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MIUI style Progress-Bar Battery Indicator on Android

April 5, 2012

It all started with low battery performance of smartphones, but now its more of a thing we love to showoff. Google Play is loaded with number of apps that either show the battery status or display advanced stats.

One of the best implementations of Battery indicators is done by MIUI ROM. ChargeBar brings the MIUI Style Circular Battery Indicator to all Android ROMs. It brings the same splendid circular progress of battery along with the charge animation.

Developed by Thomas Barrasso, ChargeBar displays the exact amount of charge left in your battery. It does this in the form of a completely customizable thin line.

App is full of settings that let you customize your ChargeBar. You can customize settings like starting on boot, hide in lock screen / full-screen apps to cosmetic ones like the ChargeBar’s color, height and position.

The default color for the Progress-Bar is Holo blue, the native color of Android 4.0 ICS, but you can choose your own color. Also, you can set the height of the battery bar indicator, default being 3 pixels. The best part is that you can place this bar above or below the Notification bar.

Works on Both Android Phones, Tablets Android 2.1 & above.

We love chargeBar and highly recommend it. Get it from Google Play. Best part, its free!

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Download Temple Run Android APK

March 27, 2012

The Temple Run has been a popular gaming title on iOS for a while. Now that game has gained big traction, the game has strong fanbase and its nearly time when its expands its scope to Android world.

Temple Run is fun,  running along the walls of a ruined temple whilst being chased by rather scary looking Evil Demon Monkeys, it really takes the best out of us. The game challenges the player with fast reflexes around the corners and sudden barriers.

Temple Run brings the same smooth experience to nearly all Android phones, Tablets. The graphics, the concept of collecting as many gold coins as possible, is all same.

The game is free and is ad-free. However, you can make in-app purchases in order to buy packs of gold coins which in turn allow new characters and power ups to be purchased, improving the overall gameplay. The game has social aspect to it which lets you challenge your friends for the highest score, which makes it even more fun.

We tested the app on Nexus One, Desire HD, Galaxy Note. Its butter smooth on every single device.

Download Temple Run APK for Android [Google Play].

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Develop Android apps on Android [AIDE Eclipse SDK]

March 11, 2012

Did you ever wanted to build an android app when you had no access to PC, laptop on the go?

Well now with any Android device: Tablet, netbook, Phone, you can write code and develop android apps for android. With android phones gaining more horsepower, it all makes more sense.

AIDE is an IDE for developing actual Android Apps directly on Android devices. AIDE is just like Eclipse  but portable and light weight having almost all the Modern IDE features. It has a rich editor offering advanced features like code completion, real-time compiling, refactoring and smart code navigation. And when you’re all done, it runs your app by installing it to the device.It is suited for Tablets like Asus Transformer prime, where you’ve a full docking keyboard or any other tablet with external USB or bluetooth keyboard.  It is compatible with Eclipse Android projects, copying the project does the job. 

It features all the modern IDE features like:

  • code formatting, Syntax Highlighting
  • auto-completion
  • compile time error checking,
  • Integrated LogCat viewer
  • Automatic Quick-Fixes for many errors
  • Code Refactoring: renaming etc.
  • Organize imports, setter getters, etc.
  • Find occurrences, call hierarchies
  • and many more…

We tried the app on Galaxy Tab with external keyboard for developing few apps, and it works as advertised. Developers, go and check this app out.

Download it from Google Play.

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Get MIUI Phone Dialer on Android

February 13, 2012

One of the best mods on Android is MIUI and their most attractive feature is their intuitive dialer.

Application dialer called exDialer lets you do exactly that by mimicking the exact same behavior.

The app’s look-n-feel reminds us of the Party poker with those green, faded blacks and deep grays. You can theme the app to suit it to your needs.

To iterate, exDialer (MIUI style dialer) has some awesome features:

  • Extra light weight, and smooth
  • Contact groups/favorites manager
  • T9 contact/calllog filter, which support Latin/Chinese/Russian/Hangul/Greek/Persian
  • Contacts list quick filter, support words/phonetic/hybrid
  • Contacts first alphabet quick scroll
  • Calllogs group by contact
  • Speed dial
  • Swipe contact left/right to SMS/call
  • Various themes available

Dialer supports T9 text input for various languages like:

  • Latin
  • Chinese
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Hangul
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Persian
  • Arabic

Download MIUI Dialer [exDialer]

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Attach USB devices: HDD, keyboard to Android Phone, Tablet

February 2, 2012

Android gives you the freedom of using your own hardware with it, thanks to the open USB host controller on newer devices.

But what happens to older devices? There’s an app for that. You can use just about any android device and attach peripherals like Keyboard, mouse, Hard disk via USB. The app is called USB Host controller and does exactly what it claims.

Application shows enumerated usb devices, and allows you to mount external mass storage devices to the filesystem. Supports advanced features like the ability to reload partition tables and reseting USB devices. It can also control the USB Host functionality of S5PC210 devices with the appropriate kernel patch (more about this later)

Of course, device needs to be rooted to use this app.

More details: USB Host Controller for Any Android

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Download Accelerator, Manager for Android [Multi-Threaded Downloads]

January 29, 2012

Android’s inbuilt downloader offers basic download management and by no means let you customize or accelerate download speeds.

AndroGET is  simple, yet effective third-party offering gives you total control over your downloads. It allows filesize of upto 2GB. It also includes the many features you’d expect of a download manager such as queuing, acceleration, pause-stop-resume, proxy support and basic HTTP authentication.

It supports a number of file sharing sites, and has been tested with both Mediafire and Uploadbaz. With many such services now only offering limited access (Fileserve, Filesonic et al) in light of the well-documented MegaUpload closure, we’re currently at a point where it’s hard to find a reliable service which won’t cave to FBI fear.

It works seamlessly with stock android browser and Dolphin hd browser. We also checked that it works fine with Skyfire, Firefox and Opera.  Down the line, developer promises FTP support, credentials management for FTP & basic HTTP authentication, batch download support, download scheduling & queue automation as well as improved support for the rapidly declining number of file sharing sites.

To summarize, Features:

  • Supports large file (up to 2 GB)
  • Supports downloading from browsers or email via link share (press and hold the link in a page, choose Share link, and then select AndroGET from the list that shows up)
  • Download Queue
  • Download Acceleration
  • Pause,stop, resume or retry in case of error.
  • File Overwrite/Rename
  • HTTP/HTTP(s) downloads with proxy support
  • basic HTTP authentication
  • Dropbox support
  • Supports a number of file sharing sites(tested with Mediafire and Uploadbaz)
  • Visual Notifications

Browser compatibility:

  • Android Stock Browser
  • UC Browser
  • Dolphin HD & Mini
  • Opera Mobile & Mini
  • Firefox
  • Boat Browser

Enough for an app thats free.  Isn’t it?

Download it from Android Market

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Counter Strike on Android Phone, Tablet [Download]

January 21, 2012

The classic First person shooter arrives on Android. We all gamers have grown up playing this game on LAN in our college days and nothing is more exciting than taking a headshot.

A fully playable version of Counter Strike is available on Android. Unfortunately, its not on Androidmarket, and its not even a port. ITs built from scratch using the Unity3d engine.

The game developer has released various versions of the app in order to make it work almost all android phones with different hardware. It is compatible with android 2.0+ devices, which is like 95% of the android world.

For users with android 2.0+, use 5o version and if you have 2.3+ then the 6p version will work well.

Checkout Gameplay of CounterStrike on Android:

Its snappy, and elegant even on single core 1Ghz devices like Galaxy S. The online play is smooth and brilliant. Works across PC -Android online plays. The game looks a replica of the original and all the popular maps have been retained for the mobile version. There are minor bells and whistles but it should get better over time. Developer is providing full support for the app, so in case you’ve troubles you can follow the link at the bottom of the post.

Controls are nice but they  take some time to get used to, just like GTA 3, and Modern combat 3. You can host Online games, challenge friends. It works well with Xperia Play as well.

Among the other devices we tested: Galaxy SII, Galaxy Note, performance was superb.

Get it from XDA page.

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Written by Tarandeep Singh · Filed Under apps, phones, tablet | View Comments