Welcome to the 529th version of Android Apps Weekly, the place we focus on the newest in cell information and take a more in-depth take a look at among the most attention-grabbing new apps and video games. Let’s soar proper in and try among the greatest highlights from the final week:
- Android 15 is anticipated to deliver a number of enhancements to the combo, together with a totally reworked desktop mode. Whereas Android has had a desktop mode since 2010, the brand new revamped model may have higher windowing capabilities and different refinements.
- Google is suing two scammers for threatening the integrity of the Play Retailer, in response to a brand new report. Two people have been chargeable for importing 87 faux crypto apps that affected over 100,000 individuals worldwide.
- Google’s new Discover My System answer is lastly nearly right here, no less than in response to a newly noticed Discover My System community web page inside the Google Play Service Beta. The up to date system was introduced a few yr in the past and is designed for higher accuracy and different enhancements that ought to make the service higher. Though the brand new system isn’t stay but, that is excellent news because it means we’re getting nearer.
- Disney Plus has introduced plans to start out increasing its password-sharing restrictions to different international locations together with america, after a profitable take a look at in Canada. The crackdown is anticipated to develop in June, with a full rollout in September. Whereas it’s disappointing to see extra streaming providers rolling out measures like this, it’s additionally not significantly stunning in our present financial system.
- Google Messages might quickly provide full satellite tv for pc messaging help. Whereas we beforehand noticed strains within the app’s code hinting on the change, a brand new APK teardown additional reveals how the service will work, together with a touch that it might be used for extra than simply SOS: “You’ll be able to message with anybody, together with emergency providers”.
- Google Search is without doubt one of the firm’s most necessary merchandise, and it’s getting even higher with latest AI modifications. Sadly, a brand new report additionally claims Google might quickly begin charging for its enhancements that make the most of Gemini Superior and Google One applied sciences. Nothing is understood simply but on how a lot the corporate would cost or how the service would work.
- Regardless of earlier safety considerations round its iMessage workaround with Nothing, Sunbird is again with a brand new app that’s rolling out in “small phases” beginning right this moment. The brand new app reportedly replaces the outdated system wit ha safer implementation that focuses on privateness. Personally, we’d be cautious right here however you’ll be able to at all times give it a strive at your personal danger.
Android Apps Weekly: New apps and video games
In search of some new Android apps and Android video games to maintain you occupied? This week didn’t see any main new apps however there have been fairly a number of video games value highlighting.
Misplaced Potato
- Worth: Free with in-app purchases
Astra: Knights of Veda
- Worth: Free with in-app purchases
Astra is a Gacha RPG that has a fairly attention-grabbing premise: you died, and but you’re nonetheless round anyway. The sport initially opens as much as a serious battle, leaping into the hack-in-slash motion. Quickly the troopers round you begin to come again to life as zombies of types. You finally die as effectively, however are introduced again by a robust goddess and despatched on a mission to save lots of the world. Should you like these sorts of video games however have been hoping for one thing a bit darker, this may very well be an ideal match.
Horse Racing Hero: Driving Recreation
- Worth: Free with in-app purchases
Should you’re hoping for one thing like Rival Stars Horse Driving, this recreation has an identical premise however whereas the earlier title feels a bit extra like a standard online game, this take has a way more “cell” really feel. It’s principally horse coaching however with an arcade, nearly slot-machine-like strategy. You don’t instantly management horses, apart from tapping the increase button although you do have selections in choosing which horses to make use of and extra. Whereas this isn’t the very best horse racing recreation I’ve performed on cell, it’s nonetheless a enjoyable romp that stored my son entertained for about an hour.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Ghost Trick is a puzzle-solving thriller recreation from the identical creators as the superb Ace Lawyer sequence, and now it’s again in a brand new HD remaster. This recreation has been round on Steam for some time now, but it surely’s Android port faithfully lives as much as the expertise. At $30, it’s additionally very costly for a cell recreation however that’s the purpose. Regardless of enjoying in your telephone, this appears like a full recreation and can completely maintain you busy for a lot of hours to come back.
Thriller of Eigengrau
- Worth: Free with in-app purchases
One other puzzle solver, this atmospheric horror recreation is all about escaping a room of nightmares as you try to resolve an amazing thriller, and hopefully, you survive the method! With strong graphics and respectable gameplay, this can be a nice darker, mature recreation for many who need one thing a bit much less informal to play on their telephones.
