What’s new in Whatsapp for Android? New Beta Version with Holo UI

Hey, Chat-lovers!! I bring good news for you all. WhatsApp for Android comes with a new interface that works amazing on Android’s Holo UI guidelines. Previously, this enjoyable Android application is only used for instant messaging, but with the release of beta build of its Android version, it totally changes the interface conforming to the Holo design language. This Android application is launched with Android 3.0. With the flow of this news, users become happy as they are getting bored with user interface of the existing app. Although, update was little late, we are hoping for excellent improvements. Android Application Developers are also waited for releasing this latest version of Android Package Kit to update it on their website.

At present, the release doesn’t appear on Google Play, but WhatsApp lovers can able to download .apk file from WhatsApp’s website. Moving towards the cost of WhatsApp, it costs $0.99/ per year. Once you have paid for this app, you don’t charge again for updated version. It is obvious that paid and refreshed version comes with advanced features, this policy also applied on this new version. It includes excellent looking fonts, better button for playing audio and video clips, bigger chat window than previous one, new button for images, subtle color scheme inline, last but not least the Holo design guidelines.

Even, now users will be happy to have numerous background wallpapers that can be changed directly from the chat windows without going to the ‘Setting’ option. One more change is done with the emoticons drawer; it has been shifted next to the reply option instead of the right corner of chat window. WhatsApp is one of the well-known among the Smartphone users. Even, this app offers various versions for BlackBerry, Windows Phone, iOS, Symbian and Nokia S40 mobile platforms. As compare to other similar apps like GroupMe, WeChat and Kakao Talk, WhatsApp have to change certain functionality to grab attention of more users, so WhatsApp’s Developers exactly do the same and releases this app with more enhanced functions with a Holo user interface.

There is no doubt about numerous chatting applications are available in the market, although some people are fond of customizing their application. So, if you are one from those people and want to go for Custom Android Application Development, simply hire Android Developer from reliable company and enjoy application of your choice.

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Android Jelly Bean Finds its Place in BlackBerry 10

After Samsung and other devices, Blackberry 10 and Playbook operating systems are ready to adopt Android runtime technology, 4.1 Jelly Bean in its device. The company spread this latest news among its users at recent BlackBerry Jam Europe. CrackBerry firstly report this development and makes its users happy. At present, BlackBerry 10 users only have an option of Gingerbread compatible apps, but all thanks to the runtime layer that allows to access Android applications on BlackBerry 10 devices. With this news, Android Development Company India becomes on seventh heaven as they have more users to access Android applications. It is also true that BlackBerry doesn’t yet confirm the release of Jelly Bean update.

With the announcement of Android Jelly Bean in blackberry 10, expects are hoping for improved ways for Android professionals. Even, developers are also hoping that all its features may support while Android Application Development. Concerning to this matter, BlackBerry team comments, we are planning to bring up a newer version of Android Runtime on BlackBerry 10 Platform. We are still working through the details and the full scope, but the target is to upgrade Android Runtime from Ginger Bread 2.3.3 to Jelly Bean 4.1. The Goal is to support all current features and APIs available on the Android Runtime platform today.”

For not being a technical people, even we also have an idea that Android application plays an important role to get the success mobile OS platform as it offers various plans for Android developers that are opting to port their apps to its new BB10 OS. Moreover, for developers, it is running port-a-thons to present their apps and also enjoyed credit of more than 15,000 applications had been ported to the BB 10 platform. With this release BlackBerry 10 enjoy huge vantages as it permits to Android developers to develop excellent Android App Development that can be ported to BlackBerry 10.

Furthermore, developers get some tools from Blackberry for free and paid as well that works with processes and help Android gesture, device sensor, buttons, etc. with BlackBerry 10 equivalent. BlackBerry has huge hope with this move and it allows BlackBerry OSs to support latest versions of Android applications. Till now, many applications have been introduced regarding design and functionality. At last, let’s congrats Blackberry 10 for its new moving step and welcome its new campaign which is on the way!!

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Android Development Experts Introduces FaceQuiz Game For All Quiz-lovers

Who Don’t like Quizzes, especially when it is related to Celebrities? So, here Android Development Experts comes up with interesting FaceQuiz, which is packed with fun. In this interesting game, player has to recognize names of various celebrities.

While playing such game, you will see pictures of a politician, an actor, a singer/dancer a business tycoon, or any famous personality and you have to recognize who he/she is. To make this game more interesting, we are providing you some hints. Even though, you are unable to answer, you can take help from your Facebook friends by posting picture on your Facebook account wall and let your friend will give answer through comments.

In our FaceQuiz game, we have inserted more than 400 well-known faces. Such faces can be seen in television, magazine or big screen. I don’t think so that this game is difficult for quiz lovers. Talking about the levels of games, it consists of seven levels, start from simple to medium and reaches to hard phrase. On completion of every stage, you will get more difficult identifies.

If want to score highest then you don’t have to skip any face. We want you to win this game, so we have provided some assistance as well. Hope, our FaceQuiz game stands at your expectations and provides you more enjoyment of playing quiz games. 

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Top Five Most Acceptable Video Player Apps By Android Smartphone Users

There are people, who like to spend their time by watching videos and movies on their smart-phones, but they are fail to enjoy much because of lack of good native video players. Although, there is vast number of apps available at App stores, it doesn’t support all formats. So, take help from high-end third party apps is one of the better options. Here, we have listed top five video player applications that mostly accepted by the Android users. Even, users, who want to enhance functionality or features of video players, can do by hiring Android App Development Company. Hope, you will love to access customized video player applications.

mVideoPlayer

mVideo Player is one of the most versatile video player for Android tablets, available for free of cost. Apart from its fantastic design, this application is more customizable with some of the latest features like bookmarking, poster, movie background info downloads, playlists, etc. With this light-weight app, users can easily browse their video files in the list view, thumbnails, etc. It is free access to IMBD and IMDB scraper transfers gives instant information regarding like actor names, etc. of the movie you are watching.

Features:

• Video library with movie posters & inbuilt poster search
• Three listing options: With posters, thumbnails or clean & simple.
• Responsive, intuitive controls
• Subtitle Support: srt, ssa, ass, sub/idx, mpl, smi, txt, sub, sami
• On-screen information like time and battery
• Internal MKV Subtitle (srt, ssa, ass) for device that supports playback of MKV and many more.

DicePlayer

DicePlayer is also considered as the best video player for those users, who like to see high resolution video on their smart phones. It includes fabulous features like hardware accelerated video playback together with network streaming that allows managing media trouble-free. Great support for playing videos from networks like Windows Share protocols, HTTP Live Streaming, HTTP, RTP/RTSP and FTP are offered by DicePlayer.

Users having brilliant WiFi set up can easily stream high quality files with this player directly from their phone. An assortment of video formats like 3GP, WMV, MP4, M4V, TS, 3G2, MOV, MKV, FLV, ASF, AVI, MTP and M2TS are supported by DicePlayer. Right now, users can find two versions of DicePlayer, i.e. Ad-Supported, which is free version and Ad-Free, which is paid version. The only problem with its free version is banner that display at the top of screen while users move the program interface. But, it disappears while you maximize the screen.

MoboPlayer

MoboPlayer is well-known for showing high-quality content. This easy-to-use video player supports numerous video formats like MOV, MPV, AVI, DivX, MKV, MKV, etc. A gesture based functions are offered with this players that change the playback position, brightness and volume without the player controls. HTTP or RTSP protocols are used for streaming videos. The finest feature of this player is its downloading ability.

Available for free, you can download MoboPlayer with Device based of Android 1.6 and above. It allows you to start file from you left off. You can enjoy high quality video as it allows playing 1080p full video perfectly. Another greatest feature is its Floating Window option that allows text and web browsing alongside video playing. Even, you can move Floating window, wherever you want in any size.

MX Video Player

MX Player is the most-popular video players that support multi-core decoding. It is tested that this dual-core device’s performance delivers 70% better performance than single-core devices. This video player app is available for free. With over 10,000,000 downloads, MX Player deliver the great performance of HD movies without any lag. In this player, you are free to choose a theme according to your choice and mood. Almost all types of file formats are supported by this player such as 3gp, f4v, FLV, AVI, DIVX, MKV and many more. Users require Android 2.1 and above for downloading it.

Features:

• Kids Lock available (plugin required)
• Supports multi-core decoding
• New H/W decoder allows applying Hardware acceleration to more videos
• Supports Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1
• Zooming function by pinching and swiping across the screen
• Moveable Subtitles
• Supports screen gestures to control the contrast and brightness

VLC for Android Beta

Available for free, VLC media player is an open source cross-platform multimedia player that allows to play most of the multimedia files, devices, discs and network streaming protocols. This media player has ARMv7 with Neon chipset inside it that works excellent for smart-phones. In-built with beta version, it runs smooth on HD quality files and plays variety of video and audio files. This VLC media player supports Android from version 2.1 (platform-7). Let’s take a look to the features of VLC for Android Beta:

• Supports aspect-ratio adjustments, gestures, auto-rotation to control volume and brightness
• Multi-core decoding, for Cortex-A7 A9 and A15 chips
• Supports ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv7+NEON
• Subtitles support, embedded and external, including ASS and DVD subtitles
• Allows browsing folders directly
• Supports almost all audio files, local video and network streams, just like the desktop version of VLC

At present days, the technologies advances at the high level, so many android developers are taking vantage of it. As a user, if you also interested to extend features of your apps then hire Android apps Developers from the reputed and experienced Android Development Company India.

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Most Helpful 5 Web Development Apps for Developers

The Android platform is one the top-notch choices of developers as it is great combination of open-source project and of course, Google. At present, Android is the great competitor of the Apple App Store and covers almost 80% of mobile market. Available with modified version of Linux Kernel, Android possesses number of applications of different genre included handful features in it. So, let’s discuss some of the most useful web development application for Android Application Developers and graphics designers that makes their Android App development process easy and trouble-free.

AndFTP

AndFTP is a JAVA application that allows accessing many FTP servers. This application is one of the best FTP/SFTP/FTPS clients for Android devices, available with both a FTP file browser and a device file browser. Available for free, it allows you to upload and download files with resume capability. Additionally, Android Application Developers can able to use device menu for copying, deleting and creating folders. This JAVA based application also enables accessing through mobile phone and web servers. In advanced version of AndFTP, specific FTP options, Android 4.2 and Grid layout are added.

Features of AndFTP

• Device (local) and remote (FTP) file browsers
• Upload and download with resume support.
• SSH RSA and DSA private key authentication support.
• Open file (HTML, MP3, Text, Video, ...) on device and remotely
• List files and folders sorted by name, size and date
• Wake lock option while transferring to prevent device sleeping
• Authentication prompt added to avoid storing FTP login/password on device.
• Multiple languages support
• Settings file export and import (FileZilla support)
• Send file support (as email attachment, bluetooth ...) for device browser.
• Multiple FTP settings support.
• Optional "Tip of day" and many more…

Magic Color Picker

Magic Color Picker is one of the popular color selection tools that allow artists, designers and programmers to browse different colors through color-wheel. With this application, professionals can easily get the value of colors in various formats like HSV, YUV, RGB, hexadecimal and HSL. It is totally free and provides an option of displaying web palette with two options, i.e. sliders and palette.

WordPress for Android

WordPress for Android an Open Source app, through which users can publish new posts, manage comments and edit content on their WordPress blog. Available under the GNU General Public License, users can easily download it for free of cost. This WordPress for Android apps developed for performing many tasks like publishing photos or videos through mobile camera, data analysis, moderating comments, etc.

Features of WordPress for Android

• Added support for setting the width of linked images
• New app icon
• Translation updates
• Autosave timer while editing posts. Every 60 seconds the post will be autosaved.
• Full support for editing comments
• Reliability improvements
• UI improvements
• All new WordPress.com reader. Navigating posts is much faster and you can add comments to posts that you are reading. You can also share the post to other Android apps!

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser for Android is one of the popular mobile browsers that come with never-ending security features. It makes user to stay safe while browsing. With this Mozilla Firefox Web Browser, one can easily synchronize Firefox bookmarks, passwords, history, and tabs between their mobile and desktop. Even, users have an option to install their favorite add-ons to personalize Firefox according to their needs.

Features of Mozilla Firefox Web Browser:

• Numerous add-ons like ad-blocker, password manager, etc. with customize web browser
• Well-organized Screen with easy-to-read page
• Supports a wide range of video formats including h.264
• Sync your Firefox Desktop tabs, history, bookmarks, and passwords to all your devices and streamline your browsing
• Support HTML5 and Web APIs
• Easily search through Bookmarks, History and Top Sites options
• Excellent Reader Mode
• Safe browsing and control your privacy, security and how much data you share on the web.
• Faster browsing speed with less loading

SilverEdit

SilverEdit is a simple source code editor app that allows you to code up full HTML, CSS, and PHP files. Combining this application with AndFTP, you can easily create websites with your Android device. Even, users can save their created website into phone and send it into their mail account. SilverEdit also allows you to manage, download and upload files through the FTP.

This application supports all types of files format such as html, css, .php, php3, php4, php5, tpl, php-dist, rss, rdf, js, json, jsp, jst and many more. In its latest version, users can find experimental alternative way of opening files and multiple file encoding support option (with full version).

Above given are only five web development applications, the list is not limited to it. Developers can loads of more application in Google Store. If any user wants to modify such application, he/she can Hire Android Developer from the reliable Custom Android Development Company.

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28,000 Android Apps Available in New BlackBerry 10

The news is buzzing in the market about the latest launch of 70,000 to 100,000 apps in the BlackBerry 10 OS. Must say, it is one of the impressive things ever heard in the mobile industries. Keep reading this blog, as some more interesting news is written below. According to BlackBerry CMO Frank Boulben, there are 40% of the apps will be of Android and approximate 28,000 Android apps running on the latest device, BlackBerry 10. Your face must be smiling and also you are thinking that how it is possible that so many Android apps run on the totally different gesture-based interface?

Here, you will find solution for it. It is not possible to simply load an Android APK into a BlackBerry phone. For that, Android Application Developers have to use the BlackBerry 10 SDK to “enfold” the android coding into a BlackBerry-friendly format. Android idioms are also converted into the BB 10 SDK in order to fit into the BlackBerry’s universe. Now, the question is how to interpret the Android “menu” button and the android “back” button into an up-swipe gesture and a back-swipe gesture respectively.

Although this is a problematic situation, BlackBerry doesn’t want to create smooth running application that looks bizarre with mislaid UI elements by stuffing their new OS with “wrapped” Android apps. Blackberry also offers solution for developers to target on native apps. Additionally, the company also gives priority on the top 100-200 apps that mostly used by the folks. Blackberry also spreading their team to find out what exactly customer want and working accordingly.

For entertainment purpose, Blackberry has also added some of the well-known games like Angry Birds, Jetpack Joyride, etc. and The New York Times and The Economist for giving latest buzz to the users of BlackBerry 10. BlackBerry 10 OS also has some cons like you didn’t find video streaming apps like Netflix and HBO or photophiles, Instagram. But, we hope Blackberry may add such apps for their users.

We are hoping that we may enjoy some more interesting application in future as there is 2 months of time to hit BlackBerry 10 in the retail shelves. BlackBerry gives assurance of “many more apps will appear in BlackBerry World by then”. With this interesting news, Android Application Developers get the great chance to show their talents in BlackBerry 10 OS and delivers the best Custom Android Application Development.

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