Android Useful Apps

furpile said:
Adaway from F-secure? See it was removed from the play store, just want to make sure I get the right one.
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I think that's it, the first Google hit is normally the correct one. Naturally Google turfed it out of the play store seeing it ruins googles ad revenues
 
faniedry said:
I never get popups... then again... I don't use my phone browser for pr0nz :p
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If you (as in he) do, switch off Javascript at least. In Firefox I have a Javascript on/off button that do it instantly. And Unknown sources in Security Settings off too.
 
Are there any decent apps out there for Android Battery Management? since loading CM12 i find i have to charge my phone twice a day, by lunch its almost dead. It may be my battery but i want to make sure its not the OS?
 
Stillie said:
Are there any decent apps out there for Android Battery Management? since loading CM12 i find i have to charge my phone twice a day, by lunch its almost dead. It may be my battery but i want to make sure its not the OS?
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I never had much luck from battery apps. Had more luck by trying different ROM / Kernel configurations. Greenify is nice for hibernating apps you don't need running in the background, but again it's quite a negligible difference as the O/S is pretty good at managing resources.
 
Stillie said:
Are there any decent apps out there for Android Battery Management? since loading CM12 i find i have to charge my phone twice a day, by lunch its almost dead. It may be my battery but i want to make sure its not the OS?
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- Better Battery Stats
- Wakelock Detector
- Cpu Spy
- Greenify
 
Try ublock in chrome or Firefox, just switches from adblockplus and it seems to use far fewer resources. FF starts much faster and is more responsive.
 
I have amplify free and Greenify paid (R30 I think), definitely gives a noticeably longer battery life. Basic battery life 101, reduces the cpu/resources hit by stopping apps running continuously in the background, waking up every 10min to download updated data/sync etc. Some apps you want that to happen, most not. Also stop apps auto starting at boot if it's not necessary, get titanium to freeze bloatware(amongst titaniums many amazing talents).
 
How long do paid app licenses last for in terms of updates, lifetime or per generation, say you buy version one and then by version 2 or 3 the dev wants to charge you again?

What's the longest anyone has had an app they purchased that's been continually updated with out needing to buy the next generation?

And on apps like Titanium or Nova launcher, very well maintained, if you bought the app way back when would you still be getting the current updates free?

I can understand why devs may need to charge for new generations to fund the development, do some devs offer cheap upgrades to owners of previous versions?
 
airborne said:
How long do paid app licenses last for in terms of updates, lifetime or per generation, say you buy version one and then by version 2 or 3 the dev wants to charge you again?

What's the longest anyone has had an app they purchased that's been continually updated with out needing to buy the next generation?

And on apps like Titanium or Nova launcher, very well maintained, if you bought the app way back when would you still be getting the current updates free?

I can understand why devs may need to charge for new generations to fund the development, do some devs offer cheap upgrades to owners of previous versions?
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Google has no rules attached to that, but unless its a subscription, the developer cannot re-charge you for the same app, they would abandon the original app and launch a new one on the market in order to make money off it.
 
CranialBlaze said:
Google has no rules attached to that, but unless its a subscription, the developer cannot re-charge you for the same app, they would abandon the original app and launch a new one on the market in order to make money off it.
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That's what I mean, some devs start a new Play store app page for essentially what is just the next iteration/generation of the same app but now it costs again for those that previously paid for it.

But back to my original questions, what are people's experiences with app purchases and their update longevity?
 
airborne said:
That's what I mean, some devs start a new Play store app page for essentially what is just the next iteration/generation of the same app but now it costs again for those that previously paid for it.

But back to my original questions, what are people's experiences with app purchases and their update longevity?
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That still depends on developers, not too many I have seen do that, and that's when they make massive substantial changes which does qualify it as a whole new app, going to the point of a complete rewrite and beyond, but then they still maintain the previous one with bug fixes.

As for the 2 you mentioned, I bought them like 10 phones ago with my nexus s.

On the flip side, you get developers that actually convert a paid app to a free one without including adverts, bugs or any other annoyances and continue to maintain it. SwiftKey and Fuelio are 2 such that I know of, I'd used swift for 2 maybe 3 years before they went free, Fuelio 18 months or less,that Dev was actually hired by a company to develop and part of his contract was to maintain his app, but make it free. So he still getting paid for it, just not by the general public.

I actually cannot think of an app that I had to rebuy, have obviously paid for better alternatives, either because the developer actually just abandoned it or another developer made something better enough. My previous fuel tracker was such a situation, I eventually realised the app I was using had not been updated in over a year.

You may actually find that a more likely scenario with Apple, with all the costs a developer incurs and the requirements apple has regarding support, and not to mention the company getting bored and writing new languages, while still expecting you to support order devices which use an older language.

Android your Dev cost is $25 every 37 years, Apple is $99 every year. Google has no requirement on OS support while apple requires you maintain a 3 generation OS support. That is one of the reason you often find seperate mobile and tablet versions on apple, while less often for Android.

Then again with Apple, devs make more money on free apps with advertising than on Android as on Android we can block such things.
 
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Installed "App of the Day" for the first time today...subsequently installed today's free app - "Runtastic Six Pack" and used promotional code "appoftheday" to upgrade to premium version free of charge!
 
Anyone know an easy way that I can send a single app with data from titanium on one device to titanium on another, basically from my phone to tablet?
 
airborne said:
Anyone know an easy way that I can send a single app with data from titanium on one device to titanium on another, basically from my phone to tablet?
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Not from Ti, but just send the three backup files associated with the app via BT to the second device and restore it with Ti?
 
It's not the transfer of the files that's the issue its finding the correct ones in the titanium folder, what would I be looking for, the naming structure seems a little opaque?
 
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