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How to Watch YouTube in the Background on Android

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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Y</span><span style="font-size: 1.05em;">ou are watching or rather listening to a music video on YouTube but are distracted    by an email notification. You switch to the Gmail app to check your mail and, as expected, the YouTube video stops playing. You have to switch to the YouTube app again on your Android device to resume playback.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em;">This is a limitation of the YouTube app on Android. It automatically stops video playback as soon as you move it to the background. The same is true for the YouTube mobile website as well. The videos will play as long as the web browser – be it Chrome or some other browser – is in focus. Switch to a different app and the video will pause itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em;">The YouTube app for iPhone and iPad too impose a similar restriction but you can easily get around that limitation by playing YouTube videos inside the Safari browser</span></div>
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Play Youtube in the Background on Android</h2>
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The iOS trick however won’t work on Android but there exist even simple workarounds in the form of apps. The Google Play store has several apps that support background playback thus letting you use YouTube as a music player. I did try them all and here are my favorites:</div>
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The <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nobeid.uListenLite" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">uListen</a> app has a simple interface and minimal features which is what I like most about this app. Just use the search button to find videos and playlists on YouTube and hit the play button. You can also tap and hold a search result to favorite it or to add it to your playlist. uListen doesn’t link to your YouTube account and all your playlists and favorites are saved locally.</div>
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Then there are apps like <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrzheng.supertubeplayer" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">SuperTube</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Mata.YTplayer" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Viral</a> that more like clones of the official YouTube app except that they also let you watch or play YouTube videos while in the background. You can create local playlists or connect these apps to your main YouTube account and access your <a href="http://ctrlq.org/youtube/playlists/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">playlists</a>, watch later queue and favorites. Another handy feature is that you can do a vertical swipe on the video to increase or decrease the volume.</div>
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Both Viral and SuperTube offer a floating video player which essentially means that you can pull out a YouTube video and place it over any other app. It’s like the Picture-In-Picture effect – you can read the New York Times in the browser and watch a movie on YouTube simultaneously. I prefer SuperTube more since it lets you choose a different video in the queue from the floating player itself.</div>
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A major downside of the previously mentioned uListen app is that it doesn’t offer autocomplete mode so you have to the type the entire search terms manually for relevant results. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.com.freedi.youtube.player&hl=en" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">YT Player</a>, another free YouTube audio player, fixes that problem. It pulls in <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/youtube-search/19261/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">search suggestions</a> from YouTube and you can search for videos, playlists or even channels. If you prefer apps with slightly bigger fonts, you will probably like this one even more.<br />
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How to Watch YouTube in the Background on Android

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It’s been a very interesting year in Android land. We saw a lot of bold moves and stances taken by the world’s OEMs, a lot of new players broke ground, and Google made the moves necessary to keep Android as interesting and fresh as we could ask for. Now that the year has come to a close, we thought it’d be interesting to take a look back on all of that. It’s the big Android year-in review!</div>
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What they came up with was nothing short of blissful, and it was named the Moto X (read our official review). The Motorola X8 computing system allowed them to introduce great features such as Touchless Controls and Active Notifications without sacrificing battery life. The 720p display wasn’t quite as sharp as, say, a 1080p display, but the quality made it look just as crisp and clean as any other.</div>
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And their lack of deep user interface customization meant the dual-core processor inside (which was of high quality Krait-based silicon, by the way) would be able to handle anything you throw at it with ease.</div>
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All of this was extended to Verizon’s exclusive DROID lineup, which included the likes of the Motorola DROID Maxx, Motorola DROID Ultra, and the Motorola DROID Mini (<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CFkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphandroid.com%2F2013%2F09%2F26%2Fmotorola-droid-maxx-and-droid-ultra-review%2F&ei=2nnEUt_LIcnXygGl_4HwDw&usg=AFQjCNGX8-R47X35blsM7uF1qpC-WFcHWA&sig2=lDLlu5SHozIQabIv7vDsRg&bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc" sl-processed="1" style="color: #3333ff; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">review of the former two here</a>). The former-most device in that bunch made considerable noise with its wireless charging capabilities and 3,500mAh battery, delivering 48 hours of battery life that has become invaluable for so many of its users.</div>
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But not everyone was sold on all this until something great happened — Motorola was actually able tobeat Nexus devices to KitKat. Moto X users got the upgrade before anyone else (well, everyone except Nexus 5 users, of course). The DROID lines came a bit later, but it wasn’t long before they were breaking off a piece of that, as well.</div>
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HTC took a similar stance to Motorola, and vowed to focus on just a few key devices over the course of the year. Sure, they had a couple of Desire phones for mid-range and entry-level fillers, but the HTC One, One Max and One Mini were HTC’s “One” and only focus. As lame as that play on its name was, that’s what happened.</div>
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We’d fully credit HTC’s transformation with the HTC One (review right here), but the company showed flashes of this stuff way back in 2012, when the “original” One series launched. Confusing, right? But they took everything they learned that year, and simply perfected it in 2013. What they were able to accomplish was a beautiful, powerful device that has proven it can stand the test of time.</div>
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The <a href="http://phandroid.com/htc-one-max/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #3333ff; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HTC One Max</a> wasn’t quite as delectable as we thought it’d be, but its fingerprint scanner did bring a unique flare, and phablet fans who also happened to be HTC One fans found themselves with a perfect device. It wasn’t enough to overcome Samsung’s performance on the charts, but it kept HTC on the right path which will hopefully set up an even more fruitful year in 2014.</div>
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<strong>Samsung Galaxy S4 and Note 3 — pushing the limits</strong></div>
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Samsung once again proved their worth in the smartphone arena. They did so by introducing the Samsung Galaxy S4, a 5-inch 1080p device that did almost everything right. Most people thought the Samsung Galaxy S4 was only an incremental upgrade when put up against the previous year’s offering, and that was fair — Samsung didn’t really pull out all the stops like they’re known to do. Those deets can be had in our review.</div>
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And then came the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (read the review). Like its predecessor, the Note 3 outdid not only itself, but pretty much every device on the market. While its 5.7-inch 1080p display wasn’t the right fit for a lot of people, those who can put up with the size were also treated to some pretty crazy internals.</div>
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It had 3GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 800 processor, and even microUSB 3.0 — who does that?! It was ridiculous, and Samsung didn’t have a single issue capturing the attention of pretty much everyone in the industry with this knockout.</div>
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<strong>Nexus and the Google Play Edition program</strong></div>
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A year in Android wouldn’t be a year in Android without new Nexus devices, and we got a couple of great ones this year. The launch of the new Nexus 7 with its Snapdragon S4 Pro processor was great, and its $230 price tag didn’t hurt.</div>
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The same could be said for the ultra powerful Nexus 5 and its $350 price tag, which we reviewed right here. That amount got you a 5-inch 1080p phone with a Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, and more. It’s a bit more oomph than we’re used to in Nexus devices. It also was the first device to launch with Android 4.4 KitKat (which we’ll talk about a bit later).</div>
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Google added a good deal of new devices to their Google Play Edition program as well, which delivers popular, powerful smartphones (and tablets) with the pure Google experience. While these devices haven’t always lived up to their original hype — updates don’t come quite as fast as they do for Nexus devices — it’s still been a joyful ride. Here’s a quick list of the devices currently available:</div>
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<strong>Oppo N1 — breaking new ground</strong></div>
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The Oppo N1 wasn’t an exciting device on its own, although we did think the swivel camera was pretty cool and unique. One cool and unique thing often isn’t enough to catch our attention, though. What did capture our interests was the fact that the Oppo N1 would be the first device to come with official CyanogenMod support.</div>
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more OEMs open their arms to custom ROM support. Not only does Oppo support flashing of the ROM, but they also sell a special CyanogenMod edition of the phone with the software pre-installed (as well as other goodies to look forward to).</div>
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We never thought we’d see the day an aftermarket development team would partner with an actual OEM, but the day has come and the train won’t stop here (more on that later).</div>
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<strong>LG G2 and LG G Flex — Hero devices for a struggling brand</strong></div>
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LG found themselves at the end of some harsh jokes its first few years in the smartphone game, but the South Korean technology giant decided to turn things around in 2013. The transformation began in 2012 with the original LG Optimus G, really, but it wasn’t until LG dropped the “Optimus” moniker and brought the LG G2 that we really started to take notice. Edgar drooled all over the thing in his review.</div>
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While the company still has some growing pains to overcome — particularly in the software department — they have shown that they are capable of delivering beautiful, capable pieces of hardware.</div>
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The LG G2 wasn’t even the most interesting device in the company’s lineup this past year, with the virtually indestructible build of the LG G Flex turning quite a few heads. I mean, come on — you cantake a steak knife to this thing and it won’t even flinch. That’s hardcore stuff. LG has given themselves a pretty solid based to build on heading into the next year.</div>
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This year marked the launch of the first major version of Android since Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. We all thought the name for the “K” dessert was going to be Key Lime Pie, but Google threw us a pro-like curve ball when they announced that it would actually be Android 4.4 KitKat. This marked the first time that an Android version codename has used the name of a commercial product.</div>
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The result was one of the most fruitful advertising campaign in KitKat’s history. Every day and every week leading up to the launch of KitKat and the Nexus 5, the company — and Google — would drop little teasers to keep folks on edge. They even held a big golden ticket-esque contest that had thousands of people winning the 2013 Nexus 7 from specially marked packages of KitKat bars.</div>
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Novelty aside, Android 4.4 KitKat was actually a pretty big update. Host card emulation for NFC-equipped devices meant anyone could use tap-to-pay no matter what carrier restrictions are in place.</div>
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The new Android runtime — dubbed ART — was introduced for the first time, giving us a runtime that would look to bring us faster app performance and considerable savings on resources such as battery life (although it still isn’t ready to knock Dalvik off just yet). It’s also the first Android version to natively support translucent system drawables and emojis. You can read about everything KitKat has to offerright here.</div>
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When Google announced the 2013 Nexus 7, we weren’t expecting them to drop another little nugget that would turn out to be Time’s best gadget of 2013 — the Chromecast (here’s our review, in case you missed it). This little media streaming dongle shook the world up with a simple proposition: stream your content from your mobile device or PC to your TV over a WiFi connection, with ease and without fuss.</div>
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It’s so simple that there’s not much more to say about it. The $35 price point for said functionality was ano-brainer for most people, especially considering some of the earliest Chromecast deals offered up extended Netflix trials.</div>
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Google recently made a big push to bring even more apps to Chromecast, making it a very versatile media streaming device for almost any need. Just imagine what it’ll be like once they open up the official APIs to everyone.</div>
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2013 was a very interesting year for smart watches. We saw Sony launch the second generation of the SmartWatch. Pebble rocked the world with a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign (culminating in the device being available at many popular retail destinations today), and Samsung finally threw their hat into the arena with the Samsung Galaxy Gear (though that particular offering wasn’t as sweet as we originally thought it’d be).</div>
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Qualcomm also turned heads with the launch of the Toq, a Mirasol-equipped smart watch that introduces a lot of quirky, fresh ideas. The price of that particular item turned many folks away, but Qualcomm deserves recognition for moving smart watches forward. Be sure to take a look at our quick hands-on of the device from earlier in the year.</div>
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There are rumors that even more major players will be looking to break into the smart watch game next year, with the big dogs in tech — Google, Apple, and (by way of Nokia) Microsoft — looking to introduce products of their own. Google’s offering is said to be driven by the power of Google Now, the sometimes creepy “I always know what you want to do, what you need to see, and where you need to go” information service that is featured on Android today.</div>
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Of course, smart watches weren’t the only wearables that gained a lot of steam last year. Google Glass made some huge strides. Tons more developers and tinkerers were invited to join the Glass Explorers program, which means tons more apps were made available.</div>
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While the $1,500 price tag is still off-putting to many, Google created a product compelling and exciting enough to get a good stable of developers cooking apps up for it. That should prove to be crucial to the device’s success once it goes on sale to the general public in 2014.</div>
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The wireless industry in the United States unanimously adopted a new trend: early upgrades. Verizon’s Edge, Sprint’s One Up, T-Mobile’s JUMP! and AT&T’s Next all introduced new upgrade paths that would allow frequent hoppers (that is, those who just have to have the latest and greatest) to get new phones at breakneck pace.</div>
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While not all of these options were financially beneficial to the consumer (with the exception of T-Mobile, and — to a degree — AT&T), we’re grateful to have them.</div>
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When CyanogenMod first began on its course years ago, no one could have imagined it’d reach the peak that it did in 2013. The custom ROM reached a point of popularity so significant that it moved the team to create an actual company. Incorporation for a small after-market development team might have seemed like a crazy thought just a few short months ago, but the CyanogenMod team showed us that anything can happen.</div>
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This wasn’t just some publicity move, either — short after incorporation, the team managed to attract big bucks from big investors. The latest round of funding saw them rake in over $22 million, which should be a nice source of capital for their first big project: an official CyanogenMod phone, built from the ground-up with CyanogenMod in mind.</div>
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Though we haven’t been given more details than that, murmurings suggest that phone will be built in conjunction with the new company ex-Oppo VP Pete Lau formed — OnePlus. If you thought the Oppo partnership was big, then you haven’t seen anything yet.</div>
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And that’s a wrap! We’ve already crossed the line into the new year, and we can’t wait to see what 2014 has to bring us. The first major movements in tech should be going down within the next few days, with the big dance known as CES in Las Vegas right around the corner.</div>
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We’re gearing up to head out there and bring it all to you live, so be sure to circle back for coverage on all things Android starting January 6th. Let us know some of your favorite developments from the past year, and be sure to let us know what you hope to see happen in 2014 in the comments section below!</div>

Android 2013 Year-in Review : the year’s top stories, devices, and more!

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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: Lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px; word-spacing: 2px;">Over the course of the past year, a lot of new <a href="http://stprofessional.blogspot.com/search/label/Android" target="_blank">Android</a> apps came out. A LOT OF APPS! The problem is, how do you know which are good and which aren’t? In this 2012 year-end roundup, we’ll show you different categories of <a href="http://stprofessional.blogspot.com/search/label/Android" target="_blank">Android</a> apps and some of the best or most popular apps to try in 2013.</span></div>
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Utility</h2>
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SwiftKey 3 Keyboard</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SwiftKey 3</a> is one of the most intuitive keyboards you can download for your Android devices. The predictive text is phenomenal, and there’s even a tablet version which offers a split keyboard for landscape mode.</div>
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JuiceDefender Ultimate</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.latedroid.ultimatejuice" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">JuiceDefender</a> is a must-have app for anyone who wants to get better battery life from their Android device. There are three different versions—one free and two paid—to give you the right amount of adjustments to fit your needs.</div>
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Business Calendarl</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mikado.bizcalpro" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Business Calendar</a> is the most feature laden calendar you can get. Between the widgets and easy change from month to week day view and drag-and-drop appointment changing, there isn’t much Business Calendar can’t do.</div>
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Splashtop Remote Desktop HD</h3>
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Sometimes there’s a need to access your computer after you’ve already left the office. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splashtop.remote.pad" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Splashtop</a> lets you access your computer from everywhere you can get an internet connection, and it’s the only application out there that shows the entire computer screen vs. a shrunk-down or partial version.</div>
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Paperland Pro Live Wallpaper</h3>
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An extremely customizable <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joko.paperlandpro" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">live wallpaper</a> that looks like a diorama come to life. Choose the settings for the scene, weather and  time. Each of these tabs have multiple options to change to make a really unique background.</div>
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HD Widgets</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cloudtv.hdwidgets" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HD Widgets</a> gives you  A LOT of widget choices. Everything on the widget is customizable, from the fonts and colors to what is displayed. There’s even a huge 6×2 widget that works with larger screens like tablets.</div>
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Nova Launcher Prime</h3>
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One of the newer home screen launchers out there, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher.prime&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS50ZXNsYWNvaWxzdy5sYXVuY2hlci5wcmltZSJd" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nova Launcher Prime</a>, integrates gestures and has some pretty cool plug-ins available. Another cool feature that Nova has is the ability to hide application icons for apps you don’t use.</div>
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ZEDGE</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zedge.android" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ZEDGE</a>  is a phenomenal application for finding backgrounds, ringtones, and notifications. Recently, games and live wallpapers were added to the items available to be downloaded.</div>
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Music</h2>
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Spotify</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.mobile.android.ui" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spotify </a>lets you listen to just about every song you could ever want to hear. Use the radio to play similar artists to what’s on your playlist,s or similar to a specific song or artist. Free and paid versions are available.</div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer.unlock" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Poweramp</a> is the ultimate music player application for Android: the 10 band EQ and support for most popular music file formats and gap-less playback set Poweramp apart from the others.</div>
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iHeartRadio</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clearchannel.iheartradio.controller" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="iHeartRadio" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-12.07.55-PM-380x185.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clearchannel.iheartradio.controller" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iHeartRadio</a> was recently redesigned and came out as a spectacular customizable radio app. Not only does it play local live radio stations, you can create customized radio stations based on your musical tastes.</div>
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Soundhound</h3>
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When you hear a song playing and like it, use <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melodis.midomiMusicIdentifier" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Soundhound</a> to figure out who the artist is and the name of the song. When Soundhound figures out what song this, you can bookmark it for later and even see the lyrics as you’re listening to as the song plays.</div>
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News and Social</h2>
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Pinterest</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinterest" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pinterest" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42174" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-11.39.02-AM-380x185.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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One of the most anticipated social media apps of all time, the official <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinterest" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>app lets you upload your own Pins as well as view your Boards, Like and Repin items. This has great integration with Android devices.</div>
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Flipboard</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Flipboard: Your News Magazine" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42175" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-11.39.49-AM-380x185.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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A really great way to get your news, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Flipboard</a> pulls in information from your Facebook, Twitter and other social feeds to bring you news you will actually be interested in. News is also shown from feeds like BBC and USA Today.</div>
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Tango</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sgiggle.production" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Tango Text, Voice, Video Calls" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42176" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-11.41.29-AM-380x185.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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A great video and audio calling app with a messaging option, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sgiggle.production" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tango</a> is a great alternative to apps like Skype, and communication between Tango users is free.</div>
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Pocket</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pocket" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42177" height="184" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-11.42.33-AM-380x184.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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This is a great app for curating your favorite articles on the web. Save pages in your <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pocket</a> account and view videos or webpages from any of your devices, including your computer.</div>
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Lifestyle</h2>
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Ancestry</h3>
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Tracking down members of your family isn’t always an easy task, especially when they’re spread out over different continents and time periods. The<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ancestry.android.apps.ancestry" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ancestry</a> app links to your Ancestry.com account and lets you create new additions to your family tree.</div>
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Trulia – Real Estate & Homes</h3>
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Looking for a house to buy or apartment to rent is a lot of work—<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trulia.android" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Trulia</a> is a big help in showing you what is available in the area you are thinking of moving to. Set your criteria, and see what’s out there.</div>
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Sleep as Android</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Sleep as Android" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42189" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-11.54.02-AM-380x185.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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Knowing how well you slept is important, and by using an app like <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sleep as Android</a>, you will be able to see how long you were in a deep restful sleep vs. light sleep. Also, there’s an alarm to wake you up when you’re not in a deep sleep, thus making you less groggy in the morning.</div>
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BeerSmith 2 Lite</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=beersmithllc.beersmith.beersmith2" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="BeerSmith 2 Lite" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42190" height="184" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2013-01-02-at-11.55.00-AM-380x184.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=beersmithllc.beersmith.beersmith2" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Brewing beer</a> can be pretty satisfying in more than one way. The problem is, making a good beer can take lots of trial and error. BeerSmith 2 is your beer cookbook with thousands of different beer recipes ready for you to use.</div>
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Games</h2>
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Granny Smith</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediocre.grannysmith" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Granny Smith" height="184" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Granny-Smith-380x184.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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This is a great physics-based game where you are a elderly old lady chasing down apple thieves. With fun graphics and spectacular crashes, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediocre.grannysmith" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Granny</a> is hell on wheels as she wreaks all kinds of havoc trying to save her apples.</div>
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Nun Attack</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frimastudio.NunAttack" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Nun Attack" height="184" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2012/12/Nun-Attack-380x184.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frimastudio.NunAttack" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nun Attack</a> is a good way to eliminate some of that pent-up Catholic guilt. Take on the forces of evil by controlling four nuns with guns and special powers—you can even use miracles to your advantage.</div>
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PITFALL!</h3>
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Not the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.activision.pitfall" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PITFALL</a>! you remember playing on your Atari: the basic combination of running and jumping and using the web is still there, but it’s a lot more graphically-intensive and challenging.</div>
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Zen Bound 2</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secretexit.zb2" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Zen Bound 2</a> is one of the most unique puzzle games of the year: using a rope, you must try to cover as much of the surface of the 3D wooden sculptures as possible. This seems like an easy task, but takes a bit of strategy and forward-thinking to accomplish the task.</div>
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Photography</h2>
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Instagram</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="instagram" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42753" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2013/01/instagram-380x185.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a> is the most well-known of the camera apps on the list. Its claim to fame is the way you can filter the image and share your camera art with the Instagram community.</div>
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LINE Camera</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.naver.linecamera.android" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="LINE-camera" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42755" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2013/01/LINE-camera-380x185.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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Add cute little touches and stencils to the pictures you take, and then share your images with over 17 million users all over the world or on your favorite social network with <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.naver.linecamera.android" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LINE Camera</a>.</div>
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Camera360 Ultimate</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vStudio.Android.Camera360" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Camera360-Ultimate" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42754" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2013/01/Camera360-Ultimate-380x185.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vStudio.Android.Camera360" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Camera360</a> is a super-powerful camera application for Android devices with high-resolution cameras. Camera360 is also front-facing-camera compatible. It’s great for taking self-portraits on phones with higher quality front-cameras.</div>
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Pencil Camera</h3>
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Transforming your image into a drawing can really add a unique look, and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ljezny.pencilcamera" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pencil Camera</a> does just that. You can take a picture and immediately see what the pencil-sketched version of the picture will look like in the preview.</div>
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Actioncam</h3>
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With action photography, timing is everything. Using <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steply.actioncam&hl=en" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Actioncam</a> lets you take several pictures right in a row to make sure you capture just the right pose, plus it has a variety of frames and filters to enhance the photos further.</div>
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Silent Camera</h3>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=soft.kinoko.SilentCamera" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Silent-Camera" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42761" height="185" src="http://cdn-4.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2013/01/Silent-Camera-380x185.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="380" /></a></div>
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Sometimes, to take the perfect picture, you have to take it as silently as possible. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=soft.kinoko.SilentCamera" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Silent Camera</a> eliminates the shutter noise all great cameras make when you take a picture—with no noise, it’s easy to take continuous pictures without being noticed.</div>

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Android (Kit Kat) gets 1.1 percent of the market share of Android

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Android Kitkat shows 1.1 percent distribution in latest Google update</span><br />
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Google has <a href="https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">updated</a> its dashboard on the progress report on its latest Android Kitkat version, released one month ago. A month after its release, Kitkat  is presently active on 1.1 percent of android devices.</div>
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Similar to its previous report, Google has conveniently excluded all android version prior to Froyo, i.e Eclair, Donut and Cupcake as they do not support the new Google Play Store app. Google collects the data based on the apps installed via play store app, which is visited by various handsets running android.</div>
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It also states that any version with less than 0.1 percent of  distribution has been excluded. Although all versions since Froyo appear in the chart, Honeycomb currently has the lowest distribution of only 0.1, so we can safely assume that it may not be visible in the next report by Google if Jelly Bean and Kitkat start gaining more share.</div>
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The 1.1 percent Android Kitkat has is understandable considering the number of devices it currently supports. It comes pre-installed with Nexus 5 but is said to support handful of devices from manufacturers which include Samsung, HTC, Sony in next few months. The newly released Moto X also runs Android Kitkat. And it will also come to Nexus 4, 7 and 10. Besides adding a lot of new features and functions, it also sports a new user interface. As for Jelly Bean, which released sometime in June last year, now holds a distribution of more than 50 percent of all Android device, 54.5 percent to be exact. Jelly Bean has steadily grown from approximately 45 percent share in October to its present 54 percent. Gingerbread still holds 24.1 percent, followed by Ice Cream sandwich at 18.6 percent, Froyo at 1.6 percent and finally Honeycomb at just 0.1 percent.</div>
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Some notable features in the new Android Kitkat include Contact Prioritization, Message Consolidation (consolidates Google Hangout chat messages, SMS and MMS), Quick Office Integration, Enhanced caller ID, Unlimited Home Screen panels and the voice based search feature OK Google.</div>
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Google list of fragmentation keeps getting worse with every new major Android version that it releases. Add to it the fact that these figures may not be as accurate as some of us might assume, since it only counts the devices which have installed and accessed Google Play Store app, although those number may not make a very huge difference in the chart. Google has high hopes on the Android Kitkat, so hopefully when the new Kitkat supporting handsets are released, along with the Android kitkat supporting available handsets which will start getting the update, the numbers will probably look better in the next report that Google posts.</div>

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