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Releases
famous iOS-app Secret (for free) and finally got to Android. This service is a social network, in which all the posts are anonymous (seen only very approximate location of the author). Intended application, as you might guess, for stories about his personal secrets in an environment of anonymity and security. Earlier in this appendix have already occurred leak interesting information about any unannounced projects technology companies. Ordinary people talk about ordinary things like passion for singing in the shower or failed rendezvous.
Arcane Battlegrounds (free) – from strategic MMO of Spacetime Games, which is haunted (and who benefits?) glory Clash of Clans from Supercell. Principles are the same: the construction of the base, the training of troops (10 species), alliances, to protect its territories and foreign inning. Present in the single-player game and the story campaign. Arcane Battlegrounds will be released on iOS, but a little later. After that, users with different platforms can play with each other.
Game Steampunk Tower (free) – from Chillingo strategy genre protection towers (tower defense), that’s only the tower there is only one. Also available are 20 scene levels, 7-test levels, build all new floors of the tower and the discovery of new types of its armaments. Steampunk Tower looks very good and will certainly captivate a long time. In addition, user reviews tell us unobtrusive in-game payments.
Nun Attack Origins: Yuki (63 rubles) – action-platformer with elements of stealth, which the authors assigned a prequel to the original Nun Attack . The players have to try on uniforms fighting nun who must rescue orphans from detractors who destroyed their home town. Frima Studio corporate humor here, of course, present. What else? 90 levels, easy operation with one finger and the lack of micro-transactions.
Zombie Road Trip Trials (free) – a game whose title speaks for itself. The player in the cockpit of the car with huge wheels offered crush hordes of zombies – this, in fact, a description of Zombie Road Trip Trials could have ended. But this game is a talented studio Noodlecake, zombies and you can not just push, but to shoot. The authors declare 480 missions, 10 hours of gameplay and realistic (as possible) physics. In addition, the network can play with users on iOS. Microtransactions case seems not interfere much.
Game Trials Frontier (free) – this is a trial tale from Ubisoft. Vintage gameplay, known since Elastomania on the PC and Gravity Defied on the Java-smartphones, dressed in a colorful visual shell and enriched frivolous story. The authors promise that Trials Frontier will give you about 50 hours of gameplay on 70 unique tracks. Players are invited to perform about 250 jobs, improve your bike skills and discover new tricks and compete with friends and strangers on the network. The game has microtransactions, but the vast number of user reviews on Google Play indicate that they are not mandatory. Believe!
Game OTTTD («Over The Top Tower Defense», 104 rubles) – is the protection of the towers, crossed with real-time strategy and brought to visual absurdity. For example, it is possible to meet a giant kiberakulu with rocket launchers – not bad, right? Players are invited to manage the three heroes who have to touch the zombie attack, mechanical turtles, octopuses and other crazy creatures. There are 20 story levels, 12 types of towers, 7 classes of characters and 40 weapons. Note that in addition to hundreds of rubles for the application itself, you may have to pay more and for a certain amount of micro-transactions.
Updates
Google has taken the path myMail and added to my e-mail client Gmail version 4.8 to save files directly into the cloud Google Drive . Updated and interface – for example, changed many elements of the navigation menu. Now next to contacts in it there are photos; also moved back button settings and feedback, access to services previously provided by a button in the upper right corner. The application has become a bit more polite – now when emptying the “Inbox”, the message “You’re finished! Please enjoy your day ».
Get updated Android-browser application Chrome . List of changes and added features small but important: the abolition of closing tabs, full-screen video with subtitles and HTML5-management, support INDEX devices support video output through some Chromecast conventional fixing some bugs.
Update this week, and the application of social network Google+ . Now the function Auto Awesome automatically collects from your photos, videos and stories beautiful locations “history” (see example here: plus.google.com / + anilsabharwal/stories/e39549b6-120c-3653-b456-2457c19f8e56). Moreover – animated GIF-files in Auto Awesome now can be created manually, rather than waiting until the network decides to create them automatically. Android-app now supports network with really huge photo galleries of several thousand pictures, and they can now flip through and sorting time. In many places and changed the interface, which has become more convenient.
News
Google bought the company Divide, which has some of the same name currently developing an application that allows users to share inside the phone working and playing space. It is important to note the fact that the application Divide operates based on the MDM (Mobile Device Management), which is used in many organizations. For example, if your network administrators need to make an urgent cleaning job data on the device, it will only remove the application and information that is directly related to the work and achievements in Flappy Bird and built-in Minecraft worlds will remain untouched. For an undisclosed amount. Google’s plans to add this functionality to all Android-items? We’ll see.
Finally it happened! «Google Search» now lets you set reminders, using only voice commands. Update service is on the server side and should work for all users. All this sounds still stupid, but looks magical.
also now using your voice can still install and timer. This functionality works with third-party applications like smartphones timer shell HTC Sense.
popular service notes Springpad has announced its imminent closure. With his main rival in the person Evernote , he fought for about six years, but 400,000 active users and the recent global redesign to make it profitable, apparently, could not. All mobile applications and website Springpad will stop working on June 25, and the company officially warned its users about the impending closure of the service. Soon Springpad is going to provide the ability to export their data using a special application, making the transition to other services should not be a serious problem.
About six months ago, due to changes in the file. apk learned that Google plans to launch based YouTube music podpisochny service. Unfortunately, nothing has changed – no official announcement about this company still did not. This week became known that one of the possible causes – Google gets along poorly with independent music labels. Tells about it in a press release the association Worldwide Independent Network. It says that all contracts that Google offered to sign the record companies are “dishonest” – giant corporation offers them much less money than conventional services like Spotify or Rdio . However, contracts with recording giants like Sony, Universal and Warner have already been signed. Whether Google will launch its service, if it will not be a majority of independent music labels? Could, but then it will not be too advantageous to look at the competition. It may be worth waiting for presentation at Google I / O, which will be held in a month?
Briefly
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and launched the official app from the Moscow government, entitled “Active Citizen».
In the mobile Facebook app will be able to recognize the music and television series with a microphone devaysa.
first mobile game on Unreal Engine 4 became Tappy Chicken – clone Flappy Bird .
Google took first place in the ranking of the most expensive brands in the world ($ 158.8 billion), surpassing Apple.
Sony began to update their smartphones Xperia Z, ZL and ZR, as well as tablet Tablet Z to Android 4.4 KitKat.
Annex Twitter for mobile devices appeared to be attached to the tweet several photos.
games and applications run on the smartphone Alcatel One Touch Hero.
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