Love to eat or love to cook or love both? Kitchen Stories is an app full of free video and photo cookbook. If you love to eat, but don't really do cooking, then pass this app to your cooker. Eg: mom, wife. If you love to cook (and of course eat), then this app is certainly for you.
Features Discover delicious recipes, watch inspiring and helpful videos. If you are not sure on how to make it, don't worry, each recipe is facilitated by step by step photo instructions. If you think the recipe is good, you can save it.
Create your own If you have your own recipe and would like to share with the rest of the world, then create the recipe on your own and share it.
Check the app trailer here:
So you will never get worry anymore on what to cook or serve today and going forward. Boz Appetit!
This app does not offers in-app purchases. This app need internet access to browse the food recipes, photos and videos.
Current version 1.2.3A requires Android 4.1 (JellyBean) and up.
Mobile messaging has never been more central to people’s lives, and there is an incredible amount of innovation happening with chat applicat...
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Mobile messaging has never been more central to people’s lives, and there is an incredible amount of innovation happening with chat applications across the mobile ecosystem. SMS carrier messaging is used by billions of people every day and enables people to reach anyone around the world, regardless of their device, carrier, app or location. However, the features available in SMS haven’t kept up with modern messaging apps. Rich Communications Services (RCS) is a new standard for carrier messaging and brings many of the features that people now expect from mobile messaging, such as group chats, high res photos and more.
Many leaders in the wireless industry have already put great work into laying the foundation for RCS, and we’ve heard from many of them that there are ways Android can help. We’re excited to team up with mobile operators, device makers and the rest of the Android ecosystem to support RCS standards and help accelerate their deployment in a more consistent way. We’re already working closely with many of our partners on implementing RCS, and look forward to growing the RCS ecosystem together.
As part of this commitment, we’re also very excited to announce that the Jibe Mobile team is joining Google to help us bring RCS to a global audience. Jibe is a leading provider of RCS services and they’ll continue helping carriers easily deploy RCS to their users. We can’t wait to work with them and build on the great work that they’ve already done.
Deploying RCS to create an even better messaging experience on Android will take time and collaboration throughout the wireless industry, but we’re excited to get started.
Posted by Mike Dodd, Android RCS Software Engineer and Minister of Messaging
From your watch to your phone to your TV, we want to help you stay connected, entertained and informed across all your screens. Today we’re introducing a few new things that do just that: two Nexus phones, a tablet for work and play, updates to Chromecast and features for some of your favorite apps—all working together to make your day a little bit easier and more fun.
New Nexus phones
We made Android to be an open platform that anyone can build on, and today there are 4,000+ Android devices in all shapes and sizes. Android’s diversity is why it’s become the most popular mobile platform in the world, and the latest version, Marshmallow, takes Android to a new level of performance.
While we love all the Android devices out there, every year we build Nexus devices to show off the latest and greatest, directly from the people who built Android. Today we’re introducing the latest Nexus treats, both running Marshmallow, sweetened by amazing apps and sandwiched by some cutting-edge hardware (see what we did there?):
Nexus 6P is the first all-metal-body Nexus phone. Built in collaboration with Huawei, this 5.7” phone is crafted from aeronautical-grade aluminum, with a USB Type-C port for fast charging, a powerful 64-bit processor, and a 12.3 MP camera sensor with massive 1.55µm pixels (hello, better photos!). The Nexus 6P starts at $499.
You’re not the only one who misses your Nexus 5. We’ve joined forces with LG to bring it back with the new Nexus 5X, which gives you great performance in a compact and light package, with a beautiful 5.2” screen and the same 12.3 MP camera and Type-C port as the Nexus 6P. Nexus 5X starts at $379.
Both phones include a new fingerprint sensor, Nexus Imprint, which gives you quick and secure access to your phone, as well as use of Android Pay (in the U.S.). They are available for pre-order on the Google Store from a number of countries, including the U.S., U.K., Ireland and Japan, and come with a free 90-day subscription to Google Play Music. In the U.S., pre-orders include a $50 Play credit to help you stock up your favorite music, apps, games and shows. And, finally, for you Project Fi fans out there, you'll be happy to know Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X will work on your favorite network. Request an invite to our Early Access Program at fi.google.com.
Pixel C
We’re expanding the Pixel family by introducing the first Android tablet built end-to-end by Google. The Pixel C brings together the benefits of a full-size keyboard with the portability of a tablet. The tablet and keyboard attach magnetically (no docking mechanism FTW), so it’s easy to switch between typing and using the touch screen. And if you’re familiar with the Chromebook Pixel, you’ll immediately see the family resemblance: the Pixel C has the same beautiful aluminum design, great display and USB Type-C port. The Pixel C will be available in time for the holidays on the Google Store.
Cast ALL the things
Today we’re introducing two new Chromecast devices. The new Chromecast has a fresh design, and is easier to plug into TVs with crowded ports. It supports the latest Wi-Fi standards and adapts more easily to changing Wi-Fi conditions in your home, so you get higher quality video with less buffering. Most importantly, we added two new colors. ;)
Chromecast Audio is a small device that plugs into your existing speakers, so you can stream your favorite music, radio and podcasts over Wi-Fi, similar to Chromecast. It works with tons of apps, including Spotify, Pandora and Google Play Music. Just like Chromecast, it works from anywhere in your home with your favorite devices, including Android, iOS, and laptops. And it’s available on the Google Store and other online retailers for just $35—way less than most Wi-Fi speakers today.
We’ve also updated the Chromecast app to make it easier for you to find great things to watch or to play, across the thousands of apps that work with Chromecast—whether you feel like browsing or want to search for a specific TV show or movie. For Cast-enabled apps that aren’t already on your phone, we’ll suggest one for you. The updated Chromecast app is rolling out on Android and iOS over the next few weeks.
Your favorite apps... for the whole family
All your shiny devices get even better when you have great apps to go with them. So we’re making a few updates to Google Play Music and Google Photos.
First, Google Play Music will offer a new family plan later this year. Up to six people will be able to use one account for a shared fee of $14.99 a month (instead of $9.99 per person). Get the dance party ready.
Sharing is a theme of today’s Google Photos updates, too. We’re adding Chromecast support to give you that old-school slideshow experience—dimmed lights optional. In the U.S., you can now add private labels to your photos to make it easier to search for specific pics of people with things, places or other people—say, that photo of Mom at the Grand Canyon, or of your daughter with her pet bunny. And soon you’ll be able to pool all your photos and videos with friends and family in one place, and get updates as soon as new photos are added. Best of all, there’s no setup involved, and you can use any device. So that dance party we mentioned earlier? Now it’s easier to gather all the memories from everyone who was there.
More to love, for more people
From Nexus to Chromecast to Pixel C to Photos, these updates are more than the sum of their parts—they unite great apps with devices that are designed to support them. They’re built to work together, so they do—seamlessly, across all your screens.
Posted by Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP Android, Chromecast and Chrome OS at Google
Last week, we announced the US rollout of Android Pay . To celebrate our launch, we’re giving one lucky winner plus three of their friends a...
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Last week, we announced the US rollout of Android Pay. To celebrate our launch, we’re giving one lucky winner plus three of their friends a VIP trip to Mexico City that includes four seats at the premiere of the thrilling new James Bond film, Spectre from Sony Pictures.
To qualify, just tap and pay at any of the over one million locations where Android Pay is accepted across the US between September 28 and October 15, 2015. Each day that you use Android Pay earns you one entry, and you can earn up to 18 entries during the promotional period. The grand prize winner will be drawn at random on October 19, 2015, and you can find more information by visiting the official promotional page.
To start tapping your way to the red carpet, make sure you have Android Pay on your phone. If you don't have it yet, you can download Android Pay on Google Play. Good luck, and we hope to see you on the red carpet.
Posted by Sherice Torres, Marketing Director, Android Pay
For official rules, how to enter, prize restrictions, and details, click here.
Tired of being tracked of your activity online? Or you don't really know that all this time you are always being tracked, don't you?
Either both, Ghostery is a browser app that can show and help you to stop being tracked when you do your activity online.
Here is the app trailer that shows you how you are being tracked:
Tap on the ghost icon when visiting a website to see what kind of trackers are online and tracking you. Turn off/on the trackers easily by sliding on the on/off button.
So, take control of what you want to be tracked to and browse freely and safely.
This app does not offers in-app purchases. This app requires internet access.
Current version 1.2.1 requires Android 4.0.3 (ICS) and up.
Skyline Skaters is a fun, simple as well as endless-type of game. If you played Subway Surfer previously, then Skyline Skaters is the similar except that Skyline Skaters is 2D and can move to other city.
Start skating using the skateboard on top of the building, collect coins, avoid the pit, and stay away from the police chasing you using the helicopter.
While skating, clear all the objective given so that you can move to the next city.
Unlock other characters with their own unique abilities. Join the league and connect to Facebook to see who is getting the best skills and score.
This game offers in-app purchases. This game can be played offline/without internet access.
Check here for the game trailer:
Current version 2.4.0 requires Android 2.3.3 (GingerBread) and up.
Sometimes you are in this kind of situation, you need to send paper documents to someone else, however you don't have any scanner nearby, most of the time you end up taking photos with your phone's camera and send. The result is usually not that good - if not ugly. That's where FREE app like Scanbot comes handy.
Scan everything Scanbot can virtually scan anything you can take with your phone's camera, be it documents, papers, even images or photos.
Auto-detect and Auto-capture Once activated, the app will auto-search for document-like objects and it will do auto-perspective of the object so it will (crop and) become like a document (squarish), then auto-capture it. All you need to do is just save the doc or add a new page if you want to scan more than 1 page.
In the event Scanbot failed to detect any document-like objects, you can snap the object manually - just like taking picture with your phone.
Save options You can save the captured doc into your iCloud drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive and any other cloud storage as pdf, or save the doc as photo to your camera folder, or you can share to virtually any social media/apps as pdf/image. Having Scanbot installed is like having a scanner in your pocket, where you can use it wherever and whenever you go.
This app offers in-app purchases to unlock the pro features such as OCR, search inside the scanned documents, sign and annotate and secure the app using Touch ID. This app can be played offline/without internet access.
Check the app trailer here:
Current version 4.0.8 requires Android 4.0.3 (ICS) and up.
Planning on a trip to somewhere but not yet certain about the location and the surrounding areas? Or you do want to have a vacation to that place but because of whatever reason it is, you can't go yet? If you are stuck with either one of the above, well Google now has the solution for you: Google Street View.
Google Street View is actually not a new application, it was named as Google Photo Sphere previously, but then they changed it to Street View - probably because people has known Street View for long time and the Street View name really does the purpose of the app.
However it's now really the same as Street View from Google Maps, the Street View here is more to view or show the famous places, tourist attractions, world landmarks, natural wonders. You can also step inside the place, such as museum or restaurants. So it's like you are on vacation but virtually.
The collections are not only coming from Google, but they are also coming from contributors. You can also become a contributor where you can share your discoveries to the world.
To me, this app is really amazing, it's like having world encyclopedia on hand. What about you? Do you find this app amazing as well?
This app has no in-app purchases. This app needs internet access to view the Street View collections.
Current version varies between devices, however the app requires Android 2.3 (GingerBread) and up.
If Apple, Inc. recently has released their first ever app on Android Google Play store, named Move to iOS which basically help Android users to migrate their data to iPhone, this one developer has his own way to counter the movement.
He creates the Stick With Android app which basically just a fun, joke app, for those who still votes and loves Android.
The app has the button that say "Click here to Stick With Android". All it does is just simply give you a greeting message, "Congratulations, you did it!" and actually you really did it, because you still stick with your Android while reading this post :)
Current version 1.3.3.7 requires Android 4.03 (ICS) and up.
The controversial app: Move To iOS app is built by Apple, Inc themselves with one purpose: helping those who wants to move from Google Android platform to Apple iOS platform.
Why controversial? That's because this is the first app done by Apple and this app is for Android users to move to iOS.
Hardcode fans seen as... Hardcore Android fans of course seen this movement as some kind of Apple back-stabbing Google after so long Google helping Apple with their services and ecosystem, from Google Maps, Google search on Safari.
Avoid headache However, for those for whatever reasons want to jump ship to iOS, seen this as a great way to avoid their headache to move their contents - contacts, messages, photos, calendars, web bookmarks from Android to iOS. Unfortunately, this app works only for Android 4.0 and up.
Many - in which I presume Android fans - have given this app a 1-star ratings, but not a few also has given this app a 5-star ratings. So which one are you and what do you think of this app?
Current version 1.57.1 requires Android 4.0 (ICS) and up.
Swap Cops is a turn based strategy game where you control 4 cops to defeat the enemies and complete the missions.
Formation These 4 cops are being formed as 3 in the front row and 1 at the back row. To attack is simply to tap these cops.
Cops Ability Each cops has unique ability and range for attacking. The blue one has laser shot that shoot all the enemies in 1 single line (from bottom to top screen), while the red one with helmet is a flame thrower that shoot enemies in front of him directly in the first row and second row and all enemies in the third row. This is part of the game strategy, to choose the correct cop to attack so that you can maximize the attack power to inflict the most damage to the enemies.
Attack at the same time To make 3 cops in the front row to perform attack at the same time, tap the cop at the back row, all 3 cops in the front row will perform the attacks together, however with only a fraction of the power.
Unlock more Unlock more cops while you proceed to next more advance missions.
This game offers in-app purchases. This game can be played offline/without internet access.
Current version 1.0 requires Android 2.3 (GingerBread) and up.
Today, we’re beginning to roll out Android Pay -- the simple and secure way to pay with your Android phone at over one million locations ac...
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Today, we’re beginning to roll out Android Pay -- the simple and secure way to pay with your Android phone at over one million locations across the US. Android Pay also stores your gift cards, loyalty cards and special offers right on your phone. We’ll be rolling out gradually over the next few days, and this is just the beginning. We will continue to add even more features, banks and store locations in the coming months, making it even easier to pay with your Android phone.
The choice is yours Android Pay works with all NFC-enabled Android devices (running KitKat 4.4+), on any mobile carrier, at every tap and pay ready location across the US. Android Pay will support credit and debit cards from the four major payment networks: American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa. These cards are issued by many of the most popular US banks and credit unions, including American Express, Bank of America, Discover, Navy Federal Credit Union, PNC, Regions Bank, USAA, and U.S. Bank. Wells Fargo will be available in the next few days, Capital One and Citi are coming soon, and we're adding new banks all the time.
Shop at your favorites You can use Android Pay at over one million locations (and counting…) across the US, everywhere tap and pay payments are accepted, including:
Security is at the center of Android Pay
We know how important it is to keep your personal and financial information secure, so Android Pay is supported by industry standard tokenization. This means your real credit or debit card number isn't sent with your payment. Instead, we’ll use a virtual account number that provides an extra layer of security. As soon as you make a purchase, you’ll see a payment confirmation that shows where a given transaction happened, so it’s easy to catch any suspicious activity. And if your phone is ever lost or stolen, simply use Android Device Manager to instantly lock your device from anywhere, secure it with a new password, or even wipe it clean of your personal information.
We’re just getting started... Later this year, you’ll also be able to use Android Pay to speed through mobile checkout in your favorite apps. And with select merchants, you'll soon be able to transmit your loyalty cards and special offers with just a tap. We’ll be announcing more Android Pay news soon, and would love to hear your feedback on the Android Pay experience (just select Help > Feedback in the app).
If you’re an existing Google Wallet user, you’ll be able to access Android Pay through an update to your Wallet app. For new users, Android Pay will be available for download on Google Play in the next few days, and will come preinstalled on new NFC-enabled Android phones from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless.
For updates on Android Pay and other Android news, subscribe to this blog, or follow Android on Twitter and Google+.
Posted by Pali Bhat, Director of Product Management, Android Pay
p.s. Looking to send or receive money right from your phone? Click here to learn more about the new Google Wallet
Update: Citi's availability corrected to rolling out in the coming weeks.
Adblock browser is the newest browser that only comes on mobile platform (iOS and Android) - no desktop version yet.
Purpose Comes from the very same person/team who made the original Adblock add-ons for desktop browsers back in 2006, Adblock browser is built with the same purpose: to get rid of ads on the web page you are visiting.
Advantages of Ads blocking The advantages of getting rid of ads is not only you don't see the ads that are sometimes annoying, but also you are spared from those bad malwares and viruses as well as you are saving your data usage and battery lives.
Features The browser also has these features built-in on setting: disable tracking, disable malware domains, disable anti-adblocking messages and even disable social media buttons.
So, wait no more. Download the app and enjoy safer browsing. No ads = no picture or animation being loaded = no waste of data = more energy efficient.
Check the app trailer below:
This app has no in-app purchases. This app needs internet access for browsing the internet.
Current version 1.0 requires Android 2.3 (GingerBread) and up.
Looking for some fast action game? On The Run it is! Ride the car, switch between lanes to avoid other cars, collect bolts for extra speeds and coins for upgrading the ride.
Unlock special ride with special ability, such as UFO, Tank and Plane.
Hit the gas and have fun!
Check the game trailer below:
This game offers in-app purchases to buy diamonds that can be used to buy special ride and upgrade cars. This game can be played offline/without internet access.
Current version 1.0.7 requires Android 2.3.3 (GingerBread) and up.
Finally, the Pokemon game is here on iOS and Android platform. After waiting for so long, finally Nintendo has made up their mind by releasing the game to other platform other than their own console and handheld.
Gameplay Even though the gameplay is different from the Pokemon game exists in Nintendo's console, however the game are still fun to play. The game is an adventure puzzle game.
Check out the game trailer here:
If you ever play Battle Camp, then the battle method is similar to it. Win the game by shuffling and create at least 3 matches of the same Pokemon.
Catch the Pokemons! You will meet with pokemons during your journey, defeat them and catch them.
Each pokemon that has been caught, has different ability, strength and weakness, so choose them wisely for each battle. Proceed to next stage whenever you have successfully defeated the Pokemon of the stage.
Verdict For Pokemon fans: definitely you should download and play this game. For those who don't know Pokemon before or not a fan for it, you can give it a try this game.
This game offers in-app purchases to buy jewels. This game needs active internet connection to play the game.
Current version 1.1.0 requires Android 4.1 (JellyBean) and up.
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