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New Adobe apps, Humble Bundle, Russia v Google round 2- Android Apps Weekly

2015-10-09
this episode of the Android apps weekly show is brought to you by cloud Cal hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to android apps weekly this is episode 110 and let's get right into those headlines in an effort to help websites load faster on mobile browsers google has announced the accelerated mobile pages project partners for this project include twitter wordpress linkedin pinterest and more than 20 others here's hoping this works because loading web pages on mobile browsers is really slow Facebook has announced an interesting new thing called the network connection class using this Facebook will determine your network speed and show you stuff in your newsfeed based on what your network can handle resulting in faster load times for your newsfeed the latest humble bundle is now live and includes six games with more to come soon some titles include hunk the house terror town jelly defense and fearless fantasy you can get three games for one dollar or pay the average which is just around four dollars right now and grab all of them this is also a great way to give to charity earlier this week it was announced that Spotify is now compatible with rocks Scout which is an application you can use to control car stereos equipped with mirror link this gives you a far more user-friendly way to control Spotify while you're in the car a couple of weeks ago we talked about how Russia was thinking of ordering Google to unbundle google apps from all of their devices well this week they went ahead and did exactly that the idea being that Google's pre-loaded applications cause an unfair disadvantage for third-party software google has about a month to comply or to respond for even more Android apps and games headlines updates and new releases don't forget to check out this week's newsletter which is linked in the video description below there we have a complete list of all the things that happened this last week and it includes all the stuff we didn't have time for here if you're so inclined you can send up using your email address and we'll send you our newsletter every Friday to keep you up to date well you're at it don't forget to check out our twitch channel it's been a couple of weeks since we've rocked out on some video games but that's going to change very very soon hit the follow button and then come join us for our next stream session for some video games and fun chit chats okay folks let's take a look at the applications that made a big splash this week as usual if you want to check any of these applications out you can find those links in the video description below first up this week is auto dash this is a custom launcher designed to be used while you're in the car the premise is simple as the app allows you to create a customized control panel full of widgets for easy access to applications navigation and media wire in the car it also has a few smaller features like voice recording ifttt integration and song recognition it's a little rough around the edges right now so do keep that in mind otherwise it's totally free and it could be fun to use meter is a fun minimal live wallpaper that displays various system information right on your home screen some options include your battery your notifications your Wi-Fi signal strength and a whole lot more it uses minimal shapes to visually represent the data so it's easy to see what's going on at a glance you can also manipulate the wallpaper by tilting the phone like auto dash this one is a bit rough around the edges so your mileage may vary but hey at least it's free Zen watch face designer is a new application from a sous that allows you to design your own android wear watch faces for your asus and watch this is actually pretty fun because it's not every day that this kind of customization is offered by an OEM for their devices and we hope it becomes a trend that other OEMs follow using this application you can design pretty much whatever kind of watch face that you want do note that it's only compatible with the zen watch so everyone else will have to keep using alternatives it's true that showtime and HBO now aren't really new applications but this last week they were released on Google Play for Android TV if you happen to have an Android TV device you can easily search for these applications download them and start watching their content their designs are both pretty decent considering that they'll be on the television and both services appear to work relatively well Android TV just got a whole lot better thanks to these two apps last up this week or two new applications from Adobe the first is called capture CC in this application lets you create a variety of design assets by extracting information from various images you can also turn these shapes into vector graphics brushes and shapes to make your design work easier illustrator draw allows you to well draw things this complex drawing application lets you draw with layers and has integration with a few of Adobe's desktop applications both of these apps are powerful and will get better as time goes on they're also both free to download this week's Android apps weekly show is sponsored by cloud cow last week you may remember that we showed you an application called cloud tasks well cloud Cal is done by the same developers and the two apps actually work together by singing your to-do lists from cloud tasks into cloud cow cloud Cal has an awesome set of features all on its own and includes a unique month view calendar that shows your days as Clark bases so you can see just how busy you are that day it also sings with Microsoft Outlook in exchange along google calendar it also comes with a unique design that includes drag-and-drop events and a slew of standard features like inviting colleagues to events and other productivity and klein features it's totally free to use so give it a shot and show your support for the android apps weekly show once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority I've got why you're here why not subscribe to the android authority youtube channel if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of awesome videos for you to watch right over there and they're also linked 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 and don't forget to check out our twitch channel or sign up for that newsletter as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day
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