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Dec

36 Best New Android Apps And Games From Last Week (12/14/10 - 12/20/10)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News

Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so.

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Best New Android Apps

Smart Diagram

Smart Diagram brings easy diagram making to Android
Organize ideas and thoughts with clear diagrams. Simple & Easy, No painful learning!
Usage: Flow Chart, Mind Map, Tree Diagram, etc
Features
- Create Shape with Gesture
- Drag & Drop Delete
- Manually Shape Movement
- MultiTouch Zooming
- Easy Sharing

Smart Diagram

QR code for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sillycube.android.DiagramMaker.core

Posterous

The dead simple way to post everything online.

Dec

[Exclusive] Wet Ink: Our Interview With Notion Ink’s Rohan Shravan

Posted by David Ruddock in Adam, Exclusives, Interviews, News, Notion Ink

Last Updated: June 5th, 2012

As promised earlier this week, Notion Ink CEO Rohan Shravan took time out of his schedule to answer a number of questions from Android Police. What did we ask the creator of the Android world's most anticipated tablet device? A lot of the questions you, our readers, wanted answers to - as well as a few of our own. The interview, in its entirety, below.

Questions From Our Readers

AP: Many have speculated about Notion Ink's production capacity - can you tell us how many Pixel Qi units were sold on pre-order? How many do you expect to be able to produce per month?

Dec

Last 2 Weeks' Best New Android Apps And Games (11/30/10 - 12/13/10)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News

Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so. This roundup covers the last 2 weeks instead of the usual 1 due to all the Gingerbread coverage that took up our time last week.

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Best New Android Apps

Mana Chronicles

Mana Chronicles is a classic Action-RPG!
The Inferno troops are invading the mortal plane. Only the human freedom fighter, Leon, can stop them now!

Mana Chronicles

QR code for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spearheadgames.chronicles

Rocket Bunnies

Rocket Bunnies is an action-puzzle game of slingshotting from planet to planet.

Dec

Gmail App Gets Big Update: Quick Folder Switching, Priority Inbox, And A Lot More

Posted by David Ruddock in Applications, News

Update: This Gmail client update is only for devices with Android 2.2 or higher.

Gmail for Android received a substantial update from Google this afternoon - and the AndroidPolice team has agreed: some of the improvements are long overdue, while some of them are just plain cool.

The change blurb that you'll find on the Market page lists some of the biggies, but a major one (for us, at least) has been excluded: quick folder switching. In the top left corner of whichever folder you were in, there was a simple label indicating the name of the folder. This is now a button, similar to the account button at the top right.

Dec

Google Maps Update Bringing 3D Buildings, Offline Caching "In A Matter Of Days"

Posted by Nate Kimmey in Applications, News

After Andy Rubin showed off a Honeycomb-running Motorola tablet, he proceeded to demo the latest version of Google Maps. The update promises a 3D viewing mode, compass orientation, and offline caching of maps. But, perhaps best of all, Rubin claimed that "it'll be on cellphones in a matter of days."

The biggest change is the ability to render 3D buildings at the street level. Because it will render vectors instead of tiles, maps will supposedly load several times faster, no matter how fast your connection is. Vectors are also easier to store than tiles, which will allow offline caching of maps, even entire cities.

Nov

Last Week's Best New Android Apps And Games (11/22/10 - 11/29/10)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News

Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so. This roundup is a day late, apologies for that - the Theft Aware review stole a lot of my time.

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Best New Android Apps

Team Viewer

Team Viewer is a remote access app done really well. For some reason it's not available on the Market and can be downloaded here: http://teamviewer.com/download/mobile.aspx. See our review of Team Viewer here: [Review] TeamViewer Lets You Remotely Control Your Friends’ Computers, And It Does It Well

Solipskier

Solipskier is a fast paced skiing game where you draw the slopes to pick up speed and do jumps.

Nov

Android Market Apps To Gain Mandatory Content Ratings Next Week

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Apps/Games, News

The Android Market has been getting quite a bit of attention lately, with a 6-hour maintenance, a whole host of new fields available to developers, and the rumored web version that is supposed to arrive with Gingerbread. Today, Googler Eric Chu shined some light on the next upcoming feature - mandatory content ratings for Android apps. In a post over at Google's Android developers blog, Eric announced that in the next few weeks, all apps will gain a content rating level, specifically:

All
Pre-teen
Teen
Mature

Starting next week, Android developers posting or updating their apps in the Market will be required to set the rating.

Nov

Last Week's Best New Android Apps And Games (11/15/10 - 11/21/10)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News

Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets.

Best New Android Apps

Priceline

Stuck without a place to stay at the last minute? Pick the exact neighborhood and star level you want and save up to half-off when you bid for a hotel. Start with real winning bids from actual priceline customers and then check out right on your phone. Or browse photos, reviews, and guest scores to find the perfect hotel.

Nov

AppBrain App Receives Major Update To v5

Posted by Nate Kimmey in Applications, Apps/Games, Games, News

If you use AppBrain for all of your Android app downloads, then you'll want to update the app as soon as possible: the latest update to version five includes all of the following awesome new features:

Details page for every app
Related apps tab
Ability to share through any sharing app on your phone
Fast Web Installer now integrated
Fast Sync Widget

Unfortunately, the integration of the Fast Web Installer probably won't help thanks to the new Market update breaking it, but with plenty of other new features this update is still pretty substantial.

Source: AppBrain

Nov

Major 6-Hour Google Market Maintenance Coming This Thursday. What Could It Be For?

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Apps/Games, Gingerbread 2.3, News

As a registered Android developer, today I, along with thousands of other devs, got the following email from the Android Market Support team. The email informed me that the developer console, which is the interface used for publishing new apps, will be unavailable this Thursday, November 18th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST. The customer-facing Market itself will continue working just fine (or so I hope at least), but no new applications or app updates will be allowed.

Now, what could this update be for? It could be as simple as the promised Market housekeeping that was announced 5 days ago, although it seemed far less serious, and I got the impression that it did not require any downtime.