New essential Android apps thread

Tysonator · 13 Sep 2014 at 14:43

Is there a driving camera App that records say 15 – 2 second capture on a loop.
There have been a few near miss idiot drivers and video clips will help with any potential accidents ! ?

Tysonator · 13 Sep 2014 at 14:45

Orcvader said:
+1, the best working one I found so far.

Direct download to the app can be found here if you don't want to install F-droid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway

requires root though !

Warp279 · 13 Sep 2014 at 14:56

pooley said:
+1 I now use Opera..

I didn't update so I still have the refresh button. Good thing I read the comments, will never update until they bring it back.

Swarfega · 13 Sep 2014 at 14:59

Skyfall said:
Chrome removed a bunch of buttons I use to a menu and now Google have decided that hangouts no longer requires a tablet interface and also made Avatars round whilst leaving the rest of the interface square.

GG Google GG

These changes are ready for Android L. Most of Google's websites are now using the circle avatars.

Pigeon_Killer · 13 Sep 2014 at 15:01

Orcvader said:
Has anyone tried the Hangouts Dialler yet? What does it do? Is it basically free calling to other Hangouts users, so something like O2's TuGo (but obviously with the limitation of Hangouts users).

It's just an extension for the Hangouts App that adds a phone tab allowing you to choose to dial using your network or data. I imagine it'll be part of Android L when it's released and become quite popular / more commonly used.

Quinnaay · 13 Sep 2014 at 16:14

benjo said:
So those of you who liked thumb controls on your browser can now get it in Chrome using this xposed module http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.jt5.xposed.chromepie

Works great for me!

Awesome works great

Clairvoyant · 13 Sep 2014 at 16:48

Im looking for an app that can globally change permisions.

eg allow, deny or ask on permissions. Say al that want to access my location or anyother permision.

I have an HTC M8, I can do it individually per app. But that could take a long time.

TIA

Azza · 14 Sep 2014 at 16:35

benjo said:
So those of you who liked thumb controls on your browser can now get it in Chrome using this xposed module http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.jt5.xposed.chromepie

Works great for me!

Works perfect for me. Setup the exact same layout as AOSP browser.

boxman2000 · 15 Sep 2014 at 09:40

Alarm Clock Xtreme is today's free app on Amazon App Store. Great alarm clock.

Cosimo · 17 Sep 2014 at 09:54

Goat Simulator has arrived:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator

Quinnaay · 18 Sep 2014 at 10:49

Just got Tasker and it's far more complicated than Automateit can someone tell me how to set wifi on when leaving a location I.e work?

Orcvader · 18 Sep 2014 at 11:55

I did not realise there was a Stylish add-on for Dolphin browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.pmmlabs.stylish

Nice to see the dark OcUK theme on my phone now

.

Rich_L · 18 Sep 2014 at 21:34

Can't believe I'd never heard of the Daydream feature before - with Dashclock it's bloody brilliant - one of my favourite things about WP8.1 was having Glance while the phone was on the wireless charger but this seems to be just as good

benjo · 21 Sep 2014 at 23:31

Weather Timeline is a nice material design weather app

Skeeter · 22 Sep 2014 at 08:14

Orcvader said:
I did not realise there was a Stylish add-on for Dolphin browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.pmmlabs.stylish

Nice to see the dark OcUK theme on my phone now .

I'm all over that! Thanks!

mrk · 23 Sep 2014 at 02:30

New Floating Windows app for multitasking awesomeness? http://androidcommunity.com/new-mul...oating-windows-released-for-android-20140922/

twist3d0n3 · 23 Sep 2014 at 11:16

Orcvader said:
I did not realise there was a Stylish add-on for Dolphin browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.pmmlabs.stylish

Nice to see the dark OcUK theme on my phone now .

seems a bit buggy on some sites, but at least ocuk isn't garish blue now!

as for dolphin, anyone know where they've moved the colour settings to (as in the loading bar). all i can find now is theme which just gives you a background...

teh_captain · 24 Sep 2014 at 12:58

Searched the thread and couldn't find anything on this - I wanted to be able to Cast music and videos from my Note 3 without having to transfer it to my PC first, so after much trawling I found MediaCast:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musicmind.paid&hl=en

It did what many other apps couldn't do (at least IME) and found my Chromecast with no hassle, connected and could Cast videos, music and images with no problems. For just over £2 I thought it was a bargain. Very easy to use and so far no issues at all.

Swarfega · 24 Sep 2014 at 14:04

Google Play Music and Photos does something similar but you need to first have your music and photos/videos uploaded/synced/backed up to the cloud.

teh_captain · 24 Sep 2014 at 15:30

Swarfega said:
Google Play Music and Photos does something similar but you need to first have your music and photos/videos uploaded/synced/backed up to the cloud.

Yeah - I was trawling the web for a solution and this kept coming up. I kept trying and all I getting was some error message, turns out that the music had to be 'online' - which I then found out had to be uploaded to Google Music. I found that so strange that it just couldn't Cast the media which I already had locally on my phone, but I had to upload it to Google first :confused:

This app just cut all that out and Casts straight from my device. Wonderful!