Essential Android Apps

2StepSteve · 16 Jul 2012 at 12:33

PBancroft said:
And not at all addictive!

I spent most of the weekend playing! Not addictive at all

mrk · 16 Jul 2012 at 12:37

Bomb The Zombies is quite fun, 20MB though! Cute graphics.

Kelt · 16 Jul 2012 at 12:57

mrk said:
Back on Thumb Keyboard, I just miss the landscape layout in it that other boards don't really have:

Gotta say, Thumb keyboard is excellent on my Nexus 7.
Love the landscape layout.

mrk · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:09

I'll be using it on my N7 as well

Looking forward to gamies like Dead Trigger on it too though. Good thing about rooting is that you can hotswap around application data easily.

I hope Google enable cloud based app data storage for game saves and whatnot, saves an extra process.

Kelt · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:27

mrk said:
I'll be using it on my N7 as well

Looking forward to gamies like Dead Trigger on it too though. Good thing about rooting is that you can hotswap around application data easily.

I hope Google enable cloud based app data storage for game saves and whatnot, saves an extra process.

Dead Trigger is awesome on the 7. Really shows off the power of the Tegra 3 chipset.

mrk · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:29

It runs and looks just as good on the S3 too with ultra high settings unlocked

I just want to see it on the bigger screen!

Orcvader · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:35

Nexus18 said:
Look at what I found :

http://i.imgur.com/Lju9r.png

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calsto.statusbar.jb&feature=search_result

No need for root access etc. just install and you have the stock android JB black status bar straight away

Only problem is in order to get notifications, you have to grant access to pretty much everything so in other words it can access all your texts that you receive etc.

That's the closest my phone will get to ICS/JB, thanks for that

. Too bad it keeps crashing...

Cyclone · 17 Jul 2012 at 02:07

mrk said:
It runs and looks just as good on the S3 too with ultra high settings unlocked

I just want to see it on the bigger screen!

It does make a person moist playing that game on a phone

Cosimo · 17 Jul 2012 at 09:43

London 2012: Official Join In App:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5sb25kb24yMDEyLmpvaW5pbiJd

London 2012: Official Results App:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmxvbmRvbjIwMTIucmVzdWx0cyJd

UKDTweak · 17 Jul 2012 at 09:46

Kelt said:
Dead Trigger is awesome on the 7. Really shows off the power of the Tegra 3 chipset.

I love playing this on my Asus transformer with a PS3 controller, works really well, shame there are so few areas, each level is like the previous one... but hopefully more levels to come.

kersey · 17 Jul 2012 at 10:07

mrk said:
Back on Thumb Keyboard, I just miss the landscape layout in it that other boards don't really have:

Thanks for the heads up, just bought the app and am impressed with the landscape layout. Really makes a difference with my sausage fingers

Kelt · 17 Jul 2012 at 10:22

kersey said:
Thanks for the heads up, just bought the app and am impressed with the landscape layout. Really makes a difference with my sausage fingers

It's brilliant isn't it. I was using Swiftkey before this, but that has known bugs with Chrome, so bought this after seeing mrk's post. Loving it and can't see me going back.

Nexus18 · 17 Jul 2012 at 11:15

May have to give it a try again, currently using the jellybean keyboard (from the same developer of thumb keyboard) and really liking it, prediction seems great and much better than the ICS keyboard, just a shame that it doesn't allow you to add words to the dictionary

Really want a keyboard that has cursor keys on the bottom though (hoping this will be added into a jellybean keyboard at some point).

May go back to the sense V4 keyboard at some point as well, found it excellent.

mrk · 17 Jul 2012 at 11:17

Thumb allows cursor keys on top or bottom

Nexus18 · 17 Jul 2012 at 11:30

Yeah I seen that from your SS above

How is the prediction? Last time I used it, it was "all right", not great and no better than the other keyboards I found.

mrk · 17 Jul 2012 at 11:32

I don't use next word prediction, only error correction (spaces, typos). Seems as fine as Swiftkey/Swype/ICS in that area.

Nexus18 · 17 Jul 2012 at 11:46

Ok thanks, will give it a go and see how I get on with it

IanAG · 17 Jul 2012 at 12:13

simulatorman said:
The HD version won't break the bank.

Is it just me or is the HD version of Amazing Alex no different? Tried the free one and thought it was quite cool, purchased the HD and wonder what to the price premium is for as they look exactly the same. Pretty sure they are having us on, have refunded for now and will reinstall if they are not. Pretty dubious practice if so.

benjo · 17 Jul 2012 at 14:22

Tried thumb keyboard for five minutes and I made so many typos. Back to swiftkey

krooton · 17 Jul 2012 at 18:23

Random issue, and not sure if it is the browser or the keyboard.

GF have a new Galaxy Ace 2, but when she selects a text box to input, say to comment on a facebook post, as soon as she starts typing it scrolls to the top of the page, and she cannot see what she is typing.

This happens in both version of Dolphin browser, and the default samsung browser, with both the samsung keyboard and swype.

Doesn't happen on my SGS2, any ideas?