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Maps v9.22 Brings Improvements To Your Places And Timeline, Custom Icons For Home And Work, And More [APK Download]

Earlier today, Google let us know that a tab for ride sharing would soon find a prominent place in the route planning screen. It looks like Maps v9.22 is responsible for bringing that feature... Sorta. Google is doing a staged rollout of the ride sharing tab with a server-side switch, so you may or may not see it after updating to the latest version. But don't fret, there are plenty of cool little tweaks and improvements in this update, so keep reading.

Maps v9.22 Brings Improvements To Your Places And Timeline, Custom Icons For Home And Work, And More [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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PlayStation Video Now Streams Movies And TV Shows To Android Devices

Sony makes PlayStations. It's also a huge movie and music production company. In 2012 the company offered the Sony Entertainment Network as a means of giving PlayStation owners something to watch and listen to that didn't involve a third-party like Netflix. It was also available in countries that competitors like Hulu didn't support.

That platform eventually turned into the PlayStation Network, with the video portion becoming PlayStation Video. Now an Android app has made its way into the Play Store that provides access to the same content.

PlayStation Video Now Streams Movies And TV Shows To Android Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Maps On Android Will Now Show A Dedicated Ride-Sharing Tab

Ride-Sharing is getting a promotion. Starting today, the option will appear as its own dedicated tab inside Google Maps. Here it will sit alongside driving, taking public transportation, and walking.

The ride-sharing tab will attempt to pull up whichever options are available in your area. One example image shows Uber and 99Taxis in Sao Paulo. Google Maps displays the price of each option and how far away, in time, the nearest vehicle is.

Google Maps On Android Will Now Show A Dedicated Ride-Sharing Tab was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Classroom App Upgraded To v2.0 With New Notification Center, Video Sharing, And Several Teacher-Focused Features

Google Classroom for Android debuted just over a year ago as part of the free suite of software provided by Google for schools. The app, just like its browser-based counterpart, is a centralized place where students can access handouts, assignments, and news from all of their classes. On the instructor side, all of those same elements can be managed in addition to the convenience of teachers having the ability to work with all their classes at once.

Google Classroom App Upgraded To v2.0 With New Notification Center, Video Sharing, And Several Teacher-Focused Features was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Uber Launches UberEATS App On Android, Users Are Uber-Annoyed

Uber became a massive company by giving people rides, but now it wants to give your dinner a ride. After testing the UberEATS service in the main Uber app for a few months, the Android version of UberEATS is now in the Play Store. It's only available in a few cities right now, but the residents of those cities are not very happy with the service, judging by the early reviews.

The premise of UberEATS is that users will be able to order food from restaurants in their area that usually would not deliver.

Uber Launches UberEATS App On Android, Users Are Uber-Annoyed was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Cardboard v1.8 Includes Cool New Arctic Journey Demo [APK Download]

It's time to get out your Cardboard viewers, there's an update to Google's demo app for the lil' VR platform that could. Version 1.8 came out yesterday with a brand new demo called Arctic Journey. It's a brief tour through some of the experiences we can have in VR, set in the frozen landscape of the very, very far north. As you might expect, words are inadequate to describe the scenery, so here's some idea of what you might encounter on a trip to the North Pole.

Cardboard v1.8 Includes Cool New Arctic Journey Demo [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Video: Six Ways To Improve Your Browsing Experience On Android

Another Android Police video? Is it April Fool's? Christmas? Halloween? International Talk Like A Pirate Day? It's none of those things, it's just more video! This time, we're bringing you Facundo Holzmeister with six simple ways to improve your browsing experience on Android, from things like Chromer custom tabs to the ingenious Flynx, which really deserves its own explanation in the video. We also take a look at a few features inside Google Chrome for Android itself that you may not have discovered previously, including one feature - forced custom tabs - that is currently unique to the Chrome Dev release.

Video: Six Ways To Improve Your Browsing Experience On Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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JorSay For Android Wear Makes Your Phone Read Notifications Aloud With The Flick Of A Wrist

Developer Mocha17 noticed that if you count the wrist where you're actually wearing an Android Wear watch, you actually have to use two hands to access notifications. It's a fair point, and one that's solved with his custom Wear app, JorSay (Hindi for "aloud"). The idea is simple: when you feel a vibration for an incoming notification, shake your wrist twice, and your phone will speak the notification aloud using Android's built-in text-to-speech system.

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Synology Releases An Android Client For MailPlus, A Secure Email System Hosted On A Private NAS System

Synology is a Taiwanese company that specializes in hardware and software for network attached storage. It's not particularly known as a security company, but with the American government publicly demanding access to more or less all data on the planet, and other countries and less polite entities taking it without asking, the market is ripe to sell security products to wary consumers. Hence MailPlus, yet another secure and encrypted email system, this time independently hosted from a customer's Synology-branded NAS hardware.

Synology Releases An Android Client For MailPlus, A Secure Email System Hosted On A Private NAS System was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Hangouts 8.0 Can Now Record And Send Up To 1 Minute Videos*

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You've hoped, you've asked, you've prayed, you've waited, you've stomped your feet, you've revolted against the institution, you've given up, you've rekindled your faith, only to be let down again. But the wait is over. Hangouts is finally fiiiiiiiiiinally adding the option to record and send 1mn videos*.

*on iOS. Hah! What, did you honestly think the Hangouts Android development team woke up all of a sudden from its slumber and decided to add every feature you've been begging for?!

Hangouts 8.0 Can Now Record And Send Up To 1 Minute Videos* was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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ChemCaper Act 1 Mixes RPG Sensibilities With Real Chemistry Lessons, Available Now In The Play Store For $8

Ask any teacher or parent: it's awfully difficult to mix real, practical learning with conventional kid's entertainment. That's why those few properties that actually manage to pull it off, like Bill Nye the Science Guy, The Magic School Bus, and Schoolhouse Rock are held in such high regard, even decades after they've finished their respective runs. A new game called ChemCaper is trying to do just that, and after a successful Kickstarter campaign, the first episode is now available on Android.

ChemCaper Act 1 Mixes RPG Sensibilities With Real Chemistry Lessons, Available Now In The Play Store For $8 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Announces New Tools For Game Developers Including New Ads, A Video Recording API, And More

At GDC, Google announced a few new game-focused tools for developers that should make launching, promoting, and monetizing titles easier. There's now a full blog post on the changes, and they look like a big deal for developers, especially those who consider themselves"indie."

Google is launching a new collection in the Play Store that it will promote via banners and links called the Indie Corner. As the name suggests, it's a list of games created by indie devs.

Google Announces New Tools For Game Developers Including New Ads, A Video Recording API, And More was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Microsoft Brings Work Folders To Android For Keeping Your Company's Files Synced And Secure Across Devices

Microsoft's Work Folders, which is for organizational accounts, allows you to sync work files across devices and access them while offline. For important internal documents, having employees using their own computers and phones to access them is a bit of a security nightmare. Work Folders is a compromise, adding some more protection—and convenience—to allow people to work with potentially sensitive information that is stored on an organization's server.

While this feature is well-integrated into Windows (as you might have expected), this is its debut on Android.

Microsoft Brings Work Folders To Android For Keeping Your Company's Files Synced And Secure Across Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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36 New And Notable Android Games From The Last 2 Weeks (3/1/16 - 3/14/16)

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Twitter Fabric App Provides Android Developers With Active Metrics, Alerts, And A General Idea How To Fix Stuff That Breaks

Maintaining an app has some similarities with keeping a website up and running. One day everything is fine. The next day, an update goes out that leaves thousands of people unable to do anything. Now they're ranting on Twitter, leaving poor reviews on Google Play, and giving you a massive dose of negativity and rage to encounter when you sit down at your computer.

The best thing for everyone would be if you had heads up as soon as possible.

Twitter Fabric App Provides Android Developers With Active Metrics, Alerts, And A General Idea How To Fix Stuff That Breaks was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Screen Filter App f.lux Is Now Available In The Play Store (Root Required)

A few weeks ago, the makers of the popular desktop screen filter f.lux started testing an Android version in private beta. Now, the app is live in the Play Store for everyone. You will need to be rooted, but the app is completely free.

The premise of apps like this is that blue light can interfere with your sleep cycle, so it's best to filter it out in the evening. There are a few Android apps that do that like CF.lumen and Twilight, although the latter uses a non-root red overlay that may or may not work as well as the root methods.

Screen Filter App f.lux Is Now Available In The Play Store (Root Required) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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YouTube Is Experimenting With Putting Related Cards At The Top Of Searches

You can browse through channels and recommended videos on the YouTube app's homescreen, but chances are, your experience starts with performing a search. To help you find what you're looking for, YouTube has started putting cards at the top of searches that point users toward related search terms.

These cards suggest related terms that Google figures may help you get to what you're really after. These are the words other people have looked for.

YouTube Is Experimenting With Putting Related Cards At The Top Of Searches was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Federal Aviation Administration Releases B4UFLY App For Android Users With Drones And Model Planes

A small plane is still a plane, and here in the US, that leaves them under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration. Someone flying a drone or model plane in restricted airspace can find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Or worse, they can cause real problems for larger aircraft transporting people.

To make things better for everyone, the FAA has released a mobile app, B4UFLY, that shows if there are any restrictions or requirements in your area.

Federal Aviation Administration Releases B4UFLY App For Android Users With Drones And Model Planes was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Maps Navigation Bubbles Containing Street And Exit Names Are Rolling Out To More People

A recent Google Maps update introduced a feature that makes upcoming turns and exits easier to follow. Rather than leaving you trying to reconcile the street names at the top of the screen with the direction of the blue path below, Maps has started to insert bubbles onto the map that mark the location for you while also showing you which road you're on.

Left: Our previous look, at night; Right: A reader submitted image, during the day

Downloading the latest APK, which we covered in early February, was not enough to trigger the change.

Google Maps Navigation Bubbles Containing Street And Exit Names Are Rolling Out To More People was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Netflix Gets A Beta Channel With Mobile Data Saver And Google Play Billing (Soon)

There's a new version of Netflix in the Play Store, but it's not rolling out to everyone. You'll only get the latest v5.1 build if you join the new Netflix Play Store beta. Netflix is kicking off its beta with some cool features including a mobile data saver.

A single TV episode can eat up a few hundred megabytes of mobile data, which is one of the reasons T-Mobile is pushing its Binge On service.

Netflix Gets A Beta Channel With Mobile Data Saver And Google Play Billing (Soon) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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