New essential Android apps thread

[Simian]

Nav Free... Great offline satnav for android,

or Waze if you want the social side of traffic warnings from real people (though its not an offline nav)

 

[V_R]

Trying Kitkat launcher again, and solo launcher, both quite similar, but slightly different in a few ways.

Not a big fan of the options when you hit the menu button with KKL but solo is a pop up menu like Nova.

 

[2013]

Nav Free... Great offline satnav for android,

or Waze if you want the social side of traffic warnings from real people (though its not an offline nav)

How good is free nav

 

[Flopsy]

Whats the best free sat navigation app

Co pilot isn't bad, you download the map for UK/Europe so it's stored on the device if you go offline. Use it for doing multi drop work and has been pretty useful

 

[2013]

If you can use it like a tomtom for work it must be ok

 

[Kenai]

We have some engineers using handsets and would rather keep them out of the setting page as they like to play with everything, ideally we'd put a desktop shortcut

Thanks

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/easily-access-the-android-vpn-settings-menu/

Any use?

 

[iMacMart]

Having a look now

Thanks

 

[biron_w]

Trying Kitkat launcher again, and solo launcher, both quite similar, but slightly different in a few ways.

Not a big fan of the options when you hit the menu button with KKL but solo is a pop up menu like Nova.

I tried Solo and thought it was alright but I don't like the way you can't expand widgets to fit the entire screen. There's only a small area that they can fit in. And I know what you mean about KK Launcher options. It'd be good if you could change system settings by hitting the menu key.

 

[mrk]

Nice big update to Google Maps and Navigation to version 8 today. Now you get lame guidance, better trip info and you get live reroute info and n the map, simply click a tab and it instantly reroutes that way instead. The tab shows you the time difference by going that way too.

You also get quick access to alternative routes via the bottom right button now and more offline map storage control.

I've also noticed now if you zoom out during navigation the map still follows your path so you don't lose sight of the triangle marker to denote your position.

Progressively Maps is turning a full page into a fully featured thing.

 

[V_R]

Now you get lame guidance.

Lame? You mean lane? I've not got the maps update yet....

Just got an update for tesla unread, does WhatsApp etc like the beta discussed earlier.

 

[mrk]

Oops yes, I must have typed lame a few times and SwiftKey autocorrected to that

 

[benjo]

Has Play Music always had the Equaliser option in settings? I've only just noticed it

 

[Matteysan]

Has Play Music always had the Equaliser option in settings? I've only just noticed it

On mine it always has. On PA & CM anyway.

 

[benjo]

Also, Today Calendar is free today, http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2518xb/today_calendar_48_hour_reddit_giveaway/

Looks a bit nicer than the stock calendar!

Spoiler

 

[Orcvader]

Has Play Music always had the Equaliser option in settings? I've only just noticed it

It always went to the device's stock equalizer. My HO doesn't have one so I don't have the option, but my N10 does.

 

[Cyclone]

That maps update has raped my battery. Had to uninstall it


Might even be Google Play Services. Anyone else having battery drain?

 

[mrk]

Google Opinion Rewards app is pretty cool. Answered 3 surveys so far consisting of 1 to 3 questions. Earned £1.41 so far

 

[Father Ted]

Signed up, earned £0.80 so far, not bad for a couple of minutes.

 

[Liquid_Entity]

I just signed up, filled out the questions at the start, got nothing so far.

 

[rogueblade]

Just got 50p for answering a single question survey!