5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week

Welcome to the 443rd version of Android Apps Weekly. Listed below are the massive headlines from the final week:

• Gmail has a brand new look. The brand new model rolled out this week on the net and consists of Chat, Meet, and Areas integration. That places all your work communications on a single internet web page. You possibly can customise the look in Settings so as to add or take away stuff that you simply do or don’t use. Hit the hyperlink to be taught extra particulars.
• Google Maps additionally noticed an replace this week. It added a number of new options, together with a brand new 3D aerial viewpoint and over 100 main world landmarks. The landmarks embody issues just like the Emire State Constructing and Large Ben in London. Another new stuff consists of improved route data for cyclists and location-sharing notifications.
• Chromebooks are getting some new options simply in time for the college season. Most of it’s OS-level stuff like a darkish theme and different customization choices. Nevertheless, one fascinating new characteristic is the Google Photographs film editor. It’ll primarily allow you to create video clips along with your Google Photographs photographs and movies. It doesn’t look too complicated from the screenshots, nevertheless it ought to work okay for primary stuff.
• Diablo Immortal apparently earned $100 million in its first two months of operation. That’s not a very stunning quantity, contemplating how massive the Diablo franchise is. That mentioned, the sport’s microtransactions have drawn a ton of ire from the participant base, and this type of reinforces how heavy the microtransactions truly are. Hit the hyperlink to be taught extra.
• Google Play celebrated its first decade of life with a brand new promotion and a brand new brand. The brand new brand matches different Google merchandise when it comes to shade, however in any other case, it’s not the most important deal. The promotion is principally an growth of the Google Play Factors program the place you get extra factors for purchasing stuff and having the ability to purchase stuff from the Google Retailer, as in {hardware} merchandise, along with your factors. Learn the hyperlink to be taught extra.

Alice Fiction

Value: Free to play

Alice Fiction is a hybrid RPG with some match-three mechanics. The sport units you down in a world with a good story and marketing campaign. Throughout fight, you match three shapes to deal harm to the dangerous man. It’s much like video games like Crash Fever. In any case, there are additionally gacha components the place you may get extra characters. Nevertheless, every character will be regularly upgraded to the very best rarity, so nearly any pull will be good. The music is enjoyable, and all the things right here appears to work as marketed. There are some stability points that may trigger crashes right here and there, nevertheless it’s nothing critical.

RandomWalking

Value: Free

RandomWalking is one thing a bit bit totally different. It’s a strolling app that lightly directs you in direction of issues that could be fascinating to see. It doesn’t work like a GPS app or like an train tracker. As a substitute, you open it whenever you’re someplace distinguished, and the app merely offers you concepts of which approach to go to see fascinating issues. You acquire factors whenever you attain points of interest, and there are various ranges in case you need to take it straightforward or problem your self. It’s free as of the time of this writing, however there’s some promoting.

MLB Excellent Inning: Final

Value: Free to play

MLB Excellent Inning: Final is the newest MLB Excellent Inning launch from Com2uS. The objective is to exceed earlier iterations as a lot as potential. It solely succeeds in some locations, nevertheless it’s nonetheless fairly early on. The sport includes a new graphics engine, on-line PvP, extra interactive pitching and battling controls, and extra. It ought to finally form as much as be a good baseball recreation. Nevertheless, there appears to be a comparatively massive variety of bugs, poor optimization on lower-end telephones, and the UI is fairly clunky. Fortunately, these are issues the builders can repair over time.

Aquafy Water Tracker Reminder

Value: Free / $0.99 monthly / $7.49 per 12 months / $35.99 as soon as

Aquafy Water Tracker Reminder is a straightforward app, and it does what its identify suggests. It enables you to observe your water utilization and remind you to drink water. It additionally enables you to log anything you drink if you wish to. Among the options embody a reminder scheduler, widgets, stats in your liquid consumption, and extra. It additionally helps Google Match and Fitbit at launch with Samsung Well being and Awake coming quickly.

It has a subscription, nevertheless it’s truly not terribly unreasonable at $0.99 monthly or $7.49 per 12 months. You can too pay $35.99 as soon as and by no means have to fret about it once more.

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent

Value: Free to play

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent is the newest launch from Sq. Enix. It makes use of a lot of the similar graphics, recreation world, battle mechanics, and soundtrack as the sport it’s based mostly on. That’s excellent news as a result of it was beautiful, the battle mechanics have been good, and the soundtrack is totally phenomenal. The truth is, it feels very very like the unique recreation whenever you play it. It’s an RPG the place you roam the world, struggle villains, and be taught extra concerning the tales of the protagonists.

Sq. Enix boasts 64 characters at launch, so there’s a gacha component as properly. In contrast to most cell variations of console or PC video games, this one truly does happen within the Octopath Traveler world a number of years earlier than the occasions of the unique recreation. It looks as if a house run within the gacha RPG style for Sq. Enix, however we might’ve appreciated to have seen controller assist, sooner pacing, and the tutorial is manner longer than it must be.

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