All About Android

Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel,[12] and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005,[13] Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.

700,000 apps available for Android

In October 2012, there were approximately 700,000 apps available for Android, and the estimated number of applications downloaded from Google Play, Android's primary app store, was 25 billion.[17][18] A developer survey conducted in April–May 2013 found that Android is the most popular platform for developers, used by 71% of the mobile developer population.

Android is the world's most widely used

smartphone platform,[20] overtaking Symbian in the fourth quarter of 2010.[21] Android is popular with technology companies who require a ready-made, low-cost, customizable and lightweight operating system for high tech devices.[22] Despite being primarily designed for phones and tablets, it also has been used in televisions, games consoles, digital cameras and other electronics.

Developers and enthusiasts

Android's open nature has encouraged a large community of developers and enthusiasts to use the open-source code as a foundation for community-driven projects, which add new features for advanced users or bring Android to devices which were officially released running other operating systems.

The main hardware platform for Android

the 32-bit ARMv7 architecture. There is support for x86 from the Android-x86 project,[7] and Google TV uses a special x86 version of Android. In 2013, Freescale announced Android on its i.MX processor, i.MX5X and i.MX6X series.[69] In 2012 Intel processors began to appear on more mainstream Android platforms, such as phones.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Premium Widgets & Weather v2.3.8 Apk Free


















All-in-one Weather suite: Fantastic HD widgets + professional weather app + Share pictures with weather on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and more!
* 3 Weather providers (OpenWeather, World Weather, Wunderground) included – choose the one that works best for you!
* 6 different Widgets + 10 different themes. Widgets include Digital Clock, special effects like rain drops or clouds, and weather forecast.
* InstaShare function included – Put weather on your photos and share on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks!
* Daily morning weather notification
* Full screen mode with beautiful weather animations and detailed forecast.
* Up to 7-day weather forecast
* Radar and precipitation map
* Sunset/Sunrise hour
What’s New
- New Flat 2014 Skin.

Moon+ Reader Pro v2.3.3 Apk Free






Better designed book reader with powerful controls & full functions, supports epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz, umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or OPDS formats.
☀Additional benefits in pro version:
✔ Ad-free, faster & smoother
✔ Shake the phone to speak (Text-to-speech, TTS engine support)
✔ PDF support, fast & speech compatible
✔ Reading statistics function
✔ More beautiful themes, background images and fonts
✔ Customize reader bar function
✔ Headset & Bluetooth keys control
✔ Multi-point touch support
✔ Option for password protection at startup
✔ Book to home screen shortcut
✔ Annotations, highlights & bookmarks share support
✔ Open/Backup/Sync/Download/Upload book files via Dropbox/GDrive
✔ Tilt to turn page with customized actions
✔ Customer email support
☀PDF features in Pro version:
✔ Fill out PDF Form
✔ Highlight, annotation, handwriting
✔ Smart scroll lock, smooth reading experience
✔ Night mode support, 6 additional pdf themes available
✔ Dual-page mode for landscape screen
✔ Speech, auto-scroll compatible
✔ Read statistics, sync, flip animation available
☆The key features:
• Support online ebook libraries and personal calibre ebook server.
• Read local books with smooth scroll and tons of innovation.
☆Standard functions:
• Full visual options: line space, font scale, bold, italic, shadow, alpha colors, fading edge etc.
• 10+ themes embedded, includes Day & Night mode switcher.
• Various types of paging: touch screen, volume keys or even camera, search or back keys.
• 24 customized operations (screen click, swipe gesture, hardware keys), apply to 15 customized events: search, bookmark, themes, navigation, font size and more.
• 5 auto-scroll modes: rolling blind mode; by pixel, by line or by page. Real-time speed control.
• Adjust the brightness by sliding your finger along the left edge of the screen, gesture commands supported.
• Intelligent paragraph; indent paragraph; trim unwanted blank spaces and lines options.
• Keep your eyes health options for long-time reading.
• Real page turning effect with customized speed/color/transparent; 5 page flip animations.
• My Bookshelf design: Favorites, Downloads, Authors, Tags; self bookcover, search, import supported.
• Justified text alignment, hyphenation mode supported.
• Dual page mode for landscape screen.
• Support all four screen orientations.
• EPUB3 multimedia content support (video and audio), popup footnote support
• Backup/Restore options to cloud via DropBox, sync reading positions between phones and tablets.
• Highlight, Annotation, Dictionary (Offline or Online, support ColorDict, GoldenDict, Fora, ABBYY Lingvo, etc.), Translation, Share functions all in moon+ ebook reader.
• Localized in 40 languages: English, አማርኛ, العربية, հայերեն, Български, català, český, dansk, Nederlands, eesti, suomi, français, galego, საქართველოს, Deutsch, ελληνικά, עברית, magyar, Indonesia, italiano, 日本語, 한국어, македонски, persan, polski, português, português brasil, român, русский, српски, 简体中文, slovenských, slovenskega, español, Svenskt, 繁體中文, ภาษาไทย, Türk, yкраїнський, Việt
What’s New
v2.3.3
Improve “Use embedded fonts in book” for Epub
Update CSS styles support, new “Disable CSS styles -> Disable Font sizes” option
Optimize image display in continuous pages
Small bugs fixed (html font size tag, etc.)

Recast Weather and Widgets v1.0.14 Apk Free


On phone, tablet or Google TV, Recast is the best way to customize weather, widgets and control your Android device.
Easily change and personalize nearly everything: colors, icons, fonts, layouts, sizes and more! Recast uses modern Ice Cream Sandwich Holo interface look, no matter what Android OS you have and works on nearly every Android device! The online catalog makes it easy and fast to get new widgets, colors, styles and more.
Add as many locations as you want and customize each one for C/F, metric/imperial, 12/24 hour, naming and more.
Offers the most popular widget sizes: 1×1, 1×4, 2×2, 3×2, 4×1, 4×2, 5×1, 5×2 and full screen portrait and landscape views.
Very resource friendly and doesn’t use your network or battery while your screen is off.
GPS and automatic weather updates can be disabled for full manual control.
- Supports Android OS 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Gingerbread and 3.x Honeycomb, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.1 and 4.2 Jelly Bean
- One app works on virtually all phones, notes, media players, tablets and Google TVs
- Attractive and clean widgets with clocks, dates, weather, battery, toggles and more
- Change nearly everything: backgrounds, colors, icons, fonts, layouts, toggles, time formats, temperature units, speed units and more
- Full toggle control over Bluetooth, WiFi, screen rotation, battery and more
- Add, re-arrange and remove as many locations as you want for weather with easy, auto-completing name entry
- Auto-location uses GPS, WiFi and cellular radio to update your weather as you move
- Choose the best option from our weather providers: MSN Weather and World Weather Online
- Resize widgets to nearly any size on Android 3.x and 4.x devices
- Includes sunrise and sunset times for most locations
- Auto-refresh weather when your phone screen unlocks, on a set schedule or on-demand
- Tap on any date to reach your built-in calendar app
- Tap on any time to reach your built-in alarm clock app
- Works both as a widget and app with full screen weather displays
- Preview and change any widget or view instantly
- Independently optimized widgets and layouts for phones, tablets, TVs, phablets, Galaxy Note and Nexus 7 devices.
- Download backgrounds for widgets and full screen forecast views
What’s New
Bug Fixes.

Screenshot Ultimate Pro v2.8.4 Apk Free



Now you can take a snapshot easily on your Android device (no root required: read the faq how). Take screenshots on your tablet, phone or other Android device without ads!
Share, draw, add text to a screenshot or even send/edit multiple screenshots!
★Most complete screenshot app!★
Why is Screenshot Ultimate Pro the perfect screen capture app? Well, it has the most features and supports over 14 different capture methods. If this app can’t take a screenshot no other screenshot app will!
We support rooted and non-rooted devices; however, if you have a non-rooted phone you might have to run a small app on your computer to enable screen shooting functionality. Read the FAQ for more information.
Note
If you can’t get the app to work please email us and don’t post it in the reviews since we can’t respond to reviews. Thanks.
Trigger methods
- Overlay icon which is visible on top of all screens (icon, button or custom icon)
- Shake
- Service icon click
- Audio
- Power connect/disconnect
- Folder listener
- Webserver
- Camera hardware button
- Long click search hardware button
- Custom shortcut
- Widget button
- Button inside the app
- Intent (Tasker support)
- Interval
- Cronjob
For every trigger separately you can set: do after, vibrate, sound, toast, timeout, countdown and more!
Features
- No ads!
- Edit taken screenshot: draw, add text, crop, add information (android version, wifi ip, date/time, etc), rotate, mirror, switch colors, overlay an image, use your own editor, effects (sepia, grayscale, etc)
- Share taken screenshot: use your custom app for sharing (Email, Picasa, Memo, etc), or upload to Imgur, Glowfoto, ImageShack, POST to server, TwitPic, Tumblr
- View all taken screenshots and select multiple for sending, create zip, edit and more!
- Automatically apply “Screenshot Adjustments” to every taken screenshot
- Multiple capture methods (over 14) with an auto detect option so you can select the best option
- Set default save folder and filename and image format (PNG or JPEG)
- Tablet support!
- Set optional custom shutter sound
- More!
What’s New
- 6 new screenshot capture methods!
- Added tablet layout!
- Added optional auto screenshot rotation
- Added option to change screenshots preview grid size
- Improved screenshots for Android ICS (4.0) and higher
- Improved layout for Screenshot Ultimate
- Improved capture engine: faster and more reliable
- Fixed bug media scanner / gallery
- Fixed bug cropping screen shot
- Lots of new features!
- Lots of bug fixes!

Android Tuner v0.12.8.1 Apk Free



The most comprehensive toolbox to save battery, tweak, tune, backup, secure and monitor any Android devices running any ROMs, any kernels.
♦♦ Feature set ♦♦
► Device manager *1
◊ Device profiles (CPU, IO, components)
◊ Tasks scheduler (app management, clean-up, etc)
◊ Device watchers to automatically activate a profile, run tasks or display alarms
◊ Battery savings using profiles and tasks
► File explorer *1
◊ Batch copy/paste, zip, delete, move, share and stream files and folders
◊ Change files/folders permissions and ownership
◊ Access all your Samba network shares
► Application manager *1
◊ Backup and verify app apk/data (multiple versions), sms and call-logs
◊ System app uninstaller and update cleaner
◊ Share and backup apps to e-mail, DropBox, GDrive, etc…
◊ Move any apps to user, system, SD or link2SD
◊ Freeze/unfreeze apps, crystallize (eg hibernate/greenify) and control app startup and events
◊ Zip align, clear cache, wipe dalvik-cache, fix permissions and optimize databases
◊ Control app notifications, permissions, locker (secure access), rotation and force screen-on *2
◊ Usage and standby statistics (find app draining your battery)
► Network manager
◊ Set WiFi access point priority
◊ Configure Android firewall, TCP Congestion, DNS *1
► Task manager
◊ Check CPU, network and memory usage
◊ Kill (default) or force-stop *1 any apps or kernel processes
◊ Automatic task killer, memory booster, memory cleaner
► System Control *1
◊ CPU governor, frequency, voltage, GPU controls, thermal and MPDecision controls
◊ Build.prop and sysctl editor (basic and advanced mode)
◊ Boost, analyze and benchmark SD cards
◊ Android memory manager, memory cleaner, SD linker (directory binder)
◊ fsync, sweep2wake, gamma and fast charge control
◊ Safe: restore defaults from app or recovery and CPU settings on boot-loop
► System Monitoring
◊ All Android applications or all processes, battery, CPU, network, memory
◊ Component states (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, Phone, APN)
► Status bar notifications
◊ Battery, cpu, memory, sd, temperature optionally with graphics in drop-down
◊ Add battery remaining bar on top or bottom
◊ Remove original battery icon
► Highly Configurable Widgets
◊ Resizable gauge widget
◊ 1×1 and 2×1 (PRO ONLY) text widgets
◊ 2×1-5×2 graphic widgets (PRO ONLY)
◊ 1×1 and 4×1-1×4 (PRO ONLY) toggle widgets *1
◊ 4×4 summary widget (PRO ONLY)
► System Toggles (manual widgets or in profiles)
◊ GPS, WiFi localization
◊ WiFi, BT, BT discoverable, APN, NFC, airplane
◊ Tethering (USB, WiFi, BT)
◊ Brightness, screen time-out, stay awake, flashlight
◊ Ringer, vibrate, synchro, background data
◊ Debug (over WiFi), unknown sources, USB storage, reboot
► Terminal Emulator & Script Editor
◊ Command history
◊ Run or test any scripts, optionally on boot
◊ Share scripts, commands and outputs
► System Logs Reader *1
◊ Logcat or kernel messages
◊ Advanced filtering and search
and much more that meets the eye ☺
What’s New
0.12.8.1:
Fix bad characters replacing °C, °F or °K everywhere
Fix constant root-granting message even on non root, until Yes is pressed.

SpeedView Pro v3.2.0 Apk Free



SpeedView is an advanced speedometer application that uses the phone’s built-in GPS system to show your current, maximum and average speed, as well as the direction, total distance, and time traveled. Suitable for running, car driving, biking, or hiking.
• High accuracy
GPS-based speedometer that is more accurate than the one in your car.
• Linear compass
Shows your current direction of travel. A compass mode is also available.
SpeedView Pro - screenshot

SpeedView Pro - screenshot thumbnail


SpeedView Pro - screenshot thumbnail

SpeedView Pro - screenshot
• HUD mode
Mirrors the numbers so you can place your phone on your car’s dashboard and see the speed reflected in the front glass. You can check out this video to see how it works: http://youtu.be/rzda7CQ-ZAU
• Speed graph
Displays a graph chart covering the last several minutes.
• Speed warning
You can set the speed limits for three different types of roads so that when you go too fast a visual alert or sound will notify you.


• Display units
Supports units such as miles, kilometers, and nautical miles.
• GPX track export
Enables you to save your current track to the SD card or email it to someone. The GPX format is supported by Google Earth and many other programs: http://www.topografix.com/gpx_resources.asp
• Background mode
You can minimize the program and keep it running in the background. It will work as usual and even notify you when you exceed the speed limit.
Please note that the accuracy of GPS measurements is affected by a number of factors including atmospheric conditions, obstructions and the visibility of satellites.
What’s New
v.3.2.0 – Jan 1, 2014
• More track logging options
• GPX files now contain the tag
• Better integration with Maverick

RocketDial Dialer&Contacts Pro v3.6.6 Apk Free



Optimized for Large Screens like Note/Note2 (choose dialpad style )
Detailed Features
Fast and Powerful Smart search Smart Search :
- T9 search for names, organizations, title, phone numbers,websites, any field…
- T9 search from Contacts/ Call History / Groups / Favorites
- Filter search results
Account Management:
- Choose all or one single account in your phone , shows / manage contacts within this account.
- Duplicate contacts from account to account.
- Delete contacts from one single account.
Favorites:
- Large buttons for select, quick and easy dialing.
- Support High Quality photos, no blur photos.
Advanced Batch Mode :
- Send SMS /Email /Assign Ringtone to multiple contacts
Group management:
- Easily managing groups , add/remove item to/from groups.
- Set Group Ringtone
- Group SMS, Group MMS, Group Email.
- Share Group info (vcard included) .
Organization Management
- Easily managing Organizations, add/remove item to/from organization.
- Set Group Ringtone
- Group SMS, Group MMS, Group Email.
- Share Group info (vcard included) .
Title Management
- Easily managing Titles, add/remove titles from contacts.
- Batch Mode operations like SMS/Email
Events Management
-View all events / birthdays in one place.
-All kinds of sort method.
Amazing Gesture Support:
- Slide to switch between Tabs just like ICS stock dialer
- Swipe on dial pad for predefined operations .
- Swipe on bottom bar icon, right for enable batch mode, left for disable batch mode or clear phone number in dialpad.
- Swipe on contact item , wipe left for dial ; swipe right for SMS.
- Handwriting for searching contacts just like in Google Gesture Search App.
- Handwriting navigation on contact screen, write a character in screen and RocketDial will navigate to the sections with this character.
RocketDial Dialer&Contacts Pro - screenshot
  
Advanced
- Supporting Notes writing in call, Notes saved appears in notification bar .
- Supporting RD Missed Call Plugin to clear missed call notification , search it play market.
- Backup/Restore Contacts/SMS/Call History
Great Appearance Customizations
- With HD photo assigned, contacts are shown with high quality pictures, stunning quality.
- Support assigning different color to Group Tab.
- Change background , choose picture from your phone to use as dialer background.
- Landscape mode support.
- 10+ Great Skins support . Apply in settings->choose Skin.
- Customize font size/ font color
- 4 Dialpad Styles
More Features:
- Speed dialing numbers 1 – 99
- Call Confirm.
- Supports UK/China/US/Canada phone number attribution.
- Phone Vibration on phone connected/end.
- Black List, support rejecting incoming calls .
- Format phone numbers , support US/Canada/UK/Russia/Ukraine/China/Taiwan. Customize phone number using patterns , example (###-(###)-####), fill on your needs.
- Support Facebook contacts,(before android 4.0 )
Below Character Sets are supported in T9 Search:
Russian
English
Arabic
German
Hebrew
Greek
Georgian
Polish
Korean
Norwegian
Finish
Italian
Ukraine
French
Hungarian
Portuguese and most of the Latin characters, also 简体中文, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Korean.
What’s New
- Fixed issue that setting is not visible in android 4.4.
- Continue to optimize memory consumptions.
- Optimized search bar , now can enter text directly without skipping first character.


ROM Manager Premium v5.5.3.5 Apk Free



ROM Manager is THE MUST HAVE APP for any Android root user.
* Flash your recovery to the latest and greatest ClockworkMod recovery.
* Manage your ROMs via a handy UI.
* Organize and perform backups and restores from within Android!
* Install ROMs from your SD card.
* Install your favorite ROMs over the air!
Premium Version:
* Incremental update zips (save your data plan!)
* Premium ROMs
* Receive notifications for when your ROM is updated!
* Automatic backups
* Install Queue
* Web Connect
* Backup Download Server lets you easily transfer backups as flashable zips to your computer.
What’s New
5.5.3.5 Better Fix Permissions tool (thanks Wil Wheaton!)


Chronus Pro: Home & Lock Widget v3.4.2 Apk Free


Welcome to Chronus, an elegant Home and Lock screen clock, weather and calendar widget.
Functionally the same as the CyanogenMod cLock widget and brought to you by the same developer, this independently released, stand-alone widget takes back its original name, Chronus and brings the same elegant look and feel to the broader Android community.
Please note:
1) Lock screen widgets are only supported on Android 4.2+. This is a limitation of Android itself, not Chronus
2) On some devices you may have to reboot your device after installing for the widget to show up in the widget picker
3) WidgetLocker is not supported
Features (Pro version):
- Additional Widgets (Forecast, Calendar, Weather)
- Custom Tap actions for Clock, Weather and Calendar to launch apps or activities
- Set Widget backgrounds
- Clock and Weather panel alignment (Centered, Left or Right)
- with more features to be released every 3-4 weeks…
Features (All versions):
The standard version is functionally equivalent to the CyanogenMod cLock widget with added support for older versions of Android.
- Fully functional Flex, Flex (Analog) and Clock+ Widgets
- Supports adding as a widget to either the Home screen (Android 4.1+) or Lock screen (Android 4.2+) or both
- Customize the Clock look and feel
- Choose whether to show the Date and Alarms
- Change font bold/normal in Clock, Date and Alarm
- Weather panel with Yahoo!, Accuweather or OpenWeatherMap weather providers
- Minimized weather widget support (especially handy on lock screen)
- Calendar panel showing a scroll-able list of upcoming events
- Tapping event opens calendar at selected event
- Taping calendar icon opens Calendar at today’s date
- Change the font color of all text in all panels
- Configure widget when adding or from the Chronus app in the app drawer
- Highlight upcoming calendar events with custom colors and font bolding
What’s New
v3.4.2:
- Small bugfix for Flex Analog Widget on XXHDPI.