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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and welcome back to Android apps weekly this is episode number 158 so let's get right into those headlines hooya has officially quit the hardware business and is now a publishing company so far they have published three games all of them exclusive to the Nvidia shield console none of them are overly amazing or anything and they tend to feature retro graphics and rock steady gameplay still it'll be interesting to see what Lea comes out with over the coming months and years many of us still miss androids first really good gaming console sunrise calendar closed its doors for good this last week we knew it was coming after they announced as much a few months ago but now it's officially dead and gone the good news though is that many of the more unique features are currently being added to Microsoft's outlook it's obviously not the same thing but the memory of sunrise will live on in another application you can expect these new features to hit outlook sooner or later the new Nexus launcher that was going around a week or two ago is now called pixel launcher on top of essentially confirming what we already knew about the Nexus name change the app now appears to work slightly better than before the calendar icon now shows the actual dates and it seems to be a little bit smoother is downloadable now if you want it giant has released a new Android emulator called guide remix OS player the basic concept is that you run jive remix OS on Microsoft Windows and then use it to run Android absent games it works similarly to most Android emulators except for these guys have a history of doing things the right way it's about the only emulator that uses Android marshmallow and it's also completely free to use YouTube is apparently preparing to enter the social media space a blog post from Google indicated that content creators will be able to post things like text only content gifs live video and other types of content that you normally don't see on YouTube the idea is to give creators a better method to communicate with subscribers without having to go to other sites like Facebook and Twitter it's only available to a few people right now to test it out movies is a navbar audio visualizer application that shows a visualizer on your navbar the visualizer does react to the music that you play on your device and it's a pretty fun little thing to look at it features the ability to customize the visualizer to your specifications and it also work on things like video apps such as YouTube there are even options to have it work on apps that hide the navbar such as Spotify it's free to download with a pro version going for a dollar ninety-nine movies isn't necessarily useful but it looks pretty awesome Viji Volken beta is actually just a popular mobile van glory but with some Vulcan fake tin as many of you know Vulkan API is a new addition into android nougats and the BG vulcan beta may well be the very first game to use it it's exactly the same as the MOBA that we all know and love already so the gameplay experience and mechanics don't change at all it's had some compatibility issues with devices that are supposed to have Vulcan supports but otherwise it works pretty well Google cast preview is kind of like a beta except that it's meant to be more stable it essentially gives people the opportunity to try new features in Google's chromecast platform before they're available to everybody else to activate it you simply need to allow for the preview email in the notification settings and then follow the instructions in the email that you get it should be relatively bug free since it's not meant to be a beta release in any case it's completely free to use and totally worth a shot animation Throwdown is a card collecting game in this title you'll be able to collect cards that feature many popular cartoon characters and then you duel it out against other players for supremacy the game manages to keep the quirky humor from each series intact and there are some mechanics that allow you to combine cards for stronger attacks it's essentially a massive amount of fanservice for fans of these TV shows but it's free to download and it has a ton of things to do it's totally worth a shot desk doc is one of the more unique Android apps that we've seen released this year you'll be able to use this application to share your mouse between your PC and your Android device the setup is relatively easy and you should have it up and running in just a few minutes once it's all set up it'll be like your Android device is just another monitor on your setup and then you can move your mouse right on over to it it's compatible with devices running Android 4.1 and up and there is no route required the pro version goes for five dollars and forty nine cents and it contains some extra features for even more Android apps and games news check out this week's newsletter which is linked in 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