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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and happy Friday everybody this week we're going to talk about a new game out of rovio portal coming to android and how i have one less thing that i can throw in Jay sprout his face so let's do this after about a year of waiting my neighbors to the north finally have access to some google play music goodness unfortunately i can no longer say to Jace that i have it and he doesn't but you know what that's okay when this news first hit my google+ feed exploded and i didn't realize until that very moment that i followed a lot of canadian people if you want to get any are in canada just head to the google play store and pick it up there are no special instructions or weird things no more proxies and no more anger and frustration of course the bad news is i have to think of more creative ways to make fun of Jace now this is the point in the show where I make a really lame the cake is not a lie joke the game is set to release for NVIDIA shield on May twelfth and will reportedly cost 999 we talked about this a few weeks ago and I saw a few people stay that portal on Android would make them look twice at Nvidia's handheld gaming system unfortunately it will only be for shield and there's no word yet on when or if it'll come to everyone else what you're looking at right now is a demo from roland deschain on youtube but it appears to look and work pretty well when i first heard about it I had my doubts because portal could be a very precise game and touch controls are known for being less than precise and video games however it looks pretty clean here and that's pretty exciting after all portal taught me what to do when life gives me lemons so we've lived through another Wednesday update out of Google and this week Google camera google wallet and Google Maps all got some update love Google wallet's update came with a few UI tweaks which allows for more control and also renamed a few of the menu items there is also a notification now that update you on a package shipment if you ordered it through google wallet google cameras update was simple if you can now take pictures while recording video yay the biggest update of the week went to Google Maps and the change log is actually pretty substantial here are the highlights turn-by-turn navigation now shows distance arrival time and quick access to alternate routes there are improved offline maps management you can now sign in and see a places to review so you can review places where you've been the last big addition is integration with ubers taxi service should you need that so there is a new game coming out of rovio that's going to piss you off but not for the usual reasons okay so the game is called retry and it comes out of Rovio's level 11 team for those who don't know the level 11 team will be the guys who work on non angry birds games which means that they are currently everyone's favorite part of rovio retry as a game that's like flappy bird in that it's insanely difficult for no reason and that's supposed to be what makes it fun the premise is pretty simple you fly a little 8-bit airplane in a little 8-bit world with 8-bit music if the plane touches anything you're dead unlike flappy bird the plane can fly backwards and in circles so it's not exactly a flappy bird clone it's coming to the google play store soon or so we're told but in a few markets including Canada Finland and Poland they have early access on iOS right now so a full-blown release probably isn't far off in our last bit of news this week Google now continues to be awesome this is a smaller update so we'll be quick about it Google now will now tell you when local stores are carrying goods that you searched for online so let's say you were looking for a pair of headphones online and you drive past an electronic store that happens to have them Google now will send you a shopping reminder letting you know that your desired item is nearby the only downside if the item isn't in stock Google now doesn't know that so your mileage may vary the 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 first up this week is chatter this is the latest app out of a transfer and is publicly backed by John McAfee the premise is simple this is another one of those anonymous messaging app for nobody can see what you type except the person you're typing to the idea is cool but the app is a little buggy as developers frankly state that they've kind of rushed this beta release for now unless you enjoy trying out brand new stuff it's probably best to wait until this app gets a few more features and a few more bug fixes Firefox for Android desktop and pretty much everything else got updated recently included are a few new features a few UI tweaks a new sync service and a bunch of other stuff you can now sign into Firefox Sync on your desktop and mobile and it'll sync your bookmarks history tabs etc pretty much like chrome and that's actually really exciting I've been using this for about a week now and it's definitely worth checking out if you're in your late 20s or older you may remember a PC jam called tren for tycoon if you do and you want some actual retro awesomeness and you can now get transport tycoon on Android the entire game has been ported to android so you'll be able to play pretty much the entire game and all of its glory all over again it's six dollars and ninety-nine cents in the Google Play Store but there are no microtransactions at all so you can buy it and sim it up old-school nine cards home launcher is an interesting concept if you recall back in the day I did a review of everything me launcher imagine having what that launcher had without being required to change your home launcher and that's pretty much what nine cards home launcher does it categorizes your apps into categories such as social media etc then categorizes them again depending on what time of the day you use the application you can swipe to get to them very quickly the best part is nine cards lays over top of your current launcher so you don't have to give up anything to use it it's free and it's kind of cool whip video stream is a nifty Android application and Google Chrome extension that allows you to stream local videos to your TV through the chromecast yes there are apps out there that do this already but the more the merrier I always say they claim to fame is the ability to stream videos in some formats up to 1080p and it's available on both computers and mobile devices so far it's received solid reviews and rocks a 4.2 rating in the Google Play Store also it's free so you can go get it whenever you want last up this week is frequency frequency is kind of what would happen if you took internet video RSS and crossbred them into an application the app lets you find various video feeds from a whole bunch of sources and kind of create your own little video channel from those feeds it has YouTube The Wall Street Journal and many other widely popular and highly regarded video sources it's not just news as you can get anything from epic FAIL videos to cat videos as well it's free to try so why not download it now as always you don't have to wait for the Google Play weekly show to see the latest and greatest in android app news if you head to android 230 calm and click on the app's option at the top you can check out our latest app news app reviews app lists and our latest segments the indie app of the day and the meet the dev series so go ahead and check those out once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you want to follow android authority myself for the rest of the video team he 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 including laundry view of the xperia t2 as well as chase brodas latest android authority weekly show finally don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description below because that's where you'll find all of the download link goodness as always everybody thank you for watching and have a wonderful day