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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome to the 156 episode of the Android apps weekly show consequently this is also the three year anniversary of the show which I started all the way back in September of 2013 in honor of the three year anniversary we have done some aesthetic and formatting changes that we hope you're going to enjoy a whole lot I didn't want to take a whole lot of time because we do have a whole show to go through but I didn't want to say thank you to everybody who was watched whether you been watching for three years or you just sorted watching last week your support means a whole lot to me and I really hope you guys are here when we hit year for with that said let's get started Google will be hosting a festival for indie game developers later this month during the event indie developers will be able to showcase their newest games ahead of the event google has narrowed down their list of the best indie games that were submitted down to 30 which will be narrowed down even further at the festival however most of them aren't available in the Google Play Store just yet we'll be sure to talk about them when they do arrive swiftkey received a pretty big update this last week over a month ago the company was having some problems with its syncing service and disabled it entirely this week's update fully reinstates those features included in the update is the return of phone number and email predictions and there are also eight new languages and some other smaller things it's nice to see this problem has been completely fixed Google Play released a short list of the top trending apps and games from August of 2016 these are essentially the top downloaded apps and games from the last month some of them include prisma movius Final Fantasy at Google duo and ESPN's fantasy football app aside from that it was also announced that a few new applications including anchor FM pac-man pop and a few other apps and games would be released this upcoming month some resourceful people went diving into Pokemon goes code after the latest update and found some actual goodies there is evidence now to support that niantic is working on allowing players to trade pokemon and to battle one another along with that clues in the code show item variances legendary Pokemon and something called fords that were not quite sure about yet the game's popularity has started to dwindle a little bit but this could help change that Google has officially launched their early access program what this means is that pretty much any developer can release an open beta of their application to give users early access in order to help find bugs the aim is to help more applications get released that are more stable and help eliminate those release date bugs than us early adopters always have to deal with you'll start seeing more of them in the Play Store in the coming months for sure okay folks is take a look at the absent games that made a big splash over the last week if you want to check out any of these apps or games for yourself you can find those links in the video description below orbit is one of the few android games that will be featured at google's indie game festival later this month that is also already out in this game you'll be tasked with making dots orbit around a black hole every new level has a different configuration and number of black holes that you'll have to work around orbit uses a gravity simulation to determine where your dots will go and they'll be swallowed up if you don't make the orbits just right it's a freemium game but one of the better ones that we've seen navbar applications is a fun little app that lets you customize your software navigation keys you'll be able to make it whatever color that you want on the flyer you can have it mimicked the color of whatever application that you're using alternatively you can put images on the navbar use it as a battery meter or even just add a little texture it's not a big thing but fans of customization and damen could find a good use for this anyone who is interested can pick up the application for free with the pro version running for 99 cents as an in-app purchase hovercraft takedown isn't really all that new but it's another game that will be featured at Google's indie developer festival that you can play right now this is a retro racing shooter you'll be facing off against AI opponents consequently you'll be armed to the teeth with all kinds of implements of destruction and you'll be able to customize your hovercraft at will this is a freemium game with card collecting mechanics to further that business model however the rampant explosions more than make up for it crowdsource is a fun little Google application that lets you actually help it's an application that lets you run through a variety of exercises to try to make google translate a little bit better what you do is translate images handwriting etc into text and then submit it to Google because of this google translate is supposed to get a little bit better or at least that's the theory it's a completely free application to pick up if you want to help out and most of the exercises only take a few minutes Square Enix continues their ridiculous run of game releases with just as monsters five fun fact this actually started its life as a minigame in Final Fantasy 15 before it was ripped out and turned into its own mobile game this is actually a pinball game that also has RPG and fighting mechanics you'll launch the balls into the bad guys with your flippers and then they'll take damage its suffering from some early release bugs so you may want to wait a few updates so that everything can be fixed up otherwise it's an okay time killer if you're looking for one of those for even more Android apps and games news and other coverage don't forget to check out this week's newsletter which is linked in the video description below there you'll find all the 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