Essential Android Apps

Danger Phoenix · 20 Feb 2013 at 12:43

The new SwiftKey screws up typing in RealVNC. Letters repeat themselves, and that is with Flow disabled

Skillmister · 20 Feb 2013 at 12:45

My main gripe with flow is not being able to swipe to delete words. Makes it so much slower, with the added bonus of needing to delete more often with flow...

benjo · 20 Feb 2013 at 12:47

It's just as quick to hold backspace?

Skillmister · 20 Feb 2013 at 12:50

No it isn't unless you turn the long press duration right down which is odd imo. Ruins the flow too (no pun intended)

_Jimlad_ · 20 Feb 2013 at 15:25

New BBC sport app in the play store. Works a treat

PixelChef · 20 Feb 2013 at 17:25

The new Swiftkey is showing as incompatible with my Nexus 4, anyone else?

tals · 20 Feb 2013 at 18:09

Do you mean

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

This shows fine for me?

tals · 20 Feb 2013 at 18:11

tals said:
Anyone able to recommend me an app to read incoming sms sender and message.

Ability to set volume of speech in app essential.

Just in case it got lost, does anyone use a text to speach app to read out incoming sms messages

photoshop · 20 Feb 2013 at 19:12

Does Titanium Back Up Pro back up user app settings too or just the apps?

mrk · 20 Feb 2013 at 19:17

Everything^

photoshop · 20 Feb 2013 at 19:33

Thanks.
So when i do a full wipe and a clean install, i reinstall Titanium, copy saved apps over to its directory and then restore apps and it will restore and set them up with the user settings too?

benjo · 20 Feb 2013 at 20:04

I just tell it to backup my apps+data to my external SD card. Then when I flash a new rom I just tell it to restore from the same location

I only do this because I've had it in the past where the internal SD card has been wiped during a new rom installation.

PixelChef · 20 Feb 2013 at 21:26

tals said:
Do you mean

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

This shows fine for me?

Yes that's what I mean. "This app is incompatible with your 3 LGE Nexus 4."

Hmm.

AndyCr15 · 20 Feb 2013 at 21:28

Skyfall said:
Post a screen of your battery use page, I'm pretty confident that the screen will be at the top.

Sure.

If you're believing the built in battery stats, that might be where you're going wrong.

photoshop · 20 Feb 2013 at 21:28

What are people using on their lockscreens to hide the status bar?

And is there any way to hide it when i view an image? I notice the image doesn't fill the whole screen....well it does but the navigation bar/status bar is still there. Want images to use all the screen

AndyCr15 · 20 Feb 2013 at 21:30

Am I the only one that doesn't use a lock screen? I've not once pocket dialed, or launched apps I didn't mean to. Lockscreens just slow my phone usage down

Scam · 20 Feb 2013 at 21:56

AndyCr15 said:
Am I the only one that doesn't use a lock screen? I've not once pocket dialed, or launched apps I didn't mean to. Lockscreens just slow my phone usage down

If you're happy for any opportunistic thief to gain access to your Gmail, Facebook, Twin line banking etc then sure why not?

Deep · 20 Feb 2013 at 22:06

AndyCr15 said:
Am I the only one that doesn't use a lock screen? I've not once pocket dialed, or launched apps I didn't mean to. Lockscreens just slow my phone usage down

I use a pattern lockscreen and nothing else. It's added security and doesn't take long to unlock.

I can press the button and if I haven't got any notifications I don't need to unlock it

AndyCr15 · 20 Feb 2013 at 22:13

Scam said:
If you're happy for any opportunistic thief to gain access to your Gmail, Facebook, Twin line banking etc then sure why not?

Risk to annoyance ratio, yeah, I'm happy. Out of interest, do you have a padlock on your wallet?

Deep · 20 Feb 2013 at 22:18

AndyCr15 said:
Risk to annoyance ratio, yeah, I'm happy. Out of interest, do you have a padlock on your wallet?

That's a terrible analogy.
Your cards have security on them, it's just cash that doesn't.