October is upon us, as is autumn attaching its orange dress to the surrounding trees like an Instagram filter. As you get used to having a large duvet on your bed and a scarf around your neck, your smartphone will be proudly held in your hand.
He also needs some warmth, and this is done by offering him new applications. That’s good: many new apps were released on the Play Store during September. We’ve rounded up the best new apps released last month to make sure you don’t miss any of them.
Amazon Prime Video
Until then, French Amazon Prime/Prime customers had no pleasure with their subscription but with one business day delivery. But the international expansion of the online store means we may gradually gain access to the same premium services as Americans, including the famous Prime Video streaming service. The app is now available in France and is compatible with Android TV as well as smartphones and tablets. With this, subscribers can find a wide variety of movies and TV shows, as well as Amazon Originals productions, including the excellent American Gods based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, which we warmly recommend.
Blizzard Battle.net
Has your Affliction Warlock been ravaging World of WarCraft servers for a long time? Is your deck of thieves rocking the Hearthstone leaderboard? Did your dive comp give you Platinum in Overwatch? Therefore, there is a good chance that your Battle.net friends list is well provisioned. Also, if you’ve used apps like Discord to keep talking to them outside of your PC, know that Blizzard now offers its own official app to keep in touch outside of your PC. It’s a bit late now, but the app is well made and will allow you to add friends on the go.
Create Mixer
If you’re a gamer, you’re certainly familiar with the Twitch platform, which allows you to watch a person live and interact with them in real time through a public chat. Microsoft has decided to walk on that toes by creating the Mixer platform, which allows largely the same thing and integrates directly into Windows 10 and Xbox One, but also now on mobile with the release of this new app. This will allow you to broadcast your games as your person in a Periscope style, with the same possible interactions as on the PC platform. To test if you’re really in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Runtastic Balance
Apps dedicated to wellness on mobile quickly realized that what’s right for body care applies to a market as well: without healthy eating, fitness is nothing. For this reason, it is natural that applications that offer the follow-up of the exercises you do start to monitor your dinner one by one. Runtastic is the latest to offer this, with Balance, a calorie counter that lets you track your eating habits and make sure you’re not consuming too many calories compared to your workout. The app is still in beta and may encounter some bugs and crashes.
split screen creator
One of the small new features introduced to the Galaxy Note 8’s Samsung Experience layer is the ability to create a shortcut that launches two apps directly in multitasking mode. If there is no innovation in the phone itself, we will not deny this little practical trick that should be integrated into the system in a short time. Until then, the Split screen creator app lets us do this on any phone. You just need to select two apps and the app will create a shortcut. You can even customize the shortcut icon if you want. Silly but very practical!
Material Notification Shade
The notification bar is one of those Android elements that few people dare to customize. Yet this is indeed possible on the most open system on mobile. With Material Notification Shade, the principle is simple: you get the classic notification pane from pure Android, but you can give it the colors you want depending on the notification type or for the full pane. Basically, you have the option to give it Android 8.0 Oreo or Android 7.1.1 style or apply a dark theme on AMOLED smartphone quite simply to save your battery.
Not
Our smartphones have become both our main communication tool and our notebooks that we always have in our pockets. No wonder, then, that note-taking apps are plentiful. But if many try to imitate the post-it principle that has polluted our offices from time immemorial, it’s hard to find that side of it “under constant surveillance”. Notin is different because the app allows you to create small reminders very quickly and they then consistently appear in your notifications list. What to find this ever-present side to not forget what we want to do.
Fluxy: Time Machine
The principle of this application, which is still in development and therefore quite unstable at the moment, is very specific: it will take screenshots of your smartphone at regular intervals, for example with each new application opened. For what? It can be used as a kind of time machine that will allow you to review everything you do during the day on one device. The principle is strange, but should please the paranoid and the most curious. But be careful: the interface is currently not very successful graphically.
AMOLED mmml X
Do you have a smartphone with an AMOLED or OLED screen? So, you know that the feature of these screens is to turn off the pixels completely to display black, which is especially practical for battery saving. This app lets you find royalty-free wallpapers that take advantage of OLED screens to make them use as little battery as possible while being visually appealing. If you have no inspiration and want to combine the useful with the pleasant, we advise you to throw it away.
Atom Viewer
Google caused a stir when it launched ARCore in early September, which allows developers to very easily create augmented reality apps for Android phones. If the project is still in its infancy, Atom Visualizer lets you visualize different atoms in augmented reality, allowing you to see the principle. It doesn’t necessarily say your smartphone is compatible, and you’ll also need to install the ARCore preview for it to work, but it really does get you hooked on augmented reality.
