Gadgetory

hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to Google Play weekly this week we're going to talk about some IFA 2014 stuff some Google stuff and the upcoming hit game destiny without further ado let's get started first up this week samsung has announced the gear s SmartWatch and it comes with flexi you know I gotta hand it to flexi I've seen that keyboard everywhere over the last year or so and they are now mentioned right alongside names like swype and SwiftKey the latest news for flexi is that it will be available on the Samsung gear as SmartWatch which was announced at IFA just a couple of days ago good for you flexi hey in our next bit of news I get to talk about bungees upcoming hit game destiny sweet ok so here's the news that's been making its way around there is a thing called destiny planet view it was created as a collaboration between bungee and google maps and it works a lot like Google Street View except inside of the world of destiny this is really cool because few games have had this kind of creativity when it comes to game worlds and aside from ingress one of the few to be powered by google maps to see it go to ww ste planet view calm next up google has finally updated their beautiful apps list for those who may not know the beautiful design list is a list of applications and games that Google felt were designed so well that they deserved more attention a brand new list was released just this last week and contains such hit apps as Spotify duolingo and yahoo news if you want to see the whole list check out the written companion which is linked in the video description below or just pause the video because it's scrolling by right now the so Nokia's powerful here maps is coming to android but unfortunately only for samsung phones some may scoff at this in favor of google maps but here maps is no slouch and features admittedly better offline support than Google Maps does right now the sad part is that will be only available for samsung devices thanks to its compatibility with the gear s SmartWatch if you have a samsung device you'll be able to pick this up in the google play store on the same day the gear s comes out in our last bit of news this week the developers of Temple Run have announced that Temple Run will be coming to the galaxy VR it's something you may actually get to do Temple Run has announced they'll be bringing their hit game to the galaxy VR with some built-in features specifically for the galaxy VR one thing specifically is that you able to look backward and see the monster chasing you which is admittedly a pretty fun premise it'll also be a first-person thing instead of a third-person thing which it is now which looks like it could be interesting to do wants to see some trending applications as usual if you want to check any of these applications out you can find the links in the written companion which is in the video description below yes google news and weather makes its second consecutive appearance on the Google Play weekly show this week another huge update was released and included tablet supports google sign and support and a whole lot more they've also acknowledged some bugs that they plan on fixing with future updates namely with Xperia devices some people hate this application because Google now does a lot of this but I don't hate things except swing copters so I still think you could give it a shot last year i reviewed wipeout and it turned out to be a pretty decent little time killer now Activision has released wipeout 2 and I expect much of the same some people have complained a little bit about the gameplay in various other elements but it is new so I'm sure tweaks will be made eventually it's great to play with in-app purchases and that's a pretty good price for bouncing around on some giant red balls next up is an application called boxy pad and it's actually pretty useful it's a collaboration tool that let you call people but when you call people you can talk or do a bunch of other things like view and annotate cloud storage files insert pictures emoticons handwriting a text along with some other cool stuff it's free to use with no in-app purchases but it is also very new or so beware of bugs the google chrome browser hasn't updated throwing out that brings to the iconic browser exactly one heavy dose of material design along with that you'll get simplified sign ins a revamped incognito mode experience and the boilerplate bug fixes and performance improvements it's rolling out in the google play store right now so if you don't have it yet just be patient because it's coming soon last up this week is moby 360 launcher beta this interesting launcher is another contextual launcher that totally takes over your homescreen much like everything dot me and a v8 there are some nifty features like built in anti-malware features some device monitoring features and of course some contextual features it's in beta but it still seems to work pretty well and it is free if you want to stay up to date on the latest and greatest in android news and reviews i recommend going to android authority calm clicking on the little a new thingy and heading to our app section where you'll see our latest news reviews our indie app of the day segment and our meet the dev segment once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guide don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you want to follow android authority myself or the rest of the video team you can find our social media links in the video description below if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of Awesome videos for you to watch right over there and in the video description below for you folks on mobile finally don't forget to check out the written companion which is in the video description below for all of the download links as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day