New essential Android apps thread

[HecFam]

The Room 2 is out now. Both brilliant for touch screen, possibly the best games i've played on touchscreen at least.

 

[doodah]

I am absolutely loving Smash Hit, what a game!

 

[rogueblade]

trying it now:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediocre.smashhit

 

[benjo]

I just tried this and didn't see this issue. Play Music, went to home screen and scrolled left. Music continued to play.

Thanks for trying. What phone by the way?

 

[Swarfega]

Nexus 5

 

[mrk]

It was on PS+ also on the PS3, you never picked it up then?

Nope!

 

[Orcvader]

Trying Boat browser again, this time biting the bullet and buying the pro version for Firefox sync. Could be just me but it seems to sync with my Firefox bookmarks faster than the android version of FF . No adblock but webkit based browsers does feel a lot better. The floating tab is actually a pretty handy feature as well.

 

[mrk]

Boat now supports Firefox Sync?

Wait just a second!

Edit*
Only bookmarks sync. Bit useless for me then as Firefox is full profile sync (inc passwords).

 

[Orcvader]

Boat now supports Firefox Sync?

Wait just a second!

It seems to have for a while, but requires you to buy the pro version to unlock the feature. Connects directly with the Mozilla Weave sync servers but only for bookmarks. However, it does order all my bookmark folders properly, unlike android FF which decides to reorder it in some odd order.

 

[Cosimo]

BBC iPlayer app now supports Chromecast.

 

[rogueblade]

^yes!

 

[mark43]

I am absolutely loving Smash Hit, what a game!

Downloaded after reading your post, only had a quick play but loving it so far!

Thanks.

 

[bimmerboii]

Is there a way to clear notifications on all my devices at the same time? I own an s4, z1, moto G and a galaxy note 10.1 2014 edition. Its a chore to keep clearing notifications on each individual device.

 

[Orcvader]

Is there a way to clear notifications on all my devices at the same time? I own an s4, z1, moto G and a galaxy note 10.1 2014 edition. Its a chore to keep clearing notifications on each individual device.

That will depend on the app itself. Hangouts does a good job, when I read the messages on another device the notifications disappear. Same with other Google apps thinking about it. If only the FB app did the same... it keeps saying I have unread messages when I already read and replied to them...

 

[bimmerboii]

That will depend on the app itself. Hangouts does a good job, when I read the messages on another device the notifications disappear. Same with other Google apps thinking about it. If only the FB app did the same... it keeps saying I have unread messages when I already read and replied to them...

Oh ok I didnt know its app dependent. I guess developers need to update their apps then.. I have pretty much identical apps installed on all my devices. But yeah when I clear something on one device it's still there on the others and its getting annoying

 

[TallPaul_S]

Swype (full version) is free in the Amazon app store right now, they're doing a load of apps for free today (friday) and tomorrow

 

[Repta]

Anything like unified remote that will work on osx?

 

[~Mike~]

Swype (full version) is free in the Amazon app store right now, they're doing a load of apps for free today (friday) and tomorrow

Thanks, will take a look.

 

[Begbie]

Does a SMS app exist like the Facebook heads thing? I know you can use the app but I'd rather a standalone app for texts. It's really good, especially when watching Netflix etc as you don't need to exit it.

 

[benjo]

I think there's quite a few apps out there that do this for all notifications. I just searched on the store quickly and found this one, but i'm sure there's others that might do it better.