Essential Android Apps

[Amos91]

There's a 107MB TTS UK HD voice pack out for Samsung TTS, may be good for those on Samsung phones. Get it via Samsung Apps store. I use Ivona but am gonna give this a go as it seems good.

Any thoughts on this now compared to Ivona?

 

[mrk]

Any thoughts on this now compared to Ivona?

I will use it this afternoon, not used it properly yet!

 

[Antony101]

Themer is a wonderful app.

This code should get you into the beta while there servers are down: MSTRCD.

 

[cobrax]

Heres another Themer code for someone : ZW6PGJ

 

[mrk]

Thanks for the Themer codes, I tried it last night and thought it was a bit pants sadly.



As for Samsung HD voice tts, used it today and it's good, similar natural language to Ivona but she pronounces A roads as "ah" so A34 is spoken as ah34. Because of that I've switched back to Ivona.

 

[muttclugg]

Iplayer now supports downloads on the note 2

 

[mrk]

Looks like we will have another launcher on the market soon as Google release the Experience Launcher along with other Google apps on the Play Store.

More info here http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...re-some-things-we-are-expecting-to-see-in-it/

Looking forward to this quite a lot and Android 4.4 sounds juicier by the minute.

 

[tals]

Really wish they would move on from menu buttons on the screen. Till they do in stuck with a modded phone as those buttons just look wrong now

 

[Orcvader]

I don't see anything wrong with onscreen buttons... Rather, I prefer them now.

From the looks of things if the launcher hits the Play store, then loads of the stock Android apps would be avaliable for anyone to download, meaning they don't need to flash a ROM to get the pure Android experience .

 

[tals]

I don't see anything wrong with onscreen buttons... Rather, I prefer them now.

But do you know any different? I only appreciated how irritating they were when I moved to pie controls. The menu buttons now just seem out of place when I see an n4 with stock android.

 

[miniyazz]

I dislike onscreen menu buttons, it's a step backwards IMO. Why switch to having to hunt around for a menu button on the screen when a hardware button makes far more sense and is exactly where you left it? It's not even like there's not space for four buttons if Google insists on keeping a switch app button as a main button; my Desire HD has four buttons, one of them search, and that's far smaller than most phones available now.
This is one of the reasons I'm not so keen on the Nexus lineup at the moment; my Note 2 has a nice hardware Menu button. However I'm occasionally noticing apps which refuse to use that, somehow. I presume they're just poorly coded..
Pie controls looks useful, I might look into it.

 

[-Mike-]

Why is it forum posts all have different text sizes in chrome on my nexus 7? Can I fix this its driving me mental!

 

[Kreeeee]

Chrome has done that for years. It drives me potty on my phone but the text is never too small to read on my nexus 7 so it doesn't bother me on that.

 

[rob77]

Why is it forum posts all have different text sizes in chrome on my nexus 7? Can I fix this its driving me mental!

Try using Chrome beta. That fixed it for me.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

But do you know any different? I only appreciated how irritating they were when I moved to pie controls. The menu buttons now just seem out of place when I see an n4 with stock android.

Pie controls?

 

[Matteysan]

Pie controls?

It is part of PA/CM/AOKP

You can also get LMT Gestures which does the same thing near enough.

 

[Ryan-3]

Try using Chrome beta. That fixed it for me.

I gave Dolphin browser a go and it's bloody good. Has none of the issues Chrome or Firefox have and I think it's much easier to use.

 

[Quinnaay]

I'm also using dolphin browser and seems good for the most part.

 

[Quinnaay]

Is there anyway to get Flash on dolphin browser without rooting?

 

[Rimsy]

no idea but it works with Boat with no issues at all. just install boat browser from Google play and bam - your note 3 displays flash.