Main problem is solved Android 5.0 – Android World

Android 5.0 is a big step forward for Android, bigger than we’ve seen in recent years. In addition to a whole new look under the hood there’s also a lot of changes to the operating system. Thereby While several problems, some of which with Android 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 have been corrected, but a major problem with the memory has not been resolved with an update.

Memory Problem

Ever since the preview version of Google Android 5.0, then the ‘Android-L preview, released it, there were problems with the memory usage. This problem was reported by many users, but it has until now had not yet been resolved. Android 5.0 has, at least up to version Android 5.0.2, suffer from a memory leak. This means that there is assigned by the system memory to an app, but that is not releasing the memory. Because this is going to pile up, there is ultimately no more memory available for other apps. Normally this would ensure that the app uses much memory, shuts down, but that does not happen in the case of an application of the system itself

The memory leak causes great problems. Because for the other apps but still remains little memory are apps quickly closed. This has to do with the way Android handles memory. An example of the way in which the working memory Android with handles is the following. You are viewing a website using the Chrome browser on your Android device. When you next launch a game, the Chrome browser is still running in the background. This ensures that you, if you want, you can go back soon to the relevant website, for example through the multitask button on your device. When the game however is demanding, it may be that there is little memory remains. The Chrome browser is then put into a sort of sleep mode and the memory is released Gege makes for the game. If you now go back to the site in the browser, it will first have to be reloaded. If, for example, by a memory leak, very little memory remains, apps will be quickly sealed and will multitask be a lot slower.

When the lack of memory is really critical, will also apps constantly running in the background to close. It is, among other things, music apps like Google Play Music. The launcher, the app takes care of the home screen of your device and normally has priority over other apps, will be closed. This ensures that each time you return to the home screen, it must be fully charged again.

It seems that the memory problem can be solved with a fix of one line of code. Last week changed a Google employee in the Android Team status of the bug in ‘Future Release’, which means that the problem is solved in the next version of Android.

Bugs Report nonsensical?

The problem with the memory joyfully income was flat after the release of the Android L preview in July this year known and was reported by observant users. Google has resolved the error that caused the problem, however only this week. The same we saw happen with the infamous SMS bug. This problem in the Android L preview was not resolved until after the official release of Android 5.0 and be with the Android 5.0.1 update.

The problem of the bugtracker of the Android project is that much problems are reported that are actually no problem. Because the customer support for Nexus devices until recently was substandard, were too much to simply solve problems also reported in the bugtracker. When it comes to real problems, many other users comments posted there who have the same problem. The reactions are often along the lines of ‘I have this problem too, “or” why does Google do anything about this problem? I’m going to buy an iPhone right now! “. These reactions make sure that these bugs are almost illegible and important messages which contribute to the solution of problems are overlooked.

Android 5.0.3

Google so far released two updates to Android 5.0, Android 5.0.1 and 5.0.2. It is quite possible that we will see an Android 5.0.3 in which the memory problem is addressed. Now there is a solution to the problem, it seems likely that manufacturers here’s their devices will provide an update to Lollipop get ahead and use the solution without that official is in Android 5.0.2.

Last week, the website AndroidPIT rumor that Android 5.1 will be released in late February. Herein, different ‘irritation dots “are resolved, including the absence of the silent mode. In addition, would be implemented include improvements in memory usage and power consumption. However, it seems likely that, should the rumors are true, we first have a point release to see the form of Android 5.0.3.

Source: Android Authority

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40+ Best Android Apps of 2014 – Android World

Play Store continues to grow and grow and in 2014 are back thousands of applications in the digital store Google appeared. But what are interesting apps, released this year that are sure to get a place in the top apps of this year?

Play Store

The Google Play Store is the download store for all kinds of content: applications, games, books, music and movies. Over the years, this shop always grown, the range has become even larger and even more app developers added. Where one application has a very large user base, is another specific application downloaded perhaps less times, but still interesting. And what one person can find a useful application and a must-have for the other person less interesting.

In this article are more than 40 Android apps that have appeared in the Play Store in 2014 . The list is entirely at random.

1. Gmail inbox by

Inbox by Gmail is a new service created by Google that should change the future of e-mail. The thinking is that emails are no posts in itself, but to-do, tasks, and then everything is handled in one inbox. To use Inbox, you need currently an invite, you include can be obtained by sending an email to inbox@google.com. If you have received an invite, this later get back to distribute and to increase the multitude users. Here AW-ers invites applications and share with each other.

2. Today Calendar

Today Calendar is a beautiful calendar app and widget in one. It contains quite a lot of settings so you can adjust it to your own liking. In fact, the default calendar Calendar Today in Android but nicer and better. I would say, ‘give it a try. “

3. 1Password

1Password is a password manager app for Android which allows fast and easy to log in to many different sites. 1Password is best known for PC and Mac, but has now been given a complete new, properly functioning Android app.

4 . Smart card

With this official smart card app, you can easily view your transaction history. Transactions will appear the next day after 14:00, and 18 months remain visible. Futher you can find addresses of charging stations and outlets and frequently asked questions and answers. A comprehensive review of this app follows.

5. Slyde – Floating App Switcher

Do you find it difficult to switch from application, because you then a button in (on) to press screen, but you have an avid multitasker, then something Slyde you. With this application you can always fast, clear and simple switching of application, while no matter where and in what application you are working on. Using a particular swipe you can switch your five favorite applications quickly calls and within 1 second, according to the developer. Slyde be downloaded for € 0.71 from the Google Play store.

6. Commandr

Google Now is a very handy tool from Google. This application ensures that you get the right information at the right time, without you explicitly need to search. In Dutch it is possible (in fact Google Voice Search) via Google Now possible to search through a voice command, voice commands work but not yet. When your device is set to English, you have many more options in voice search. Commandr adds at once infinite possibilities to it. With Commandr you can directly control the hardware features of your phone or tablet.

7. LAS: Last App Switcher

LAS ie Load App Switcher, you can easily and quickly with just one button can switch between your last two open apps. Displays a small icon which floats above your screen and when you click it, you exchange so app. You can also specify that if you swipe up from the home button you switch between applications. Simply convenient and meant for the avid multi-taskers among us.

8. CCleaner

The famous CCleaner for PC is now available for Android and is now out of beta. This app is cleaning up your Android device a snap happens again and released the necessary valuable space. CCleaner for Android works just as good and effective as the PC version, so handy!

9. HeadsUp

If your Android tablet or phone runs on Android 4.1 or higher and you want to miss a single notification then HeadsUp perhaps the app that you are missing. This app will be prompted for small floating notifications of anything and everything, from missed-mail to the reporting of a captured screenshot. In the settings menu, there is an app to set whether notifications should be shown or not and it is just possible to blacklist some applications, so there is never notifications are displayed when it is activated, for example, useful for certain games or video player. The app is free to use, but offers a donation option to the developer to support what.

10. NotiWidget

NotiWidget you interact with notifications on the lock screen, home screen or via DayDream. The notifications are just the same in appearance and what they look like normal and contain no customized look. You can reply to messages or pause songs, and you can use different widgets together. So it may be that you want to control music on the lockscreen, but not DayDream again and that is to put in all yourself. To use this application you need Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. NotiWidget also costs € 0.99 and is available from the following download button.

11. Talon for Twitter Plus

Talon is a Twitter app for Android known for its beautiful design and comfortable operation. Talon for Twitter Plus is a version which fully in the so called Material Design is built entirely in style with Android 5.0. Talon also contains many useful features such as an internal browser, real-time streaming, support for various photo services and much, but really much more. However, the application only works on Android 5.0 devices, while the classic version download is no longer from the Play Store because of too many tokens used.

12. True Dialer by TrueCaller

True Dialer is a dialer for Android Phones Mart and comes from the hand of the creators of TrueCaller. It is a matter of the standard dialer replaced with this application and you get a lot more opportunities to call someone. Thus you can change with simple swipe between a numeric keypad or a QWERTY keyboard to search for a contact. You can set shortcuts for calling favorite contacts and you can view the call history and contact information of individuals. Also you can find according to the developers to over 1 billion contacts via search and TrueCaller integration.

13. WeMail

WeMail is a new e-mail application that organizes emails per contact and displays it in a chat view. The app works with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and AOL Accounts and provides a fresh look at the jumble of sometimes emails.

14. μTask

μTask you for any app on your phone to create jobs. An example is turning on your Wi-Fi connection when you start Chrome or volume on scolding (too) high when you start Spotify. With root access, you can hang even more tasks to an app. Two tasks are free to add, for more tasks it should be paid.

15. LOOK

LOOK everything from SBS6, Net 5 and Veronica back or forward with this new Android app. The VIEW platform is the uitzendinggemist SBS, Net 5 and Veronica and make this possible on Android devices. On both smartphones and tablets, the app works properly and get the 5000 series, programs and movies at your fingertips. LOOK is free to use in which there is the possibility to create an account.

16. Slingshot

Slingshot is a competitor of example Snapchat and has built an interactive element. So you can see pictures sent only if you also send a photo. Sharing photos and videos in Slingshot can go to a single person, but also to groups of people. If you do not, then there is the option to remove the sling from your friends, but then you see these never come back.

17. Mail Wise

Mail Wise is a beautifully designed email app for Android, which you can manage fifty different mail accounts. The app is organized, includes some nifty features such as not showing repetitive texts, such as signatures, and is simple in design.

18. Z Launcher Beta

Nokia’s Z Launcher still has the beta-stamp, but is now also be downloaded from the Play Store. Operating through gestures is central to the launcher, so it’s a matter of sweeping letters on the screen, then the entire phone or tablet is searched, such as contacts, apps or games.

19. Callistics

Keeping many minutes you have used is maybe not everybody, but sometimes it may be useful. There are often apps from the provider can be found in the Play Store to see how many minutes you have left, but it can also Callistics. This application tracks the number of calls and the duration of each of these calls. You can then see each period how much and how long you have called someone.

20. Thuisarts.nl

The home doctor app is an initiative of the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG), the scientific association of physicians. The app is lots of information available about the human body and many other issues, you can register GP visits, preparing to ask the doctor, set medication reminders and more.

21. WeTransfer

The official application of WeTransfer can send files from your Android device to friends, acquaintances and others. The files, which may be up to 10 GB in size are then uploaded to the WeTransfer servers, and the recipient will receive a download link. Sharing large files, download the free app then press the button below. However, the app requires Android 4.1 or later.

22. Journal (by Journey)

In the past, you went on vacation and when you came back after a few weeks you told your stories, developed your photos, pasted them into a book and then told everyone about your wonderful adventures. Today, in the age of the Internet, this is something else, and if you’re traveling, you can now create a near real-time trip journal with your stories and pictures. One of the applications with which this may be Journal. Online sharing can not directly, but you can share stories as simple text, HTML, or ZIP file and when you come home, it’s a matter of addressing the tablet there, Journey startup and your personal travelogue show to everyone.

23. Google Now Launcher

Google Now Launcher launcher introduced in Android 4.4 and as a standalone application available in the Play Store. This makes it possible to get the default Android by a device with Google Now integration. Google Now is not new, but available from early August for many new devices, even non-Nexus.

24. PasNL

PasNL is a Dutch app to gather all your plastic cards. So you have no more fat wallet and always your cards at hand. PasNL currently offers customers the most popular cards in the Netherlands and there are new daily added. From the app, select the card that you want to add and the wizard will help you to gather the right data. Even the bar code is taken into account, so that it can be scanned even in some cases. Modern scanners have no problem with this. Cards that add PasNL do not know, you can still manually.

25. TapPath

TapPath you can choose what browser you open a particular link. You do this by, tapping two or three times. You shall propose for example, that single tap means that the link to Chrome to be opened twice in Opera, and so on. Android 4.0 or higher is required to run this app and the one-time costs € 0.69.

26. Boxer

Boxer was already very popular on iOS and Android also available for September. The mail app is known for its clean and simple interface. Boxer has include support for Gmail, Outlook and iCloud in the Android app. Definitely worth trying.

27. Bol.com

Bol is one of the largest, if not the biggest online store in the Netherlands and the official application is now finally available in the Play Store, where it had been used previously for iOS. Through the app, you can browse through all the products, place orders, read reviews and more and more.

28. Hangout Dialer

Hangout Dialer is possible practically to call any phone in the world, directly from Hangouts. In America and Canada, there may even be called free, in the Netherlands, we can also call, however, against a (reduced) rate.

29. Google Fit

Google Fit is really just to show what this service can do. The Fit is based on Google capturing your user movements when walking, running or cycling. You can set goals for the number of steps you want to take a day and this also real time monitor during the day. Google Fit will also give you recommendations based on your goals through. The principle here is therefore not the application itself, but the technology behind it. Google provides this service through its open APIs so that other developers can use Google Fit to show all kinds of results.

30. Weather Meister

Do you know if you get wet on the way to work or school? That’s exactly what weather Meister can tell you. This app shows an easy overview if there is to be expected on your route to your final destination precipitation.

31. Nokia Here

Here is the navigation Nokia Nokia offers the great advantage that can save your offline maps with this, so that no (expensive) internet connection is required to win tickets. The application works only on Android 4.0 devices, so there you have to keep in mind if you want to test out these navigation app. There is also a Lord-account or you log in via Facebook.

32. Gmail 5.0

Early November was the official Gmail app for Android a big update, in fact it has become a whole new app. The appearance is changed and there is now support for multiple email accounts and Microsoft Exchange support.

33. Groopic

Sometimes you ever want to take a picture, but one who has to make the picture is not in the picture … With Groopic you have that problem, because you make just two pictures with two different photographers which are bonded together by the app and makes it seem as if everyone is on the same picture.

34. Slide Lock

The lock screen or lock screen contains more and more information. New reports, time, or other information set and widgets. Slide Lock replaces the lockscreen and lends her a beautiful but simple way notifications again. These are like swiping away in the status bar or open. It is also possible to open the camera directly from the lockscreen with Slide Lock. In the settings exactly specify which notifications are to be displayed, as well as the device is unlocked, there are possibilities.

35. Telegram

Telegram is a messenger who stand safety first. All messages are encrypted from the beginning to the end and the application is very fast. This appears after the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook to be the alternative for this popular messenger.

36. Throwback

Throwback is an incredibly simple application. If you have installed it, then you can take a photo or select a photo you already have on your device. When these have been selected or you can choose how you want to send it to your future self.

37. Fenix ​​for Twitter

Fenix ​​for Twitter is a great Android app that allows you to tweet, DM and and more. This comprehensive, well-executed Android app allows you to follow the latest news, view real-time updates, and of course to use all functions within Twitter. Fenix ​​for Twitter is favorite Twitter app Ruud and costs € 1.99.

38. Perfect Screenshot

Perfect Screenshot you can frame a screenshot made with one of the many frames of the latest phones. Take a screenshot, choose your device, add any shadow or not, and store only. The application includes the latest high-end smartphones and updated regularly.

39. Roamy

Roamy for Android is a simple yet comprehensive application that addresses a known problem, the (too) many using data abroad. With Roamy it is possible by this app set or internet get when you are abroad, thus unnecessary data usage belongs to the past. There are all kinds of set limits, so that the costs should be limited. The free version is fully functional for a period of 10 days, then deleted some options such as setting limits. With an in-app purchase of € 3.99 this again can be activated.

40. Deliveries Package Tracker

Everyone ordered online nowadays and if your package now comes from China, is sent by post or that you send a packet to family in Europe, you always want to know where the package is. With Deliveries Package Tracker you can trace packets of dozens of different courier services and as up-to-date where your package is and when it is delivered.

41. Short Paste

Short Paste you can make long URLs shorter automatically let them just copy and paste. These are shortened through the services Bit.ly and Goo.gl. Bit.ly also offers the ability to use their own domains, as we use for our awrld.nl short links. This is also possible in Short Paste.

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Of course, there came by hundreds of apps in 2014, can not be discussed or referenced everything and being. there might apps that the predicate ‘App 2014′ certainly should have according to you. Mention them in the comments below so that they are not forgotten.

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