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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to Google Play weekly which will now actually take place every week on Fridays there's a Nintendo DS emulator that actually works now an app that turns your phone into a chromecast and a whole lot more to talk about this week so let's get started the first thing we're going to talk about this week is knocks knocks is an Android icon pack and probably one of the biggest that has ever hit android you may have seen it floating around social media the last few days or you may have seen one of the 10,000 screenshots that people have uploaded so far and you may be asking yourself what makes knock so special as it turns out Knox is pretty ridiculous it's compatible or at least partially compatible with just about every custom launcher out there it's only other features it comes packed with 1200 icons if you don't know jack about icons let me let you in on a little secret 1200 icons is a whole bunch it's two dollars in the Play Store and if you use a custom launcher it's worth every penny a lot of people were aware that push-to-talk was kind of on its way out we all thought it was being laid to rest finally when sprint foot Nextel down earlier this year however whatsapp is bringing it back to us 300 million users and believe it or not it's actually getting popular again the update should have rolled out to all major platforms by now using it is really simple you just push the microphone button record a short message and it sends it as soon as you release the button it's nice and easy to use and if you are into these kind of walkie-talkie things it gives you yet another way to communicate it's almost football season and gameloft is celebrating by releasing NFL pro 14 the latest installment in their NFL pro series it's not out yet but they have released a teaser trailer that shows some of the actual gameplay it's pretty nice and we're going to take a look at it right now the graphics look nice and the gameplay actually looks pretty good in the truest definition of a teaser it doesn't explain much if anything there is a really epic slow-motion field goal followed by about 40 seconds of players recovering fumbles and being tackled it does advertise a new social feature that uses leaderboards we do hope it's Google Play games services leaderboards because well that's what it's there for so who likes a good shooter I know why do in a popular shooter called and I'm probably pronouncing this wrong sine Mora was released to the google play store recently it's about time they got it over there as even Windows Phone got a port first seriously windows phone but hey better late than never right the game is touted for its awesome graphics and generally fun gameplay the most unique concept is the absence of player health instead a timer ticks down and it goes down faster when you take damage most people think the storyline kind of sucks but if you're playing a shoot-'em-up for the storyline you're already doing it wrong last on our docket this week is an update to the actual google play store it was updated to version 3.4 point 10 and it did bring a few changes it's not a huge update with a bunch of huge changes but we wouldn't be much of a google play show if we didn't cover google play updates the update brought exactly great new features the first is combined notifications that puts all the Play Store activity into one notification next is a recent app section in your apps that tells you what apps were you know recently updated and lastly the buy in red buttons have been switched again it's nothing special but it does bring some new functionality to end the show we'll take a look at five relatively newer apps that have begun to make a splash and get noticed if at any point you want to check any of these out the links are in the video description first up is timely for some reason people are going absolutely bonkers over this clock app it has a very nice interface some unique features like gesture control and widgets for the homescreen and lockscreen as well as a daydream add-on there are n app purchases which seems just wrong for a clock app but people still seem to like it also it's referral code spam campaign will probably get a little worse before it gets any better but hey if you're not into watching time go by you can instead use your android phone to cast YouTube to your television an app called cheap cast is out and it essentially turns your android phone into a chromecast the drm stuff like Netflix isn't available yet but if you're like me and waiting for the chromecast to get back into stock then this may help take the pain out of waiting the speaking of the pain of waiting the nintendo DS now finally has a capable emulator on android it's called drastic DS emulator and it actually works pretty well it's a little pricey at around eight dollars us but sometimes quality costs money and it's money well spent if you're a fan of the d/s James are wonderful and our next appt and I hope I'm getting this right remmed capsule is probably one of the most unique ones out there it's a strategy game that doesn't focus so much on attack and defense but on players building the best faces possible despite its simplistic gameplay and graphics the game is truly excellent if you're into strategy you don't want to miss this one the last in our trending category this week is an app called spy camera pro this nifty little camera app takes pictures and on some devices records video without it showing up on your screen much like drinking alcohol we highly recommend that you use this app responsibly or not at all in illegal situations that about wraps it up for this week once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you like this video check out some of our other ones we have a weekly new show with Josh Vergara the weekly Q&A with Christopher wook and a sunday giveaway where we give you something every single week this week it's an international HTC One as always thank you for watching and have a wonderful day Oh