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what's up guys lon here from Android Authority and I figured today we take a little bit of a break from the normal stuff that we usually do here on this channel like the reviews and the verses and all the other typical stuff and do something that's a little bit more laid-back and fun so today I'm going to talk about what's on my Android phone how I typically have it set up the apps that I use and the apps that I can't live without so let's go ahead and get right into it all right so the phone that I'm currently using right now is the galaxy s7 edge and this is one of the phones that I normally typically default back to when I'm not reviewing or testing out another device but no matter which phone I'm using I always have the same exact setup so the launcher that I have is the Google now launcher and I like to sponsor it because it's really simple and it's really clean and also because it has the Google now home screen on the left side which I really like because it makes it really quick to get to on top of that I have a pretty simple setup there's nothing too crazy going on here I just have a clock up top here this is just the default clock that comes with the Galaxy a7 so whatever clock I can find by default on a phone that's just the one that I use and it's a really clean looking clock so I decided to use it and then down the bottom here my bottom dock I just have the dialer Hangouts which I use for chatting on hangouts and also as SMS the app drawer in the middle obviously the Google Play Store and the Chrome browser and then my folders I have four of them I have a Google folder a social media folder productivity and a games folder and the Google folder is pretty self-explanatory it doesn't really have anything to surprising in here I have Gmail the Google app Google Maps calendar photos YouTube and Google Play Music which is my music service of choice and then the last app here which is a Google app that does not typically come pre-installed on smart phones is the Google opinion rewards app and this app is actually pretty cool because you can gain free Google Play credit just by taking surveys and the surveys are really quick and simple they just ask you really basic questions like when was the last time you went to Walmart or when was the last time you went to Home Depot stuff like that really simple stuff and then you just get credit for it and then surveys take about thirty Seconds to a minute to fill out so the next folder is the social media folder so I have facebook facebook Messenger Instagram snapchat Twitter an app called group mean which is a a chatting app for chatting with a lot of your friends or whoever you want to chat with I use it to chat with a lot of my gaming buddies on clash of clans which I'll talk about in a second and then the last app here is just the secondary app to Instagram called layouts which allows you to make those grid type photos where you can stitch multiple photos together the next folder is the productivity folder and this folder is sort of a hodgepodge of stuff but they do have work-related stuff in here as well the first app here is slack for communicating with a lot of my colleagues here at Android Authority the next app is uber everybody knows what uber is uber is for getting a ride and then I have PayPal for sending and receiving money and then the next app here is my Bank app which is first federal as a bank you've probably never heard of because it's pretty local I think but I use this app to check my bank account to make sure nothing's going wrong then I have the Nelnet application for paying off my student loans because I was a student at one point and then the next three apps are actually for controlling the lights that you see and a lot of my videos like the lights that are on this desk here and also the lights that I have in my living room but the lifx app here is really clean very nice looking as easy to use you can turn your bulbs on and off just like you normally would expect to and you can also set different themes change the colors also set different effects like make the light strobe or make them cycle through different colors or even have them beat to the music that you're playing in your house and then the Philips hue app is also really clean as well it's really nicely laid out you can change the brightness of your lights you can change the colors you can also change the scene of the lights so whatever it is that you're feeling at the moment you can change you can see that I'm changing them right now so if I want this Arctic Aurora I can do that and lights will automatically change to blue or you can make your own scenes as well which is what I have here which is just basically an all purple / pink being because purple and pink sort of look really good on camera which is basically the only reason why I use that color not because it's my favorite or anything but it just looks really good on on camera so I like to use a purple and pink but anyways the next app that I have besides lifx and Phil too is an app called on switch and this this app here is a total lifesaver because instead of having to use both lifx and philips hue separately i can actually just use the on switch application which lets me control both my wife expose and my philips hue bulb in one app now the app is a little bit buggy it does freeze from time to time especially if you haven't opened it up in a long time and it's also it's in it's in desperate need of a redesign to say the least it kind of doesn't really look all that nice but it works extremely well there's a lot of different effects that you can download some of them are free some of them are paid but you can check those out if you want then you can also make the lights strobe or change color stuff like that same thing you can do with lifx and you can also set different groups so I have one for controlling all my lights in the apartment so I can turn them all on and off with one switch and I also have separate ones for just the office and one for the ones I have in my living room which are the light exponents so if I want to turn these off right now I can easily do that and I can also just turn them back on just like that so it's really simple really easy to do and then lastly the last folder that I have here is the game's folder and the two games that I have right now our clash of clans and clash Royale both are supercell games and I've been playing clash of clans for like several years now which sounds like a really long time especially for a mobile game most people don't really play mobile games that long but it's a really addicting game especially if you've invested a lot of time even maybe a little bit of money into it and the next game that I play is clash royale and this is basically sort of a spin-off of clash of plans but it's a completely different game entirely and I don't really I have a love and hate relationship with this game it kind of annoys me but I still continue to play it and I'm not really sure why because it just drives me up the wall and kind of makes me mad a little bit at times but it is what it is this next app here is kind of a funny one this is how to tie a tie and I don't really wear ties all that often so whenever I have to wear one I sort of don't really remember how to tie one and this app is really awesome because it has a bunch of different knots that you can tie for your tie the only one I really used is Windsor but there's a bunch of other different ones like a half windsor diagonal Atlantic whatever you want to do with your tie this app is really useful for that but yeah that's really it as far as my layout is concerned I like to keep things very simple and clean as you can tell because it makes it a lot easier to switch from one phone to the next when I have a particular setup that does not take me a long time to do and there you have it guys hopefully enjoyed this video and thought it was a little bit interesting and if you 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