Welcome to the 496th version of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the massive headlines from the final week:
- Google is disabling all hyperlinks in YouTube Shorts. The purpose is to eliminate hyperlink spam. YouTube is including a brand new methodology so as to add hyperlinks in September of 2023, so this is extra of a short lived factor reasonably than a everlasting ban on hyperlinks. You’ll see have the ability to see hyperlinks in feedback, movies, and descriptions, however you received’t have the ability to click on on them.
- Gboard could let you use generative AI for proofreading and emojis quickly. The newest beta features a few generative AI options. The most prevalent of which is proofreading. Essentially, Google will retailer the textual content you write on Google servers for 60 days so as to present proofreading recommendations. That’s somewhat a lot, but when that’s one thing you need, it might come to the common model of Gboard quickly.
- Android 14 is including some new safety features that introduce two new modifications. The first is stopping the telephone from dropping to a 2G connection. The different is defending voice and SMS visitors if the provider doesn’t encrypt them routinely. It advantages finish customers as a result of 2G networks particularly are pretty widespread for stealing info, and most carriers have deserted 2G anyway. You can learn extra on the hyperlink.
- Google Messages now encrypts all RCS chats routinely and by default. That contains group RCS chats. This is sweet information as a result of one of many advantages of utilizing RCS is its capacity to be end-to-end encrypted, and now everybody will get it without having to dig into the settings. Overall, although, it’s a minor change that many individuals could not discover.
- WhatsApp is rolling out its screen-sharing function to extra customers this week. The rollout is affecting Android, iOS, and Windows customers who’ve the most recent secure launch of WhatsApp. This is a part of WhatsApp’s push to be extra helpful for work environments, just like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Hit the hyperlink to be taught extra.
Dawnlands
Price: Free to play
Dawnlands is an open-world survival and crafting sport. It performs equally to different video games within the style. You wander round an open world the place you acquire assets, craft gadgets, and survive in opposition to unhealthy guys. This one additionally comes with multiplayer with as much as 4 gamers in addition to a wide range of different issues to do within the sport world. It focuses loads much less on pure survival than another survival video games however makes up for it in different methods. It’s harking back to Genshin Impact and different, related video games in the case of mechanics as nicely. The sport had a little bit of a tough launch, however with some optimizations, this one could possibly be fairly good sooner or later.
Winlater is an open-source app that lets you play PC apps and video games in your Android telephone. It’s solely obtainable on GitHub for proper now, and it does require a few further steps out of your typical APK set up, so we suggest you learn the set up information on the GitHub web page if you determine to strive it out. It’s a really spectacular proof-of-concept app, but it surely does have its pitfalls. For instance, you can play PC video games, however they often run at pretty low FPS, and utilizing mouse controls is a little bit of a wrestle. Still, we like the place this goes, and we hope it will get higher over time.
Newbie Life
Price: Free to play
Newbie Life is a brand new idle RPG from Com2uS, builders of Summoners War, and several other different common titles. The sport is fairly simple to play. You assemble a staff of summoned characters and ship them out into battle. Combat takes place roughly routinely. You primarily equip your staff, stage them up, ship them out, and watch them go. That’s the gameplay loop. The sport additionally options a number of completely different sport modes, a rating system, and a lightweight story for gamers to observe. It’s nicely achieved so far as idle RPGs go however the sport suffered from connection points at launch, therefore its decrease Google Play ranking.
Touch the Notch
Price: Free / $0.99
Touch the Notch is a brand new app that lets you map shortcuts to your telephone’s notch or pinhole digicam. You would merely faucet the digicam and the prescribed command will get issued. You can have it do any variety of issues, together with opening the digicam, taking a screenshot, turning on the flashlight, and much more. You can even entry these shortcuts in a number of other ways so you can do a couple of shortcut if you need to. It has a number of bugs, as most new apps do, but it surely’s a neat thought. It’s like a simplified model of the Dynamic Island function that numerous builders dropped at Android in app type final 12 months.
Omniheroes
Price: Free to play
Omniheroes is a reasonably typical cell RPG with gacha parts. You already know the place this goes. The sport lets you summon a wide range of heroes. You improve them after which use them to progress by the sport’s story. Combat is automated, which brings an idle part to the sport as nicely. Unlike many video games in this style, the themes are extra adult-oriented so put together your self for that mentally when you obtain the sport. You can see what we imply within the character designs. Overall, it’s not unhealthy by way of mechanics. The relaxation is determined by your preferences.
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