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Google Search

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:37:39 +0000

Google Search app for Android: The fastest, easiest way to find what you need on the web and on your device.

* Quickly search the web and your phone or tablet
* Use your voice to search and more
* Get personalized results based on your location

Plus: *Google Now* gets you just the right information at just the right time. It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and more (Google Now is currently available on Android 4.1, Jelly Bean).

Recent changes:
For Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean):
- Reminders (e.g. say "remind me to buy milk this evening", "remind me to take out the trash when I get home")
- Upcoming books, music albums, tv shows and video games you may like
- Real time public transit updates (select cities)
- Last train home (Japan only)

CPU-Z

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:10:45 +0000

Android version of the popular CPU identification tool for PC/Windows., CPU-Z is a free application that reports information about your device.

- SoC (System On Chip) name, architecture, clock speed for each core ;
- System information : device brand & model, screen resolution, RAM, storage.;
- Battery information : level, status, temperature ;
- Sensors.

Requirements :
- Android 3.0 and above.

Important note :
That program is in beta version. If you notice any problem, please use the button "Send Debug Infos" in the last tab ("About") to send a pre-formatted email to the developers. Please feel free to add your comments in the email.

Clean Master (Cleaner)

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:16:53 +0000

☆Over 10 million users, 25 languages.
☆Featured by Lifehacker, CNET, The Boston Globe, XDA & much more.
☆#1 Cleaner App in 48 countries, top 10 in 45 countries in the Tools category.

Clean Master is an all-in-one cleaner app:
Clean - Cache files and residual files
Clear - Search/call/text/etc history
App Management - Move app data to the SD card and uninstall/backup apps
Kills tasks - Smart memory booster

"You can save hundreds of megabytes by simply erasing this cache regularly. A free app called Clean Master does a fine job of this." - The Boston Globe

"Android: If you're running low on space on your Android device, Clean Master makes it easy to identify what's hogging your storage, and helps you get rid of it." - LifeHacker.com

"If you want to get your Android device clean and free of junk files, head on over to Clean Master." - XDA-Developers.com

Language Support
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Localized in Deutsch, Español, Français, Indonesian, Italiano, Magyar, Português, Română, Slovenčina, Thai, Tiếng Việt, Türkçe, Eλληνικά, Pусский, Українська, עברית, 한국어, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體), 日本語, العربية, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski.
******Anyone who is willing to help us with localization can join our collaborative translation platform http://crowdin.net/project/clean-master-localization/invite
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Here is what Clean Master can do for you:

[Junk Files] - Clean Cache and Residual Files
This will help you erase cache and residuals files easily. On Android devices,cache and residual files wil accumulate to take up hundreds of megabytes and in some cases even gibabytes of space.

[Privacy] - Delete History
Privacy is important and many of your apps silently record your personal information like your SMS/MMS, web browser data, Google search history etc. Clean Master can perform message deletion and also can clear browser data, clipboard data and history data of many other apps like Wechat, Whatsapp, Spotify, Pinterest, Line etc.

[Task Killer] - Advanced Task Manager
Tasks running in background not only occupy system RAM, but also waste your battery life. Task Killer can stop other apps that are running in the background and release more RAM to speed up your android device. This includes a shortcut called "1 Tap Boost" which is a more convenient way to boost android memory.

[App Manager] - Backup, Move to SD & Uninstaller
App manager consists of uninstaller and backup assistant. Clean master offers you an opportunity to uninstall apps easily with just one simply click. Also, you can backup apk files onto SD card and reinstall them later using the apk installer of app manager. Clean Master can also move app data to the SD card to save significant space if you are a rooted user.

[Widget] - Memory Booster Widget
Now a memory booster widget comes along with 3.5.0 version. Touch the desktop with a long hold until a window appears, from this window scroll down to Clean Master Widget and touch.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kscleanmaster
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kscleanmaster

Recent changes:
3.5.0.258
1.Fix bug of occupying huge memory on some models.
2.Fix FC bugs.

3.5.0.248
1.New Task Reminder added, smartly remind you when running out of memory.
2.New 1-Tap widget added for task cleaning.
3.Selected items are counted on "Clean" button, easier to know how much you can clean.
4.Videos and music can be directly played within Residual file cleaner.
5.Database updated, support cleaning more apps.
6.Other bug fixes.

AppBrain Ad Detector

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:13:18 +0000

Free your phone from potential concerns and ads! This app detects all annoyances of apps installed on your phone, such as Push Notifications, Desktop icon spam ads or privacy concerns.

- Helps you to get rid of annoying ad notifications (Airpush, Leadbolt) and bookmarks on your desktop.
- Find out what apps have permissions to access your messages or accounts and could thus invade your privacy, or can use services which could cost you money.

This app detects over 70 different aspects of apps, including:

- Concerns such as Push Notifications (ads and non-ads), putting spam icons on your desktop, and privacy related concerns such as the ability to access your location, contacts, messages or accounts.

- Android Ad Networks; this app tells you which ad networks are embedded in apps, such as Admob, Millennial Media, MobClix, Tapjoy, AdWhirl, Greystripe, InMobi, Airpush, Startapp, Leadbolt, Pontiflex, MobFox, Komli Mobile, MoPub, MdotM, inneractive, Adlantis, Smaato, Daum, AppLift, Mediba, Cauly, YouMi, AdMarvel, madvertise, Sellaring, and more.

- Social SDKs; detect whether apps have SDKs like Facebook, Twitter4j, OpenFeint, HeyZap, ScoreLoop, jTwitter, Papaya, and more.

- Developer Tools; detect libraries like Google Analytics, Flurry Analytics, Google Play in-app billing, Android support library, Google Gson, Google Licensing Service, ViewPager indicator, ACRA, Phonegap, libgdx, Unity, Amazon AWS, Paypal and more.

Detect apps that have push ads.

This is not an ad blocker / adaway / adblock but can still help you make your phone annoying ads free by suggesting which apps to uninstall.

Recent changes:
- Detects more ad networks and concerns
- Improved notifications (especially on Jelly Bean)
- minor fixes

Google Translate

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:06:56 +0000

Break through language barriers with Google Translate:

• Translate text and speech between more than 70 languages
• Listen to your translations spoken aloud
• Input using your voice, handwriting, and camera
• Save your favorite translations and sync them across devices
• View dictionary results for single words or phrases
• Translate without a network connection with our offline language packages
(Camera input and offline translation are available for Android 2.3 and above.)

Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

Recent changes:
• Save your favorite translations and sync them across devices
• More languages for camera input

Google Keyboard

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:28:23 +0000

Google Keyboard makes text input smart and easy. Glide through letters with Gesture Typing – just lift to finish a word, no spacebar required. Compose notes on-the-go with Voice Typing. With amazing word recognition and next-word prediction, Google Keyboard helps you type faster and more accurately on all your Android devices.

Key features:
• Gesture Typing with dynamic floating preview
• Voice Typing
• Next-word suggestions and current-word completions
• Dictionaries for 26 languages
• Advanced keyboard layouts
• Works across your Android devices (tablets and phones)

Recent changes:
• Now available on Google Play for phones and tablets.
• Updated system permissions for integrated dictionary downloader and new-user setup wizard.

Tiny Flashlight + LED

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:22:09 +0000

Flashlight app for your device! Incredibly simple and yet very useful flashlight application. Will use your device's camera LED / flash / screen as a torch.

Tiny Flashlight is currently the best led flashlight app on the Android Market, because:

- It supports the widest range of devices with camera flashlight (led flash)
- It's also the brightest flashlight / torch, because of the camera flashlight, which emits very intense light in the dark.
- Has different widgets to choose from
- Has great and diverse screen lights
- Has the best flashlight support
- The best tablet app
- Free of Charge

Light sources:
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* Camera LED flashlight - Uses your phone's camera flashlight to emit bright light. Note that some devices don't have a camera flashlight. In this case the led flashlight option will be disabled, but you can still use one of the screen lights.

* Screen Light - This is the basic white screen flashlight, which is bright enough for daily use. You can use it as your primary flashlight option in case your device doesn't have a camera flashlight or you want to save the battery.

* Warning Lights, Police Lights, Color Flashlight, Strobe Flashlight, Morse Code, Text to Morse, Manual Morse Code, Camera Light - Different light sources, which may be useful in many situations. You can change the brightness and the colors.

The Best Free Flashlight app when you need reliability, functionality, and lights diversity

CAUTION: Strobe lighting can trigger seizures in photosensitive epilepsy!

Flashlight Widget and Lock Screen widgets:
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Tiny Flashlight is one of the few applications on the android market, which is free and has different widgets to choose from when the device has an option for a led flashlight. Also, Tiny Flashlight supports the newly added lockscreen widgets in Android 4.2 and later.

Flashlight Permissions:
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Why Tiny Flashlight needs so many permissions and how are they used:

* TAKE PICTURES AND VIDEOS (CAMERA flashlight)
- In order to start the camera flashlight on some devices, Tiny Flashlight has to use a small part of the camera hardware and it needs this permission. Don't worry, I'm not taking any pictures or videos without your permission. Tiny Flashlight is just accessing the camera LED / flash.

* CONTROL FLASH LIGHT
- This is the old method of accessing the camera flashlight on Android 1.5 and 1.6.

*** As you know, Tiny Flashlight is free, but also is one of the best supported apps on the Android Market. Currently, this is the only app that supports almost all devices with camera flashlight and fully supports all versions of Android (1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 4.0). This takes huge amounts of time and effort and in order for Tiny Flashlight to remain the best flashlight on the market, I have to use ads inside it.

The following permissions are required by Google's own ad provider (Admob) and Millennial Media (the biggest independent ad network). Both are respected industry leaders.

* INTERNET
- Used to load ad info from their servers. Nothing more.

* READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY
- Some Motorola devices have factory bugs. These devices don't have unique IDs and this became a problem for ad networks, because they can't function without it. There is a workaround for this problem by using the PHONE IDENTITY permission. This permission is used only for getting a unique id.

Keywords:
Flashlight
Torch
Best Flashlight
free flashlight
Flash
android, torch, strobe, brightest, linterna, фенерче, El feneri, best app, best flashlight, best tablet app, free phone app, tablet torch, free flashlight

Recent changes:
* Added support for Android 4.2's Lock Screen widgets
* Fixed Toshiba AT200
* Fixed Panasonic Eluga

Speedtest.net

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:04:19 +0000

Use Speedtest.net for easy, one-tap connection testing in under 30 seconds—accurate anywhere thanks to our global network.

Millions of users have made Speedtest.net the #1 app for testing internet speeds, and it’s trusted by the professionals like Anandtech, Engadget, and even the BBC and New York Times!

- Discover your Download, Upload, and Ping
- Real-time graphs show connection consistency
- Troubleshoot or Verify the speeds you were promised
- Track past tests with detailed reporting
- Easily share results

Recent changes:
- User interface enhancements
- Improved error handling
- Library updates
- Bug fixes

Wifi Analyzer

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:04:19 +0000

Turns your android phone into a Wi-Fi analyzer!!
Shows the Wi-Fi channels around you. Helps you to find a less crowded channel for your wireless router.

Recent changes:
* Improve compatibility.
* Search IEEE OUI for Company_id.

Adobe AIR

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:11:17 +0000

Enjoy your favorite web applications with Adobe AIR.
Adobe AIR enables you to have your favorite web apps with you all the time. AIR apps run on your device without a browser, providing the convenience of a native app. You can learn more about AIR at http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html. See what the most popular AIR apps are right now at http://gaming.adobe.com/showcase/.

By clicking "Install", you agree to the Software License Agreement found at http://adobe.com/go/eum.

Recent changes:
What's new in version 3.7.0.209:

Bug fixes, Security enhancements.

The complete set of release notes can be found at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_117_air_37_release_notes.html