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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and happy Friday everybody this week we're going to talk about Google Play and PayPal running applications on devices that usually shouldn't be able to run them and a lot of other awesome news so let's get started in our first bit of news this week you can now pay for applications using PayPal this is kind of a huge deal for a long time Google has had preferential treatment of their own Google Wallet platform so to see PayPal show up like this is actually kind of surprising for now PayPal is supported in only twelve countries including the US Germany and Canada according to the Android developers blog this is to help make payments more seamless that's not all that's going on along with the paypal support google has also added carrier billing and Google Play gift cards to a number of countries worldwide developers in 13 new countries can now sell their apps on the Google Play Store lastly it adds an additional information screen to app pages simplified headers easier to read permissions and more if you want more info on the tweet UI you should follow this guy on Google+ whose name I won't even pretend to know how to pronounce the speaking of new things Plex now supports camera upload okay so here's what this means if you have a Plex past subscription than Plex will begin to automatically upload your camera roll to your Plex library for future viewing where ever you can use Plex as usual you can turn them off in the settings and set it to upload only when over mobile data or Wi-Fi as you prefer as stated you need to have a Plex past subscription for this to work oh and as usual there were the boilerplate bug fixes and performance improvements in the update and now for the news that likely got you to click on this video in the first place there is now a way to run iOS apps on Android yes it's true friends dub cider the projects ultimate goal is to allow totally unmodified iOS apps to run on Android here's the short version essentially some science students from Columbia University developed cider which is essentially a compatibility layer that fools iOS apps into believing that the Android Linux kernel is the xnu kernel that runs on iOS this could have some pretty epic ramifications with interests ranging from individual users to businesses it'll be interesting to find out exactly how Android users get ahold of iOS apps since the Apple App Store is it the most open place ever it's also worth noting that this is still in the type phase and it's not altogether clear if the project will keep going because it was originally done as a research project personally I hope someone picks it up because this would be awesome this was a triumph I'm making a note here huge success so portal was released on May 12th as scheduled but owners of Nvidia's handheld Android power gaming system got a bit of a surprise because half-life 2 was released right alongside it both are available right now for shield for the not so low price of $9.99 each portal is currently rocking a 5.0 rating in the Google Play Store with half-life 2 earning a respectable 4.9 at this time it'll be interesting to see if he's ever make it to non shield devices but with the recent price drop to $199 the shield is looking like a better device all the time now the speaking of applications that shouldn't be able to run on your device a new app called port app lets you run om skin apps on other devices it's called port adapt and it was released by the aptly named XD a member app maker here's how it works the app is actually a collection of apks that allow you to run apps from OAM skinned roms included our apps from Sony Samsung signage and mod Nokia and others and you can run them on pretty much any device the app is a great idea but it is limited for the time being there aren't many apps you can choose from but we assume the list will grow with time it's also worth noting that you cannot get ported app in the Google Play Store you must head to xda-developers download it and then manually install the APK if you want to try it we'll have a link to it in the written companion so 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 an application called bright weather and it's done by the same developers who brought us the insanely popular beautiful widgets at its core bright weather is just another weather application you can find weather in your area or around the world view local forecasts view radar and some more unique features like a weather Almanac what makes this app nice is the design which includes new background images daily and more interactive elements than usual it's free in the Google Play Store right now if you want to try it out next up is a little time waster game called make it rain in this game you swipe up on a pile of money to make money and then you spend it on other things that make you money every action in this game only serves to making more money except the FBI spin wheel which actually takes away money it's a lot of fun and short runs and it's definitely something a little different it's also free Monument Valley is an optical illusion based puzzle game that's both fun to look at and fun to play the level design in this title is one of a kind and while the game is pretty short few people seem to be regretting spending the $3.99 the game is going for in the Google Play Store the music gameplay and artwork all seem to seamlessly blend together in a stunning presentation that you can enjoy with your eyes and with your ears if you have four dollars to spend check this one out next up is per app modes which is one of the best fruit apps ever it was updated to version 2.0 which added bug fixes performance improvements a polished up ey multi selection support and many other smaller UI and performance tweaks to make things better for those who may not know per app modes is a root application that lets you set the maximum and minimum CPU speeds on various applications along with other variables this can help improve performance on heavy games save battery on less CPU intensive apps and give you more control over how your device acts it's a dollar ninety-nine and if you're a root user you should go give this one a look last up this week is an application that's perfect for travelers called grab my charger the premise for this application is simple it uses your phone's GPS and an alarm to make sure you grab your charger when you leave it seems useless for normal folks but if you're traveling leaving your phone charger behind can suck a whole bunch so what you do is set the alarm and you plug in your charger and when you leave without it the app will send you a notification so you can go back and get it it's free for a limited time right now so go check it out once again I'm Joe Andy the Android authority app guy don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you want to follow Android authority myself or the rest of our handsome video team and J's Baroda you can find all of 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 a galaxy s5 tips and tricks video along with my review of XCOM finally don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description below for all of the download links as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day