Monday, April 7, 2014

Android-App Nikolai foot: April 1-7 - Mail.Ru

     

     


     
Every week (on Mondays), we talk about the most important, interesting and significant events that occurred with Android and Android-applications in the last seven days.
Our iOS digest here. Digest Windows Phone here.

 

 

Releases

 

FireChat – messaging application in decentralized networks. To communicate with this program does not require a network connection, you just turn on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and your mobile device itself will start to look around interlocutors (find which is likely to succeed only in public places – malls or, say, clubs). Can communicate only in general chats, sharing features direct messages to each other in FireChat is not. But you can share with each other pictures!


 

 

KISS Photo Bomb – promo application eponymous legendary glam rock band. It can “kissifitsirovat” custom photo using blending specific pictures and frames with themed KISS, and KISS-makeup. Additionally, the application allows you to use text messages special KISS-emoticons. In general, is dedicated to all the fans!


 

 

Lingua.ly ?? – another application for learning foreign languages ??(of which more than twenty, including – Russian!) competitor illustrious Duolingo . In Lingua.ly uses a somewhat different approach: here, too, the process of self geymifitsirovan, but the app offers several mini-games that make use of more and more new words. Also, the application will download the small film with the same words that the user can see how they are used in context.


 

 

Game Widget RPG – one of the most simple but at the same time funny mobile RPG, which can be found in Google Play. The whole process is … in the usual “Tapani” widget on the game, which is recommended to bring to the main screen of your device. Every touch is a new action in the virtual world. Everything that has happened is described in the social network parody called Famebook. At least allow developers to equip yourself and distribute it character experience points!

 

 

Noir Syndrome – detective game whose story each time it is generated randomly. Used to create an atmosphere wonderful pixel art and jazz music. The main character – a private detective – will visit different places, search for clues, interrogate suspects, unravel criminal cases unique, and sometimes – even shoot a revolver. Noir Syndrome – it is also a roguelike. All the player’s actions here can not be undone, but the death of a detective means start a new investigation.


 

 

racing game Dead End – unpretentious, but fascinating and eye pleasing entertainment, capable to take a few minutes to spare the user. Given: the road from point A to point B moving car. Between points A and B wandering zombies, and placed on the road treacherous traps. Smeared on the windshield ghouls are invited to scour the simple “janitors.” Compete in an amount knocked undead and earned points can and Friends – the game has online rankings.


 

 
 

Updates

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blockbuster game QuizUp is a new topic for questions – «Earth From Above» (Eng. “land, view from above”). A new section has been in collaboration with Google Maps. Every question is a satellite photo of any Lieb-place on the globe, and users, respectively, are invited to guess this place. Love word games and geography? Now try QuizUp !


 

 

Game Angry Birds Star Wars II this week, new rewards in the form of thousands of coins hidden in different levels. Collecting them is easy – just hit them a bird or pig, for example, a missile. In addition, the game adds the ability to change characters free every eight hours. Also for the shift character can pay 80 coins. Moreover – now at appropriate levels can be changed to birds pigs and vice versa.


 

 

Facebook Messenger received a major update numbered 4.0. The main innovations: voice calls over Wi-Fi or mobile internet, the possibility of organizing contacts into groups, sending messages received and photos as well as shortcuts to specific calls that can be placed on the main screen of the smartphone or tablet. Some of these features have been available to those users who are involved in the beta testing new versions of the application.


 

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Vine a long-awaited opportunity to share many personal messages. The company calls it the biggest update in the history of the service. You can share the text as well as video (which, unfortunately, will still be public). But you can send a message to not only those who have already registered in Vine , but also to all who have the address e-mail (and who do not have it now?) Or even phone that can receive SMS.

 

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messenger from Samsung ChatON this week also introduced several new “chips”. In version 3.5 the opportunity to withdraw already sent messages, so that in a situation « horsemeat wrong window” you are no longer yourself. This function works only in private conversations. In addition, the size limit sent via ChatON files increased to 1 GB. In general, the messengers came straight week!


 
 

News

 

Company Cyanogen Inc. (Developer of the popular CyanogenMod ) unveiled its new corporate identity. Recall that the commercial structure CyanogenMod authors decided to become in September last year, after which their company has worked closely with the manufacturer of smartphones OPPO. With the new branding Cyanogen Inc. announced its three main principles: the “choice” (the ability to customize the appearance and function devaysa under him), “deeper meaning” and “community».

 

 

Recently Google has started to spread the “native» Android-App in Google Play, so that users can update them faster than it will not make speschaschie vendors. According to sources Publishing Engadget, soon the same fate befall the standard camera app. Along with his appearance in Google Play and it will get the update, which will feature added depth of field settings (as in HTC One M8 ). There will also be improved with panoramas and photosphere change some elements of the interface and the viewfinder will show the picture completely. In addition, will be added the ability to use third-party plug-ins of Google Play, by which it will be possible to add new filters, and other trifles.


 

 

In Google Play will be an interesting application called Virus Shield . The developers have promised full protection devices against viruses for a ridiculous amount of 120 rubles. Appendix surprisingly soared in the rankings and weekly presence at Stora took first place in the ranking of new paid programs (and third place in the overall ranking of paid programs). Furthermore, a user rating Virus Shield was almost transcendent – 4.7 stars. Strange, is not it? Well, it turned out to be a fraudulent application. No, it did not steal any personal information and do not use your smartphone DDOS-attacks. It just did not do anything, and thus worth the money. To achieve high positions in the ranking of Deviant Solutions developers certainly had to spend a lot of money. Now the application is removed from the Stora, and we all need to learn an important lesson: the openness of Google Play is the possibility of such scams at any time. If you are going to buy a new application – good enough to search the web real reviews about it!


 

 
 

Briefly

 

Launched new, the ninth event Humble Bundle for Android. 1 cent you can buy games Broken Sword 2 , Bridge Constructor , Type: Rider and Ravensword: Shadowlands , and for $ 3.83 (at the moment) – Kingdom Rush and Knights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition .


 

News about the prevalence of different versions of the OS Android: 4.4 KitKat – 5.3% of all units (twice the former), 4.1-4.3 Jelly Bean – 61.4%, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – 14.3%, 2.3 Gingerbread – 17.8%.

 

Google started a secret project called Hera, which is to replace the standard screen multitasking in Android and allows you to use Google-party applications within programs.

 
 

games and applications run on the smartphone LG G Flex.

 
 

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      Mykola Lapko
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