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    What are the apps you used in 2017? Android Apps

    What are the apps you used in 2017? Android Apps


    What are the apps you used in 2017?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:30 AM PST

    Apps I used...

    1. Fenix
    2. Instagram Beta
    3. Boost
    4. Snapchat Beta
    5. iYTBP (Custom YouTube App Via XDA)
    6. Pushbullet
    7. Last FM
    8. Soundhound
    9. Slack
    10. Messenger Lite (Via APK Mirror)
    11. Facebook Beta
    12. Hurry
    13. AZ Screen Recorder
    14. Weather Timeline
    15. QuickLyric
    16. GIPHY
    17. Chrome Beta
    18. Spotify Beta
    19. WhatsApp Beta
    20. Twitter Beta
    21. Sketch (Might be Sony exclusive)

    Device: Sony Xperia XA1 G3123

    OS: Android 7.0

    Root Status: Not Rooted and Not Unlocked

    Carrier: Freedom Mobile Canada

    Launcher: Xperia Home Launcher Beta

    Home Screen Pages: Page 1, Page 2 and Page 3

    App Drawer Pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 and Page 5


    As y'all can see I have a lot more apps on my phone than I have listed so if you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments and I will get back to you when I wake up or someone else will in the comments! Happy New Year everyone!

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    What kind of apps are you looking forward in 2018?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 02:08 AM PST

    Well, for me I'm still eagerly waiting for an all-in-one messaging app. A messaging app with:

    • SMS/MMS,
    • Text and Video Chat via Internet
    • MULTI-PLATFORM
    • Doesn't drain battery like Facebook Messenger.

    I'm still gutted by how Google mishandled Hangouts.

    submitted by /u/kokolumber
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    What's so good about Hermit app?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 02:19 AM PST

    I've tried it since it's on sale and I realised that my Samsung Browser already does most (maybe all?) the things that hermit does.

    • Adds webpages pages to quick access to reach them by just tapping on search bar.

    • Has night and reading mode.

    • Block adds and pop ups.

    • It won't clutter your home pages by adding all the lite apps (you can add them to your desktop if you want anyways)

    So why would I use/pay for hermit?

    submitted by /u/PewPewGG
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    Why hasn't Signal become the "iMessage for Android"?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:31 AM PST

    Whenever I hear this term come up, it's usually a messaging service that can be used as a group messaging service like WhatsApp, GroupMe, Allo, etc. but with SMS fallback. Looking at Signal, it seems like it has this. Why hasn't it been widely adopted? Granted I've never used Signal before since no one I know uses it, this is all based on stuff I've read online.

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    What apps have you stopped using in 2017 and why?

    Posted: 30 Dec 2017 11:12 PM PST

    For me,

    • Slide for Reddit + Reddit Official App - was wasting too much time.
    • Bliss - Found a better alternative (Gratus)
    • MixNote - Found a better alterntive (Orgzly + Simplenote)
    • Writeaday - Found a better alternative (Daylio)
    • Tasker - Actually bought this on sale but couldn't find a good enough usage that justifies the amount of effort required to set it up
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    CloudPlayer Pro Removed from Play Store and Rebranded

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:58 AM PST

    I just noticed that CloudPlayer Pro has been removed from the Play Store and DoubleTwist has rebranded it at CloudPlayer Plantinum, requiring customers to pay another $7.99 despite having paid earlier. Thoughts?

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    Joey for Reddit just updated and holy shit, it now has bottom navigation. Wow.

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:57 AM PST

    I just had to share this here. Bottom navigation is one thing I wished every app should have and now Chrome, and Joey have it. Effing Awesome🔥 Screenshot

    submitted by /u/Lord_Raziel
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    Chargie app to customize your charge

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 02:32 AM PST

    Hey there. I want to introduce my first moreless serious app Chargie.

    This app allows to setup your phone with tiny and cute effects, when you plug it into a socket. Samsung Galaxy A6 has something similar. This phone inspired me to create Chargie.

    There are two versions - free and pro, both without agressive monetization and ads. I tried to provide users with smooth and neat experience.

    It will be highly appreciated, if you download Chargie and leave some feedback here or in Google play comments.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smallapps.customization.charge.chargie

    submitted by /u/dyadya_sasha
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    [DEV] Desperately looking for Android Oreo 8.1 Beta testers!

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 06:37 AM PST

    Hi! Hi! I am desperately looking for a quick beta tester for my App for Android, where I am having some issues with support for Oreo 8.1. If any one of you run on Oreo 8.1 and have time to just see if the app crashes when you click "Start" then I would appreciate it immensely! This is the link if you want to: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.smholsen.sleeptimerallmedia

    I have released a Beta where I believe the issue to be fixed, but I am unable to provoke the issue in my 8.1 emulator, so I am not really able to verify it..

    It would be amazing you would want to help me out :) If you want to help, please just send me a PM or reply here!

    The link to the Play store is : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smholsen.sleeptimerallmedia

    You can contact me here as well: sleeptimerforandroid.com

    Thanks, and I wish you all a Happy New Year!

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    Any app for Android to Android remote connectivity/control over LAN?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:02 AM PST

    Does anyone know any solution for remotely controlling an Android phone using another Android phone, over local WiFi network?

    submitted by /u/dreamlord_morpheus
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    Is this a "shady" app? What to do?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 04:01 AM PST

    Hi everyone, please forgive but I'm an Android newbie. I always try to avoid bad apps, but this time I made a mistake. I was looking for a gps location app and found GPS Location from cop DASH apps DOT net (not sure if posting link is a good thing). Reasonable permissions (similar to other apps) , and a website that seemed legit.

    I opened the app and noticed that was not functioning well, I see the map but cannot share it, and had not expected features. Strangely, inside, the app was named GPS lat:lon and not GPS Location.

    So I thought that some permissions were not useful to the app, removed it and started checking.

    Website seemed legit, but domain owner is a SEO firm , and on apple store same apps have a different owner. Supposing this app is badware, what damage may I have had?

    Permissions were:

    • Position (network and gps)
    • Storage
    • receive data from internet
    • show network connections
    • full network access
    • disable standby
    • read google services config

    I thought that storage access could be needed to save something, and I see google play services sometimes used to show google maps... But an app like this would be also able to upload all my data somewhere...

    I have next to nothing data there, it's an almost new tablet, but I'm a bit worried anyway...

    EDIT: current app owner seems a marketing firm that buys apps

    submitted by /u/pghpgh2018
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    Are there any apps out there that allow file sync over SMB2+?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 09:19 AM PST

    So I've been using FolderSync/SyncMe for keeping my files synced between my NAS and my phone for quite some time now. Both apps are great in their own way, but unfortunately neither supports a SMB version newer than the original SMB1, which has been insecure for a while now. The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709) even disabled SMB1 support by default - and I'd like to do the same on my home NAS soon.

    However, I haven't been able to find a sync client that supports SMB2 and up yet. All the ones I've tried either offered no Sync capabilities (such as Googles Android SMB Client) or were limited to SMB1. If anyone knows an App that does support SMB2+ sync, a link would be highly appreciated!

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    Customize Swiftkey Number Pad

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:28 AM PST

    Hi, I need to get a number pad in SwiftKey to use the whole keyboard than to use just a part of it like in gboard. I don't want to switch to gboard coz I find SwiftKey much better. Here are some attached images of number pad, SwiftKey
    The type I want from gboard

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    [Request] Camera app that works well for pictures and can quickly switch over to gif making and/or let's you easily make a gif from a video clip you take.

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 10:57 AM PST

    I don't use snap chat to text people but I love using its camera to take gif videos.

    Is there a camera app that does this?

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    Looking for a to-do/checkbox list app which shows me how many hours have passed since I last checked items?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 10:38 AM PST

    I can't seem to find it via google and keep definitely doesn't have this feature to my knowledge.

    submitted by /u/DigitalSurvivor
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    New: Hermit 11 is on Sale, with better Night Mode, more free Lite Apps, improved Reader Mode, and new Psycho-Kinetic powers!

    Posted: 30 Dec 2017 12:36 PM PST

    Wait, no, wrong 11.

    Anyway, Hermit version 11 is packed with lots of other goodies, and it's on sale throughout the rest of 2017. Begin 2018 with a faster way to browse your favorite content. Get it now

    New to Hermit? Lite Apps are fast and lean Web apps, tightly integrated with Android. With Hermit, you can create your own Lite Apps out of any Web site. Unlike a usual traditional browser, Hermit integrates Lite Apps into your Android OS, so that you can share from any other Android app to a Lite App, search from within the Lite App, get notifications via Atom & RSS feeds, and customize Privacy Settings, Content Settings, and Behavior for every single Lite App individually — features you won't find in any other browser. Hermit is proudly Android-first and Android-only, and follows Material Design guidelines to bring you a superb user experience backed by solid engineering & a commitment to your privacy: no personal data collection, no behavior tracking, all brought to you by a small California indie developer.

    OK, now back to what's new this week:

    Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements!

    No, we're not kidding! OK, maybe just a little.

    At Chimbori, we're always diligent with providing you detailed changelogs about every single new feature in every single release. In this particular release, we took extra care in perfecting and polishing the features we already have, and have addressed a lot of the feedback we have received over the past several months.

    Enhancements to "Free Forever" Mode

    We want to enable more of you to keep using Hermit without paying, so we've made changes to our Free Forever mode.

    • 50% more Free Lite Apps! 3 instead of 2. Yeah, it's just one more, but hey, that's 50%! /r/wedidthemath
    • Clear visual indicator of which Lite Apps are available to use Free Forever without paying for Premium.
    • Change your 3 Free Lite Apps as often as you want! You can reorder your Lite Apps any time, as often as you want, to change which 3 can be used free forever. The top three in the main list are the ones which will run fully for free.
    • Time remaining in the trial period is shown clearly at the bottom, and dismissed permanently when either Free Forever or Premium option is selected.

    No more Demogorgons in Night Mode!

    We apologize that the previous implementation of Night Mode was buggy, and we completely re-wrote it for this version. We gave up on Google's recommended approach and simply rolled out our own. We've slayed the last remaining Demogorgons.

    Dark CSS Style for Alternate Dimensions: When turning on Night Mode, the default page CSS is automatically set to Dark. It's like being in an alternate dimension. Hermit has always used the Dark CSS approach for Night Mode (instead of the inverted-colors approach which fails miserably on pages that are already dark), but today's update changes the CSS automatically for you instead of requiring an extra step on your part. If you missed setting this in previous versions, check out Lite App > Customize > Behavior > Night Mode Page Style & pick from one of the 10 available ones.

    Travel to the Upside Down: Screen Orientation can now be set for each Lite App separately. Prefer to always use your music synthesizer Lite App in landscape mode? Or Google Maps Go with your screen flipped so that the charger cable can be at the top? Yep, Hermit can do that now!

    Estimated Reading Time in Reader View: When reading any article on the Web, Hermit automatically computes Estimated Reading Time and offers a quick shortcut to clean up the page and view it in Reader View, including fonts, formatting, and images. Unlike other browsers that show you a single paragraph of text without formatting, Hermit's Reader View is based on our own Crux Extractor (which we open-sourced!) which preserves basic formatting and makes articles more readable.

    Instant Reader View: Hermit reuses the same HTML that was already downloaded for the page by your browser: this makes it instant, saves network costs, and includes JavaScript-generated content automatically.

    Automatic AMP Redirection is gone, just like Barb. Users reported several navigation problems with AMP sites that had not configure their redirects correctly. Many AMP pages are broken in the wild, leading to a worse user experience than with the regular non-AMP page. We recommend Hermit's Reader View as the recommended replacement, which works better for all pages (AMP and non-AMP).

    Save Usernames and Passwords with AutoFill: This one has been a huge request from all of you, and Android Oreo finally makes it possible to save passwords without resorting to any unsecure methods or practices. Note that sites have to enable support for AutoFill, so if some of your favorite sites aren't working in Hermit yet, let them know and point them to this article from Google.

    Usability & Visual Improvements

    • Open links in browser directly (no Custom Tabs)
    • New button in the main Lite Apps list to open the Customization UI directly.
    • Animated progress bars, like in Firefox Focus.
    • Remove support for the Create Content FAB. Users are getting confused, and it conflicts with any FAB that the actual site might want to show.
    • Sorting Lite Apps handles upper-case/lower-case correctly.
    • Better home screen when opening Hermit for the first time.
    • Minor change to the icon: no more plus sign in the corner, to avoid confusion with Android Oreo's Notification Dots.
    • Material Design Preferences UI on Android KitKat.
    • Brought back support for Notification Channels & Android Oreo, now that Google has fixed the bug that caused certain phones to crash.

    Internal Improvements

    • Supports Android Go devices!
    • New TLDs (top-level domains) introduced in 2017 are now recognized correctly.
    • Rewrote networking code using OkHttp & RxJava: better error handling & performance.
    • Support for many more Atom & RSS Feed formats: RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3.
    • Switched to Google Support Library for In-App Billing.
    • Set Lite App titles so they can be used by Tasker in the %WIN variable
    • Fixed a memory leak related to the Blocked Ads counter shown in Quick Settings.
    • Better error handling & stability fixes for WebView errors.
    • Temporary work-around for bug introduced by Google in WebView, which broke back/forward navigation.

    See https://hermit.chimbori.com/changes for the full details!

    More about Hermit

    • Stable, Frequent Releases: We release new versions of Hermit roughly every few weeks, after they've met our high quality bar & undergone rigorous testing by our thousands of Beta testers (thank you, all!) So, we don't have to push bug fixes on a daily basis & you don't have to spend your precious bandwidth downloading repeated updates to the app every couple days just because we made a boo-boo.
    • We publish a detailed changelog for every major and minor version: check it out at https://hermit.chimbori.com/changes
    • Hermit itself (the APK) is as light as it can be, under 3 MB. (Yes, even with all these features!)
    • We respect your privacy: We are a private California company, not a fly-by-night operation or a massive scam to collect and sell people's personal information. We don't collect any personal information, we don't sell any data to anyone.
    • Hermit requires absolutely no permissions to work. Zero!
    • Your are our customer, the main source of our revenue, to whom we owe our allegiance: We make money by making a superior product that we hope you, our users, enjoy & pay for. You would typically use Hermit for several hours a week. Yet, it's cheaper than a sandwich.

    The bottomline is, if you value your privacy at the price of a sandwich, then Hermit is for you.

    Go get the Hermit 11.0 update!

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    [DEV] Simplest attendance tracker for students

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:33 AM PST

    It's my first app, which tracks your subjects' attendance.

    Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techyonic.attendiary

    It features reminders, graphical analysis over the period of past 5 days and informs the user the number of leaves they can take or the number of classes they need to attend to achieve their goal percentage.

    submitted by /u/techyon7
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    Google play sales

    Posted: 30 Dec 2017 11:32 PM PST

    Was wondering what you guys bought for on google play this year end season and whether you guys have any recommendations besides apps like nova and hermit which are on sale

    submitted by /u/CasualSlacker
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    Custom quick settings app with ability to call intents

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 03:01 AM PST

    Hey guys, I need a custom quick settings app that can call intents from another apps. I've tried Tiles app and other similar apps but none of them supports calling intents from another app, all of them only able to call activities.
    I wanted to add a custom toggle to the quick settings and then trigger a certain intents from another apps, is that possible? Please help.

    submitted by /u/azrrr
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    Why does my Chrome browser do this when loading pages?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 12:00 PM PST

    Uber application reading sms code without sms permission

    Posted: 30 Dec 2017 03:56 PM PST

    Hi,

    I installed today Uber application and started to configuring it. After startup I gave it only location permission (it was only one I was asked for).

    When sms confirmation code arrived (notification from sms app appeared) it automatically filled in in Uber application - how is that possible without sms permission?

    I checked it in app settings and the only permission that Uber app has is location. Also, according to https://www.uber.com/legal/other/android-permissions/

    The "Receive SMS" permission allows the app to look for that incoming SMS message and automatically verify that we have your correct mobile number.

    So it makes it even more weird for me.

    I'm thankful for any ideas what happened!

    For completeness:

    device: Samsung Galaxy S7

    android version: 7.0

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    Any suggestions for managing and scheduling nandroid backups?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 10:13 AM PST

    Camera + Alternative

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 09:09 AM PST

    I recently posted this over in r/android but realized this may be a better place to ask my question:

    I've recently come from iOS and one of my all time favorite apps there was Camera+ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camera/id329670577?mt=8

    I was disappointed to see that they don't have an app in the Play Store. I've looked at the various "alternatives" available and havent found a good candidate. Anyone out there in Android land able to help me out?

    submitted by /u/swampbaby985
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    Prettiest, simplest material design calendar app out there?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:48 AM PST

    I just want it to be simple, have nice animations and for it to look nice. I don't use any of the Google Calendar crap (the app is nice but its very bloated with features I don't use), just want a simple app to check the date, and sometimes add a reminder.

    submitted by /u/Pilczu
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    Unable to download this app because it's not available in my country. How can I bypass this?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:22 AM PST

    Hey, after reading couple reviews I decided to download this app however I'm getting the error " Not available in your country " Even after turning on proxy. Can someone help me out with this fast please? Thanks

    submitted by /u/Neoguy396
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