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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and it's Friday so you know what that means we have a lot of PC gaming related news this week and a whole lot more so let's get started first up this week is a new PC emulator for Android that lets you play old PC games it's called exagear and mod is rather complicated to use it looks like something that could be pretty fun to play it is a PC emulator for old PC games which means no games actually come with it it's been optimized for a few titles including Civilization 3 and it is a bit pricey at about 14 dollars when you add everything up it'll be hit or miss with a lot of people but the concept is really cool so apparently Facebook is about ready to sever their messaging app from their regular app I personally dislike this move because I'm not a fan of Facebook's messaging platform so the idea of having to download two apps just to maintain functionality on something I barely use is not very palatable however Facebook maintains they're doing it so the messaging service can't improve more on Android the change should be happening soon so you might as well download the messenger app now leave it to Google to not let anything go to waste the Google i/o 2014 application has been repurposed as a tutorial app instead of letting the application die off Google instead updated the application to the latest material design standard and then release the code along with some documentation and reference materials so that developers can use it as a base for their material design apps the code from the app shows a lot of great examples so if you're an app dev you should probably hop on that Google now received an update this last week and now it knows which hotel you're staying at the new functionality is pretty much based on that once Google determines what hotel you're staying at Google now can deliver recommendations in the area around the hotel this is a great new feature for pretty much anyone who travels and it can be good if you're vacationing in an area you don't know very well it can also give you directions to your hotel from anywhere in case you get lost there our last bit of news this week Morrowind may be showing up on android sometime in the future the port has been successfully installed on Android devices but the performance is abysmal for the time being developers are working on it and so far the progress has been described as impressive and quick by those who have been following along this is exciting because morrowind was a huge and popular game and seeing it on an android TV would just rock so who 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 the venerable SwiftKey got a huge update this last week that includes bug fixes and a whole bunch of much-needed performance improvements for translations typing loading times and flow performance it doesn't include any new features but the list of things that it does improve on with this release is simply impressive and don't forget that SwiftKey is now free so if you haven't tried it yet to climb up from under that rock and join the rest of us journal is a fun new application that allows you to keep a diary or a journal on your smartphone it comes with some standard writing features along with some more unique ones like syncing your journal across devices using Google Drive there are n app purchases but unless you plan on printing any journal entries out or backing up your journal to local storage you should be able to use this unique journal application entirely free Mirage is a new application that has similar functionality to snapchat as well as Facebook's version which is called slingshot they claim to fame for this camera messaging service is that everything is completely unrecorded you send stuff but it never gets recorded anywhere on a server you can also interact with all of your contacts and not just the one signed up for specific social media services it's free to use with no in-app purchases so why not give it a try wolf link bubble got a pretty substantial update this last week included his Android wear support Android L support and improved functionality for notifications and incognito mode for those who may not know link bubble is a unique web browser that uses floating notifications to let you browse the web instead of the usual full-screen mode it's a pretty awesome application and you should definitely try it out last up this week is peek the fun lockscreen application allows people to interact with their notifications on their lock screens in a more efficient manner received a pretty big update this last week it now includes support for Android 4.3 devices and improved and setup process and the boilerplate bug fixes and performance improvements if you're running Android 4.3 you should definitely check this one out because it's a pretty nifty application if you want to stay up to date on the latest and greatest in Android news and reviews I recommend going to Android authority comm clicking on the little menu thingy and heading to our apps section where you'll see our latest news review our Indy app of the day segment and our meet the dev segment once again i'm joe hindi from android authority comm 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 don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description below which is where you're going to find all of the download links as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day