Much better than Feedly. Feedly is literally just an RSS reader, so if your feed provides snippets of articles, that's all you're getting. With Currents, you get full articles (unless you add your own RSS feeds).
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Face it Tiger..
Banned
Looking for the best Solitare game app for my dad, for both 2.3 & 4.0 android. (he'll have a 4.0 soon :> )
EDIT: took a bit too long to post.: /
EDIT: took a bit too long to post.: /
whatsinaname
Member
My phone creeped me out today. I received a phone call and when I picked that up, my foobar on my computer automatically paused. When the call ended, it unpaused.
The only way I control foobar from my phone is foobarcon and that wasn't running. I can't seem to figure out what other app could have done this.
The only way I control foobar from my phone is foobarcon and that wasn't running. I can't seem to figure out what other app could have done this.
Escape Goat
Member
Maybe a stupid question but can you download songs from your iTunes onto your Android? And play them with an app (iTunes itself?)
GhostRidah
Member
Can you import your google reader feed into it? Want to try it but I need my feed from GR.
I get a dark grey font on black background for the story headlines, making it nearly impossible to read them. Is there a way to change that?
Submarino Conversível
Member
Solid Explorer is out of Beta
Now Paid
Now Paid
I am honestly not sure since I don't use Google Reader. I know it syncs with your Google account, but to what extent, I'm not sure.
I'm actually baffled by this. Can you post a screenshot?
Yes you can, but you have to add them one by one. It'll show up under Feeds.
Are you sure that's updated? It's bizarre because mine looks completely different, and not just the inverse colors.
Interaction seems nice, but the aim to push prediction pisses me the hell off. No, swipes are not always accurate, and no, predicting my next word does not have higher priority than getting the last one right. This is an especially irritating dealbreaker since the rest of the experience seems pretty good, if not flat out better than Swype.
Actually, the swiping seems to auto-disable in certain text boxes, like market search bar and contact search. This is really annoying as well
For some reason my Currents app wasn't showing up in the My Apps section of the play store, so yeah, I guess it wasn't getting updated. I was on 1.5.1. I uninstalled and reinstalled it and now it is all pretty. Strange issue.
Very, but glad to hear it's resolved!
The call was from inside the house.
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
I am enjoying Currents, but is there a way to view the latest updates from all my subscriptions on the same screen? I can only view subscriptions one at a time. It would also be nice if I can tell which subscriptions have updates from the index.
Total commander I've heard is good. SE is an amazing value for 2$ tho unless you have some reason you cant buy it.
Well as always with android, it depends on what you want out of it but there are always a TON of alternatives. For the whole package though I still think Solid Explorer is still the best. ES File explorer is very good as well if you dont mind it essentially being a gingerbread app in all aspects (I keep it around for it's ability to back up apps, I don't like using titanium backup).
So I just got a free Tablet for staying with my provider. It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (16GB Wifi + 3G). It's not bad but as an iOS user, I'm not used to all of the extra options I now have so I guess I'll be watching this thread from here on. Also is there a way to make it faster without rooting it? At the moment in Australia, Galaxy Tab 2 is still on Ice Cream Sandwich though. I hope Jelly Bean will solve that but I have no idea when the update will arrive. I do like that the battery lasts for aaaages even with me tinkering, downloading content, reading stuff, watching movies, etc.
I like Currents too but I wish there is a way for me to hide/delete sections that I have no interest of (ie. Science or Business). Does deleting all source from that section will effectively delete the section? I also want to re-arrange the sections as I see fit. Putting a section above or below the others. Also, at the moment gaming and movies are combined into "Entertainment" section. Whereas I want to be able to separate them.
I like Currents too but I wish there is a way for me to hide/delete sections that I have no interest of (ie. Science or Business). Does deleting all source from that section will effectively delete the section? I also want to re-arrange the sections as I see fit. Putting a section above or below the others. Also, at the moment gaming and movies are combined into "Entertainment" section. Whereas I want to be able to separate them.
From what I remember, deleting the sources will delete the category/section. Not sure about the re-organization, but I do really like the new Currents.
Any recommendation which app to go for in regards to twitter?
I was using the regular twitter app but it doesn't seem to update my feed unless I do it manually.
I may try out plume.
Lol late comment but twitter API is so shit that it limits requests (don't know if they use something else for their app). Was working on my pass time app and hit their request limit which was annoying.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Free, Holo themed podcast app AntennaPod
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.danoeh.antennapod
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.danoeh.antennapod
The Faceless Master
Member
ES Explorer is a better app. How do you get to a specific network subfolder? (say 192.168.0.40/Volume_1/Movies) I can bookmark it in ES and get there in 2 tab. Much faster.
How many tabs?
SuicidalSteve
Member
is there a program that will let you do a mass cache delete on all my applications? Every time I try to update my apps I always get insufficient storage and I hate going through all my apps to delete the cache so i can re-download the updates...Grrr
The Faceless Master
Member
i believe you would need root for that... or a custom recovery.
Can't you just go to Settings -> Storage -> Cached data?
SuicidalSteve
Member
There is no such feature in storage at all. I have to go through them individually and it is very annoying most of the time
I guess that's a Jelly Bean feature then, as the Nexus 7 is my first Android device.
Tabs?
Dunno about that but you go to jump > network > smb/cifs and all my bookmarked network folders are there.
On ES, I tab "LAN" (always on screen) and tab my smb bookmark, total 2 tabs.
On SE, you need at least 4 tabs.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
That's so stupid, and is what's keeping me from switching from Google Reader to Currents. Since I read my feeds both on my computer and my phone that seamless integration is important to me. Being able to import the feeds one by one isn't good enough, I want full Reader sync.
How do I end a sentence with a word other than the auto correct suggestion with SwiftKey and SwiftKey flow? If I type out a word then select my punctuation it selects the auto correct but if I manually tap the word I want to avoid the auto correct it inserts a space. If I then backspace and insert my punctuation it auto corrects again!
Kill Your Masters
Member
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sebouh00.smartwifitoggler
Wifi smart toggler is amazing.
Gotta pimp this one again after using it for a few weeks now. It rememberd my wifi hotspots and it's working flawlessly so far. WiFi is always turned on when I'm in a known hotspot.
Wifi smart toggler is amazing.
Gotta pimp this one again after using it for a few weeks now. It rememberd my wifi hotspots and it's working flawlessly so far. WiFi is always turned on when I'm in a known hotspot.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Is there an icon set that's kinda tile based like windows metro?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
If you want the WP look'n'feel, why not try a launcher such as Launcher7? Or maybe you don't want to move that far away from the standard Android launcher.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah, I'm not sure if I want to switch launchers entirely, because most that I've tried are pretty choppy.
Also that's incompatible with the Nexus 7.
Also that's incompatible with the Nexus 7.