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20 best new Android games released this week including The Elder Scrolls: Blades, Grand Mountain Adventure, and Rush Rally 3

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so. Today we have the early access release of The Elder Scrolls: Blades, the official launch of the beautiful skiing game Grand Mountain Adventure, and a console-quality rally racer. So without further ado, here are the most notable games released this week.

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20 best new Android games released this week including The Elder Scrolls: Blades, Grand Mountain Adventure, and Rush Rally 3 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Camera 6.2 adds dark mode and animated transitions [APK Download]

Google's Camera application for the Pixels received an update a couple of days ago from version 6.1 to 6.2. A quick look at the app left us wondering whether anything was new at all, but upon closer inspection we noticed a few changes, some minor and one most of you will love: a dark mode.

Dark mode in settings

The Camera app's interface has always been focused on black, but when you switched to settings, you were always hit by a jarring white screen.

Google Camera 6.2 adds dark mode and animated transitions [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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16 new and notable Android apps from the last week including Energy Ring, Photo Map, and Firefox Send (3/23/19 - 3/30/19)

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so. Today we have an awesome battery display app that can place a ring around your newfangled cutout camera, an interesting app that can display your photos on a map in the precise location the photo was taken, and an encrypted file sharing app from Firefox.

16 new and notable Android apps from the last week including Energy Ring, Photo Map, and Firefox Send (3/23/19 - 3/30/19) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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30 temporarily free and 36 on-sale apps and games to finish the week

March is just about over, so here's the last app sales roundup for the month. Today's list has some goodies, which I've marked in bold, but there's plenty else here, too. Feel free to check out what's on offer today, enjoy your weekend, and I'll see you all in April.

Free

Apps

DDA - Internet Download Manager $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
FaceAtom $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
USMLE Clinic $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 3 days
Speccy Spectrum Analyzer $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Mental Disorders Premium $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days

Games

Gravity Quest - Magic Maze $1.49 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
HEXASMASH 2 • Ball Shooter Physics Puzzle $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
LASERBREAK Pro $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Lets get wasted 18+ ;) $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Math games kids $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Smash 4 Stage Striker $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 3 days
Tap Town Premium (idle RPG) - Soul $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 4 days
Word Search Fun - Premium $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 4 days
Math Shot Add and Subtract within 100 $2.49 -> Free; Sale ends in 5 days
Dead Bunker II $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
Slime Flight: VIP (No Ads) $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
Word Cage PRO $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
A Dark Dragon VIP $1.49 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Angel Fish: VIP+ $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Devil Twins: VIP+ $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Merge Mon VIP - Idle Puzzle RPG $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Zombie Defence Premium : Tap Game $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days

Icon packs & customization

Gear Sun 2 $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 8 hours
Droid 3D Live Wallpaper $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 1 day
Dockalizer, put a dock on your phone $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Unicorn Icon Pack $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Flax - Icon Pack $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 5 days
Graby Spin - Icon Pack $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 5 days
Mellow Dark - Icon Pack $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 5 days
Pyro - Icon Pack $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days

Sale

Apps

Coordinate Master $1.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 8 hours
Custom Formulas $1.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 8 hours
Learn German - Language Learning Pro $3.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 2 days
Learn Japanese - Language & Grammar Learning Pro $5.99 -> $2.99; Sale ends in 2 days
Learn Korean - Language & Grammar Learning Pro $5.99 -> $2.99; Sale ends in 2 days
Arch Eye Cam + $3.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Freehand Pen Premium $4.49 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Java Samples Pro $3.49 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Learn English Sentence Master Pro $10.99 -> $6.99; Sale ends in 5 days
BioRhythmsMeter $1.49 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 6 days
National Anthems PRO $1.49 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 6 days
Nano Teleprompter $2.99 -> $1.49; Sale ends in 6 days
Tournament Manager Pro $1.99 -> $1.29; Sale ends in 6 days
GymACE Pro: Workout Tracker & Body Log $4.49 -> $2.99; Sale ends in 7 days

Games

Fiz : Brewery Management Game $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 3 days
Rebuild $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 3 days
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville $4.99 -> $1.99; Sale ends in 3 days
Deep Space | Space-Platformer $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Division Math Trainer $2.49 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Legacy 2 - The Ancient Curse $1.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Ravensword: Shadowlands 3d RPG $6.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Star Chindy: SciFi Roguelike $3.49 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
Double Dragon Trilogy $3.49 -> $1.49; Sale ends in 5 days
Little Big Adventure $4.99 -> $2.99; Sale ends in 5 days
Nimian Legends : BrightRidge $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 5 days
Pang Adventures $3.99 -> $2.49; Sale ends in 5 days
Raiden Legacy $5.49 -> $2.99; Sale ends in 5 days
Sanitarium $3.99 -> $2.49; Sale ends in 5 days
1944 Burning Bridges Premium $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 6 days
Charlie the Duck $2.49 -> $1.49; Sale ends in 6 days
Guns'n'Glory Premium $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 6 days
Holy Potatoes!

30 temporarily free and 36 on-sale apps and games to finish the week was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Apps , Apps/Games – Android Police – Android News , Games , Phones , reviews , Tablets 10:47 PM No comments

Google Duo gets new contact screen, audio messages, and more in server-side update

Usually, Google bundles up new features in big app updates that you can sideload, but it's increasingly common for new features to just show up after a server-side switch gets flipped. That's the case today with Duo. The way you select contacts is different, and you can do different things with them.

Previously, Duo's contact picker had separate tabs for video and audio. Now, there's just one tab, and you pick audio or video after selecting a contact.

Google Duo gets new contact screen, audio messages, and more in server-side update was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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WhatsApp beta rolls out continuous voice note playback and message forwarding count

Step by step, WhatsApp has been implementing features to combat the uncontrollable spread of fake or even just sugar-coated news on its platform. Today's update to the beta app includes one more measure to help monitor forwarded messages, but it also brings one very handy feature for voice notes.

First up, WhatsApp beta 2.19.86 will play voice notes in succession, no need for you to keep tapping to play each message.

WhatsApp beta rolls out continuous voice note playback and message forwarding count was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Photos will soon suggest cropping pictures of documents

Google Photos uses AI sorcery to do all kinds of cool stuff, and starting this week, the service is getting another new trick on Android: it'll soon offer to adjust photos of documents, presenting one-tap options to rotate, crop, and adjust color balance to make them more legible.

The new functionality will work similarly to how Photos currently gives suggestions to fix lighting in improperly exposed shots or rotate sideways pictures to be right side up.

Google Photos will soon suggest cropping pictures of documents was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google's new offline Easter egg game is like Flappy Bird, but with a cute cloud

Google's witty side has been showing up more frequently over the past few weeks. First, it rolled out animated doodles in the homescreen Search widget, then yesterday we discovered an adorable elephant in the Go app, and today we've come across another hidden Easter egg. This one is like a game of Flappy Bird that you can play anytime. Think of it as the equivalent of the dino game in Chrome, but for mobile search.

Google's new offline Easter egg game is like Flappy Bird, but with a cute cloud was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Twitter shares some love with AMOLED users with true-black dark mode

Twitter was amongst the early ones to release a night mode for its app. However, even though it's been around since 2016, the interface uses shades of midnight blue rather than black, which might be easier on the eye but doesn't help save battery on AMOLED screens. The social media giant is now addressing this by rolling out a new "Lights out" option that lets you switch to true-black tones that not only look darker but also reduce power consumption on AMOLED panels.

Twitter shares some love with AMOLED users with true-black dark mode was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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[Update: Now available for all users] Commuters in Melbourne can now add their Myki card to Google Pay

Update 1: 2019/03/29 1:39am PDT
Public Transport Victoria has officially rolled out the program to the masses. All Full Fare, Senior, Child or General concession Myki users will be able to use Google Pay for

Google Pay is aiming at becoming a true virtual wallet by gathering payment and loyalty cards in a single application. Since last year, commuters in Las Vegas, Portland, and the West Midlands have also been able to save their transit tickets in their phones, allowing them to leave their wallets at home.

[Update: Now available for all users] Commuters in Melbourne can now add their Myki card to Google Pay was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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AOSP Application Updates

Posted by Raman Tenneti, AOSP Software Engineer and Ally Sillins, AOSP Program Manager

When we started the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) 10 years ago, we included some basic applications in the AOSP build for three main purposes:

to provide a usable set of applications for someone building an Android device from our AOSP
to serve as a demonstration for the nascent Android app developer community, showcasing how they should build some of these applications
to, as part of the platform, provide functionality to other Android applications that would interact with them through the standard Android APIs like the common intents

However, as the Android ecosystem has matured over time, we've noticed a healthy growth of alternative applications - both as open source and proprietary implementations - developed by the developer community. These alternative applications are not only capable to serve the first two purposes, but often times showcase richer set of features demonstrating the power of Android. Late last year, we began to clean up these applications in AOSP to focus more effectively on the last purpose — their role to provide functionality to other Android applications as part of the platform.

To date, the following 3 apps have been cleaned up: Music, Calendar, and Calculator. See below for details on these updates. Going forward, you can expect to see similar efforts with the other applications in the AOSP repository.

As always, we're excited to hear your feedback on the developer website or through our AOSP forum.

Music Application

AOSP's Music app can now playback music, one file at a time, and exposes itself as an intent handler for the android.media.browse.MediaBrowserService. The app has controls to play and pause, and a slider moving forward and backward. Features removed include: Music Icon, Artists, Albums, Songs, Playlists, Search, and Settings.

Calendar Application

AOSP's Calendar app now exposes itself as an intent handler for the calendar events. New events cannot be created and existing events cannot be edited or deleted. The following features have been deleted: support for multiple accounts, reminders and settings. In addition, some features remain that are not needed for providing a part of the platform functionality: views for day, week, and month. This app may be further simplified in the future.

Calculator App

The calculator application is a standalone app, and does not function as part of the platform and hence has been removed from the AOSP build. However, the application will continue to exist as an open source project separately.

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Gboard v8.1 makes space for OCR, prepares Pixel-specific theme, enhanced Japanese keyboard, and more [APK Teardown]

The latest update to Gboard is making the rounds, and this one appears to be taking another stab at enabling the clipboard manager. Meanwhile, this update also sets the stage for additional features to be added to the overflow menu, an improved Japanese keyboard, a Pixel-specific theme, and more.

What's New

Unofficial Changelog: (the stuff we found)

Overflow screen now supports wrapping

Overflow screen prepares for more items

We've seen the overflow...

Gboard v8.1 makes space for OCR, prepares Pixel-specific theme, enhanced Japanese keyboard, and more [APK Teardown] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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[Bonus Round] FoxyLand 2, Twaddle Paddle, Darkestville Castle, Mindsweeper, Woody Battle, ORAC, and Spirit Roots

bonusround Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we couldn't get to during our regular news rounds. Consider this a quick update for the dedicated gamers who can't wait for our weekly roundups, and don't want to wade through a whole day's worth of news just to get their pixelated fix. Today we've got a quirky 2D platformer, a fantastically twitchy brick-breaker, a gorgeous throwback to '90s-era point and click adventure games, a narrative-driven puzzle game, a competitive block placement game, an on-rails shooter that looks like it belongs on the SNES, and a vibrant platformer that exudes a high level of polish.

[Bonus Round] FoxyLand 2, Twaddle Paddle, Darkestville Castle, Mindsweeper, Woody Battle, ORAC, and Spirit Roots was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Go has the most adorable elephant easter egg

Easter eggs used to be a lot more frequent back when Google let its fun side show, but now that the company is trying to project a more serious image, these little undiscovered gems are becoming rarer and rarer. Or maybe we're not playful enough to discover them. However, I'm ready to scratch all of what I said and do nothing for the next hour except trigger this elephant easter egg in Google Go.

Google Go has the most adorable elephant easter egg was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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YouTube search filters are working again after temporary suspension by Google

If you've recently noticed some issues while trying to use the filters when searching for a video on YouTube, don't worry — you're not alone. Multiple users have been complaining that filter functionality has been completely borked for them (since March 19), and Google has admitted that this was an intentional move.

When searching for a query and setting the upload date filter to something as recent as the last hour or day, it would still bring you results from days, weeks, or months ago, much to the frustration of many users.

YouTube search filters are working again after temporary suspension by Google was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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[Update: It's here] Grand Mountain Adventure is a gorgeous skiing game that's officially launching on the Play Store on March 27th

Update 1: 2019/03/28 6:17am PDT
The full version of Grand Mountain Adventure is here

Last year I stumbled across a post on Reddit that brought Toppluva AB's skiing game Grand Mountain Adventure to my attention. At the time the title was still in an unfinished state since it was released as a beta preview for testing purposes, though what was there was pretty impressive. Well, it would appear that the developer has been hard at work over the last six months.

[Update: It's here] Grand Mountain Adventure is a gorgeous skiing game that's officially launching on the Play Store on March 27th was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Spotify launches Duo plan for couples in 5 countries, with special Duo Mix playlist

Up until recently, Spotify had two plans for you to consider: the single account and the family plan, both billed monthly. Then the music streaming service launched in India and introduced daily, weekly, yearly, and more granular plans to fit any user or family's demands. This adventurous approach is carrying on now, with Spotify launching a special plan aimed at couples.

Spotify Duo is another premium plan from the service, tailored for two users.

Spotify launches Duo plan for couples in 5 countries, with special Duo Mix playlist was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Instagram is finally working on seek bar for videos — hello 2005!

Some luxuries of our online lives can be gravely underestimated until you hit some nook or cranny of the World Wide Web that doesn't have them. Take seek bars in videos. Have you ever stopped to think how awesome they are? You can skip forward if you're not interested in what's happening now but would like to check if there's something else down the line in that video. Or you can go back and re-watch what you missed or misunderstood.

Instagram is finally working on seek bar for videos — hello 2005! was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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[Update: Improved] Chrome tab groups are live in Canary on Android

Update 1: 2019/03/28 4:33am PDT
With the latest Chrome Canary v75.0.3748 (APK Mirror), tab groups have received a couple of improvements. First, there's a new button to create a group in the grid tab

We've known for a while that the Chrome team was working on tab groups. The feature first showed up in Canary on the desktop, but it's now made its way to Android, also in the Canary channel.

[Update: Improved] Chrome tab groups are live in Canary on Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Photo Map lets you explore your Google Photos on a world map

Smartphones have been adding location tags to pictures for years to help identify where a photo was taken, which is particularly useful when looking at old memories. However, it's not easy to find images you've shot in a particular location if you haven't properly sorted them out beforehand. iOS, for example, has a handy feature that lets you lay your pictures on a map, so you can easily find the images you've taken in a specific spot, without having to browse through your gallery.

Photo Map lets you explore your Google Photos on a world map was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Inbox is about to die, and Google still hasn't brought its best feature to Gmail

As some of us are painfully aware, Inbox is set to die next Tuesday, April 2nd. Google has been pushing Inbox users back to Gmail since the original announcement last September. Initially, that transition was eased with promises that Gmail would eventually inherit Inbox's bundling, the email client's most useful feature. Six months later, a mere week before Inbox's euthanasia, Gmail still doesn't have bundles.

I've already made the painful transition back to a less-smart email client, perverting Gmail's existing and unmodifiable category system to approximate a bastardized version of bundles.

Inbox is about to die, and Google still hasn't brought its best feature to Gmail was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Bethesda's next mobile title, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, has entered early access on Android

The last we heard about The Elder Scrolls: Blades was back in November when the game was delayed to a release sometime in early 2019. Well, it would appear that we are finally inching closer to the official release date (whatever that may be) because The Elder Scrolls: Blades has gone live for those that were invited to the first wave of its early access.

If you're eager to take a look at the game, you can currently install it (at least in the US), though you'll only get to play through a short demo before you are asked to sign-in with your Bethesda account.

Bethesda's next mobile title, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, has entered early access on Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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21 temporarily free and 28 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday

It's Wednesday, so it's time for the mid-week app sales roundup. Today's list is small and rather underwhelming, but perhaps that's just reflective of the slower time of year. Anyhow, you might find something you like below.

Free

Apps

Manual Camera : DSLR Camera Professional (Procam) $4.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 hours
Deep Translator Pro $2.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Play-D2D $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 2 days
Quick Reminder Pro : To Do Notes Reminder Pro $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 3 days
BitProject $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 4 days
Interwebz Browser $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
Spelling Book PRO $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
Discovering the Dinosaurs $4.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Recent App Switcher (DIESEL Pro) $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Voice Recorder $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days

Games

Superhero Armor: City War - Robot Fighting Premium $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 1 day
Zombie Avengers:(Dreamsky)Stickman War Z $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 3 days
Cat home 2048 (VIP) $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 4 days
Word Mania PRO $1.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 4 days
Stick Shadow: War Fight $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 5 days
2 Player Quiz Pro $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
The Celestial Tree VIP $0.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
Timing Hero VIP : Retro Fighting Action RPG $3.49 -> Free; Sale ends in 6 days
Learn Mandarin - HSK 5 Hero $9.49 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days
Wonder Knights VIP : Retro Shooter RPG $3.99 -> Free; Sale ends in 7 days

Icon packs & customization

Mandala Icon Pack $1.49 -> Free; Sale ends in 5 days

Sale

Apps

iBird Pro Birds North America $14.99 -> $9.99; Sale ends in 1 day
Advanced Sport Training Calendar $2.99 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 2 days
Hue Wave $3.99 -> $1.99; Sale ends in 2 days
My Jump 2: Measure your jump $9.99 -> $4.99; Sale ends in 3 days
My Lift: Measure your max strength $9.99 -> $4.99; Sale ends in 3 days
Truck Motion Detector $3.99 -> $1.99; Sale ends in 3 days
Contour lines plugin — OsmAnd $3.49 -> $1.69; Sale ends in 4 days
Easy Calculator PRO $2.89 -> $0.99; Sale ends in 4 days
AntiBAG Tachograph $11.99 -> $6.99; Sale ends in 6 days
Day by Day Organizer PRO $4.49 -> $2.49; Sale ends in 6 days
Earthquake Network Pro - Realtime alerts $2.99 -> $1.99; Sale ends in 6 days
WiFi Router Manager(No Ad) - Who is on My WiFi?

21 temporarily free and 28 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Wyze announces $20 home sensor system to pair with its $20 security camera

Home security cameras are common these days, but they're often spendy. Wyze made waves a while back by offering a basic but effective security camera for just $20. The Wyze cam is now getting some company in the form of a home sensor system that also costs $20.

The Wyze Sense kit ships with a motion sensor and two contact sensors (for doors or windows). There's also a bridge hub that links the sensors to your Wyze cameras, which you probably already have if you buy the Wyze sensors.

Wyze announces $20 home sensor system to pair with its $20 security camera was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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[Update: Officially out now] This War of Mine: Stories brings the Father's Promise DLC to Android

Update 1: 2019/03/27 7:54am PDT
This War of Mine: Stories - Father's Promise is officially available on the Play Store

11 bit studios released the side-scrolling survival strategy game This War of Mine on Android back in 2015. What people may not know is that the game had been available on PC since 2014. This PC version received new playable content in celebration of its third anniversary in 2017.

[Update: Officially out now] This War of Mine: Stories brings the Father's Promise DLC to Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Changes to the Google Play Developer API

Posted by Vlad Radu, Product Manager and Nicholas Lativy, Software Engineer

The Google Play Developer API allows you to automate your in-app billing and app distribution workflows. At Google I/O '18, we introduced version 3 of the API, which allows you to transactionally start, manage, and halt staged releases on all tracks, through production, open testing, closed testing (including the new additional testing tracks), and internal testing.

Updating from versions 1 and 2 to the latest version 3

In addition to these new features, version 3 also supports all the functionality of previous versions, improving and simplifying how you manage workflows. Starting December 1, 2019, versions 1 and 2 of the Google Play Developer API will no longer be available so you need to update to version 3 ahead of this date.

Migrating to version 3

If you use the Google Play API client libraries (available for Java, Python, and other popular languages), we recommend upgrading to their latest versions, which already support version 3 of the API. In many cases, changing the version of the client library should be all that is necessary. However, you may also need to update specific code references to the version of the API in use - see examples in our samples repository.

Many third-party plugins are already using version 3 of the API. If you use a plugin that does not support version 3 you will need to contact the maintainer. You will start seeing warnings in the Google Play Console in mid-May if we detect that your app is still using version 1 and version 2 endpoints.

For version 1 users

If you currently use version 1 of the API, you may also need to link your API project to the Google Console before converting to version 3. Learn more about this process.

Going forward

We hope you benefit from the new features of the Google Play Developer Publishing API and are looking forward to your continued feedback to help us improve the publishing experience on Google Play.

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YouTube Music can now act as a media player for files stored on your phone

Google has been pitching YouTube Music as an eventual replacement for Google Play Music since the company refocused what it was for last year, but it's still missing plenty of features. You still can't access your Google Play Music uploads from YouTube Music, and there's no easy way to import playlists or libraries between the two services. However, YouTube Music has just picked up the ability to play locally stored audio files — though, sadly, only via external means like file managers.

YouTube Music can now act as a media player for files stored on your phone was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed

Google Podcasts is now automatically generating transcripts of episodes and is using them as metadata to help listeners search for shows, even if they don't know the title or when it was published.

With the help of a tipster, we were able to find that the company has been logging those transcripts into the page source on the Google Podcasts web portal — you can learn how to access episode and show pages through your web browser from our earlier story here.

Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google gets ready for summer by adding vacation rentals to hotel search

Finding the perfect place to spend your vacation shouldn't be a difficult task, and Google has been making it easier in the last several months. It started with a Maps redesign that made finding Hotels more streamlined, and now Google's expanding those travel listings to include even more vacation rentals from some prominent partner services.

Back in October Google rolled out a full redesign to Google Maps hotel listings for both desktop and mobile.

Google gets ready for summer by adding vacation rentals to hotel search was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Gmail's dynamic emails make the service more interactive with AMP

The internet has changed a lot since its inception, moving from static websites to the dynamic place we've come to take for granted today. While emails may look fancier today than they did 30 years ago, they've still been very limited so far as user interaction goes — you can click a link to visit a site, but that's about it. Enter: "dynamic emails." Google first introduced them to developers as AMP for email, with plans to roll out broadly last year.

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Pearl Abyss will launch Black Desert Mobile globally on Android this year

Black Desert Mobile is an MMORPG that's already available on Android, though you can only download it off the Play Store if you live in Korea or Japan. Now that the developer Pearl Abyss has had some time to iron out a few kinks and find some success in the regions the game was launched, the studio has announced on Facebook that a global release will happen this year, which means an English version is expected land on the Play Store sometime in the next eight months.

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New Google Pay tweak makes account switching faster

As Google progressively moves things around to comply with the ever-changing design guidelines, we see apps catching up as each new change appears. Google Pay's latest move pushes the account switcher out of the navigation drawer and into the top right corner. This matches other apps like Gmail that have recently seen their own visual updates. Functionally, nothing else has changed, and there aren't any other noticeable visual tweaks to Google's Material theme at this time.

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IMDb helps you find the exact movies or TV series you want to watch

The IMDb app is one of the first I installed on my Android devices, way back in 2010 on my Galaxy 5 (not S). But over the years, the need for the app has fallen, especially when Google added IMDb scores to its search cards. Now, I just Google the name of a movie or show and open the IMDb site from the results, if needed. But the app's recent search filter addition has made me reconsider installing it and giving it a permanent spot in my app drawer again.

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Apps , Apps/Games – Android Police – Android News , Games , Phones , reviews , Tablets 11:40 PM No comments

Square Invoices arrives to create, customize, and distribute ... well, you can guess what

Square, of point of sale/payment processing fame, has just pushed out a new application onto the Play Store for handling invoices. The functionally named "Square Invoices" will allow Square customers to create and fire off invoices and estimates, track payment statuses, and set automatic reminders for unpaid invoices. This is all without any monthly fees — though you still have to pay card processing fees.

Note that you could previously send invoices via Square, but it had to be done online via the company's site.

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Android Accessibility Suite 7.3 exits beta, adds screen search and other TalkBack additions [APK Download]

Accessibility options have come a long way in Android, especially in the last year or two. The aptly-named Android Accessibility Suite, formerly TalkBack, just hit v7.3 stable, adding some refinements to the Accessibility Menu and other new options like screen search and additions to continuous reading.

Here's the full changelog from the Play Store app description:

New in Accessibility Menu:

Change volume and brightness from the Accessibility Menu.
Make Accessibility Menu buttons larger.

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Apps , Apps/Games – Android Police – Android News , Games , Phones , reviews , Tablets 11:15 PM No comments

Google Maps adds speed limits while driving, easy-to-see business hours

We've got a two-in-one deal in UI tweaks if you spend crucial time in Google Maps. One is a toggle for making speed limits disappear from your navigation view, the other brings business hours without the need for search. Each have their catches.

So, say you're in a bar-hopping group and you've been assigned to figure out where everyone's headed next. You probably opened up the app, tapped on a few joints you liked, then got distracted by someone dishing out hot gossip...

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Samsung built a useless AR app that lets you attach virtual media to real-world objects [APK Download]

Augmented reality lets you display virtual elements on top of what is captured by the camera. These can be navigational arrows to guide you to your destination, fictional characters you interact with as part of a game, and so much more. With Playground, Google designed an app that lets you add various things to the real world such as pets, clouds, and even superheroes, but, sadly, it made it exclusive to Pixel devices.

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Lovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator is coming to Android on April 7th

Weather Factory originally released its Lovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator on PC in May of 2018, and Playdigious has taken the reins for the development of the mobile version that will soon land on Android on April 7th. Weather Factory has recently announced the official release date of the Cultist Simulator mobile port on its official Twitter account, and you can even pre-register for the title on the Google Play Store.

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