New essential Android apps thread

Liquid_Entity · 27 Nov 2014 at 23:23

FlyingFish said:
Yes but you will have to uninstall the apps from your old device, best to do it through the play store app, and then turn your old phone off. Then turn on your new one and log into your account and install your purchased apps.

Why you need to do this.

I have moto g, nexus 4 and nexus 7 and all have same apps on.

AndyCr15 · 27 Nov 2014 at 23:26

Same. No need to uninstall them.

FlyingFish · 27 Nov 2014 at 23:44

From what I remember, when I tried doing this with my paid apps I found they were greyed out on the market store. So it was like google knew they were still installed on my old device and wouldnt let me install them on my new phone until they were uninstalled from the old phone.

Most of my paid for apps are road and air navigation, so that might have something to do with it, licensing etc..

mrk · 27 Nov 2014 at 23:48

Licensing on Android apps isn't an issue, if you buy it it's tied to your account, not device. If an app was greyed out it means it wasn't compatible with your new device at the time you attempted to install it from the Play Store.

Android = Buy an app, it's available on every Android device that is compatible with the app under your account.

twist3d0n3 · 28 Nov 2014 at 10:39

mrk said:
Licensing on Android apps isn't an issue, if you buy it it's tied to your account, not device. If an app was greyed out it means it wasn't compatible with your new device at the time you attempted to install it from the Play Store.

Android = Buy an app, it's available on every Android device that is compatible with the app under your account.

unless they revoke region-based installs (like they did for some games for me)

Orcvader · 1 Dec 2014 at 14:06

Anyone with the Google Play Services app? I've been noticing ever since it updated to 6.5 on my HTC One M7 Google Search now oddly uses nearly 300mb of RAM, which slows my phone down. My Nexus 10 which is still on 6.1 is fine on the other hand, Google Search doesn't even appear on the running apps list.

Can't even get to the Google Search app settings as it goes to a black screen and crashes.

EDIT: Nevermind, booted into recovery, cleared cache partition, and was able to access the Google settings. Fiddled around with the voice detection settings and that seems to have fixed it.

EDIT 2: Maybe not... decided to clear data from it and Google Search is snappy again and using a lot less RAM.

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Firefox 34 has a new design and also the ability to mirror tabs to Chromecast! Works pretty well so far.

mrk · 2 Dec 2014 at 11:08

They listened!

Today Calendar updated with options for background opacity for ongoing events in the widget. It's now 100% amazing

Edit*
Bah it doesn't affect highlighted events individually....

Cosimo · 2 Dec 2014 at 11:11

Google Santa Tracker 2014 edition:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...utm_source=42matters.com&utm_medium=WidgetWeb

Morfik · 3 Dec 2014 at 08:13

Peggle Blast out for Android (and iOS) - it's awesome fun!

Orcvader · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:19

Ghostery has released a browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.android.ghostery

Works pretty well, but in terms of performance it seems to be a bit hit and miss.

Terrier_Jimlad · 3 Dec 2014 at 17:56

mrk said:
They listened!

Today Calendar updated with options for background opacity for ongoing events in the widget. It's now 100% amazing

Edit*
Bah it doesn't affect highlighted events individually....

Mine hasn't updated, is the update on Play Store yet?

Glad it's been fixed, doing my head in since you cruelly pointed it out a while ago lol

dabotsonline · 3 Dec 2014 at 19:44

Orcvader said:
Ghostery has released a browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.android.ghostery

Works pretty well, but in terms of performance it seems to be a bit hit and miss.

How does Ghostery compare in speed and functionality to Javelin on Android?

Orcvader · 4 Dec 2014 at 00:37

dabotsonline said:
How does Ghostery compare in speed and functionality to Javelin on Android?

Javelin feels more polished in terms of browsing speed/performance. I personally don't like it's UI though so Ghostery which has more of a stock UI feels better to use for me.

mrk · 4 Dec 2014 at 00:45

Terrier_Jimlad said:
Mine hasn't updated, is the update on Play Store yet?

Glad it's been fixed, doing my head in since you cruelly pointed it out a while ago lol

It's still white

Dimi · 6 Dec 2014 at 00:51

Xposed users, the best modules to download?

These are the ones I'm using,

GravityBox
ChromePie
Native Clip Board
Smooth System Progress Bars
Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer
YouTube AdAway
YourTube

Orcvader · 6 Dec 2014 at 01:20

Youtube finally gets a touch of Material Design: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/05/youtube-gets-updated-material-design-apk-download/

Quinnaay · 6 Dec 2014 at 01:38

Youtube's now gone Material looks great

download : http://www.droid-life.com/2014/12/05/youtube-gets-its-material-design-update-with-version-6-0-11/

edit beaten

Buckster · 6 Dec 2014 at 08:47

lets hope they add better 1440p support

frustrating to have a nice AMOLED 1440p screen and no option in youtube to play at that res

Buckster · 7 Dec 2014 at 13:08

is it safe to install from APKmirror - new youtube app has lots of very useful features for my tablet namely the ability to do anything in full sreen mode (you can't even pause in the current version on my tablet !)- and 1440p support

but I'd heard certain non-play store app installed apps like a google one - can access your account - so was worried other than from google play store itself

thanks

Swarfega · 7 Dec 2014 at 13:29

I updated YouTube using that site. The packages are signed so yes they are legit.