Welcome to the 156th episode of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the headlines from the last week:
- Google will be hosting a festival for indie game developers later this month. During the event, indie devs will be able to showcase their newest games. Ahead of the event, Google has narrowed their list of the best Indie games down to 30 which will be narrowed down further at the festival. However, most of them aren’t available in the Google Play Store just yet. We’ll be sure to talk about them when they do arrive.
- SwiftKey received a pretty big update this week. Over a month ago, the company was having some problems with its syncing service and disabled it entirely. This week’s update fully re-instates those features. Included in the update is the return of phone number and email predictions and there are also eight new languages and some other smaller things. It’s nice to see this problem has been completely fixed.
- Google Play released a short list of the top trending apps and games from August 2016. These are essentially the top downloaded apps and games from the last month. Some of them include Prisma, Mobius Final Fantasy, Google Duo, and ESPN’s fantasy football app. Alongside that, it was announced that a few new apps, such as Anchor.fm, Pac-Man Pop, and a few other apps and games would be released this upcoming month.
- Some resourceful people went diving into Pokemon Go’s code after the latest update and found some goodies. There is evidence now to support that Niantic is working on allowing players to trade Pokemon and to battle one another. Along with that, clues in the code show item variances, legendary Pokemon, and something called Forts that we’re not quite sure about yet. The game’s popularity has started to dwindle a bit but this could help change that.
- Google has officially launched their Early Access Program. What this mean is that pretty much any developer can release an open beta of their app to give users early access in order to help find bugs. The aim is to help more apps get released that are more stable and help eliminate those release day bugs us early adopters always have to deal with. You’ll start seeing more of them in the Play Store in the coming months for sure.
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[Source:-Android Authority]
