Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.

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SeatGeek Event Tickets

Today's roundup is presented by SeatGeek Event Tickets. SeatGeek is like the Google of live event tickets: it searches everything, everywhere, and gives it all to you on the same page. SeatGeek search results for sports, concerts, and other events come from every major source, like StubHub, eBay, all the major league sports markets, and the venues themselves, then the app shows you the final ticket location and price. The app even includes stadium/venue maps and photos of the view from whatever seat you want. SeatGeek is completely free to use.

Ready to stop overpaying for concert tickets? Need 50-yard line seats at next week's game? Dying to catch that sold out Broadway show? SeatGeek is a search engine for tickets that scours hundreds of websites at once and brings back all available tickets in one place. Use it to save time & money the next time you want a sweet deal on concert tickets, sports tickets, and more.

• Tickets from all the major sellers – and 100+ more – all in one search

• Search over 140,000 events – concerts, music festivals, NFL, NBA, & NHL games, Broadway shows and more

• Deals automatically ranked from best to worst with Deal Score

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• Amazing interactive seating charts

• Real view-from-seat images for 100s of venues

• Recommended events near you

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Apps

drupe – Contacts. Your way.

Android Police coverage: Drupe Gives Boring Phone Contacts A Contextual Gesture-Based Makeover

Drupe is an interesting app that aims to place your contacts and a collection of applicable app actions at your fingertips. Activate the app by tapping the floating button, then slide one of your favorite or recently-used contacts onto an app icon on the opposite side. The relevant app will open with a new email, text message, Facebook message, or what have you to the contact you selected. Plenty of operational and visual options are included for tinkerers.

WOW your Android with an app like no other. We bring your contacts and communication apps together in one place, that’s accessible from all your screens. Want to contact someone? Just swipe the contact to the right app and get in touch. Simple. Using drupe, you can reach anyone on your contact list, using your preferred communication app, with just one swipe. Yes, drupe is within your reach whenever you need it. Don’t worry, we made sure it’s not annoying.

Flyp - Multiple Phone Numbers

Android Police coverage: Flyp Lets You Use Up To Six Phone Numbers On A Single Phone

For those of you who still use your phone as, well, a phone, you have a few options like Google Voice and Skype for alternate numbers. But what if you want to juggle more than two? Flyp gives you one extra number for free, for life, plus up to five more for a reasonable $2.99 each. Use one for work and one for home, plus one for that annoying person who hits on you at the bar (so you can have the pleasure of not answering).

Flyp gives you multiple numbers on your phone. Instantly get more phone numbers for each part of your life - work, friends, family, and more. With Flyp, you can connect to what matters most. With Flyp you get:

  • Additional phone numbers in seconds
  • A dedicated number for each part of your life
  • Seamless calling, texting, and voicemail
  • Same awesome call quality as your current number
  • Custom voicemail greetings for each Flyp number
  • Custom area codes for each Flyp number
  • Easily share your new number
  • Import all your current contacts
  • Personalized text-to-voice Quick Reply messages
  • Do Not Disturb for each individual Flyp number
Flyp - Multiple Phone Numbers Developer: GetFlyp
Price: Free
2.8
Download

Beatport

Android Police coverage: Beatport Launches Its Android App With All The Streaming Electronic Music And Material Design You Can Handle

Streaming music is becoming increasingly compartmentalized, which is a really good thing for people whose tastes don't align with the radio top 40. Take Beatport for example: it's a streaming service just for those who like electronic music. Beatport got its start as a track repository for musicians, but now it's gaining steam as a place for those musicians to post their finished music. It doesn't hurt that it happens to be one of the few online radio apps that adhere to Material Design.

Beatport brings you free, unlimited streaming from our world-class catalog. Connect with the artists you love and find new favorites. Stream your favorite tracks from anywhere. Discover festivals and shows from around the world.

Nuzzel: News From Your Friends

Android Police coverage: Nuzzel Builds A News Feed Out Of What Your Friends Read, Has Just Released An Android App

Show of hands: who's tired of wading through the various Buzzfeed links and other crappy stories on their Facebook page? Nuzzel aims to blend a traditional newsreader with stories recommended from your social contacts, and yes, you can pick who shows up and who doesn't. It imports from Facebook and Twitter, and it includes the usual share functions to send stories right back out to your friends. The interface is surprisingly clean as well.

Nuzzel is the super-easy way to see news from your friends. Discover the top news stories shared by your friends on Facebook and Twitter, without being overwhelmed or missing anything. No setup or configuration is required, just login with Twitter or Facebook and see interesting news stories in seconds. You can also use Nuzzel to share interesting stories with your friends via Twitter, Facebook, email, or SMS. Nuzzel can even send you customized news alerts when breaking news is shared by many of your friends.

Tilt

Android Police coverage: Tilt Allows Your Group To Easily Collect Money For Crowdfunding Goals

Tilt is a crowdfunding-style app that lets you actually do something useful. It's primarily designed for small groups: distribute the app and each member can contribute to a common goal (say, a T-shirt order or a trip discretionary fund) with debit or credit. It's also an easy way to see who hasn't paid up, eliminating some of that awkward pressure. The app is free for most groups, but you can sell items directly or collect for a charity for a fee.

Join over 500,000 groups who have used Tilt to easily collect money for FREE. With Tilt you can track who’s paid, know how much you’ve collected, post updates, and receive funds to your bank overnight—all in one safe place. With the Tilt app, you can:

  • Start collecting money in less time than it takes to read this sentence.
  • Let everyone see who’s paid, those who don’t get a healthy dose of peer-pressure.
  • Stop fronting money and hassling Ed “No cash” Jones to pay you back.
  • Collect risk-free, no one is charged unless you reach your goal (a.k.a. “tilt” amount).

Pixel OFF Save Battery AMOLED

If you've got a phone with an AMOLED screen, this app will overlay it with a bunch of black dots. The idea is to display a bunch of pure black on the screen, which actually shuts off the affected pixels and saves you some battery life. (Note: this doesn't work for conventional LCD screens.) Options for greater or lesser intensity are opened up via in-app purchase, but you don't need root permissions to use the app itself.

Some AMOLED screen powered devices are able to "turn off" those pixels which are showing black colour. This app will let you to turn off some pixels in order to save your appreciate battery by showing very small black points. As newer devices comes with very high density screens those points will be insignificant to the user´s sight and will be offset by lower spending battery

Riff

Android Police coverage: Facebook Launches Riff, A Collaborative Video-Making App That Isn't An April Fools Joke

This Facebook app allows you to post a video, then your friends can add bits and pieces to the end of it. It's basically a multimedia version of a long comment thread. Of course you can add your own bits to your friends' videos as well. I can see this being useful for a family or group that has a shared experience - say, a vacation or a concert.

Riff is the best way to make videos with friends. Just start a video, say what it’s about and post it on Riff. Anyone can see your videos, but your friends can add to them, and then their friends can add to them, and then their friends… You get the picture.

• Log in with Facebook to see videos by friends on Riff

• Start a video you want people to add to

• Browse Riff for videos you want to add your own clip to

• Get inspired by checking out videos the Riff team has featured

• Share the videos you start, add to, or find on Riff with friends.

Shortcuts for Waze

Android Police coverage: Shortcuts For Waze Makes It Easier To Search Or Navigate From Your Homescreen

Waze is an awesome alternative to the standard navigation services (so awesome that Google snatched 'em right up), but it doesn't have much integration with the rest of Android. This app allows you to add common destinations and routes to your homescreen as a shortcut. You can add a specific address or something more generic to find the nearest businesses, like "Chinese food." Simple, useful, free.

For some unfathomable reason Waze does not provide a built in way to add shortcuts to places. So I wrote this app to provide them.

  • Use them anywhere shortcuts are accepted
  • Just search or auto-navigate
  • Use exact addresses or search general terms (gas station, fast food, etc..)

Note: I am not associated with Waze in any way, except as a user of their software.

Shortcuts for Waze 2.0 (Nav) Developer: UXiomatic
Price: Free
4.4
Download

Trimmer (fstrim)

Imagine this app as a defragger for your phone or tablet. It's not - that's not how flash storage works - but if you've been using your Android device for a while, trimming the NAND storage might just get rid of some considerable lag. You'll need root permissions to use Trimmer.

Almost all Android devices use NAND chips for data storage. Because of how NAND chips work, they may become significantly slow after some time. Trimming would help to restore NAND Chips performance to their initial value. Although Android 4.3+ supports trim natively, users have no control over this process and Android doesn't trim the storage for a very long time. "Trimmer (fstrim)" helps you to run trim on your device manually if you feel it has become laggy.

Trimmer (fstrim) Developer: AdminseHow
Price: Free
4.3
Download

File transfer by Infinit

Infinit is a point-to-point file transfer service. Thanks to its structure it doesn't have any file size limitations, though it may take you quite a while to get larger files to your PC or a friend's phone. It includes a basic address book and media viewer for quickly previewing or watching those totally legit videos you just received.

Infinit makes sending and transferring files to your contacts or your other devices easier and faster than ever. Share any files from anywhere in your phone using the Infinit share button, even entire movies with friends and colleagues in a few taps on the screen. You can also transfer files like documents, photos and full HD movies between your own devices whether you’re using a phone, a tablet or a desktop computer.

This here is a photo apps dedicated to quickly and effectively clearing out all the photos you don't want or need on your phone. It claims to clear up storage (definitely) and improve general performance (maybe). The interface takes a lot of inspiration from Tinder: swipe left to delete and right to keep. The "Gallery Doctor" function can also instantly identify blurry or duplicated photos without additional input.

Free up valuable storage by automatically identifying and cleaning your unwanted photos. Review and keep the shots you want, clean the ones you don’t. Gallery Doctor - Phone Cleaner has helped users free up to 32% worth of storage, all on the first-time use. Users have on average 2GB worth of unwanted photos that are taking up valuable storage on their device. Instead of spending hours scrolling through thousands of photos to find and clean your unwanted ones, Gallery Doctor - Phone Cleaner saves you time by identifying them immediately.

uMash Collage Generator

"Collage" may not be the right word for the output of this photo app - it's more like a fancy variable grid layout. But it can handle photos from all the usual social networks and cloud storage services, so if you're looking for a quick and easy way to make a visually appealing photo layout, this is it. It also has filters. Of course it has filters. It's impossible to build a photo app in 2015 without filters.

Any picture, any size, any frame- uMash Collage Generator does all the work for you. Quickly create beautiful picture collages and share them with friends and family. Select pictures from your device or favorite social media service and uMash will automatically build collages for you to select, edit and share. uMash uses smart cropping technology and powerful algorithms to produce unique, fitted collages with NO photo limit.

UltraTuner - Chromatic Tuner

Need to tune your guitar - or any other instrument, really - without a fancy stand-alone gadget? Then check out UltraTuner. It's not the first tuner app on the market - not by a long shot - but it does boast enhanced pitch precision and compatibility with musicians tools like the iRig.

UltraTuner features one of the fastest, smoothest and most responsive tuning engines of all the tuner apps on the market. UltraTuner is precise to a 1/100th of a cent, far beyond human perception of pitch. In fact, it’s 10 times more accurate than a mechanical strobe tuner (considered the “gold standard” of tuners). UltraTuner’s accurate pitch detection is achieved through a proprietary dual-analysis processing engine, which allows it to get a much more accurate reading of the frequency from the incoming note than most other tuners.

PRO Landscape Home

Remember when you were a kid and the school computers had "baby's first image editor" with a few basic tools and a ton of clip art? This is basically that, but for home landscaping. Take photos of your lawn or garden and add in a bunch of trees, flowers, grass, and whatever else it is that people add (sorry, I'm an apartment dweller) to see how it looks. There are sharing and gallery tools as well.

PRO Landscape Home lets you create your dream landscape or garden design starting with a picture of your house. Place high quality photos of trees, shrubs, flowers and more to create a stunning landscape design. Once your design is created, share it on Facebook or other social media sites, and find local garden centers or landscape contractors who can help you turn your design ideas into reality.

DoorDash - Food Delivery

Android Police coverage: DoorDash Delivery Service Rings Google Play's Doorbell, Is Now Ready To Serve Android

Here's another local food delivery app. Right now it only works in Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and the usual California suspects of San Francisco, LA, Orange County, San Jose, and Silicon Valley. Just once, just once I want to see one of these newfangled services launch in Akron, Ohio.

DoorDash delivers from hundreds of local restaurants in 45 minutes or less.

  • Currently serving San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Jose, Los Angeles, Orange County, Boston, Washington D.C., and Chicago.
  • All the Best Restaurants: we've got hundreds of the top restaurants in your area and we're adding more daily.
  • Get It Fast: Order on-demand or schedule a time that works for you.
  • No Hassle Payment: Pay directly from the app using a credit card.
  • Track Your Order: we provide up to the minute updates so you know exactly where your food is.
DoorDash - Food Delivery Developer: DoorDash
Price: Free
4.6
Download

Caliber - Business Messenger

Caliber is basically an instant messenger intended only for "business contacts." Oddly, it only supports importing contacts from LinkedIn, so I suppose it's an unofficial messenger service (to replace LinkedIn's crappy direct message system). If your business contacts are too hoity-toity to use regular messenger services or SMS, I suppose it could be useful.

Caliber is a messaging app to let you instantly chat with your business contacts. Our goal is to help you be more successful and productive professionally. You can use Caliber to get advice from your business contacts, to find a job, and to create new business relationships for the future.

  • Instant Messaging: Chat with your business contacts with the same ease as you chat with friends on any other popular messaging app.
  • Business Contacts Only: We sync your existing professional contacts from LinkedIn.
  • Powerful Search: Search by name or find professionals based on their professional experience like roles, skills, and companies they’ve worked.

Thumbster

Thumbster is a dumpster rental service with a mobile app. Get it? Eh? Eh? In all seriousness, it does look like a remarkably complete approach to something that contractors and DIY home improvement users will appreciate. Unfortunately the app description doesn't mention where it does or doesn't work.

Finally. Roll off Dumpster rental is now fast and easy. Have a construction job coming up? Looking to clean out all that junk at home? Thumbster gives you the power to rent a dumpster from your mobile device from start to finish. No more calling around for hours trying to find a dumpster. No more time restrictions on when you can order. No faxing or scanning of paperwork. With Thumbster’s 24x7x365 On Demand mobile application, you can get a real time quote, and order your dumpster in 5 minutes or less.

The Edit

Normally we wouldn't particularly care about another fashion app, but this isn't just about finding things, you can actually buy them. "The Edit" (huh?) features a wide selection of women's clothing, shoes, jewelry, and other accessories, and you can search and buy all of it via PayPal. It looks like the app is limited to the UK for now.

The Edit is an elegant and simple new way to shop for shoes, clothes and jeweler – anywhere, any time. Discover over 10,000 items from your favourite retailers and brands – from high street to high fashion.

  • Seamless shopping - Buy items from different brands with a single order.
  • Secure ordering - With every order covered by the highest level of Payment Card Industry certificates.
  • Build up a wishlist - With a few simple swipes. Swipe right if you like something, swipe left if you don't.
  • Get stylish daily edits - Hand-picked by our stylists. Find out what's on trend, right now.

Upbeat Monsters Icon Pack

Android Police coverage: Upbeat Monsters Icon Pack Fills Your Homescreen With Adorable Googly-Eyed Apps

Take it from someone who knows: there is a depressing lack of variety in icon packs for Android. Circles and squares, circles and squares everywhere. This unique pack recasts your icons as extras in the next Despicable Me movie: each one is an adorable "monster" with a googly-eyed face.

Upbeat Monsters is a new eye candy icon pack for custom launchers that try to bring an unique experience to your homescreen. Instead of focusing on theming thousand of icons that resemble the originals it offers over 150 high-res new colorful icons designed exclusively for android that will give new life to your interface and cover the most used apps. More icons will be added with future updates. Everything was handcrafted with care: none of the original icons asset was reused here and even the few logo used were recreated in vector graphics.

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Facebook Messenger Apps

Selfied for Messenger

Android Police coverage: Facebook Publishes A Handful Of Android Apps For Its New Messenger Platform

Normally I'd dismiss this Facebook Messenger app as another excuse to take more selfies, but this one actually has a small amount of utility. Take a bunch of selfies where you make different faces, and you can replace Messenger's stock emoticons.

Express yourself with Selfied for Messenger. Create and send selfies for every mood to show exactly how you're feeling. Don't have Messenger yet? Get it today.

Shout! for Messenger

Android Police coverage: Facebook Publishes A Handful Of Android Apps For Its New Messenger Platform

This Facebook Messenger app lets you make and send "macro" images in the style of annoying YouTube thumbnails.

Say it louder with Shout for Messenger. Add text to photos and watch them replay as a sentence. Send your finished work with Messenger to really get your point across.

Sound Clips for Messenger

Android Police coverage: Facebook Publishes A Handful Of Android Apps For Its New Messenger Platform

Here's a Facebook Messenger app that lets you insert a selection of pre-made sound effects into your messages. It's great for avoiding a link to that "sad trombone" site and for repeatedly annoying the other party with audible non sequiturs.

Sound off with Sound Clips for Messenger. Send pre-recorded sounds and phrases to make your messages come to life.

Strobe for Messenger

Android Police coverage: Facebook Publishes A Handful Of Android Apps For Its New Messenger Platform

Take a bunch of sequential photos to make a stop-motion animation, squash 'em all into a GIF, and send it to your friends via Facebook Messenger. Some of the effects are impressive, if not exactly practical.

It's GIF time. Flash through photos in different ways to create your own GIF and then send it to your friends with Messenger.

Wordeo for Messenger

Ever wanted to populate your Facebook messenger feed with 4Chan-style GIFs? Well now you can. Automatically. For some reason.

Wordeo for Messenger transforms your ordinary text messages into extraordinary video-meme messages, making it the coolest way to express your mood and amaze your friends. Mash up words, GIFs, videos, photos and music to create expressive audio-visual messages. Discover a world of popular GIFs and memes from the Internet, celebrities, TV, movies, music and more and use these to express what you want to send to your Facebook Messenger friends.

ClipDis for Messenger

And here's one that embeds a video search into Messenger, replacing each word with a different video clip. If you follow the old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words," then this app will (at least metaphorically) turn an IM discussion into a Dostoyevsky novel.

ClipDis for Messenger turns simple text into amazing video mashups

1. Type your text

2. ClipDis automatically replaces every word with a video sequence

3. Send your mashup via Facebook Messenger or save it to your phone

It was never so easy to create personalized funny video messages. Make one by a single tap and share it with your friends or just simply have fun creating crazy mashups.

Bitmoji for Messenger

Hey look, another way to customize emoji on Facebook Messenger. Are we done with these yet?

This version of Bitmoji is specially designed to use with Messenger.

• Create an expressive cartoon avatar

• Choose from a growing library of moods and stickers – featuring YOU

• Access them right inside Messenger while you're chatting

• Special feature: Launch Bitmoji from your Messenger chat window to unlock 2-person Bitmojis.

Ditty for Messenger

This app sings text in Messenger. For some reason. At this point I think Artem is putting these in here just to see how long it takes me to crack. Spoiler alert: not much longer.

You text. Ditty sings. Ditty is a fast and fun new way to send friends a custom song and lyric video.

  • FREE to download.
  • Simply text, pick your music and Ditty sings your message for you.
  • Make dittys with classic songs and current hits
  • Share your creations using Messenger

GIPHY for Messenger

Sigh. So is this the future of Facebook's "Messenger platform?" Ten thousand different ways to send dumb photos to your friends?

GIPHY for Messenger is how you chat with animated GIFs inside Facebook Messenger. Find the perfect GIF from the world's largest library of animated GIFs. Discover the world of popular memes, TV, Movies, Music and more. Need to say LOL better? We've got a GIF for that. Static emojis are so yesterday, share a moving emoji instead.

Memes for Messenger

With Memes for Messenger you can create funny memes and share them with your friends via Messenger. It’s a great way to spice up your conversations.

  • Multiple meme categories
  • More than 600 high quality memes with lots of example captions
  • Custom memes – you can use any picture from your gallery.
  • Adjust text color and size
  • Multiple fonts to choose from

Manufacturer And Tie-In Apps

HopWatch for reddit

If you're a Reddit addict, you probably watch a lot of videos submitted to the service. Well, that's not strictly true: you probably watch a lot of ten-second GIFs, then check the comments for the YouTube link. But even so, it might be nice to check out those videos that do get submitted on your shiny Android TV set-top box. The app includes a standard ATV layout and a search function.

Watch popular videos from reddit with HopWatch. HopWatch on Android TV is the most comfortable way to watch reddit videos from your couch. Download this app and you'll be presented with the hottest trending videos every day. Choose your favorite video subreddits: /r/videos, /r/youtubehaiku, /r/documentaries – and HopWatch will show you the latest upvoted posts. You can quickly toggle between different sort modes to see the top rated posts from the past month or year.

HopWatch for Reddit Developer: UgglyNoodle
Price: 0.99
3.8
Download

HTC Speak

Android Police coverage: HTC's Voice Command App 'Speak' Overheard Entering The Play Store

This is HTC's take on the voice command app, which every major manufacturer seems intent on using even though Google Now is free. It's in the Play Store to facilitate easy updates.

HTC Speak lets you control your HTC phone’s dialer, music player, navigation system, camera and more using your voice. There are three ways to activate voice commands. In the Phone app, tap the microphone icon next to the dialer’s call button. In the Car app, tap the screen with three fingers or tap the button labeled “Speak.” In the Camera app, turn on voice capture to take selfies by saying simple commands.

HTC Speak Developer: HTC Corporation
Price: Free
3.5
Download

HTC Calendar

Android Police coverage: HTC Releases Calendar And Print Studio Apps Into The Play Store

Ditto for HTC's calendar app. This one actually seems surprisingly competent thanks to a straightforward layout and a compatibility with Exchange, Outlook, Google, and Facebook.

HTC Calendar lets you view your events, meetings and appointments by day, week or month. You can also create new events or tap and hold on an event to edit it. Sign in to Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Facebook, Google and Outlook to sync all your online calendars in one place. You can also view your reminders from Sense TV, to-do lists from Tasks or birthdays and anniversaries from People.

HTC Calendar Developer: HTC Corporation
Price: Free
3.9
Download

HTC Print Studio

Android Police coverage: HTC Releases Calendar And Print Studio Apps Into The Play Store

One more for the road: here's HTC's in-house printing app. Print Studio doesn't send images or documents to networked printers, it lets you turn your photos into professionally-finished prints and books. Naturally you'll have to pay for the service.

Make the most of unforgettable birthday photos for the grandparents, magical honeymoon memories for the mantel and baby's first smile for all your friends. HTC Print Studio turns the photos on your phone into stunning brag books and unique greeting cards printed by Pinhole Press. It's simple to get started. Print Studio automatically finds collections of photos that you might like to print, or you can create your own project from scratch.

Sling International

Android Police coverage: Sling International Android App Hits The Play Store, DishWorld Gets Update Telling You To Download Sling

Sling International is not an international version of Sling TV. Sorry, non-US Android Police readers, it's not our fault that they gave it an ambiguous name. Nope, this is an extension of the IPTV service that delivers TV from international sources to US residents, primarily aimed at immigrants and expatriates. A variety of channels are available in Hindi, Portuguese, Arabic, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Bengali, Mandarin, Cantonese, and a ton of other languages and dialects. You'll need to subscribe to Sling TV, plus an extra package, to watch it.

Sling International is the #1 live International TV service in U.S. Featuring more than 180 channels and 18 different languages, this app allows you to watch live TV instantly on your Android devices, including phone and tablets. Watch on your on your TV, tablet, phone, or computer. Get a 1 month FREE trial. See your favorite shows, news, movies, kids programs, and sports, including cricket and soccer. No social security number required. Download the app for FREE.

Mars Is A Real Place

Was anyone in doubt of the fact that Mars is a real place? It seems like the kind of thing that would be questioned on late-night AM radio. Well if you're in any doubt, and you have a Google Cardboard-compatible headset, check out this VR app that puts you in the shoes treads of a Martian rover with 3D versions of publicly-available images.

Mars Is A Real Place is a short slideshow of stereoscopic 3D Martian landscapes in virtual reality. Works with Google Cardboard. More than 50 high-resolution images have been hand-picked and presented for your viewing pleasure. All of the images are stereoscopic and care has been taken to ensure they are all comfortable to view in 3D (minimized retinal rivalry, panoramas are each shown at the proper FOV wrapping around the player, hard-to-converge portions cropped out, etc)

Kore™,Official Remote for Kodi

Android Police coverage: [By The Way] Official Kodi Remote App 'Kore' Is Available In The Play Store

We've featured a few remotes for Kodi (formerly XBMC) before, but this one is the official version from the open-source horse's mouth. It's surprisingly full-featured: in addition to the usual remote functions it includes on-device searching and playlist management.

Kore is a simple, easy to use and beautiful Kodi™ / XBMC™ remote that lets you control your media center from your Android™ device.

  • Control your media center with an easy to use remote;
  • See what’s currently playing, including relevant information about it (movies, TV shows, music, pictures and addons);
  • Check and manage the current playlist
  • Change and sync subtitles and audiostreams;
  • View your media library, with details about your movies, TV shows, music and addons;
  • Works with Kodi and XBMC (Frodo and Gotham);
  • All in a nice and easy to use interface, with multiple themes.

Cloud Console

Android Police coverage: Google Releases Cloud Console Beta App For Managing Google Cloud Services

Do you use Google's cloud services for your business? Then here, install this app and obsessively check on your metrics and costs five or six times a day. Like most recent Google apps, it includes a Material Design layout and support for multiple accounts.

The Cloud Console enables you to manage your solution running on the Google Cloud Platform directly from your Android phone or tablet:

  • Check the state of your Google App Engine or Compute Engine resources
  • Create your own custom dashboard to get a glanceable overview of your solution
  • Take quick actions directly from your device such as stopping a virtual machine
  • View and manage Incidents tracked in Google Cloud monitoring

We plan on shipping new features regularly. Please give us your feedback in the app by swiping from the left and tapping "Send feedback".

Google Cloud Developer: Google LLC
Price: Free
4.4
Download

Action Cam App

This app lets you import and edit video from Sony's line of GoPro-style action cameras. The editing tools provided are actually surprisingly complex - you could have a fully-edited video ready for distribution, as long as you don't need especially fancy transitions or titles.

Quick and easy creation of eye-catching movies. Cut, trim and make slow motion videos with easy operation. Flip videos vertically/horizontally and add music to create impressive videos. Transfer videos easiliy to mobile devices via Wi-Fi. Create high quality 720 30p (HD) or 1080 30p/60p (Full HD) videos.

Compatible Products:

FDR-X1000V

HDR-AS200V/ AS100V/ AS30V*/ AS20

HDR-AZ1

FLIR FX

Android Police coverage: FLIR Announces Super-Versatile FLIR FX Wireless HD Surveillance Camera, Coming April 15th For $199

This app is for a home security camera that isn't available yet. Even so, it's pretty cool: in addition to the usual web-accessible video feeds and recordings, the "rapid recap" feature lets you zoom through hours of recording to find anything out of the ordinary.

The FLIR FX™ is a versatile wireless HD camera that allows you to keep an eye on the things you care about – anytime, any place. From monitoring your home while you’re away to checking on your baby during naptime, the FLIR FX™ WiFi camera brings cutting edge innovation to video monitoring. Wireless – view recordings from anywhere by connect directly to your camera from your mobile device, with or without Internet access.

Live Wallpapers

TapDeck - Wallpaper Discovery

TapDeck turns your wallpaper into a gateway of information discovery. A true boredom beater, TapDeck is your launch pad to a world of entertaining images, audio, text and video - bringing it all to you, considering your context via the best third party content providers.

• Double Tap to change your wallpaper.

• Swipe Up to discover more about the image and content relevant to it.

TapDeck is currently integrated with:

• Reddit

• Wikipedia

• & Many more to follow...

WTF App(s) Of The Week

Durex Connect

Durex wants you to turn your phone off. For reasons that are completely clear and anything but subtle. This app basically blocks your phone from doing anything with a fake "lock screen" so that you can do something else. Like, I dunno, knitting or watching professional croquet. Something like that.

The Durex Connect app is a user-friendly way to synchronise your phone with your partner’s, so that neither can renege on the promise of dedicated, tech-free connection. At agreed times, or by spontaneous agreement, it will simply mask your phones’ home screen, effectively putting the handsets to sleep and removing all distractions so that you can disconnect from technology and connect with each other.

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