Gourmet pizza chain Crust has gotten round to putting together an Android app, which it released this Thursday. iOS users, who already had access to the app, got something too — an UI-focused update — though the improvements are not all good.
Many users, myself included, feel the official Facebook app for Android is severely lacking — it can take forever to update and often crashes. The free or paid app Friendcaster provides a superior Facebook experience on your Android device with all the features you’d expect.
If you’ve used Android’s Facebook app recently, you know how slow and bloated its become. If you’re tired of staring at the Facebook loading screen, Fast Facebook is a cool, customisable, blazing fast Facebook client for Android.
If you’re on a flight with your phone propped up in front of you, or listening to music while you work on your phone with your hands on the keyboard, it can be a pain to stop, unlock your phone or tap it to bring up the playback controls and hit forward, back, switch songs, or change videos. Wave Control is a new Android app that lets you customise hand gestures to control music and video playback that you perform over your phone’s proximity sensor, Minority Report style.
If you aren’t impressed by the feature set of Android’s default phone calls, Ultimate Call Screen HD will add a load of new features to your calls, including full-screen contact phoots, a call blocker, and the ability to reject a call by turning the phone face-down.
There are plenty of tools that allow you to take simple text notes and organise them so you can search and filter them later, but Fetchnotes is the first one we’ve seen in a while that’s coming out of the gate with full cloud syncing across multiple devices, an easy-to-use webapp, Android and iOS apps and desktop widgets so you can stay on top of your notes, all right up front on launch.
I’ll come right out and say it: I’m not a big fan of Instagram. And no, it’s not because iOS users have had their underpants in a knot over the Android release, but because for me, it really doesn’t live up to the hype. Here’s why, and more importantly, here are some just-as-good alternatives for Android users (and some for iOS users too!) who want to take and share photos with or without those filters that make a 5-megapixel phone camera look like a 70s’ Polaroid?
The travel and hotel search engine Hipmunk has updated its iPhone and Android apps with calendar integration from iCal, Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. This means when you’re searching for flights and hotels you can do so with your daily calendar right in front of you.
Group calling isn’t something most of us need to do often, but it comes in handy when you’re trying to make plans with a bunch of people or when you’re making the rounds for holiday calls. CrowdCall simplifies the process by making it easy to make calls to up to 20 people directly from your iPhone or Android phone.
If you’re stuck in an office where you have to sit with your back to a walkway or the entrance to your cubicle, you know how startling it can be when you’re listening to music and someone walks up behind you and taps you on the shoulder. Around Sound for Android makes sure that never happens again — the app uses the microphone on your headset or your phone as an extended ear, and if a loud noise is detected, the app will pause your music so you can pay attention.
