A. Rehman Maqbool

Mobile Content Writer
Technology enthusiast. I love exploring, reviewing and sharing anything related to Google's mobile OS, Android. Follow me on Google+

utter! For Android Now Boasts Completely Offline Voice Recognition

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utter! is one of the few fully voice-controlled virtual assistants for Android that is universally accessible from anywhere within the entire OS. This functionality combined with the app’s ability to interpret a broad range of voice commands and perform various actions in response makes it a serious competitor in this arena. If you're using Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher, you will definitely want to check out the latest utter! update. utter! v3.0 claims to have become the first app of its kind to bring complete offline voice recognition support to any device rocking Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or above. That’s right – utter! is now capable of understanding and carrying out your voice commands even if your device is not connected to the internet. Read More

Trigger Is A Fully Gesture-Controlled Multitasking Tool For Android

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Developed by XDA member Varience, Trigger is a completely gesture-controlled multitasking Android app that lets you control almost every aspect of your device using various user-defined gestures. Available for both rooted and non-rooted Android devices, Trigger can be used to multitask in a couple of ways; you can either define custom user-drawn gestures to launch apps, shortcuts, system features, personalized app drawers et al from anywhere in Android using an omnipresent trigger, or swipe in different directions from the trigger to launch relevant actions. More details after the jump. Read More

Movie App HD Is A Film Discovery & Info Aggregator App For Android

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The likes of the official IMDB app and previously-reviewed Movie Twist boast enough options to help you discover interesting movies on your mobile device with ease. However, the hodgepodge of all the various movie filters, tags, genres, and other extensively deep search tools can prove to be quite intimidating, especially if you’re looking for just a simple movie exploration tool. Thanks to Movie App HD, Android users now have a fully Holo-themed movie discovery tool that can help them find and keep track of only the information that matters to them the most. The app fetches the movie information from the trusted services of IMDB, and helps you find the best movie titles in a number of ways. Besides presenting you with all the relevant details regarding your favorite movies, the app offers 1080p backdrops and trailers for almost all the titles listed in its rich repository. Read More

Official Android & iOS Apps Of Cloud Storage Service Klink Released

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The number of cloud storage services out there has been increasing at a really fast pacee over the past few years. While the likes of Dropbox, Box and SugarSync have managed to enhance their reputation by frequently introducing innovative features, there have been numerous other candidates vying to compete in this ever-growing market. Relatively new to the scene, Klink is yet another neatly built cloud storage service that aims to impress with its online data backup, restore and cross-platform syncing capabilities. Currently available for Windows, iOS, Android and web, Klink offers each registered member 2GB of free cloud storage space. Using the service’s mobile apps, you can access your cloud files on any device you own. In addition, you can share files from your cloud both publicly and privately. Klink also offers a unified interface for your photos, videos and documents shared from various devices, and lets you search for content by file name, device type, date added, and folders. Read More

Get Ubuntu’s Vertical App Switcher On Android With Unity Launcher

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At the beginning of the year, Canonical announced its Ubuntu for phones project that will soon enable you to enjoy a full-fledged, standalone version of the popular Linux OS on your mobile devices. While it’s the lucky Galaxy Nexus owners who will be getting the first taste of the fully-functional OS, they are still waiting for a release by Canonical. However, what you can have for now is Ubuntu’s vertical app switcher/launcher on any device running Android 2.2 Froyo or higher, thanks to the brand new app called Unity Launcher. Resembling the looks and functionality of Ubuntu’s standard app switcher, Unity Launcher is a third-party customizable multitasking and app switching solution for Android that lets you switch back and forth between your favorite apps form anywhere in the OS by simply swiping in from the left edge of your device’s screen. Read More

Free Version Of Archos Video Player For Android Released To Play Store

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Sporting a visually-attractive UI loaded with a plethora of video playing and streaming capabilities, Archos Video Player for Android was released in the Play Store back in December as a $4.99 app (currently priced at $5.21). If the app’s relatively hefty price tag kept you from giving it a try, here’s some great news for you: the company has just launched an ad-supported free version of Archos Video Player that grants you access to all the features offered in the paid equivalent. Besides being a quality video player, the app impresses with its option to automatically fetch movie & TV show information from the internet for your local and network media files, complete with relevant posters and backdrops. In addition, it boasts several other nifty features including universal media file format support, folder & library-based content browsing, built-in subtitle downloader, SMB & UPnP support, complete tablet-optimization, on-the-fly video content bookmarking, info-rich hierarchical view of TV shows, automatic video playback resuming, and lots more. Read More

Google Search Android App Adds Google Now Widget, Movie Ratings & More

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If you've got a device running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher, you better not miss out on checking the latest update to the Google Search app, as it is a massive one! As always, there are a number of new Google Now smart cards added to the mix, but most importantly, the brings a dedicated Google Now widget for for your home screen and lock screen, for the first time since the inception of Google Now. That’s right – you can now have all the automatically updated location and travel-based information from Google Now displayed right on your Android device’s home as well as lock screen. In addition to the new widgets, the update adds movie passes from Fandango, movie ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, real estate listings from Zillow, better support for US college sports, and a dedicated music button on the app’s voice search UI indicating the active status of Google Search's song identification feature. Read More

Create A Customized Twitter Timeline On Android With Neatly

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Though not as widely renowned or feature-rich as the likes of Slices, Plume, Falcon Pro, TweetCaster or Tweetbot, Neatly is a neat cross-platform third-party Twitter client that brings quite a few nifty features to the table, including various intelligently-curated timeline views, enhanced content filtering, extended user profiles, and plenty more. Already available on iOS, Blackberry 10 and several Nokia devices, Neatly is now being offered as a beta app to Android users. The app focuses on multiple ways of presenting you with well-filtered content, so that you can keep an eye on only the most relevant stuff from your micro-blogging world. Read More

DashClock Is A Multi-Purpose Android Lock Screen Widget With Support For Add-ons

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Ever since their introduction in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, lock screen widgets have been lauded and loathed almost equally by Android users from all across the globe. While some cite the feature as an easy means for intruders to access your personal information, others relish the convenience with which they’re able to take a peek at crucial information without having to unlock their devices. If you’re one of the supporters of lockscreen widgets, we might have found an ideal replacement of the stock clock widget for you in DashClock. Developed by one of the leading design engineers of the Android team, Roman Nurik, DashClock is a neatly-designed and customizable Android clock widget capable of displaying a wealth of additional information right on your device’s home and lock screens. Let's find out all about this handy widget after the jump. Read More

WeatherMate: News, Travel, Weather & Traffic Info Bundled Into One Android App

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WeatherMate is a feature-rich Android weather app that vows to be an ideal travel companion for you. Not only does it keep you updated about 5-day weather forecast of your favorite worldwide locations, but it also offers real-time traffic information including incidents, accidents, lane blockages, road closures, and severity of traffic in concerned places. WeatherMate supports a built-in flight lookup tool that helps you search for and save flights, and keep a close tab on flight information such as baggage claims, gate & terminal details, concerned airports, flight arrival & departure times, plane speed & altitude, and lots more. The app also sports a native browser UI that helps you check out the latest news from a variety of categories including current affairs, sports, technology, politics and more. That’s not all – WeatherMate is also capable of fetching the latest tweets from a slew of popular sources including CNN, Yahoo! News, ABC News, New York Times and plenty more, to keep you informed about the latest happenings across the world. Read More

Broadcast & Discuss Videos On Facebook In Real-Time With LiveLens

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Thanks to the likes of Strimz and VtweetIT, Android users have quite a few live video broadcasting apps at their disposal to share their life’s memorable events on two of the biggest social networks of the present age: Facebook and Twitter. Talking of broadcasting videos on Facebook in real-time from your Android device, LiveLens is a free app that serves the purpose quite aptly. Unlike Strimz, LiveLens supports way more features and offers you better control over who gets to see your live videos on the network. In addition, LiveLens is capable of storing your video recordings on its cloud, meaning you and your friends can stream the content as many times as required. The app also has a built-in video library that lets you manage your personal LiveLens recordings and stream videos shared by your friends. Read More

Post To Facebook, Twitter & Google+ From Android Notification Shade Using notiShare

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Android apps that have their own widgets are often preferred by users over others that don't, due to the ability of using many features from the home screen or lock screen using the widgets. A prime example of this can be seen in the high popularity of social networking apps with widgets that they allow you to post instantly from your device’s home/lock screen. Though what if your preferred social network mobile app – whether official or third-party – doesn’t sport a widget at all? Lack of widgets or a quick sharing/posting method is mainly the reason why most users ditch an app regardless of how feature-rich it otherwise is. Fresh to the Play Store, notiShare is a free Android app that vows to offer a viable solution to this problem by adding a dedicated ‘new post’ widget/shortcut to your device’s notification dropdown. Using the app’s notification panel widget, you can instantly navigate to the new post sharing screen of your preferred official or third-party social networking apps. Read More

Silence For Android Gets Holo UI, Calendar Events, Power Toggles & More

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Silence – the handy event-based sound profile automation app for Android – has received a pretty impressive update in the Play Store today. Besides sporting a shiny new Holo UI, the app now allows you to play around with several other volume and power toggles, so that you can use it to completely automate your Android device’s behavior as per your requirements. Already capable of automatically switching back and forth between user-selected sound levels during and after certain events, Silence can now toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mobile data as well. The app’s integration with Google Calendar now allows you to import events from your personal calendar, so that you can easily define your device’s volume and power settings during your events. That’s not all – there is also support for recurring events till a particular date, and you can now set a specific volume level for each sound toggle instead of silencing it completely. Details to follow. Read More

Share Apps Between User Accounts On Android 4.2 Tablets With AppShare(+)

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Exclusively available to tablet owners, multiple user account support is one of the most significant features introduced in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. This feature enables you to create multiple user accounts on the same Android tablet, providing each user with a virtual sandboxed environment, complete with personalized layout preferences, apps, storage space, security mechanism, and overall system settings. Since no user is allowed access to other users’ apps, they are left with no choice but to install all the apps afresh from the Play Store separately. This, of course, means that Play Store has to be configured for each account with a Google ID in order to install the apps, even if you’re looking to install just a simple doodling app for your kid. What if you could remove this restriction and share your desired apps with select user accounts on your tablet without compromising your personal app data? Say hello to AppShare(+) – a simple solution for sharing apps with other user accounts on a rooted tablet running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or higher. Read More

Notifications Widget Displays All Alerts On Android Home & Lock Screen

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Developed by XDA member Roymam, Notifications Widget is a customizable widget for Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and higher devices that replicates the looks and functionality of dismissible notifications introduced in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and later iterations. Using the widget, you can view and interact with all the notifications that show up in your Android device’s notification shade. Be it a notification regarding a missed call or a new SMS/email, update alerts from Play Store, a Gtalk message, or any third-party app notification for that matter, Notifications Widget is capable of displaying them all on a compact home screen widget. If you have an Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or higher device, you can install Notification Widget to your device’s lockscreen to take a peek at all your latest notifications without having to unlock the device. In addition, the widget lets you directly launch relevant apps and dismiss all notifications at once with a mere tap. Read More

Social Events Discovery App Moment.me Comes To Android

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Based on event-oriented social media aggregation and discovery, Moment.me is an interactive web service that presents you with user-submitted content on events from all across the globe. Be it a sporting festival, a music concert, your private family party, a political gathering, or any moment worth sharing with others, Moment.me lets you view all the photos, videos and tweets relevant to each event in a visually appealing, unified layout. Besides discovering and tracking worldwide events, you can use Moment.me to share your own live events both publicly and privately with select contacts. As of now, Moment.me supports aggregating content shared on a large number of online services including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Flickr and email. That’s not all – you can contribute to any event by sharing relevant media. Moment.me also supports staunch integration with Aviary’s native photo editor to let you beautify and edit your images. While the official iOS app of Moment.me has been around for a while, the Android version has just been released to the Play Store. Read More

Plume For Android Updated With New Widgets & Facebook Support

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The last major update to the famous Plume Twitter app for Android brought with it the much-awaited Holo UI and support for posting comparatively longer tweets. Today, the folks over at LevelUp Studios have pushed another significant update to one of the most widely used unofficial Twitter clients for Android. Plume v5.0 has been beefed up with quite a few noticeable features such as much improved scrolling speed, profile banners, and a prompt to post the text part of your image-oriented tweets in case the image itself doesn't load. However, the biggest improvement in the entire update can be seen in the app’s refreshed widgets (for both home and lock screens) that are now more customizable than ever before, and fully capable of sporting content from your Facebook Wall as well. More than anyone else, the new customizations in Plume are undoubtedly going to suit those of us who have connected multiple Twitter accounts with the app. Read More

onDeck: Easy Multitasking With Android Apps, Notes, Toggles & More

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Compared to all other contemporary mobile operating systems, the number of multitasking and app switching solutions available for Android is quite staggering. You are likely to find a solution in the Play Store that meets all your app switching requirements, putting the stock offering to shame. Fresh on the Play Store, onDeck is yet another remarkably feature-rich app that packs the goodness of multiple similar solutions in a single package. By offering you multiple omnipresent on-screen triggers (referred to as ‘Decks’), the app lets you directly launch a variety of different apps and system features from anywhere in the OS without having to go to your home screen or app drawer. Customization lies at the core of onDeck, as it allows you to define the layout, screen position, launch delay, and behavior of each deck. Continue reading past the break for more details. Read More

Discover & View Vine Videos On Android With Vine Flow

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When Twitter acquired video clip sharing service Vine back in October last year, fans of the popular micro-blogging network speculated if they’d soon be able to embed short video recordings within their tweets. As it turned out last month, Twitter finally launched the official Vine app for iOS that lets you record and share 6-second long personal video recordings to Vine, Twitter and Facebook. Since its release, this brand new video sharing sensation by Twitter has managed to attract fans and critics alike, with a large share of complaints coming rightfully from the huge Android user base that has been left out in the cold. However, not all’s doom and gloom for Android fans, especially with the likes of Vine Flow catering to their video discovery and streaming needs from Vine. Fresh to the Play Store, Vine Flow is an unofficial Vine client for Android that lets you explore the latest video content shared by worldwide Vine users. Read More

Android Tweaker Is A Great Modding Alternative To Pimp My ROM [Review]

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A while back, we reviewed Pimp My ROM that offered Android users possibly the largest collection of various system performance enhancement tweaks, hacks and mods bundled into a single package. Ranging from Kernel-based tweaks to internet & network-based mods, the tool allows both intermediate and advanced users to tinker with a lot of settings of their rooted Android devices. New to the scene, Android Tweaker by XDA-Developers senior member iGio90 is a similar tool that could prove to be a tough competitor to Pimp My ROM and other Android tweaking solutions currently available in the market. As with Pimp My ROM, Android Tweaker is equipped with loads of tweaks allowing you to play around with various performance-related settings of your Android device. Needless to say, the app is meant to work with rooted Android devices only. A good thing about Android Tweaker is that it is fully compatible with almost all Android devices, versions, kernels and ROMs (both stock & custom). Let’s explore this handy utility in detail after the break. Read More