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if you feel Android handles links poorly you're not alone I'm Taylor Martin with PocketNow and this is link bubble and tap path Chris lacy is a developer who likes to think outside the box to point out the tiny idiosyncrasies of the Android experience you didn't realize we're driving you mad and fixed them that's exactly what he's done with two of his newest apps tap path and link bubble so what are they exactly I covered link bubble back in April shortly after its release it's a lightweight floating bubble browser that loads web pages in the background to provide an uninterrupted browsing experience for instance without link bubble tapping any old link will shoot you out of the app you're currently in and load the default browser you will then have to sit and wait for the page to fully load a few seconds here and there is no big deal and the rocky handoff between the application and browser is something most users can deal with but those precious seconds add up over time sometimes you just want to continue looking at your Twitter or Google+ feeds while loading pages in the background that was Lacey's reason for creating link bubble to save time and load pages discreetly without interrupting whatever it was you were doing when you click the link with link bubble installed and set as the default browser tapping a link in almost any application will pop out a tiny bubble inside that bubble the web page will load while you continue doing what you were doing or tapping more links to load at your own convenience you can browse all the links you opened loading multiple links from a Google now search is a perfect example of how this is useful it's simple and very effective and has saved me an average of 1.2 minutes per link but that's not all link bubble does it parses the information in a web page and provides shortcuts to media embedded in a page like YouTube videos and if a link is associated with a third-party app like YouTube Instagram or Twitter link bubble will take care of the handoff in the background seamlessly and take you straight to the app it also comes with quick user definable shortcuts for sharing drag a link bubble to the upper right or left corner to share to your preferred methods and inflate bubble isn't the best way to view a web page you can easily jump to your secondary browser using the selected fallback browser in the settings and that brings us to tap path a much more specific app but make no mistake it's just as helpful because loading a link into the wrong type of browser can just as easily waste your time the tap path only does one thing it's a link handler what that means is it allows you to choose how to open a link using a combination of taps single double or triple taps in this case a single tap launches a link in link bubble a double tap will load a link in cm browser and a triple tap will send the link to buffer through the tap path app you can easily customize how each tap combination we'll handle links this is very helpful if you know link bubble isn't the best option like for instance if you need to copy text in that case a double tap to load a link in cm browser would be more effective and efficient link bubble and tap path are available in Google Play for free and 99 cents respectively but if you want the full link bubble experience you'll need to purchase the 2.99 cent Pro unlock folks if you like to absolutely talked about in this video you can find links to their Google Play pages in the description below and if you liked the video and found it helpful click the thumbs up button and subscribe you can find us around the web on Twitter Facebook and Google+ at pocket now I'm Taylor Martin cast protect on Twitter and I will see you next time you