Essential Android Apps

benjo · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:25

Yeah it's pretty decent, nice to see BBC putting some effort into Android for once

Orcvader · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:50

Very nice weather app from the BBC. Nice to see they have the swipe menu as well. No black menu bar too! Now if only they can sort out their News app to be similiar

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Skillmister · 10 Jun 2013 at 20:46

Transfer your Spotify Playlists to Google Music: All Access

http://www.maui.at/2013/06/portify/

trentlad · 10 Jun 2013 at 23:21

benjo said:
Yeah it's pretty decent, nice to see BBC putting some effort into Android for once

Their news apps has been out for a while now, you should see the widget it creates. Excellent!

mrk · 11 Jun 2013 at 00:35

Participant said:
Gone back to SwiftKey now. Just making too many mistakes with Google's keyboard. Probably just down to practice, but in any case...

Also I miss the cursor arrows and have never found gesture typing faster or less effort than just tapping.

One thing that makes me quicker at adding symbols and punctuation to Google's keyboard than Swift or Swype is the ability to quickly hold the symbols key then tab the symbol or number, let go then it goes back to the main keyboard ready for the next input.

Can't do that on any other keyboard from what I've tried.

Just practice really.

Scam · 11 Jun 2013 at 10:17

Skillmister said:
http://www.maui.at/2013/06/portify/

Apart from we don't have All Access over here yet (or do we?!).

On the BBC weather app, can you make the widget background see-through?

mrk · 11 Jun 2013 at 10:31

No customisation for the widget^

PiKe · 11 Jun 2013 at 10:31

Can anyone recommend retro games like grid runner etc?

kmetek · 11 Jun 2013 at 11:45

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vladlee.blacklistplus.pro

chiggz · 11 Jun 2013 at 16:10

mrk said:
No customisation for the widget^

But it comes with a DashClock extension!!

benjo · 11 Jun 2013 at 16:26

chiggz said:
But it comes with a DashClock extension!!

Good heads up, surprised that was included

Stevio · 11 Jun 2013 at 18:41

chiggz said:
But it comes with a DashClock extension!!

And a daydream extension! :eek:

Though it doesn't actually do much, just has animated weather. Would have been nice to have the forecast displayed.

Skillmister · 11 Jun 2013 at 19:55

This is awesome!

Pocket Tanks is the fast-paced artillery game that is simple to learn, and fun to master.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blitwise.ptankshd

Apparently they are aiming for network play later this year.

Orcvader · 11 Jun 2013 at 20:02

Wait, BBC Weather has dashclock AND daydream support? Woah... BBC really has been working hard...

Now I just need to wait for my phone's 4.2 update to come :rolleyes:

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kona786 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:16

Using the lastest ES file explorer - how do you mount system as writable?

I want to delete a system app

EDIT - Works on my S3. Just not working on my S4. BAH!

benjo · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:53

Asking the obvious, but your S4 is rooted yeah?

kona786 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:59

benjo said:
Asking the obvious, but your S4 is rooted yeah?

Yes sorry should have added both S4 + S3 are rooted

All my other root apps like ad-away, tibackup work fine.

edit - used Root Explorer instead - worked fine

wijcc · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:43

how many of you guys are using an antivirus app/program on your android phone?

PiKe · 12 Jun 2013 at 10:51

Skillmister said:
This is awesome!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blitwise.ptankshd

Apparently they are aiming for network play later this year.

That's a blast from the past.

Scottland · 12 Jun 2013 at 11:54

Camerlingo free today via appgratis - seems quite nice. Better than the AOSP camera I think.