Gadgetory

hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and this is the 140th episode of the android apps weekly show let's get started the ES file explorer released perhaps its most horrible update ever that claims to charge your device twenty percent faster instead it hijacks your lockscreen puts advertising on it and because it's hogwash it doesn't actually charge a device any faster if you use ES file explorer you may want to start thinking about finding alternatives because the app is more bloat than function at this point microsoft announced this week that the Sun will soon be setting for sunrise calendar according to an official posted developers are busy working on outlook and they don't have time to update the app anymore so they're shutting it down which kind of sucks for anyone interested this probably isn't going to happen to swiftkey at least not for a long time this war of mine was our pick for the best android game released in 2015 and now it's going to be a board game the idea was put on Kickstarter this week and has already racked up more than three times its goal and it's hit all of its stretch goals too it looks quite complex and it should mirror the experience of the game rather well you can find it on Kickstarter right now the creators of siri have been working on another AI assistant and this one is called viv in its short demonstration at TechCrunch Disrupt it had a very impressive showing allowing the presenter to do things like send money buy flowers and order an uber driver in under two minutes it's very impressive and it should be platform agnostic which means it'll come to Android eventually a developer over on reddit created a way to play old school Virtual Boy games using your Android device a popular emulator called retroarch and Google cardboard it's a little complicated to get it all to work but it does actually work pretty well and includes some extra features like changing the color from red to grayscale along with others for even more Android apps and games news releases and updates check out this week's newsletter which is linked in the video description below there we have a bunch of stuff that we didn't have the spaceport here if you'd like you can sign up for the newsletter using the forming the written companion which is also linked in the video description below and we'll send it to you every Sunday or you can pick up the android authority app for even faster apps news ok folks is take a look at the absent game it made a big splash this week as usual if you want to check out any of these apps or games for yourself we'll have those links for you in the video description below beam came out last week to generally favorable reviews but I didn't cover it because I wanted to see what it was like first perhaps the best way to describe beam as if you took the act of creating reaction videos on YouTube and created a social network out of its that social network would be called beam otherwise it's not too much different from other multimedia sharing sites like Instagram or vine except you can't edit anything before you share it it just kind of happens and it's definitely interesting bejeweled stars is the latest match 3 game in the popular bejeweled series this one has the same basic mechanics as prior incarnations except for this time pieces of the board move around which periodically changes which shapes are where this adds a little extra challenge and can occasionally even save you if you're stuck it also comes with leaderboards power-ups mini missions and more to keep things interesting it is a freemium game through and through but it's not all that bad dark sky is the latest hit weather application to hit the google play store although we're not sure how long it's going to be a hit the application had great success on iOS and it works pretty well on Android however a lot of people are upset that the application is a subscription service on Android while it's a pay wants application on iOS the developers claim that the yearly subscription results in a lower upfront cost but I think they're missing the point on why everyone is mad anyway it's free to download and it is actually pretty cool if you want to try it out for yourself after what seems like forever there is an actual for real pokemon game available on android it's a trading card game where you collect pokemon cards build decks and dual people from all over the world it follows the same basic premise as most other monster or card collecting freemium games except instead of collecting monsters that kind of look like pokemon you're actually collecting pokemon it's suffering from some release date bugs but those will be cleared up over time it's free to download right now fallout 4 live wallpaper is you guessed it a live wallpaper themed like fallout 4 it was released by Nvidia but it should work on most devices and it features a scene with a bunch of bulk boy bobbleheads that will not move and wiggle based on how you move your device or swipe your home screen it's nothing overly ridiculous but it's a nice touch for fans of the series it's entirely free with no in-app if you want to try it out and you'll get additional features if you happen to be rocking a Tegra k1 tablets and that about does it for this video folks if you want to keep watching we'll have chases latest video linked up there on the screen and in the video description below don't forget to sign up for that newsletter so you can keep up with the latest app news and remember to keep it tuned to android authority because we are your source for all things android as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day