How does the Google "Ecosystem" influences your life? - Off-topic

Google has put out awesome (and some not so awesome) apps to help out on your everyday life and entertainment.
How do you use these apps?
Watch a movie using Chromecast or other device?
Maps to find your way home?
Play Music to jam ?
what is the most useful app to you and how does it help or entertain you?????

BruKnowsBest said:
Google has put out awesome (and some not so awesome) apps to help out on your everyday life and entertainment.
How do you use these apps?
Watch a movie using Chromecast or other device?
Maps to find your way home?
Play Music to jam ?
what is the most useful app to you and how does it help or entertain you?????
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I use:
Youtube every day (Most channels offerings are better than TV)
Maps (Sat-Nav occasionally)
Google Play (Obvious reasons)
Google search (^Ditto^)
Again the most useful is Youtube as it generally serves as my main news source

Google Ads (Yeah that is where my money come from)
Youtube (Obvious)
Google Search (..No comment...)
Gmail (I prefer Outlook but still use Gmail because of work)
Chromecast (Have one and it's bored)
Maps (The most accuracy map in my place)
Google Play (Unavoid-able)
Google Drive ....
Many more..

Google search on daily basis
Google drive, sheets, docs to keep sync between Android and PC, also edit sheets with both
Gmail as a primary mail address
Videos from YouTube (watching and sharing own videos privately with friends)
Maps & streetview for searching places (panoramio is also one good place when "web-travelling" )

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Google Play is your one-stop shop for all your favorite entertainment. With over 450,000 apps, millions of songs and books, and thousands of movies, Google Play has something for everyone. Before you decide what you want, sample a free music or book, view app ratings, reviews, and screenshots, or watch a movie trailer. Google Play is a more connected, powerful experience.
The power of the cloud
How cool would it be if your entertainment was just available anywhere? Now it is. Buy a book on your Android phone and read it on the web at play.google.com. http://goo.gl/ovsCS Buy a new album on your Android tablet and listen to it on your desktop at work. Rent a movie online and watch it anywhere on your phone. That’s the beauty of the cloud. You can read, listen and watch all your favorite content anywhere you want. No software required and no wires or syncing needed, and the best part - Google Play cloud is free to use.
Share what you love
Discover, shop, enjoy, and share music, movies, books, and apps anytime, anywhere. When you discover an amazing song, a nail-biting thriller or memorable movie, the first thing you want to do is share it with your friends. On Google Play sharing your favorite entertainment just got easier. You can easily share posts about your favorite books, music, movies, games or apps to your circles on Google+, email, or text message in a single click.
Play with music
Find music you love
Google Play has hand-picked rising artists and great bands from your favorite genres. With music on Google Play, you’ll get personalized recommendations based on what you listen to most. And when you're not shopping for new music, rediscover your library by creating an Instant Mix.
Buy now, listen now, sync never
There are hundreds of free songs and millions more to buy on Google Play. The music you choose is automatically stored in your Google Play music library and instantly ready to play on your computer, Android phone or tablet.
Your music, anytime, anywhere
Access your Google Play music library anywhere, anytime - no syncing, no wires. Stream music instantly on the Web and listen on your Android phone or tablet with the Google Play Music app. Not online? No problem. Just pin your favorites to your mobile device for offline playback.
Organize your music
Keep all your music in one place. Anything you get on Google Play is automatically stored in your music library and you can even add up to 20,000 of your own songs for free. With your music saved online, you can stop worrying about storage space and start enjoying your collection anywhere.
Give your friends a free listen
Sharing is caring. When you buy music on Google Play, you can share a free listen with your friends on Google+. And you get a free listen when they share what they've bought with you. It's sharing, discovering and buying music made simple.
Play with books
Find new books
Discovering your favorite books and authors has never been easier. With Google Play, shop the world's largest selection of eBooks - from thrillers to comedy, cookbooks, bestselling fiction, and everything in between - find over 4 million books to choose from, including millions of free titles. With Google Play, your next great read is always at your fingertips.
Buy anytime, anywhere
Shop on the web or on your device, find the eBooks you love, and start reading instantly. Choose from millions of titles, browse new releases, sample books for free, and find the latest up-and-coming authors.
Share what you love
Sharing the books you love with family and friends is just a click away. With Google Play you can easily post your favorite reads to your circles on Google+, via email, or text message, right from the pages of your book, without skipping a beat.
Your books in the cloud
With Google Play enjoy seamless syncing and easy access across your devices. All your books are stored in the cloud, so your entire library is always with you, accessible from any connected device. And with offline reading, it’s never been simpler to dive into your favorite books when you are offline, out of range, or in the air. Start reading on your tablet, continue on the web, and finish that chapter on your phone. You’ll pick up the story just where you left off, always on the right page.
Customize your reading experience
Read your books any way you like them on Google Play. Easily switch between day or nighttime mode, view in landscape or portrait, choose your font, text size, line height, and customize to your heart’s content.
Play with apps and games
There is an app for everyone
Race to the finish line. Score a goal. Buy stocks. Read the news. Buy movie tickets. Update your status. Personalize your phone with live wallpapers, ringtones, and widgets. With over 450,000 Android apps and games your phone truly is your mobile entertainment system, organizer and portable computer all wrapped in one.
Find new apps and games
Looking for new apps? Check out our staff picks, hand-picked by our editorial team, browse apps by category or just search for them. You can also read reviews and ratings from other app and games users, and even add your own.
Get the latest updates
App developers are always updating their amazing apps with new features, tools and fixes. Google Play makes keeping your favorite apps up to date easy. Select ‘update automatically’ in your app settings and your app will always be updated. Or choose to update all your apps in one click. It’s that simple.
Get your favorite app, anywhere
Just found a new app on the web and can’t wait to try it? Install it from Google Play on the Web without ever touching your device. The app you install is now available on the device you choose - instantly.
Play with movies
Find the movies you love
Choose from an incredible selection of thousands of movies on Google Play including HD titles, new releases, award-winning films or your favorite classics. Whether you’re in the mood for comedy, drama, animation, action or a documentary, there’s a movie that’s right for you.
Watch it now or later
Rent movies and watch them instantly. Alternatively, download your movie for offline viewing and view it later using the Google Play Movies app or watch it directly on the Web.
Watch it anywhere
Watch Google Play movies anywhere -- your couch, your friends’ house or in-flight. When you rent a movie with Google Play you can watch it on your phone, tablet or any Web connected PC.
What's in this version:
You now have the Installed and All tabs you can swipe between. The former one is what we used to have before - it lists all apps installed on your device. The latter lists all apps you've ever installed in case you want to download them again or travel down the memory lane. This is quite handy, and I've seen this list before in the Play Store on the web, so it's great to get it here in the mobile app.
The All tab contains a handy dropdown with all your accounts (if you added more than one) and lets you switch between them very easily (as opposed to clicking Menu, etc).
A few of the stock apps that apparently never got linked to the Play Store before got identified and picked up this time, and updates to them were waiting for me when I fired the Store up. I've complained about this very bug in my last rant, and it looks like someone listened.
More Info:
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thank you mate
downloading..........
force closes on aokp milestone modded version please help
w8 , what does the mooded ver do ?
can u like download paid apps for free or what :S ?
hi there, can we have more mirrors other than megashare? It's not very friendly universally...
poppienutshell said:
hi there, can we have more mirrors other than megashare? It's not very friendly universally...
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I think we need more links also megashare does not work for me either
works like a charm, even with non-stock LCD density there is no "not compatible application" sign.
application not install
i have samsung s2 rooted but whenver i try to install i have getting error that application not install
so wht i ll do plz help
Installation for both works but I cannot get it to work as modded I think because I'm on SD not NAND.
Any workaround for SD built?
I've tried all of these and still get "server error"
This new version market work good and feast in my desire hd:thumbup::what:
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what's the difference between the moded market and the original one ?
Reading The OP Will answer that... guess u did not read before posting isnt it
Verstuurd van mijn HTC HD2 met Tapatalk
Beautiful thing
thanks for posting
It doesn't work for me on on HD2. I use signed version and my device DPI is 190.
Any guess why? Can someone help me?
big thanks for you
This looks cool.
Will try it out.
thnx
Doesn't change anything for me, too.
Always installs in /data/apps and not /system/apps, does this make any difference? Moving it manually there does no difference.. :/
€dit: Got a hot reboot and got into bootloop? 0o Had to hard reset, re-flashing system had no effect.. (no bad blocks)
Does it work?
edit
i need sleep i guess cause what i posted wasnt for this version of play store lol
sorry about that

Could this be a awesome idea? What do you think?

Saw this redit
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Anyway since the SDK is released for Chromecast, hasn't google missed a trick?
Is this a good idea
Why doesn't google make Chromecast app be with google drive? I could upload all my files, movies, torrrents, photos and would love to have them ALL in one place and be able to cast them?
I would really consider upgrading the storage and paying for more storage, they would be able to get more $£€¥... IMO
So do you think google should do google drive Chromecast, if no why not?
Same thing with that ^ but again would like to see DRopbox have the ablitlty to stream. Things from the cloud.
Pros of this - limited space on phone storage, so drive can be used No need to run a server 24/7. Save electricity costs Assuming its cheaper considering that ^ Can view word files, homework, PDF , on big screen
Post your views would you like to see this?"""""
I live that idea, could be very useful. Your views ? Should google do this
Krisshp said:
Anyway since the SDK is released for Chromecast, hasn't google missed a trick?
Is this a good idea
Why doesn't google make Chromecast app be with google drive? I could upload all my files, movies, torrrents, photos and would love to have them ALL in one place and be able to cast them?
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I live that idea, could be very useful. Your views ? Should google do this
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Avia can pull from Dropbox
AllCast can pull from both Dropbox and Google Drive
RealPlayer Cloud can pull from their cloud
If Google was going to do this, they would have already - because they didn't need to wait for the SDK release - they could make any Chromecast app they wanted to whenever they wanted to.
They could just do a straight dump/retrieve from Drive to Chromecast, but without a player app that can handle that file type, Chromecast will just get the file and not know what to do with it, just like having your browser download a file that your computer/phone doesn't have an app to open.
The trick is in the player app, and Google for the most part leaves it to the app developers to develop.
The business aspect is that if Google starts developing lots of apps for Chromecast, developers may shy away from Chromecast development in fear that Google will do what their (paid) app is doing for free.
bhiga said:
Avia can pull from Dropbox
AllCast can pull from both Dropbox and Google Drive
RealPlayer Cloud can pull from their cloud
If Google was going to do this, they would have already - because they didn't need to wait for the SDK release - they could make any Chromecast app they wanted to whenever they wanted to.
They could just do a straight dump/retrieve from Drive to Chromecast, but without a player app that can handle that file type, Chromecast will just get the file and not know what to do with it, just like having your browser download a file that your computer/phone doesn't have an app to open.
The trick is in the player app, and Google for the most part leaves it to the app developers to develop.
The business aspect is that if Google starts developing lots of apps for Chromecast, developers may shy away from Chromecast development in fear that Google will do what their (paid) app is doing for free.
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Oh didn't know that. Yeah I get what you mean.
I'm guessing you must use avia, all cast or real player ,
Could I ask which one do you prefer the most ?
How much online storage in GB do real player offer?? Edit 2GB!!!!! Is that it????
Does it support the other 50gb cloud storage , mega???
Thanks
You can get an additional 3GB (I think) from Real by completing a few tasks (just like Dropbox).
But I don't put my media online, it's all local. Still working out how to handle it, to be honest.
There's definitely lots of room in the Chromecast space.
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I don't use Google Drive, so this may be idiotic - but can you paste the url directly into LocalCast and go from there?
https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/

[Q] Music Cloud/Storage Stream Options ?

Hello Folks,
I am trying to find a way of keeping most of music available to me across my devices,
Android Tablet (Nexus7)
Android Phone (MotoX)
Various PC's
I have messed with Google Music and something about the interface doesn't do it for me.
MyMusicCloud is limited to 250 songs and other cloud services like Skydrive don't offer streaming services but just storage.
The idea is to stream, not really download to play, ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.
Pete
I used subsonic server for over a year. Works insanely well if you are willing to run a server from your PC. they're are raspberry pi solutions as well. Also, some use Plex, instead. Both are great options. As for cloud services, you can pretty much do Google music or amazon. Google gives you 20k songs free. Amazon gives you an unprecedented 250k songs for $25 a year.
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pasta1234 said:
Hello Folks,
I am trying to find a way of keeping most of music available to me across my devices,
Android Tablet (Nexus7)
Android Phone (MotoX)
Various PC's
I have messed with Google Music and something about the interface doesn't do it for me.
MyMusicCloud is limited to 250 songs and other cloud services like Skydrive don't offer streaming services but just storage.
The idea is to stream, not really download to play, ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.
Pete
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Just a heads up that if you are not into the Google Music app, you can now use third party software as the interface, but still use Google Music for its free storage capacity. I saw the article somewhere on this site, I will take a look for it.
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JustROLLIN said:
Just a heads up that if you are not into the Google Music app, you can now use third party software as the interface, but still use Google Music for its free storage capacity. I saw the article somewhere on this site, I will take a look for it.
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Boom!
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...cloud-streaming-to-third-party-music-players/
This should solve all your problems.
metaljr81 said:
I used subsonic server for over a year. Works insanely well if you are willing to run a server from your PC.
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I used Subsonic for a while too, seemed to work well. As mentioned, you need an always on computer if you want access whenever. I remember it being a little tedious to set up. Subsonic also lets you stream video files, pretty neat, worked alright. I stopped using it when I discovered that my home Comcast internet usage was over the 200GB limit one month, but I can't verify it was Subsonic or something else on my network... I'm tempted to try Subsonic again, seems silly to upload my music to Google's server when I could just stream from home, provided your upload is fast enough and you have a static IP or DDNS.
I've had good luck with Cloudaround. The free version lets you stream from dropbox, and the paid version uses Box, GoogleDrive, Skydrive and others, as well as your local files.
I have used Amazon MP3 with good luck
I appreciate everyone's suggestions...
I guess one of my large pet peeves with Google Music is its inability to sync music to a folder, unless I am not seeing it.
When i use there music manager software and direct it a folder path it just copies everything over, if a file is deleted or renamed it does nothing, its not truly a sync piece of software, any work arounds ?
Pete

What do you use your Nexus 5 for on a daily basis?

Hopefully I've put this in the right section, as I believe the questions sections is for help requests rather than general survey style questions (eg the What are you running on your N5 thread).
Anyway, I'm sure we use our phones for a lot more than calling and texting, so post what you use your device for!
Here's some of the things my phone helps me with:
Reminders (Google keep/now, they should be integrated) - I have horrible memory so these help heaps
Timetable (Google Calendar) - use the lock screen widget so I just swipe to see what classes I have
Homework/tasks (Google keep)
Social networking (Fb, telegram, Instagram, snapchat etc)
Media (YouTube, MX player, Vines, Unis video player, uListen)
Tracking food intake (My fitness pal)
Alarm (Alarmpad)
Taking photos of documents and things on the board (Camscanner - highly recommend)
Syncing all my school work that I do on my home computer in case I forget to sync my school laptop before leaving as cloud storage is blocked (Google Drive/Bittorrent Sync)
Browsing XDA/reddit (Tapatalk/Reddit Sync)
That's all I can think of for now, your turn!
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Google+, Hangouts, Flipboard, Sunrise calendar, YouTube, XDA, Instagram Facebook etc.
No particular order
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goes on the Q/A section, not here. but if you were to ask me, I would say taking phone calls, texting, skyping, playing CPU extensive games such as Real Racing 3, Ravensword 2, GTA SA, etc, listening to music, alarm clock, stopwatch, timer, clock, taking photos/videos, browsing Facebook, 9GAG, XDA Forums, using Chrome, Google Keep, Google Calendar, and most of all, tweaking my phone to the best of my ability to make things look right and just right.
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I normally just use mine for the basics...calling, texting, important school email etc. It's also my primary alarm clock. Aside from that, I also use Keep to make sure I know what's due when and when I need to be where, not to mention music and social networking. I guess you could say I don't mess with my phone as much as I did when I had my HTC One. Although the N5 is rooted with a few mods, I try not to get too caught up in the realm of XDA as it does get quite addicting
Always start my day turning off my alarm, stock clock application is fine for me.
I use my phone as a music player A LOT, PowerAmp doesn't seem to work well with this phone for me so I use Google Play Music now.
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Keep keep me organized. Office Mobile + OneDrive is my choice for office suite and cloud storage.
Most of my reading is on Chrome and Newstand.
Mostly to read news. It is also my alarm clock.
as a phone.
Amost Everything! GPS, Alarm, Banking, NFC, OTG, Browser, Tethering, Email, Texting, Camera, HDMI to TV, Phone, Entertainment, Weather, Calculator, etc.
My phone is my college companion: I often take notes by connecting a Bluetooth keyboard, read PDF documents, write and read emails, manage my cloud documents, and share its 3g connection to my laptop.
Then I use it for text messages (Hangouts, WhatsApp...) and Internet browsing, sometimes as a music player.
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Email..
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Everything it can do. Calls, texts, email. Some games. Web browsing. YouTube, XDA, etc. Use Wallet & NFC to pay for stuff at a couple gas stations and stores in my areas. I use it to record notes (quick record feature on custom ROM). I use it as my alarm clock. I have an app to track my work hours and how much I make per hour. To track my expenses. As a GPS. HDMI mirroring to my TV for Netflix. Social networking. I use it as a camera as well. Pretty much everything it is capable of doing, I use it to do. I love it.
At the same time, writing this list I also realized how dependent I am on my phone. It's gonna get real once SkyNet takes over.
I switch between the N5 and M8 daily, but I mostly use my N5 for modding and tethering
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Voice calls , sms , listening to music, camera, youtube and playing some games
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Hi,
For benches, tweaks and kernel tests only...
And sometimes all the rest that a smartphone can do if I have enough battery life after 01H10 of total use of Antutu and Quadrant and after about 10 reboots a day due to some tests...
It's a Nexus device after all...
Calling family, texting family and friends, music, YouTube, browsing forums via Tapatalk, general web browsing and retrieving information from the internet when I am out.
I play around with the camera too and use the camera to capture anything and everything.
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MUSIC.
I have it all day right next to me hocked up to my stereo via Bluetooth. I just love how easy it is to hear music all the time. And even if I'm not a home, I'm using my Klipsch S4 for that.
And of course for WhatsApp, XDA and for taking photos with the lovely camera. I love playing around with it (trying out new Roms, kernels and apps), tweaking it to my needs. I love my phone.
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Instagram hey guys can I flash uber linaro on validus
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Other than phone and texting ~~
Ebook reader, news reader, public transport checking, emails, calculator. (in order)
occasionally, facebook, but only through a browser. (Facebook app asking for too much permission, not installing it.)
Hammer_Of_The_Gods said:
Hi,
For benches, tweaks and kernel tests only...
And sometimes all the rest that a smartphone can do if I have enough battery life after 01H10 of total use of Antutu and Quadrant and after about 10 reboots a day due to some tests...
It's a Nexus device after all...
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you basically use it as a guinea pig?
Aadilnz said:
Hopefully I've put this in the right section, as I believe the questions sections is for help requests rather than general survey style questions (eg the What are you running on your N5 thread).
Anyway, I'm sure we use our phones for a lot more than calling and texting, so post what you use your device for!
Here's some of the things my phone helps me with:
Reminders (Google keep/now, they should be integrated) - I have horrible memory so these help heaps
Timetable (Google Calendar) - use the lock screen widget so I just swipe to see what classes I have
Homework/tasks (Google keep)
Social networking (Fb, telegram, Instagram, snapchat etc)
Media (YouTube, MX player, Vines, Unis video player, uListen)
Tracking food intake (My fitness pal)
Alarm (Alarmpad)
Taking photos of documents and things on the board (Camscanner - highly recommend)
Syncing all my school work that I do on my home computer in case I forget to sync my school laptop before leaving as cloud storage is blocked (Google Drive/Bittorrent Sync)
Browsing XDA/reddit (Tapatalk/Reddit Sync)
That's all I can think of for now, your turn!
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I cannot think of what I DON'T do with my N5, other than the usual calling , texting , social networking , gaming , scheduling , music and video streaming etc etc I do a lot of reboots.

[Q] Must have apps

So, as I said earlier, I'm changing from iOS (today, hopefully).
Some of you have been playing with your note 4 for a bit now.
What are the must have apps for you?
Dropbox , rar , sketbook for galaxy , kingsoft office , some google app, facebook, twiter, 9GAG, more and more
Open your google play store and find out my friend
Evernote now seems to have great support for the S Pen
Feedly is good if you read the same pages day after day - with Feedly you can save time because it gathers headers from the pages you choose and allows you to quickly go through them and only read those that are interesting.

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