Android apps by Jack Underwood

Now Playing Music Player

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:16:47 +0000

Now Playing is a powerful, elegant music player for Android.

Featuring a simplistic Google Now-esque theme, Now Playing is the most beautiful Music Player in the Play Store.

Now Playing is streamlined, containing only the necessary features, without the bloat and complex UI's of the competing music players.

Now Playing's streamlined approach to your music collection allows you to quickly navigate your library to find the song you're looking for. It's built in search function speeds this process up even further if you already know what you're looking for.

Features:

• Compatibility with your phones built in equaliser. If your phone did not come with one, one can be downloaded from the Play Store.

• Share your currently playing songs on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ or anywhere else you like with one tap.

• Automatically fetches lyrics for the currently playing song.

• Automatically downloads Album/Artist art from Last.FM.

• Scrobbling to Last.FM.

• DashClock Music compatibility.

Gestures/Navigation:

• On the Now Playing screen, swipe to the right to get to the song queue. Swipe to the left to fetch lyrics for the currently playing song.

• Tap the bottom bar to goto the Now Playing screen from anywhere in the app. Swipe the bottom bar audio controls to expose shuffle and repeat options.

Recent changes:
•1.17
3-4x faster loading of images.
Fixed notification images
Fixed lock screen images.

•1.15
Basic Tablet UI
Full Pebble/Bluetooth support
•1.1
Dark theme
Higher resolution images
Very much improved queue/playlist reordering

•1.07
Fix for licensing server error.
Queue will update to currently playing song on change
Other small fixes/translation fixes

•1.03
Fix for notification not displaying album art

Now Playing Free

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:13:17 +0000

Now Playing is a powerful, elegant music player for Android.

Featuring a simplistic Google Now-esque theme, Now Playing is the most beautiful Music Player in the Play Store.

Now Playing is streamlined, containing only the necessary features, without the bloat and complex UI's of the competing music players.

Now Playing's streamlined approach to your music collection allows you to quickly navigate your library to find the song you're looking for. It's built in search function speeds this process up even further if you already know what you're looking for.

Features:

• Compatibility with your phones built in equaliser. If your phone did not come with one, one can be downloaded from the Play Store.

• Share your currently playing songs on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ or anywhere else you like with one tap.

• Automatically fetches lyrics for the currently playing song.

• Automatically downloads Album/Artist art from Last.FM.

• Scrobbling to Last.FM

• DashClock Music compatibility.

Gestures/Navigation:

• On the Now Playing screen, swipe to the right to get to the song queue. Swipe to the left to fetch lyrics for the currently playing song.

• Tap the bottom bar to goto the Now Playing screen from anywhere in the app. Swipe the bottom bar audio controls to expose shuffle and repeat options.

-- This is a 3 day trial --

Recent changes:
•1.43
Sleep Timer
Scrolling Animations
Improved Scrolling Performance

•1.30
Higher quality images.
Instant loading of images from 2nd use.
Lots of small polish and tidying.
Speed increases.
Force Close fixes.

•1.17
3-4x faster loading of images.
Fixed notification images
Fixed lock screen images.

•1.15
Basic Tablet UI
Full Pebble/Bluetooth support
•1.1
Dark theme
Higher resolution images
Very much improved queue/playlist reordering

Signal Booster

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:38:56 +0000

Signal Booster provides a simple way to optimise your Android phone's signal speed and strength.

A simple tap is all it takes to have your phone's signal boosted to the maximum possible for your current location.

Doing so will increase call quality, data transfer rates as well as saving battery.

Signal Booster uses sophisticated technology to choose the highest signal tower, and optimises your phones radio for the largest signal boost available.

Most users will notice a signal boost of around 1-2 bars, however it is possible for signal booster to boost signal up to 4-5 bars, in special conditions.

Signal booster is the only App that actually provides a tangible increase to signal for you device.

Recent changes:
Fixed force close;

One-Click Signal Booster Free

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:15:34 +0000

One-Click Signal Booster provides a simple way to optimise your Android phone's signal speed and strength.

A simple tap is all it takes to have your phone's signal levels boosted to the maximum possible for your current location.

Doing so will increase call quality, data transfer rates as well as saving battery.

This free version includes a minute delay before your signal will be boosted. Purchase the paid version to have your signal boosted instantly.

----NOTICE----

May take up to 5 minutes to take effect. Please be patient.

----NOTICE----

Recent changes:
Performance improvements;

Urban Dictionary

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:13:35 +0000

Urban Dictionary provides a simple, yet efficient way of using Urban Dictionary's extensive database to provide detailed definition and examples for today's most commonly used slang terms.

The information is presented in easy to read cards, providing both a faster and more convenient way of understanding slang, when compared to the mobile version of the site.

Urban Dictionary is compatible with all versions of Android starting at Andriod 2.1 Froyo.

Recent changes:
Performance increases.
Bug fixes.

Memory Booster

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:38:56 +0000

One-Click Memory Booster provides a simple way to optimise your Android phone's battery life, memory and performance.

A simple tap is all it takes to have Memory Booster have your phone running a smoothly and efficiently as it was when you first turned it on.

Memory Booster uses sophisticated technology to optimise you Android phone's memory apply a needed memory boost to ensure optimum performance and battery life.

Recent changes:
Performance Optimisations;

0870 Wizard

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:24:38 +0000

Calling 08 numbers from your android device is expensive! This app gets around this by providing a local number instead, allowing you to use your contract minutes instead of being charged 50p a minute!

This app will replace the 08 number you enter with a 01/02 number, and allow you to see the name of the company to which it is registered, and allow you to call direct from the app.

We're constantly adding to our database, it contains more numbers than any other app out there!

Start saving money today!

Recent changes:
Support for Android 2.3;

Lower Brightness

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:28:50 +0000

Lower Brightness allows you to lower your phones brightness past it's inital minimum, making night-time and low light viewing easier on your eyes.

Simply launch the app to enable or disable to darkener, then use your phone's built in brightness adjustment to fine tune to the brightness level you require.

By lowering the brightness, you'll also be saving yourself battery on phones using AMOLED screen technology, such as the Galaxy Nexus, and Galaxy S 2/3

Recent changes:
Lower minimum brightness further