5 Android Apps You Shouldn’t Miss This Week!

Welcome to the 372nd edition of Android Apps Weekly. These are the big headlines from the past week:

• Google Play is cutting its share for Google Play Store developers. Now he only charges a 15% fee for the first million dollars and then goes back to his 30% cut after that. The change comes after Apple did the same with the App Store. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help big companies make a lot of money, but at least it’s friendlier to smaller developers. All of these changes come in the wake of last year’s gigantic Fortnite controversy.
• The researchers developed an app that acts like COVID-19. Basically you use Bluetooth to see if people are distancing themselves socially and then falsely infect someone else’s phone. This is not an app that you can get right now or anything, it is primarily for testing and research. For example, the researchers intend for a group of people on a university campus to install the app and see how long it takes for the fake virus to spread via Bluetooth. It’s a good idea and a fun way to simulate the spread of a real virus. Click the link for more details.
• Signal Private Messenger is working on a tool to transfer chats from one device to another. It is only available to test in its beta version, but it works more or less as expected. Back up your messages, log into a new phone, and download your messages there. Telegram and other competitors already have a tool for this, so it’s good to see Signal keep up. You can click the link to check it out and sign up for the beta version.
• Google is working on a new multi-source installation method for apps and games from the Play Store. Basically you use data to see which parts of any app or game people give first and then install those parts before everyone else. It probably doesn’t matter as much for apps, but larger games may eventually get the feature to start playing while downloading, as seen on modern consoles. Additionally, the data can help developers determine which parts of the application or game they need to work on. It could be everything.
• The second Android 12 developer preview was released this week. There weren’t a ton of new consumer-oriented features. However, the back-end got much-needed stability, and developers have more to play with. This is a major release for developers to prepare their apps for the eventual Android 12 release later this year. Click on the link for what’s new.

Spookiz Pang

Price: Free to play

Spookiz Pang is a bubble shooter similar to most of the others. It includes over 1,000 levels, some fun characters, and more. It also has the usual stuff, like power-ups, but you can win most of them at a pretty decent rate just by playing the game. The draw here is the absolutely huge number of levels and the reasonably friendly free play. Plus, it also has things like playing offline. It is a decent arcade bubble shooter game if you like that genre.

MindTree

Price: Free / $ 9.99 per month

MindTree is a meditation app with a prepaid spirit. The company plants a tree every time you meditate, as long as you are a premium user. The application itself is quite simple. The user interface is easy to navigate and it is quite easy to use. He plays a variety of music and gives you some basic meditation instructions. There is also a timer so you can time your meditations. The premium version is expensive for a meditation app at $ 9.99 per month. However, you can use a good amount of the app for free before you buy and at least you know that you are planting trees with the money you spend.

Endless Dungeon: Apogee

Price: $ 4.99

Dungeon of Endless: Apogee is a rogue-type dungeon defense game. Combine several different genres for a fairly entertaining experience. Players form a team, explore the dungeon, and collect things. That is a very basic premise. A balance is needed, as your team consists of guards and prisoners. Each door also has something random, so you must be prepared at all times. There are also elements of tower defense, kingdom building, and RPGs. It’s a pretty deep game for its price and there are no in-app purchases to complicate things. The game is a port of the Steam version and people seemed to like it too. The only bad part is that the game can feel cluttered on smaller screens.

Glimpse of time

Price: Free

Glance Weather is a weather widget that tries to show you everything you need to know in one little widget. It offers temperature, precipitation, wind and cloudiness. The widget is resizable and also includes things like a real temperature and a night mode. The design could be better, but the developer is still actively working to improve it based on user suggestions. In any case, it is a free weather widget that gives you a lot of information at a glance. It should get better with time.

Choice of Argo

Price: Free / Up to $ 4.99

Argo’s Choice is an interactive novel with heavy text elements. You play the role of Argo and watch a story unfold. The decisions the player makes affect the events of the game, including the ending. Also, you can interact with other characters and see Argo’s relationship with them. This is not a challenging game. It’s about replaying the story, making decisions, and observing the reactions to those decisions. It might need a bit of polishing here and there, but you can play the game for free (with ads) and it’s a decent experience otherwise.

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