Android Useful Apps

airborne said:
What makes it worthwhile to have a dedicated app for car use?

I'm getting a little weary of having a zillion apps installed, trying to pare it down to the very least.
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Well. It essentially turns your screen into a driving friendly (huge buttons).

It then has access to your music phonebook maps etc. It's essentially not replacing anything, but a big button skin that's easy navigatable in the car
 
If your car media player supports it, it allows you to access apps, like Maps, on the car screen.
Works on my Vee Dub.
 
Google announces PhotoScan app to digitize your old photos and improved editing tools in Google Photos

Google is big into machine learning, and one of the product areas that's benefiting from that is photography. You may recall Google said it would use math to fix lens flare on the Pixel, and now it's rolling out a photo scanning app that seems to do something similar. The new PhotoScan app will let you turn your old printed photos into digital ones with the power of computational photography. Plus, the editing tools in Photos are getting better. It's weird that PhotoScan isn't just part of Photos, but Google loves multiple apps.

PhotoScan uses your device's camera to scan physical photos, but it's not just snapping a single photo and processing it. PhotoScan has you move the phone around so it can see the photo from multiple angles. It's able to pick out "feature points" as anchors as it assembles the frames into a full photo. This also lets it mathematically remove the glare from reflected light on the photo. There's a video that explains the whole process in more detail below.
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[video=youtube_share;HKMolFC0nUg]https://youtu.be/HKMolFC0nUg[/video]

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faniedry said:
I would love to see that in action, take a vid or pic and upload please
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Ok. Will do so tonight.
Thus far it only supports Google Maps, Play Music, Podcast.
It reads sms and whatsapp messages and allows you to reply.
 
faniedry said:
a folder?
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Yes, I have my local music arranged in folders, so its easy to just select a folder and play all.
I normally use power amp, but Android Auto only supports the Play Music app.
 
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