Sometimes you have to venture beyond the Play Store to find the best apps. From our collection of favorite apps found outside the Play Store, our number one was TubeMate. Using this app, you can download YouTube videos to your device in various formats and resolutions - including 1080p.
Anything you download will automatically be saved to the video section of your gallery, and be instantly ready to watch, stream to Chromecast, or otherwise do with as you please.
Do you find yourself bobbing your head along to the rhythm of the train when you're sitting on it, or composing silent melodies in your head that you know would sound amazing if only you could record them at that moment? Then you should check out Caustic 3, the latest version of the popular mobile music-making machine. Using this powerful tool, you can use one of 14 different synthesizers, vocoders and drum machines to create that perfect sound on the move. Caustic 3 is a deep and complex app, so be prepared to put some time into, but the results are great.
If you're looking for a simpler way to make music on the move, check out our other favorite music-making apps.
There are a whole bunch of educational apps, games and books which you can download on your Android phone or tablet, you just need to hit the "categories" section in the Play Store and select an age group, or subcategory like "education".
Once you've done that and installed some suitable apps, we recommend downloading Kids Place. This app allows you to assign the particular apps and games you want to give young ones access to, and restricts them to a screen with these apps only (until a predetermined PIN code is entered).
Kids Place also prevents children from sending messages or purchasing other apps while using the device, and you can set a time limit for how long access is granted; think of it as putting your phone or tablet temporarily in a safe mode.
The easiest way to download YouTube videos on your Android.,.
TubeMateYouTubeDownloader is an app for downloading YouTube videos directly to your mobile phone. It allows you to have your favorite videos on your device’s SD card to watch them whenever you want.
Using the app is as simple as accessing the video that you're interested in on the "browser" that comes integrated in the app itself and touching the green arrows that you'll see located on the bottom part of the screen.
At that moment you can select the video quality you want to download. It normally has many different resolution options adapted to the different Android devices compatible with the application.
The downloaded videos will be stored on your SD card by default, but you can move them around from one location to another, however suits you best.
TubeMateYouTubeDownloader is a very easy-to-use video downloader whose main strong point is exactly that--you can have get your hands on any video in seconds.
How to Increase Touch Screen Sensitivity Of Android Smartphone Without Rooting..
There are Thousands of ways to increase touch screen sensitivity Of android mobile For rooted users But You will not find any way to Increase Touch screen sensitivity for non rooted users , That's why i planned to make a post for Non Rooted Android users . By following our guide You will surely Feel Improved Touch screen sensitivity on your non rooted android smartphone. Obviously today we are going to use apps to increase touchscreen responsiveness because editing build.prop and implementing tweaks is not possible without rooting android
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- Is there any way To make android touchscreen smooth and more sensitive without rooting my phone ??
Ans - Yes !! if you are a non rooted user and want to increase android touchscreen sensitivity without rooting your phone , you are at right place .
- Are there any Apps For Non Rooted users To increase android touch screen sensitivity and make them smooth ??
Ans - Yes !! There are tons of apps With which you can make your android screen smooth and sensitive . But !!!!!! Wrong use of those apps can make your screen malfunction . and at last to get rid of malfunction you will have to perform a hard reset of your android Smartphone .
Many Low Budget Smartphones Start Having Issues In The Sensitivity
Of Touchscreen .
So i wondered to find a way to Boost touchscreen and increase screen sensitivity and make it super smooth for non rooted users
Samsung Smartphones already have a option to increase touchscreen sensitivity known as screen calibration. But what about Android Smartphones That don't have a option to calibrate their touch screen and increase performance of their android screen
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This app is basically made for Samsung galaxy S but it works for everyone . tested personally by me
** Launch the App from Drawer
SGS touchscreen booster | Increase Touchscreen performance of your android smartphone without rooting
** Set Sensitivity To - 80
** Duration To register Touch - 0
** Minimum Motion - 0
** Motion Filter - 70
** Multi Touch points - 2
** Start service on boot
** click on Apply changes
** You can try various combinations with it and chose the one that suits you best.
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Here’s how to give your Android phone a huge speed boost, just like Apple sped up iOS 7.1..
Apple released its eagerly anticipated iOS 7.1 update last week and while the new software added a bunch of great new features and cleaned up a few annoying bugs, there is one thing in particular that stands out as the best thing about iOS 7.1: the speed improvements. Apple’s new iOS 7.1 software is incredibly fast on iPhones and iPads, and the difference completely changes the user experience for the better. But why should iPhone users have all the fun?
With a few simple adjustments to three settings, you can enjoy the same great speed improvements on your Android smartphone or tablet.
One of the many great things about Android is its flexibility. Google’s mobile software is open to all kinds of third-party tweaks and enhancements, but it also has some built-in features that savvy owners can take advantage of to change the user experience. One such feature allows Android device users to dramatically speed up the transition animations that display when they switch apps and when windows open and close.
The tweaks are available within the settings of all recent Android phones in a section called “Developer options.”
This section might be hidden on some phones, but it’s very easy to access. On many phones, you just have to open a certain page in the settings and tap a button seven times. Use Google to figure out how to enable Developer options on your phone if it’s currently hidden (for example, search “enable developer options HTC One”).
Once you have access to Developer options, simply scroll until you find the following three settings, which may be located on the main screen or within an “Advanced” subsection:
Window animation scale
Transition animation scale
Animator animation scale
Tapping each of the three aforementioned settings will reveal that it’s set to “1x” by default. If you want to speed up your phone or tablet dramatically, simply change each of those three settings to “.5x” — that’s it.
Want to quickly change the look of your home screen (and some applications) without too much work? Change the theme! In Sense 6, HTC has provided four themes to choose from. While the selection is lacking, you can change from a cool blue-green theme to something with warmer reds, purples, or even a dark grey theme.
To change your theme, simply go into your settings and hit Personalize, then tap on Themes. Select the theme you’d like to use, press Apply, and you’re good to go.
Lock screen shortcuts
The HTC One allows users to quickly jump into certain applications right from the lock screen. Out of the box, these applications include the essentials, like the phone, messaging, browser, and camera apps. Luckily, it’s easy enough to customize these applications, but there’s a bit of a restriction.
The four docked icons at the bottom of your home screen are the same as those found on your lock screen. This isn’t a coincidence. In fact, the only way you can change the lock screen shortcuts is to change the docked home screen icons. This can be done by long-pressing on the app you’d like to replace and dragging it to the remove link that appears at the top of the display. Don't worry, it doesn't delete the app, it just removes it from your home screen. After that, you can replace the empty slot with any application you choose and it will reflect on your lock screen.
BlinkFeed tweaks
HTC now offers up even more content for BlinkFeed, bolstering the selection we saw on previous versions of Sense.
You’ll also be able to create custom topics, so you can get as specific as you’d like. Just type in a subject you'd like to see content about and BlinkFeed will find news posts, YouTube videos, tweets and more.
If you want to free up that extra panel and rid yourself of BlinkFeed, that’s also an option. HTC makes this simple to do, too. To kill off BlinkFeed, all you’ll need to do is long press on an empty space on the home screen and select Manage home screen pages. Swipe to the BlinkFeed panel, and tap on Remove at the bottom of the display. Done and done.
If you want to keep BlinkFeed but don’t want to see it every time you unlock your phone, you can change this, too. By going back to the Manage home screen panel pages screen, you can swipe to whatever panel you’d like to see when you unlock your phone and tap on Set as home on the bottom of the screen. Now that will be the first screen you see.
Move your home screen panels around
You might want to have your home screen set up just the way you like it. For example, I always have my twitter widget to the left of my main home screen and my bookmark widget to the right. If you want to give yourself some space from Blinkfeed, it's simple enough to do.
From anywhere on the home screen, simply use a two-fingered pinch gesture, which will "zoom out" your home screen and show all available widgets below and your home screen pages at the top. You can now re-position panels (with the exception of BlinkFeed) by long-pressing on the panel you’d like to move and dragging it to the desired location.
Unlock your phone the right way. Or the left way.
Building upon the LG G2’s Knock On feature, HTC has gone a bit further with the M8. Not only can your double-tap the screen while it is locked to wake the device from sleep (and double-tap again to put it back to sleep), you can also swipe it to get around more quickly.
While your phone is asleep, a quick swipe to the right launch will launch BlinkFeed. Swiping to the left will unlock the phone and take you directly to your home screen. Swipe up from the bottom edge of the display to go to your last opened app, and swipe down from the top of the screen to launch voice dialing.
The implementation works well, but it’s a little disappointing to see that these applications/gestures can not be customized in any way.
Quick camera access
Want a faster way to get to your camera app without unlocking the your phone? While your HTC One is in its locked, sleeping state, you can easily jump into the camera by holding the device in landscape view (sideways) and holding down one of the volume keys. This will launch the camera app and let you take new photos or videos, but don't worry, your content is safe—viewing previously-taken pics requires you to unlock your phone.
Don’t forget HTC’s Getting Started Guide
Don’t know where to start with your new HTC One M8? HTC provides an optional “getting started” guide that should help ease you into your new phone’s capabilities. You’ll be able to customize your phone with apps, feeds, and more right from your computer.
You’ll be able to access the Getting Started guide during the initial setup of the phone, where you’ll be prompted to go to the website https://start.htc.com/pair. Simply type in your unique code into the site and you’ll be up and running in no time.
Save your own custom settings as a Camera
Among the many features found on the camera, there is one that many will find incredibly useful, and it’s the ability to save customized settings as a camera. What does that mean? Well, if you want to keep your ISO set at a certain level at all times or you always want HDR photos when using the camera, the HTC One allows you to change those settings and save it as a new camera mode. This way, you can jump into the Camera app and take photos without wasting precious seconds on fiddling with white balance and other settings.
Launch Camera and tap on the three dots on the top left (bottom left if in landscape) to access the settings. From there, you can tweak the effects just the way you like them. After you’ve adjusted the settings, tap on the cog-like icon and scroll down until you you see the Save as camera option. You can even give this camera its own name, like "high-ISO no flash."
Prioritize quick settings
Quick settings can be accessed by dragging down the notification panel and tapping the icon on the top right of the screen. Alternatively, you can also use two fingers to drag the panel down to immediately reveal the quick settings.
The quick settings options are rather busy, and there are some you may never use. To clean up these settings, simply tap on the edit icon at the top of the screen, which is depicted as a piece of paper and pencil. You’ll then be presented with the option to edit your quick settings.
To change the positions of your quick settings, simply tap and hold the icon to the right (three lines) and drag the panels up or down as you see fit. Moreover, you can drag a panel down past the “hidden items” section to keep it from showing at all.
Use the M8 to control your TV
Like its predecessor, the HTC One M8 ships with an IR blaster that allows you to control your TV. The setup is relatively painless, and the application itself is slick and well-designed. You no longer need to worry when your lose your TV remote.
Head into your app drawer, tap on the TV icon, and follow the prompts to set up the phone to work with your make and model of TV. It even controls some other A/V gear, like receivers. Don't miss out on this feature!
Show battery percentage in the status bar
A simple feature that’s not turned on by default is the option to show the percentage of remaining battery life in the status bar. In addition to the usual vague icon, you’ll be able see exactly how much juice you have left on your phone. It’s a helpful feature, but might add a little clutter to your status bar.
Go to Settings, scroll down to Power, and check the box next to Show battery level.
Change app drawer grid size
HTC decided to change the default grid size to 3 x 4 in the app drawer for the One. This requires the user to scroll through more pages to get through the same amount of applications. This can be changed to a 4 x 5 grid by tapping the three dots on the top right while inside the application drawer and selecting Grid size.
Do not disturb
Tired of your phone beeping and blinking from notifications in the middle of the night? There are apps in the Play Store to prevent that, but the HTC comes with a Do not disturb feature built-in. When you turn it on, it prevents the phone from making any sound, or vibrating, or the LED from blinking.
Just head to the Settings, then Sounds and select Do Not Disturb from the list. You can set a schedule to make DND turn on and off at selected times and days, and "whitelist" certain contacts to make sure you still get calls and texts from them. It's really quite flexible.
Android is stacked with so many tools and configuration options, we often overlook some of its most useful features. Sometimes they’re hiding in plain sight. Other times, they’re buried so deep, you’d never discover them without spelunking deep into submenus, groping blindly in the dark.
But don’t let that one killer feature get away. Even if you consider yourself an Android power user, you’d do well to make sure you’re familiar with every single menu, toggle and utility on this list. We’ve done our best to identify the precise locations of the features listed below, but you may have to hunt around menus a bit if your device manufacturer has excessive interface customizations.
Did we leave out that one killer, secret feature that everyone should know about? Let us know by officially submitting a tip to Greenbot. We’ll give you direct credit if we use your submission.
Use Android Device Manager for remote security
Use Android Device Manager for much greater control over a lost phone.
The Google Play Services framework is used to manage all sorts of back-end services, and Google updates it frequently in the background. Most of the functionality packed away in this framework is of little user-facing consequence, but there’s a lot including account sync, malware scanning, and the Android Device Manager. This feature allows you track, ring, lock, and wipe your device if you lose track of it.
By default, you can only ring and locate a device with Android Device Manager, so if you want the full gamut of features, go into your main system settings and scroll down to Security. Find the Device Administrators option, and open it to see what apps have been granted admin privileges on your phone or tablet. Checking the box next to Android Device Manager allows you to wipe and lock the device in addition to the ring and locate features.
You can remotely access Android Device Manager in a number of useful ways. If you only have one Android device, you can use any web browser to go to theAndroid Device Manager page and log into your account. From there, you can see a map of where your phone is located, and issue commands to nuke it or just lock it.
Before resorting to extreme measures, you might want to start with locating and making it ring to ensure it didn’t just slip between the couch cushions. Should you have access to more than one Android device, you can use the Android Device Manager app, which you can keep on all your devices to locate and manage the others.
Screen Recording
Screenshots are for chumps. Show everyone else what you’re up to with a screen recording.
A subset of Android users over the years have resorted to rooting their devices to get more advanced features. Android has slowly gained features over time that make root less of a necessity. As of Android 5.0 Lollipop, there’s less reason than ever to root now that Android supports screen recording. You just need an app to take proper advantage of it.
A screen recording is simply an MP4 video file of what’s happening on your screen for the duration of the capture. There is no native tool to do this on most Android devices for some reason, but there are a ton of them in the Play Store. My personal favorite is the aptly named Rec.
Whether you’re using Rec or another app with support for Lollipop screen recording, all you need to do is accept the screen capture request when it pops up. An icon in the status bar will appear to let you know the screen recording is ongoing. Some apps have support for different resolutions and bitrates for the recording as well, but the default will be the native screen resolution of your phone or tablet.
The way you end a recording varies by app, but there’s usually a notification or you can simply put the device to sleep. One of the reasons I prefer the aforementioned Rec is that it has support for both of those options as well as shake to stop a recording.
Set your system animations to warp speed
Why suffer even marginally slow animations when your processor can handle faster speeds?
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Android devices are faster than they used to be, but you can make your experience feel even zippier with one simple tweak. Android contains a hidden developer options menu that you can enable by going into your main system settings, then navigating to About > Software Information > More > Build number. Now tap on the build number—literally, tap on it numerous times—until a small message at the bottom of the screen confirms that you’re a developer.
Now, don’t worry: This doesn’t make any modifications to your system. It just turns on the Developer Options menu back in the main settings list—so head back there and open it up. Developer Options has a ton of interesting features to play around with, but you can also mess things up pretty badly, so it’s best not to change anything you haven’t thoroughly researched. You’ve been warned!
Now back to animations. Inside Developer options, scroll down to Drawing and find Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale. These are all set to 1x by default. These animations are the eye candy you see when apps open and close, menus drop down, and more. They help cover up lag as the system catches up, but you don’t really need slow settings on a fast device. You can set all of these to 0.5x for a more snappy interface experience.
Keeping your phone secure is important, but if you’re the one holding it, there’s no reason you have to deal with a strong lock screen every single time you drag it from your pocket. Luckily, Android 5.0 devices now have support for Smart Lock. This feature can display the easy swipe lock screen when it’s safe to do so. How does it know? Well, there are a variety of options, some more secure than others.
Smart Lock is delivered to devices via Play Services, just like Android Device Manager. The locking options will vary by device, but Nexus phones and tablets have the most. There’s Trusted Face, Trusted Location, Trusted Devices, and on-body detection. At the bare minimum, all devices should have Trusted Devices and Trusted Location.
So for example, you can have your phone set to swipe unlock at home, but take a stroll down the block or hop in the car and it will start asking for the pattern, PIN, or password lock again. The same goes for Trusted Devices—if you’re connected to a Bluetooth or NFC device you have previously marked as “trusted,” (like your car or Android Wear watch) you’ll see no secure lock screen. With Trusted Face, the device will switch seamlessly transition to swipe unlock mode if it spots you with the front camera. On-body detection is a little weird—this option keeps your phone set to swipe unlock as long as it detects it is still in your hand or pocket. Set it down, and it locks again.
Keep in mind, some OEMs really bury the Smart Lock menu a few levels deep in advanced security or privacy settings. You may also need to enable Google Play Services as a “trust agent” in the settings of some device to access Smart Lock.
Don’t just monitor data usage—control it
The trick is to receive a warning before you trip your data limit.
In our age of draconian tiered data plans and ever-increasing carrier fees, you often need to watch your mobile data consumption closely. Android has a built-in tool that helps you do this, but most users don’t use it to its full potential. TheData Usage menu is usually near the top of your system settings list (though it may be buried under a “More” heading), and can also be accessed via the network signal strength icon in Quick Settings. You can use the sliders on the usage chart to set your data limits for your chosen billing cycle.
The default behavior is simply to warn you when you reach your data limit. However, by the time you get that warning, it’s often too late to adjust your behavior and avoid overage charges or automatic throttling. A better use of the data tracking feature is to set your warning a few hundred megabytes below your limit, then enable a data limit with the checkbox right above the chart. The red line on the chart lets you set a point at which your mobile data will be shut off.
Use Wi-Fi Direct for quick file transfers
The SuperBeam app facillitates device-to-device file transfers at warp speed—even 45 Mbps. Ah, the wonders of Wi-Fi.
Transferring files between devices has always been a little annoying, but features like Android Beam made it easier: Just hold together two NFC-enabled devices (Android 4.1 or later), and you can transfer files across a Bluetooth link. It’s a neat trick, but transfer speeds are capped by Bluetooth bandwidth, and file type support is limited. Luckily, however, most Android devices also support Wi-Fi Direct, even though Google’s stock apps don’t make use of it.
Wi-Fi Direct is exactly what it sounds like: a protocol that can create a direct connection between two devices via Wi-Fi. You just need an app to make use of it, and there are several in Google Play. SuperBeam is probably the most powerful, and it has a free version. To get a transfer going, you just share files to Super Beam (or whatever app you’ve chosen to use) and tap phones. Wi-Fi Direct allows you to queue up multiple files in a single operation and the transfer rate can easily exceed 30 Mbps. It’s fabulous for sharing large videos or images.
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