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Smart Launcher 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 03:41:00 -0700

SIMPLE, LIGHT, FAST.
Smart Launcher 2 is an innovative launcher, featuring minimalist design, low resource requirements and a user-friendly interface that allows you to launch any application with just a few taps.
SL2 has been downloaded by over eight million people!

MINIMALIST DOES NOT MEAN UNDER FEATURED
Smart Launcher 2 is completely different from any other launcher on Play Store. It has been written from scratch.

The Flower
It gives you access to the most common apps. No need to select every time a specific app for the activity you want to start. The double tap option allows you to launch a second activity from the same icon.

The Drawer
It automatically organizes your apps into a few important categories. Exploring and finding your apps has never been so easy.

Themes and lockscreens
Almost every element of the UI is customizable. SL2 supports every Apex and Nova icon set, and more than 300 themes have been created specifically for Smart Launcher!

Plugins, Notifications and Customizable gestures
Add features by installing what you need. Get notifications directly on your homescreen
and assign gestures to your favorite apps to allow you to start them faster.

Hide unused apps
You can hide whatever apps you want, and if you want to protect your apps against prying eyes you can protect them with a password.

One launcher to rule them all
SL2 is optimized for almost every Android device. You can use it on your phone, on your tablet and even on your Google TV. Every part of SL is designed to be comfortably used both in portrait and landscape mode.

Constantly updated
Since June 2012 SL2 has been updated more than 150 times. It completely supports the latest Android API, and we always listen to user suggestions. Do you want to help us with the testing of new versions? Join the beta g+ community : plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114803489211052363907

Size : 1.8M
Current Version : 2.5
Requires Android : 2.1 and up

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4Gmark (Speedtest & Benchmark)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:28:00 -0700

4Gmark is a tool offering a comprehensive and reliable benchmark of the quality of service for smartphones. It allows you to compare smartphones, networks or places on every technologies 2G (Edge, Gprs), 3G (Umts, Hsdpa, H+, Dual-carrier), 4G (LTE) and Wifi.
When you perform free tests with 4Gmark, you participate in a collaborative project to aggregate a base of information for understanding and improving the quality of service.

The “Speed Test” quickly calculates downlink and uplink network speed (average Bitrate).
At the end of the Test, in the results, you can benchmark your results against the average bitrate obtained by other users in your country, in the same area or using the same smartphone (wifi or cellular).
The “Full Test” is a scenario with all protocols (latency, transfer, web) giving full visibility over the quality of the connection environment. It calculates a score which let you compare between them different smartphones, networks or places.
At the end of the Full Test, in the results, you can benchmark your results against the average score obtained by other users in your country, in the same area or using the same smartphone (wifi or cellular).
Also in the “Custom Test” section, Customized scenarios of tests are available.
Finally as a bonus, a dashboard that will offer the most current real-time information about your hardware, your location, your cellular and your wifi connection.

Size : 8.8M
Current Version : 1.4.11
Requires Android : 2.3.3 and up

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3D Sense Clock & Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 6 Jun 2014 01:46:00 -0700

3D Sense Clock & World Weather is a full featured, size 4×1, 4×2 and 5×2 fully customizable digital clock and weather forecast widget
The widget features the following:
- World weather forecast application (no need to add a widget if you don’t want to; you can check out the weather forecast by opening the application)
- 3 widget sizes; 4×1, 4×2 and 5×2(for Galaxy Note or tablets)
- Several skins to choose from
- Support for external theme packs containing even more skins (theme packs can be downloaded separately)
- Several weather icon and battery skins
- Different fonts for the time
- Portrait or landscape mode
- 12 or 24 hour clock with date
- Display of current week number
- Supports dynamic location (optional) – use this to automatically update your location and receive weather forecasts as you travel
- Weather for current location (condition and temperature, low and high temperatures and weather icon)
- Detailed weather forecast display including the following:
- Local time
- Sunrise and sunset time for current location
- Humidity and wind conditions
- Current condition, temperature and low and high temperatures
- Current condition icon
- Last weather update time
- 4 day weather forecast
- World weather: Choose to display weather information for any number of different locations worldwide. Just select your favorite locations and you will immediately have updated weather and time information.
- Launch up to four different applications by tapping different widget hotspots (is user defined)
The widget can be fully customized with the following options:
- Choose the widget and weather icon skins
- Choose the text color for the time, am/pm indication, date, location, current weather condition, current temperature and hi/lo temperatures
- Display shadow on the time
- Choose the font for the time
- Display 12 or 24 hour time with optional AM/PM indicator (if 12 hour format)
- Beep every hour (optional)
- Select the date display format
- Display a manually selected location’s time instead of phone’s time
- Optionally show or hide specific elements of the widget (hi/lo temperature, weather update time, am/pm indicator, battery status, next alarm, etc)
- Use current location to display weather info or specify any location you want
- Get location updates from the network (cell/WiFi) or your GPS
- Display temperature values in Celsius or Fahrenheit
- Optionally display the next alarm (under the hour)
- Select automatic weather refresh period (15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 hours)
- Enter your favorite world locations to watch local times, current weather conditions and weather forecast information
- Update weather on WiFi and/or GPRS
- Choose whether you want to update while roaming or not
- Play notification sounds on location and weather changes and updates
- Select what application to launch when tapping the hours
- Launch more applications by tapping the weekday or month
- Optionally display the battery level
- Specify how to receive location updates (how often and for how much distance)
- Select alternate weather forecast service
The application is localized in the following languages:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
IMPORTANT!!!
- This is a widget, not an application. To install it please refer to the help.
- If you are using a task killer exclude the widget from it
Please report any problems, suggestions or requests via e-mail

Size : 7.8M
Current Version : 0.66
Requires Android : 1.6 and up

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Android 4.4.3 KitKat fixes pesky camera drain issue

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 5 Jun 2014 03:21:00 -0700

The biggest fix sorts out a pesky battery drain that could happen when an app would use the device's camera. It was damn annoying (especially if you have a pretty lacklustre battery to begin with) so we're glad it's now a thing of the past.

There's also a snazzy new dialer app, which is the one that leaked out a few months back.

On top of that, there are a few other bug fixes and various tweaks in there too but nothing groundbreaking.

Only a matter of time

We checked our in-office Nexus 5 and there was no sign of the update just yet.

It looks like, on a visual layer at least, there isn't a great deal of change on Android 4.4.3, with a refreshed Phone app the only difference currently reported - although you can expect various behind the scenes improvements.

The Android Market

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 5 Jun 2014 03:13:00 -0700

As mentioned earlier, one of the main factors determining the success of a smartphone platform is
the applications that support it. It is clear from the success of the iPhone that applications play a
very vital role in determining whether a new platform swims or sinks. In addition, making these
applications accessible to the general user is extremely important.
As such, in August 2008, Google announced Android Market, an online application store for
Android devices, and made it available to users in October 2008. Using the Market application that
is pre installed on their Android device, users can simply download third-party applications directly
onto their devices. Both paid and free applications are supported on the Android Market, though
paid applications are available only to users in certain countries due to legal issues.
Similarly, in some countries, users can buy paid applications from the Android Market, but
developers cannot sell in that country. As an example, at the time of writing, users in India can buy
apps from the Android Market, but developers in India cannot sell apps on the Android Market.
The reverse may also be true; for example, users in South Korea cannot buy apps, but developers in
South Korea can sell apps on the Android Market.

Android Devices in the Market

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:04:00 -0700

Android devices come in all shapes and sizes. As of late November 2011, the Android OS powers the
following types of devices:
➤ Smartphones
➤ Tablets
➤ E-reader devices
➤ Netbooks
➤ MP4 players
➤ Internet TVs

Chances are good that you own at least one of the preceding devices. Figure 1-2 shows (left to right)
the Samsung Galaxy S II, the Motorola Atrix 4G, and the HTC EVO 4G smartphones.

Another popular category of devices that manufacturers are rushing out is the tablet. Tablets
typically come in two sizes: seven inches and ten inches, measured diagonally. Figure 1-3 shows the
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (left) and the Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 (right), both 10.1-inch
tablets. Both the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 and the Asus Eee Pad Transfer TF101 run on Android 3.
In addition to these popular mobile devices, Android is also slowly fi nding its way into your
living room. People of Lava, a Swedish company, has developed an Android-based TV, called the
Scandinavia Android TV (see Figure 1-5).
Google has also ventured into a proprietary smart TV platform based on Android and codeveloped
with companies such as Intel, Sony, and Logitech. Figure 1-6 shows Sony’s Google TV.
At the time of writing, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (see Figure 1-7) is the only device running on
Android 4.0. However, Google has promised that existing devices (such as the Nexus S) will be able
to upgrade to Android 4.0. By the time you are reading this, there should be a plethora of devices
running Android 4.0.

Architecture of Android

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 3 Jun 2014 02:59:00 -0700

In order to understand how Android works, take a look at Figure 1-1, which shows the various
layers that make up the Android operating system (OS).
The Android OS is roughly divided into five sections in four main layers:
➤ Linux kernel — This is the kernel on which Android is based. This layer contains all the lowlevel
device drivers for the various hardware components of an Android device.
➤ Libraries — These contain all the code that provides the main features of an Android OS. For
example, the SQLite library provides database support so that an application can use it for
data storage. The WebKit library provides functionalities for web browsing.
➤ Android runtime — At the same layer as the libraries, the Android runtime provides a set
of core libraries that enable developers to write Android apps using the Java programming
language. The Android runtime also includes the Dalvik virtual machine, which enables every
Android application to run in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual
machine (Android applications are compiled into Dalvik executables). Dalvik is a specialized
virtual machine designed specifically for Android and optimized for battery-powered mobile
devices with limited memory and CPU.
➤ Application framework — Exposes the various capabilities of the Android OS to application
developers so that they can make use of them in their applications.
➤ Applications — At this top layer, you will find applications that ship with the Android device
(such as Phone, Contacts, Browser, etc.), as well as applications that you download and
install from the Android Market. Any applications that you write are located at this layer.

Holy Quran – Recited Mishary Alafasy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 3 Jun 2014 02:49:00 -0700

Free MP3 Quran- Mishari rashed Alafasy Holy Quran:
Mishary Rashid Al Afasy Muslim Singer: is an acclaimed chanter with a beautiful, melodious voice studied at the College of the Quran and Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Madinah and specialized in the ten readings and translations of the Quran.
Holy Quran – sheikh Mishari rashed Alafasy
MP3 Quran that are performed by the Muslim singer sheikh Mishari Alafasy
Holy Quran Applications features:
Ability to download any song so you can here it offline.
add any song to favourite list.
Share songs via Bluetooth , Email, Whatsup or any social media.
Resume playing from last active session.
Repeat songs multiple time.
Stop playing when somebody call you.
Listen to the Songs in background.
Auto Shuffle between tracks.
Auto advance to the next Sura.

Mishari Alafasy included (Islamic Quran):
Surah AlFatihah
Surah AlBaqarah
Surah Al’Imran
Surah AnNisa
Surah AlMa’idah
Surah AlAn’am
Surah AlA’raf
Surah AlAnfal
Surah AtTaubah
Surah Yunus
Surah Hud
Surah Yusuf
Surah ArRa’d
Surah Ibrahim
Surah AlHijr
Surah AnNahl
Surah AlIsra’
Surah AlKahf
Surah Maryam
Surah TaHa
Surah AlAnbiya’
Surah AlHajj
Surah AlMu’minun
Surah AnNur
Surah AlFurqan
Surah AshShu’ara’
Surah AnNaml
Surah AlQasas
Surah AlAnkabut
Surah ArRum
Surah Luqman
Surah AsSajdah
Surah AlAhzab
Surah Saba’
Surah Fatir
Surah YaSin
Surah AsSaffat
Surah Sad
Surah AzZumar
Surah Ghafir
Surah Fussilat
Surah AshShura
Surah AzZukhruf
Surah AdDukhan
Surah AlJathiyah
Surah AlAhqaf
Surah Muhammad
Surah AlFath
Surah AlHujurat
Surah Qaf
Surah AdhDhariyat
Surah AtTur
Surah AnNajm
Surah Qamar
Surah ArRahman
Surah AlWaqi’ah
Surah AlHadid
Surah AlMujadilah
Surah AlHashr
Surah AlMumtahanah
Surah AsSaff
Surah AlJumu’ah
Surah AlMunafiqun
Surah AtTaghabun
Surah AtTalaq
Surah AtTahrim
Surah AlMulk
Surah AlQalam
Surah AlHaqqah
Surah AlMa’arij
Surah Nuh
Surah AlJinn
Surah AlMuzzammil
Surah AlMuddaththir
Surah AlQiyamah
Surah AlInsan
Surah AlMursalat
Surah AnNaba’
Surah AnNazi’at
Surah Abasa
Surah AtTakwir
Surah AlInfitar
Surah AlMutaffifin
Surah AlInshiqaq
Surah AlBuruj
Surah AtTariq
Surah AlA’la
Surah AlGhashiyah
Surah AlFajr
Surah AlBalad
Surah AshShams
Surah AlLail
Surah AdDuha
Surah AshSharh
Surah AtTin
Surah AlAlaq
Surah AlQadr
Surah AlBayyinah
Surah AzZalzalah
SurahAlAadiyat
Surah AlQari’ah
Surah AtTakathur
Surah AlAsr
Surah AlHumazah
Surah AlFil
Surah Quraish
Surah AlMa’un
Surah AlKauthar
Surah AlKafirun
Surah AnNasr
Surah AlMasad
Surah AlIkhlas
Surah AlFalaq
Surah AnNas
Holy Quran – Mishari rashed Alafasy
Other Holy Quran Reciters applications: Quran Abdelrahman Sodes – Quran Maher Almoaekly
Quran Abd Albaset Abd Alsamad – Quran Idrees Abkar – Quran Ahmad Alajamy – quraan Shourem
- quran shatery – Fares Abbad – Menshaoui – yasser aldousri
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Size : 1,021k
Current Version : 1.3
Requires Android : 2.1 and up

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Find My Phone Free

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 31 May 2014 02:33:00 -0700

Find My Phone 2014Find My Phone: Locate & Track your misplaced phone, lost phone or stolen phone. Find My Phone is one of the important security applications that everyone should have it installed on his/her android phone.

Features
= = = =
. Find my phone
Find my phone by flashlight and warning sound when your phone receive calls. Every one experienced looking for his phone around. Now your smartphone can FLASH and ALERT, let you find your phone easily, even it is in silent mode, neither ring nor vibrate, or in dark night.
. Locate My Phone
Want to share your location to your families or someone, that is easy. Just active this function, and it will help your guys know each other’s position. Specially girl wants to know her boyfriend or husband’s position. :):):) Actually it is more than that.
. Lock and Track My Phone
Thinking of that you lost your phone somewhere like cafe, office or restaurant etc, it will be worrisome. Here is the quick way to find it, just text a message to your phone and it will lock your phone automatically and protect your privacy, sends out the phone location that you can track it with Google Map.
At the same time it can make continuous alarm and popup the pre-setup contact information that help the person (who find your phone) to contact you directly.
. Share My Location
One click to share your current location to your friends.
. Remember My Locations
Remember a location and go back to it easily. For example, make a record to my car’s location and find it when you finish dinner, remember places you visited.
. Take a Picture
Take a picture by front camera and send it to your mail when you want to find out who takes your phone.
. Contacts Transfer
In case of losing your phone and can not get it back, remotely backup contacts and send to your email.
. Multiple Device Support
Install Find My Phone among your family members, and from any device you can control the other phones.
Even iPhone and Nokia can also protect your droid phone.

FAQ:
1) How to Uninstall?
There are 2 ways to uninstall Find My Phone
1) Go to Settings, Click Remove Device Admin and then click Uninstall Find My Phone (in app uninstall)
2) Go to Settings->Security->Device Administrators and Deactivate Find My Phone 2014 (system uninstall)
2) Do I need to register an account?
You do not need to create an account to use Find My Phone. Most of the anti-theft apps require you to register and collect your personal information, we do not do that.
3) Is this app free
Find my phone is green application and also it is free to use. There is no monthly fee or no pay premium to upgrade.
It is unlimited to family members use. We suggest you introduce this app to your family members or friends and protect each other(if they have android smartphones).
Where is my phone? where is my droid? Take it easy and you can find it by Find My Phone.

Size : 5.1M
Current Version : 1.2.4
Requires Android : 2.2 and up

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Features of Android

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 May 2014 20:39:00 -0700

Because Android is open source and freely available to manufacturers for customization, there are no
fixed hardware or software configurations. However, Android itself supports the following features:

➤ Storage — Uses SQLite, a lightweight relational database, for data storage. Chapter 6
discusses data storage in more detail.
➤ Connectivity — Supports GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth (includes
A2DP and AVRCP), Wi-Fi, LTE, and WiMAX. Chapter 8 discusses networking in more detail.
➤ Messaging — Supports both SMS and MMS. Chapter 8 discusses messaging in more detail.
➤ Web browser — Based on the open source WebKit, together with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript
engine
➤ Media support — Includes support for the following media: H.263, H.264 (in 3GP or MP4
container), MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB (in 3GP container), AAC, HE-AAC (in MP4 or
3GP container), MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP
➤ Hardware support — Accelerometer Sensor, Camera, Digital Compass, Proximity Sensor,
and GPS
➤ Multi-touch — Supports multi-touch screens
➤ Multi-tasking — Supports multi-tasking applications
➤ Flash support — Android 2.3 supports Flash 10.1.
➤ Tethering — Supports sharing of Internet connections as a wired/wireless hotspot

Samsung testing Android 4.4.3 on Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S4, outlines 4.4.2 update timeline for other devices

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 28 May 2014 20:33:00 -0700

It looks like Samsung is already testing Android 4.4.3 on its current flagship, the Galaxy S5, and last year's Galaxy S4. Documents obtained by SamMobile reveal that the South Korean manufacturer is testing the as-yet unannounced Android update (which has a build number KTU70) on both the Snapdragon as well as the Exynos-powered variants of the Galaxy S5 in addition to the LTE-A variant of the Galaxy S4(GT-I9506A).

Along with the Android 4.4.3 update, the document reveals the timeline for when Android 4.4.2 KitKat will be available on other devices. The update is listed as being in the final stages of testing and is scheduled to roll out to the Galaxy Grand 2 and Galaxy Mega in the month of June. Android 4.4.2 has begun rolling out for the Galaxy S3 LTE (GT-I9305) earlier this month, while the document suggests that the Galaxy Note 3 Neo will receive the update later this month.

Android Versions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 May 2014 20:37:00 -0700

Android has gone through quite a number of updates since its fi rst release. Table 1-1 shows the
various versions of Android and their code names.

TABLE 1-1: A Brief History of Android Versions
ANDROID VERSION RELEASE DATE CODE NAME

1.1 9 February 2009
1.5 30 April 2009 Cupcake
1.6 15 September 2009 Donut
2.0/2.1 26 October 2009 Eclair
2.2 20 May 2010 Froyo
2.3 6 December 2010 Gingerbread
3.0/3.1/3.2 22 February 2011 Honeycomb
4.0 19 October 2011 Ice Cream Sandwich
4.02 9 July 2012 Jelly Bean
4.4 31 October 2013 KitKat

In February 2011, Google released Android 3.0, a tablet-only release supporting widescreen devices.
The key changes in Android 3.0 are as follows.
➤ New user interface optimized for tablets
➤ 3D desktop with new widgets
➤ Refined multi-tasking
➤ New web browser features, such as tabbed browsing, form auto-fi ll, bookmark, synchronization, and private browsing
➤ Support for multi-core processors
Applications written for versions of Android prior to 3.0 are compatible with Android 3.0 devices,
and they run without modifications. Android 3.0 tablet applications that make use of the newer
features available in 3.0, however, will not be able to run on older devices. To ensure that an Android
tablet application can run on all versions of devices, you must programmatically ensure that you only
make use of features that are supported in specific versions of Android.
In October 2011, Google released Android 4.0, a version that brought all the features introduced in
Android 3.0 to smartphones, along with some new features such as facial recognition unlock, data
usage monitoring and control, Near Field Communication (NFC), and more.

A Short History Of Android O/S

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2014 21:19:00 -0700

Download YouWave for Android Application Development

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2014 21:05:00 -0700

What is Android?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2014 01:55:00 -0700

Android is a mobile operating system that is based on a modified version of Linux. It was originally
developed by a start up of the same name, Android, Inc. In 2005, as part of its strategy to enter
the mobile space, Google purchased Android and took over its development work (as well as its
development team).
Google wanted Android to be open and free; hence, most of the Android code was released under
the open source Apache License, which means that anyone who wants to use Android can do so by
downloading the full Android source code. Moreover, vendors (typically hardware manufacturers)
can add their own proprietary extensions to Android and customize Android to differentiate their
products from others. This simple development model makes Android very attractive and has thus
piqued the interest of many vendors. This has been especially true for companies affected by the
phenomenon of Apple’s iPhone, a hugely successful product that revolutionized the smartphone
industry. Such companies include Motorola and Sony Ericsson, which for many years have been
developing their own mobile operating systems. When the iPhone was launched, many of these
manufacturers had to scramble to find new ways of revitalizing their products. These manufacturers
see Android as a solution — they will continue to design their own hardware and use Android as the
operating system that powers it.
The main advantage of adopting Android is that it offers a unified approach to application
development. Developers need only develop for Android, and their applications should be able
to run on numerous different devices, as long as the devices are powered using Android. In the
world of smartphones, applications are the most important part of the success chain. Device
manufacturers therefore see Android as their best hope to challenge the onslaught of the iPhone,
which already commands a large base of applications.