

Ultimately, it's about choice.


Now... back on topic. Show me the apps.

Krusty_Clown

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I still don't see the point. If their that uneducated they shouldn't be using a smartphone.. This is just dumbing down the society

Exactly. What we need are more spelling, grammar and punctuation apps.

MonkstownHoop

brian ireland wrote: »

woeful app, used it tonight and unless its one of the top leagues or competitions you dont get notifications until full time

batistuta9

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

woeful app, used it tonight and unless its one of the top leagues or competitions you dont get notifications until full time

out of interest what league were you trying?

MonkstownHoop

batistuta9 wrote: »

out of interest what league were you trying?

had championship, league 1 and setanta cup

Alpha Dog 1

Cant beat the fotmob app for football scores/notifications.