Each week, we collect interesting new apps and important updates for you. This week, a comprehensive new fitnesstracker, a gif jes-maker and a lot of app updates.
New Android apps, week 51 – 2016
upTempo – new fitness and sleep-tracker
The application upTempo is still in its experimental phase, but is already a promising fitness tool. UpTempo and automatically creates a timeline of all your activities and also makes use of the sensors of your phone, but also accessories such as pedometers and smartwatch. In addition to the tracking of activities can be upTempo and also your sleep patterns to track.
The hugely extensive app upTempo is free to download and use.
Did you know? – each day interesting facts
Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias are filled with interesting tidbits and facts. With the application Did you know? do you get every day a number of dished, in English. As you can in a few minutes time you’ll have general knowledge of what breaks.
The app Did you know is free to download and use and includes ads.
Gfycat Loops – gif messages with your camera
Poison messages are back. The animated images are everywhere to be found and one of the most popular services for finding poison messages is Gfycat. That is partly because of the way that Gfycat animations handles. Poison messages are very inefficient: each frame of the animation is a full image. Video (short-sighted) consecutive frames, only the differences. Videos are therefore much smaller that gif messages.
Gfycat is popular because poison messages are converted into videos that are much smaller and so less data consumption. With the app Gfycat Loops you can easily also gif messages and the Gfycat link share via all messengers and services. This allows you to use the camera, but also images from the gallery. These are then to be cut, and there are various effects available, and you can share it. You can also by popular gif’jes leaves.
Gfycat Loops is free to download and use.
New and extensively discussed
Skype Mingo – the future of Skype
Skype has in the United States, a new app launched. Skype Mingo is a complete messenger that also has support for video calls via Skype and you Skype-contacts to manage. With non-Skype contacts, you can send a text.
> Read our extensive article about Skype Mingo.
Facebook Events – a separate app for events
Facebook invades the Play Store somewhat with separate applications. The latest of these, which is also not in the Netherlands and Belgium to download, focuses completely on event. With Facebook Events see your event in the area, you can photos of events and keep your upcoming events in the holes.
> Read our extensive article about Facebook Events.
TWRP – handy app for custom ROM fans
TWRP is the most popular custom recovery for Android. Tell you nothing, then this app is probably not suitable for you. The application allows you to alternate software to install, ZIP-download updates and software backup and restore.
> Read our extensive article on the TWRP-app.
Updates
Google apps: Google Fotoscan and Google Chrome
With Google Fotoscan you can easily old photos and digitize with your device’s camera. In the latest version of Fotoscan is the quality of the made scans is improved.
The latest beta version of Chrome for Android has support for virtual reality content. The coming versions will support still be optimised further, but it’s a start.
Dutch apps: Buienalarm, RTL XL, regional broadcasters and SNS
The popular app Buienalarm has, for the past week a big update. The app is completely rewritten and is now not only faster and more accurate, but also requires less of your battery.
RTL last week, many users of the RTL XL app made happy. Now it is also without a paid account is possible for fragments and episodes with Chromecast on tv.
The applications of the Dutch regional broadcasters over the past week also provided an update. The updates focus on speed and media, such as images and video.
In the renewed application of the SNS-bank, it is now also possible to banking with finger print scanner.
Other apps: Microsoft Translator, Twitter and Snapchat
With the translation app with Microsoft Translator, you can now conversations in 50 languages simultaneously translated. So you can carry on conversations with speakers of other languages without a translator.
From the Twitter app, you can now directly livestreamen. You have here no longer the Periscope-app required.
With Snapchat, you can now have group conversations. Send in your messages to groups of up to 16 friends.
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