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Many of the best games are no longer dirt cheap. Losing hard-earned cash by tossing away Steam gift cards or misplacing product codes can ruin one's budget. But we can overcome these problems by taking matters into our own hands — simply by redeeming our gift cards and product codes after we've received them.
12 best apps for college students in 2024
Yes, your smartphone can help you save both money and time!
College is an exciting prospect for a bright future, but there can be issues you might face during your studies. Organization, scheduling, financial responsibility, work-life balance, and maintaining mental health are things that new and seasoned students can trip up on. The Play Store has several fantastic apps to help you maintain a healthy and productive lifestyle while studying. This roundup of the best apps for college students ensures you have everything you need to tackle your courses prepared, and you can do it from an affordable quality Android phone.
Owning a newly created Discord server comes with many responsibilities. Sometimes communities grow exponentially at the speed of light, which can become too much to handle. Plus, servers often require a lot of hands-on moderation and Discord bot maintenance, and you might not be equipped to handle those tasks. Instead of nuking an established community, it's better to hand over the keys (so to speak) to another trusted Discord user. We created this guide to show you how to transfer ownership on Discord servers using your trusty Android tablet, phone, and desktop application.
What is Discord: How to get started with the social messaging platform
What makes Discord stand above the rest, and what's it have to do with gaming?
Online communities have turned to the creation of Discord servers to host discussion spaces so everyone can connect socially in real time. Discord allows you to engage in social activities such as texting, voice and video chatting, and screen sharing, no matter where you are. What differentiates Discord from other social platforms, such as Slack, Whatsapp, and TeamSpeak, is how well managed the whole system is, how flexible the social features are, and how easily integrated the service is on a range of platforms. You can access Discord from any web browser, through the native app on your mobile/desktop, and even on your console (thanks to the collaboration efforts from Microsoft and Sony). So if you just bought a hot new Android phone, you may want to add Discord to your library of social apps.
Android Police's weekly app roundup has moved to a monthly cadence, covering the best Android apps to land on Android in the past month. With this move, we are now offering several months' worth of roundups in collapsible lists; this way, you have a singular place to go when looking for worthwhile Android app releases. Whether you require a new way to receive calendar notifications or are simply looking for a tie-in app for your new audio buds, you've come to the right place.
This app will count literally anything you show it
'CountThings from Photos' is an industrial analysis tool that counts all the things
Humans aren't especially good at counting things. That's why we invented math to make it easier and harder at the same time, then we invented computers to do math for us. Thousands of years of societal achievement have now reached their natural conclusion in the CountThings from Photos app. We're all done here, everybody can climb back into the trees.
Tidal finally gets a playlist organization feature that Spotify has had for years
Organize your playlists with folders
Besides industry giants Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, there are a few more niche services on the music streaming market. One of them is Tidal, the platform focused on high-fidelity, lossless audio. The latest version of the streaming service's Android app gains a new ability that's been part of Spotify for ages: You can finally organize playlists in folders.
Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can now stream music videos in the app
YouTube Music beware, Bezos is coming for you
Amazon Music is just one of many music streaming services out there, but the shopping giant has been pouring some resources into making its offer a viable alternative to Spotify, Apple Music, and Co. The Android app has only recently gained support for behind-the-scenes tidbits and trivia about top songs, and no serious streaming service can go without podcast support these days. Now Amazon has decided to take on YouTube Music with its own catalog of music videos, rolling out to Unlimited subscribers.
Google’s mobile advertising platform AdMob gets its own app (APK Download)
The early access program is already full, but you can still get in using its APK
Google AdMob is basically the company's equivalent to AdSense, but for mobile apps. Somewhat ironically, the mobile-focused service didn't have an app to call its own. Now Google's finally delivering AdMob app for Android devices, though it’s currently in beta, and the early access seats on the Play Store are full.
Google News now displays severe weather alerts in your briefing
Available through the temperature shortcut
Google turned its News app into a great resource, making it easy to pull articles from multiple sources and compare what each outlet is writing. But the app also functions as a rudimentary weather hub, offering you an always-accessible shortcut to the current conditions and forecasts at the top of its homescreen in your briefing overview. The developers have now added a severe weather alert tailored to your location, helping you become aware of any potential weather hazards when you need to head out.
Google Shopping teardown hints at upcoming dark mode and AR previews
A Google Lens shortcut could also come to the search bar
An upcoming version of Google Shopping shows evidence of some new features that will enhance your online shopping. A teardown of version 52 of the app revealed assets relating to AR item previews (similar to those in the Amazon and Ikea apps), dark mode, and a Google Lens shortcut built into the search bar.
You won't find any blood and gore in this life-sized Deadpool head, but it does pack more than 600 jokes, sound effects, and insults inspired by the devilishly handsome superhero. Hasbro Pulse just listed Deadpool's head for sale, in partnership with Marvel Legends. It'll cost you a pretty penny at $100 but will surely make for an eye-catching collector's item.This is not just a body-less statue — the built-in sensors and motors make it an interactive toy. For example, when placed in a dark room, the toy will blurt out a joke the moment it detects the lights turned on. Likewise, it'll respond when it detects motion moving towards and away from it. It'll even mock your unimpressive physique when you pick it up.
When Google unveiled its voice recording app aptly called Recorder at its Pixel event last month, we were impressed by its capabilities. Unlike standard run-of-the-mill recording apps that simply make and store audio files, Google's version uses its AI smarts to perform real-time voice transcription into text, and it can locate music and specific words inside the audio file — all without a cloud connection. Initially announced as a Pixel 4-exclusive, a Google employee has confirmed on Reddit that Recorder will be made backward-compatible with older Pixel devices.
Google Playground, formerly known as AR Stickers, has been trickling down to OEM Android handsets ever since its exclusive launch on Pixel phones last year. Up until this point, most of Motorola's current phone lineup have received Playground stickers with Android One variants representing a big glaring exception, but not anymore. A new Moto Camera 2 update finally brings Playground to the Motorola One series.
As the final installment of the latest Star Wars saga prepares to blast off into theaters this December, toy manufacturers are ramping up production of must-have items for the holiday season. Today's announcement from Hasbro includes a replica of the D-O Droid from the upcoming Rise of Skywalker film and an interactive lightsaber, both controlled by dedicated smartphone apps.
We've recently told you about Rivet, a free reading-practice app for kids developed by Area 120, Google's experimental product division. Since the software is still in beta phase, it's continuously improving with better features and interface tweaks. The app was initially designed for tablets because they offer a better experience, and couldn't be installed on phones through the Play Store. The APK could still be sideloaded on handsets, though, but the interface didn't look pleasing compared to larger screens. However, the application has just been updated and now officially supports smartphones as well.
It's great that more and more vehicles ship with Android Auto these days, but I still find the app offering to be rather limited. I had to wait until last summer to finally get to use Waze instead of Maps, and even today only a handful of software is available on Google's in-car solution – beyond Waze, Spotify's the only other Auto-supporting app I use. Several other third-party music applications are integrated with the system though, and the famous Poweramp player is the latest one to make its way into your car.
The US government has been growing increasingly critical (perhaps even paranoid) when it comes to the operation of Chinese companies in the US. Between the on-again-off-again ZTE snafu and Huawei's allegedly government-influenced issues with its US carrier deals, Chinese tech companies are running into progressively more problems doing business in the United States. This is just the start, though, as according to a recent report by Bloomberg, the FCC is set to deny China Mobile's application to provide telecommunications services in the US.
Knock Knock! Who's there? Duo. Duo who? Du-o know that Google's video calling app has just surpassed 500 million installs on the Play Store? We need to take a few minutes to celebrate this milestone.
Your credit score is one of those things that's really annoying, but very critical to surviving in our economy (like it or not). Regardless of whether that number is something to be proud or ashamed of, you definitely need to keep an accurate idea of where it sits. That's where WalletHub comes in, the newest kid on the Android block to offer you a free peek at your score. The company has been around for a few years, but its app does so much more with the catch of being completely free.