Perhaps the most important function that one has to look for when choosing a video player for Android is hardware acceleration. Using this rendering method results in less battery consumption, smooth and fast playback and great overall image quality. While most developers advertise hardware playback for their video playing apps, few really offer the…
Google not only gave us major updates of its important apps, such as Google+, YouTube, Google Earth and Google Maps, but also a fresh Google Analytics Android app and mobile app tracking. Mobile app analytics are added for 3 main areas: Acquisition and new users , Engagement (retention, crashes, conversions) and Outcome (app sales and in app purchases). The…
It’s the summer of price reductions in Google Play Store and today the sales go on with the famous title Riptide. Used in most reviews to test the graphical quality of Tegra processors, this title is now 50% cheaper and offers the ultimate water racing experience on your tablet or smartphone. For less than a dollar you can get this title made…
The Samsung Apps Store finally got updated and got rid of that antique looking interface. It was very hard to get around the older store and the entire UI felt old and slow. Sometimes you’d have to wait forever for an app category or section of the Store to load, but now it’s all over in version 2.7.032. As you can see, the interface is…
Drawing is a form of expressing ourselves and while we do it almost every day without even noticing few of us use their smartphone for this. The Galaxy Note is great, in fact it’s the best available for drawing and sharing pictures. With it’s S-Pen even more so. While the Galaxy Note still is top of the line when it comes to drawing on…
Tablified Market HD is an app you really need to get if you own a tablet, since it’s the largest database of Android tablet apps and games from the Play Store. It allows you to easily discover the latest and best software specifically created for slates, without having to waste time searching in Google Play. The app is now available for a mere…
Google I/O brought us a ton of updates for many famous Google apps, like YouTube, Google+, Google Maps and Google Drive. The latter is the one we’re detailing here… The software reached version 1.1.1.6 on June 28th 2012 and it requires Android 2.1 or later. This app is free and takes up around 5MB of storage. It allows you to store all…
If you want to learn more about Mother Nature, there’s an app for that and it’s available in the Google Play Store. It’s called Audobon Mammals and it goes for a mere $0.99, down from the regular price of $4.99 as part of the 4th of July Google Play Store special deals. The software is made by Green Mountain Digital and it’s…
So, it appears that the era of Flash is ending, with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean not supporting this technology and Adobe announcing it hasn’t been developing or testing Flash on the latest Android releases. Adobe previously gave up Flash support in Chrome for Android and now it appears that starting August 15th, fresh installs from Google Play of…
At Google I/O 2012, the search engine giant unveiled not only the Nexus 7 tablet and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but also the Nexus Q, a friendly little “pokeball”, that serves as a sort of Android mini PC, for streaming purposes. The device has a dual core OMAP4460 processor, the same that’s inside the Galaxy Nexus and 1GB of RAM, as…
