Android apps by ENTERTAILION LLC

Able Remote for Google TV

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:26:07 +0000

Turn your Android device into a customized Google TV remote. A Google TV featured app!

NOTE: This app is for Google TV. You also need to install the "Able Remote" app on your Android device.

"Able Remote Is a Supercharged Google TV Controller." - Lifehacker

“Where the official Google TV remote app begins, Able Remote grabs the reigns and pushes things further in a way that’s intuitive, full featured, and a mix of geeky and fun.” – Android Central

"One of the five must-have Google TV Apps" - Geek.com

"It offers greatly improved functionality over Google TV Remote and is so intuitive that I rarely have to glance down at my phone when using Able Remote…rating 4 out of 5 - Gnarl’d"

"Able Remote is a must-try app for every Google TV owner…rating 4 out of 5 - Androinica"

Navigate Google TV with touch gestures and voice commands. Share photos, videos and web pages with your TV. Forward notifications to your TV.

If you're having any trouble, PLEASE CONTACT US at support@ableremote.com BEFORE RATING, so we can help you out and improve the App - your feedback really does help. We can't respond to reviews or comments.

Features:
- TV Touch navigation
- Touch play controls
- View photos and videos from your device on Google TV
- Share web pages with the TV
- Customize buttons (paid feature)
- Launch your favorite apps
- Jump to your favorite TV channels
- View SMS, Caller ID and app notifications on your TV
- Voice commands
- Single button power on/off all devices
- Control your TV, set-top box, audio receiver and Blu-ray player
- Create macros that combine device, app and channel actions
- Change the user interface color
- Web bookmarks
- Spotlight web apps
- Weather and clock overlay
- Trending posts from Google+
- Android widget to remotely control Google TV Play Music
- Share button layouts
- Backups
- Netflix Instant Queue

To get started, connect your Android device to the same network as your Google TV.

Vizio Co-Star:
The Vizio Co-Star Google TV device does not have a built-in IR blaster. This means that apps like Able Remote cannot control devices attached to your Google TV device unless you follow these instructions:
1. Disable power save mode on your Google TV for your physical remote (Settings -> Devices -> Bluetooth -> Vizio XRA700 Remote -> Remote power save -> Off)
2. Place the physical remote so that it is pointing at the devices you want to control. Your physical remote will act as a IR blaster for controlling all the devices connected to your Google TV.

Problems:
Please email us at feedback@ableremote.com; we cannot reply to comments or Android error reports and many reported problems require that we ask for more details in order to fix.

Recent changes:
Voice search support for Google TV 3.0.

Able Remote

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:53:17 +0000

Turn your Android device into a customized Google TV remote. A Google TV featured app!

"Able Remote Is a Supercharged Google TV Controller." - Lifehacker

“Where the official Google TV remote app begins, Able Remote grabs the reigns and pushes things further in a way that’s intuitive, full featured, and a mix of geeky and fun.” – Android Central

"One of the five must-have Google TV Apps" - Geek.com

"Able Remote is a must-try app for every Google TV owner…rating 4 out of 5 - Androinica"

Navigate Google TV with touch gestures and voice commands. Share photos, videos and web pages with your TV. Forward notifications to your TV.

If you're having any trouble, PLEASE CONTACT US at feedback@ableremote.com BEFORE RATING, so we can help you out and improve the App - your feedback really does help. We can't respond to reviews or comments.

Features:
- TV Touch navigation
- Touch play controls
- View photos and videos from your device on Google TV
- Share web pages with the TV
- Customize buttons (paid feature)
- Launch your favorite apps
- Jump to your favorite TV channels
- View SMS, Caller ID and app notifications on your TV
- Voice commands
- Single button power on/off all devices
- Control your TV, set-top box, audio receiver and Blu-ray player
- Create macros that combine device, app and channel actions
- Change the user interface color
- Web bookmarks
- Spotlight web apps
- Weather and clock overlay
- Trending posts from Google+
- Android widget to remotely control Google TV Play Music
- Share button layouts
- Backups
- Netflix Instant Queue

NOTE: You also need to install the "Able Remote for Google TV" app on your Google TV device.

To get started, connect your Android device to the same network as your Google TV.

All the basic features of the app is free. Most of the features to edit or change the app is available for a nominal fee.

Permissions:
Receive SMS, Read contact data, Read phone state and identity - For any incoming SMS or phone calls, notifications will be forwarded to your Google TV. For the incoming calls, the phone number will be matched in the contacts list and used for the text of the notification.

For technical reasons, the All Notifications setting in Able Remote uses Android's Accessibility service and must be enabled in the Android Accessibility settings. For convenience, options are provided on the Able Remote settings screen to go to the Accessibility settings. Just to be clear, Able Remote is intended to be a convenience tool and is not an accessibility tool. The Accessibility service will give a warning that Able Remote may be able to collect personal data. This is because Accessibility doesn't know what or how data passing through it is used by enabled apps. Able Remote only uses Accessibility to pass notification text to your Google TV and not used for any other purpose or stored.

Caution:
Be aware of the accessibility apps that are enabled when you enable Able Remote! Your phone behavior might be affected by other accessibility apps that were enabled when Accessibility was turned on.

External storage is used for sharing button layouts and for storing backups.

Vizio Co-Star:
The Vizio Co-Star Google TV device does not have a built-in IR blaster. This means that apps like Able Remote cannot control devices attached to your Google TV device unless you follow these instructions:
1. Disable power save mode on your Google TV for your physical remote (Settings -> Devices -> Bluetooth -> Vizio XRA700 Remote -> Remote power save -> Off)
2. Place the physical remote so that it is pointing at the devices you want to control. Your physical remote will act as a IR blaster for controlling all the devices connected to your Google TV.

Recent changes:
Voice search support for Google TV 3.0.

Open Launcher for Google TV

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:14:30 +0000

The ultimate Google TV launcher. The Open Launcher app is an alternative to the default home launcher app provided by Google TV.

The user interface consists of rows of your favorite apps which you can customize. It also includes a special row at the bottom for the most recent apps launched.

Features:
- More room for organizing your favorite apps
- Support for grouping of apps, web apps, channels and web sites
- Quick access to recent apps
- Supports fast D-pad navigation
- Overlay design that displays more of live TV
- Direct access to browser bookmarks and history
- Direct access to Spotlight web apps
- Displays current weather (USA only)
- Various customizable settings
- Change wallpaper

Instructions:
- To add an app: Use the D-pad arrow keys to select any row other than the "Recent Apps" row. Press Menu and select "Add App". You can select the current row or enter the name for a new row. Then select the app you want to add.
- To add a Spotlight web app: Select any row other than the "Recent Apps" row. Press Menu and select "Add Spotlight Web App". You can select the current row or enter the name for a new row. Then select the web app you want to add.
- To add a TV channel as a favorite (Google TV only provides channel data for USA): Go to live TV, press Menu, select Save and then "Add channel to home screen". Type in the channel number or name. Select the channel from the list and press OK.
- To add a web site as a favorite: Load the site in the Chrome browser. Press Menu, select Save and then "Add to home screen". Confirm the web site details and select the OK button.
- To add a web site to bookmarks: Add bookmark in Chrome and then use Bookmarks app.
- To uninstall an app: Select All Apps, then long click on the app you want to uninstall.
- To use a personal photo as the wallpaper: Launch the Photos app and view the photo fullscreen. Press the Menu button and select "Set as wallpaper".

Limitations:
- Widgets are not supported.
- The icons provided by Google TV for bookmarks and for TV channel icons are low-res. In some cases, TV channels have generic icons.

Permissions:
Get Tasks - needed to determine which recent apps have been launched.
Read History Bookmarks - to provide quick access to browser bookmarks.
Expand Status Bar - to display notifications.
Course Location - to determine zip code for weather data.
Internet - to download weather data.
External storage - to cache images
Wallpaper - to change the system wallpaper

The code for this app is open sourced at: https://github.com/entertailion/Open-Launcher-for-GTV

Problems:
Please email us at feedback@openlauncher.com; we cannot reply to comments or Android error reports and many reported problems require that we ask for more details in order to fix.

Recent changes:
- Change row name
- Bug fixes

GTV Tasker Plugin

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:21:59 +0000

Control your Google TV using Tasker actions.

How to create a Google TV task in Tasker:
- Click on the Tasks tab
- Click on the '+' button
- Enter a name for the new task
- Click on the '+' button to add a new action
- Select the 'Plugin' category
- Select the 'GTV Tasker' action
- Click on the 'Edit' button to to edit the action configuration
- Wait for the Google TV devices to be discovered
- When the progress indicator stops, select a Google TV device from the list
- If it is a Google TV device that hasn't been paired before, your will be prompted to enter the PIN that is displayed on the Google TV device
- Once the device is paired, select a type of action to be sent to the Google TV device (key code, URL, text data or invoke an app)
- Click on the checkmark button to save the configuration
- Click on the checkmark for the 'GTV Tasker' action
- Add other tasks (remember to add 'Task/Wait' actions between each GTV actions)
- Click on the checkmark button to save the new task

To determine the app package and activity names, install the GTV Tasker Apps on your Google TV device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.entertailion.android.gtvtasker

This plugin is compatible with Locale and can also be used with NFC tags.

This app is open sourced at: https://github.com/entertailion/GTV-for-Tasker
Read the instructions on Github on how to start apps.

If you're having any trouble, PLEASE CONTACT US at tasker@entertailion.com BEFORE RATING, so we can help you out and improve the App - your feedback really does help. We can't respond to reviews or comments.

Recent changes:
- Support for sending text data
- Support for opening web pages in Chrome
- Support for starting GTV apps

GTV Tasker Apps

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:21:59 +0000

Utility to get the package and activity names of apps installed on a Google TV device. This is used with the GTV Tasker Plugin: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.entertailion.android.tasker

Recent changes:
First release

Phantom Probes Free

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:12:16 +0000

"Top 10 Android Apps of the Week" - Android-Apps.com

"...the probes are absolutely brilliant..." - AndroidCentral.com

"Phantom Probes game delights Android users with distinctive gameplay" - Mobiletor.com

Phantom Probes is a game that will mesmerize you. The game captures fun childhood memories of dropping objects from heights and seeing how they bounce off things. It’s a game everyone has played during their life. If you’ve ever dropped something, you’re good at Phantom Probes. Now fulfill your childhood dreams of dropping balls, bombs, rubber ducky's; everything but the kitchen sink.

Guess the shapes of the objects that get hit. With 25 different things to drop (probes), 50 fun levels, Open Feint and Game Center leader boards there is something for everyone. See how they bounce and break and explode and slide and crash and make weird sounds!

Features
*Challenging levels to solve
*100 unique phantom shapes
*25 different probes
*Realistic physics-based effects
*Amazing particle effects
*Support for all 2.2 and later Android mobile devices
*Beautiful HD graphics
*Support for SD storage

Recent changes:
Improved gameplay
New colorful styling
Updated graphics
5 new probes

Phantom Probes

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:02:44 +0000

"Top 10 Android Apps of the Week" - Android-Apps.com

"...the probes are absolutely brilliant..." - AndroidCentral.com

"Phantom Probes game delights Android users with distinctive gameplay" - Mobiletor.com

Phantom Probes is a game that will mesmerize you. The game captures fun childhood memories of dropping objects from heights and seeing how they bounce off things. It’s a game everyone has played during their life. If you’ve ever dropped something, you’re good at Phantom Probes. Now fulfill your childhood dreams of dropping balls, bombs, rubber ducky's; everything but the kitchen sink.

Guess the shapes of the objects that get hit. With 25 different things to drop (probes), 50 fun levels, Open Feint and Game Center leader boards there is something for everyone. See how they bounce and break and explode and slide and crash and make weird sounds!

Features
*50 challenging levels to solve
*100 unique phantom shapes
*25 different probes
*Realistic physics-based effects
*Amazing particle effects
*Support for all 2.2 and later Android mobile devices
*Beautiful HD graphics
*Support for SD storage

Recent changes:
Improved gameplay
New colorful styling
Updated graphics
5 new probes

Overlay Effects for Google TV

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:17:21 +0000

Live TV effects for Google TV.

Configure various animated effects to be displayed periodically when watching live TV on your Google TV device. You can choose to see the effects every half hour or at the top of the hour.

If you change the configuration and then go to live TV, you should see a preview of the effects after a few seconds.

This app is open-sourced: https://github.com/entertailion/Overlay-for-GTV

Permissions:
Tasks - This app requires permission to retrieve running apps. This is to check if the live TV is active to avoid showing the effects when the user is navigating other parts of Google TV.
Internet - To upload analytics.

If you're having any trouble, PLEASE CONTACT US at overlay@entertailion.com BEFORE RATING, so we can help you out and improve the App - your feedback really does help. We can't respond to reviews or comments.

Recent changes:
- Bug fixes

Overlay News for Google TV

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:20:26 +0000

News headlines are periodically displayed over live TV as a banner at the bottom of the screen of your Google TV device. It can be configured to get the headlines from your favorite news web sites.

Features:
- Latest news over live TV
- View selected news in Chrome
- Configurable settings on how frequently news is displayed
- Support for sharing sites from Chrome
- Pre-configured with popular news sites

Instructions:
- To view current headline in Chrome: Press the OK button when the headline is displayed and the associated web page will be displayed.
- To view the list of configured sites: Click on the "View Sites" button in the Overlay News app
- To add a site from Chrome: Load the site in the Chrome browser on Google TV. Press the Menu button and select "Share page".
- To manually add a news site: Press the "Add Site" button in the Overlay News app and enter the URL for the news web site.
- To add a RSS feed: Press the "Add Site" button and enter the URL for the RSS feed.
- To remove a news site: Click on the "View Sites" button to view all the sites. Select and long-click the site you want to remove.

Permissions:
Tasks - This app requires permission to retrieve running apps. This is to check if the live TV is active to avoid showing the news when the user is navigating other parts of Google TV.
Internet - To upload analytics.

If you're having any trouble, PLEASE CONTACT US at overlaynews@entertailion.com BEFORE RATING, so we can help you out and improve the App - your feedback really does help. We can't respond to reviews or comments.

Recent changes:
- Bug fixes

Guess The Picta

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:39:59 +0000

Guess the word that matches a set of pictures. But hurry, you only have a short time to guess the word in each round! Play with your friends to see who gets the highest score.

- The biggest selection of pictures on the internet.
- Great fun for the whole family.
- Keeps track of the highest score.
- It's completely free!

Recent changes:
Improved image server reliability