Google Play's New Card-Based UI

Google Play's new card-based UI

I was surfing Google+ after a long time, I noticed the notification dot top-right corner near my profile pic.

So, I clicked on it to check out what notification was about...

I saw there was notification, that said "Play store has a new layout!!!" so I clicked on it and saw this amazing new video of card-based UI of Play Store.

So I searched on Google about news and stuff I realized it's only for some smartphones (or maybe for some Android-N builds).

Let's wait and see when the new UI will come to us, and let's hope they bring less laggy Permissions list... ( ._.)

Permissions list

dotAPK - A Tool For Managing & Installing Batch APKs!!

dotAPK - A tool for managing and installing batch APKs!

Hello guys,

I created and released a tool to manage and install lots of APK files without having to copy pasting, changing devices, using ADB commands.

This tool has these functions:

1. Install batch APKs.
2. Find duplicates apps and remove them.
3. Get installed apps from phone! (has some issues getting all apps)
4. Get app info. (permissions list in WIP)
5. Install apps without having to change devices.

Downloads: GitHub/AwaisKing/dotAPK/Releases

Source Code: GitHub/AwaisKing/dotAPK

Please check that tool out...

Any help would be appreciated! ^_^

Thank you!

Android Official Site's 404 Page Game

Android official site's 404 page game!

Almost everyone knows that Google is putting Easter Eggs in their products, like Web Search, Chrome, Android, Hangouts, YouTube, etc...

I'm an Android lover, I'm always excited to check different Easter Eggs or tricks, by going to sites, blogs, decoding system apps (hehehe) and asking people for something new...

I was checking some news, saw there's a content written on Android official site's new 404 Page Not Found game...

So, I thought I should post it here :D

Link: https://www.android.com/404

Mr. Jump, Now Available for Android Devices!

Mr. Jump, an impossible game, is now available for Android!

If you were or still are an iOS enthusiast and gamer, You would have played or just heard about this hard platformer game.

This game has different levels with different unique themes, there are jetpacks in this game too, but they come in power-ups, and also infinite jumps make you hop like a bunny.

If you want to face the challenge and play this game, I would like to say, GOOD LUCK!!

WhatsApp's Update - New iOS10 Beta Looking Emoticons

WhatsApp changed emoticons in their new update

Almost everyone has WhatsApp number or even heard about, I was checking messages and I had to send a smiley/emoticon in a group, I just realized that it's a new kind of emoticons, little shadowy, which kinda looked like iOS10 beta's emoticons...

After Googling about WhatsApp's new emoticon updates, it came to me that that's available after it's new "beta" update.

Which can be downloaded through Google Play store.

Check it out! :)

Google Turns 18 today!

Happy birthday Google - Google turns 18 today! 

About everyone in world who has internet access know about this great search engine!

It is this day of this month that Google turned 18!

Google is now officially adult (that doesn't mean it'll now allow *whistle* ;) )

Google has lots of doodles in past 17 years, this one is simply great in my thought, it has all the balloons and a balloony oogle in G's hands, which G crafts with his hands and later on it float away, then it pops and then G falls back on ground!

It's just fantastic, but sadly it isn't interactive as some other birthday doodles...

After all, it's Google it never seizes to make you happy and find the things you are looking for...

So, happy birthday Google may you live long! :D

Fix: Chrome IDM Extension - "Attempted to downgrade extension" - Error

Fix Google Chrome's IDM extension 'downgrade' error

In newer versions of Google Chrome, there's error installing Internet Download Manager extension.

If you try to install IDMGCExt.crx file from Internet Download Manager installation location you'll get this error:

Attempted to downgrade extension.

So there's this simple way to fix it:

1. Copy IDMGCExt.crx to your Desktop. 
2. Rename it from .crx to .zip extension.
3. Extract it to a folder using WinRAR or 7-Zip archiver.
4. Open Google Chrome and go to Extensions (Menu > More Tools > Extension).
5. Check Developer mode option at top-right side.
6. Click on Load unpacked extension... button at top-left side.
7. Select extracted IDMGCExt folder from Desktop and click OK button.
8. Voila!! You're done! Now you can use IDM extension!! :D

Awesome upcoming Android games!

Upcoming Games for Android with Awesome Graphics!

It is 2016, so you can guess that there will be a new game released everyday now.

Some of upcoming games are these:

1. Batman - The Telltale Series

2. Hot Guns

3. The Marvellous Miss Take

4. Shapik: The Quest

5. Need To Know

6. PayDay : Crime War

7. Shadow Fight 3

8. Archeage

9. The Elder Scrolls : Legends

10. Overland

Root: The List of Tools!

Ultimate list of Android rooting apps

1. KingRoot
2. iRoot (formerly vRoot)
3. FramaRoot
4. Root Master
5. Root Genius
6. SRS Root (Mirrors: Download.com | SoftPedia)
7. z4root
8. Gingerbreak [Gingerbread only]
9. KingoRoot
10. BaiduRoot
11. towelroot
12. UnlockRoot (Mirrors: v2.3.0 | v2.3.1)
13. One Click Root
14. Rescue Root
15. Universal Androot
16. unrEVOked [some HTCs only]
17. Root with Restore by Bin4ry
18. WeakSauce [HTC only]
19. DooMLorD's Easy Rooting Toolkit (zergRush exploit)
20. ChainFire-Auto-Root
21. Superoneclick
22. MTKDroidTools (if you can't find download link) [MediaTek only]
23. Nexus Root Toolkit [Nexus only]
24. Bacon Root Toolkit [OnePlus One only]
25. WinDroid Toolkit
26. Unified Android Toolkit [Samsung and Nexus only]
27. SpaceTools MediaTek Toolkit [MediaTek only]
28. Mi Toolkit [MIUI only]
29. MediaTek Root and CWM Recovery [MediaTek only]
30. Custom recovery method

I have used some of these softwares, with different phones, different softwares work.

KingRoot, iRoot, Bin4ry root, CF Auto Root and MTKDroidTools worked for me, and are still working. :)

How to unlock Electronic Image Stabilization on Nexus 5X

How to unlock Electronic Image Stabilization on Nexus 5X

About every photographer knows about EIS, it's importance and how it can make your photography perfect.

Both Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P have EIS feature, but it's hidden and disabled.

But with root access and this neat trick you can enable and use it!

Here's how:

You'll need - Root Access and any root file manager. (I'll recommend Root Explorer)

    1. Mount /system as r/w with button at top.

    2. Tap and hold on build.prop file.

    3. Select Open With in options dialog.

    4. Select Text Editor to edit build.prop.

    5. Add this line at the end:

persist.camera.eis.enable=1 

    6. Tap on Menu button and tap Save and Exit option.

    7. Go to stock Camera app, and go to Settings.

    8. Go to Resolution & Quality, and check Enable video stabilization

And congratulations, now you can use EIS in Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P! :)

Opera VPN - Unlimited Free VPN

Opera released it's new free unlimited VPN app

Back in April, when Opera announced an addition of free VPN service to their desktop browser.

On Monday, they released an app called Opera Free VPN, with  features like, block ad-tracking,  unlimited, five different locations, it does not require you to register the account  to use it.

Opera Free VPN uses SurfEasy Inc.  services to connect you to their private network,  and yes, you can see ads, but ads won't track your usage.

Remember, Opera does collect your usage data and share it with partner companies, so it's not clean as you think it is.

When the Symbians were Androids! [A story of me]

When Symbian smartphones were Androids...

Have you ever heard of Symbian, some of you probably have heard, or even used them.

I remember when we had only 2 of those phones at home, my father used one, and other one was divided in me and my elder brother.

It was Nokia 6600 (high-end phone at that time)

I always used to play games like Moorhuhn, Raging Thunder, Jewel matching game (forgot name), and other old games, but he didn't let me play much, he liked taking pictures, morphing them with app called Jelly.

It was fun then, it had VGA camera, but quality was pure and bright!

It had 10 or 12 MBs of internal probably, a joystick pad, wide pin CA cable, and yes a standard SDCard slot (bigger one), at that time we didn't have WiFis, 2G, 3G, 4G, but there was internet available through WAP, and GPRS (in larger and popular cities).

After that beast, we bought Nokia 7610, just for more 0.5 MP camera and a classic video editor thingy.

It was much faster and durable, except for one app which it didn't have, neither we knew how to install it on that phone, but we managed to get through it.

As a "wise" man once said, "with great power, comes great responsibility", it has remarkably good battery life compared to Nokia 6600 but it seemed to drain all the juice when we played same games on Nokia 7610, but we managed to get through it as well.

Well... few years went by greatly, but there was a change when I heard about phone which has two batteries, also works without battery, at that time we didn't know how that is possible, so went to buy it, we bought it! It was a Bilwani phone, a Chinese feature phone, it wasn't go great after all, but music volume was loud, also with camera of 1.5 or 2MP it was great for some stupids like us.

But! When we found out there was a small battery fixed inside of phone, we laughed at our stupidness.

After that we bought lots of phones, some Chinese, some Symbian, some even Java (J2ME) phones, I remember few names.

But how could I forget that last Symbian phone which my elder brother bought? It was glorious!

THE NOKIA 5230, GREATEST SYMBIAN PHONE WE EVER HAD!

It could support lots of games and apps, also with better internal space, and a 2MegaPixel camera, gyro sensor all that plus touch screen!! It was like precious gem to us!

God have mercy, we used to play Raging Thunder on it, as we know now, touch + sensors = totally fun, that was next level!

And yes, after we discovered a handwriting keyboard, we were like "Okay... that's new!"

Then came, 2011 June 11th, the day when I bought the first Android phone, Samsung Galaxy Gio! The first phone in whole neighborhood running Android OS!

Remembering the Nokia 5230 features, I thought does this phone have handwriting keyboard? gyro sensor? better battery? new games?

I was totally shocked when I found out a new keyboard, already installed and ready to use keyboard Swype! The keyboard with gesture typing!

Few hours spent learning basics and stuff with System Settings, Keyboard Settings, Languages, Lockscreen, etcetera, I noticed Google Market app at home screen after swiping a few times, it needed Gmail account to start it up, so I created new one.

Few minutes later, a screen popped up containing lots of colorful icons, at the top trending apps, I saw Talking Tom app, which everyone is familiar with. I never thought it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun (notice the 'o' in 'so', that's long, I mean it), I was shouting, running room to room, showing everyone what that app can do.

We had so many laughs on the app, next day searching through Market, saw a keyboard, I was like "wow, we can install new keyboards??!!11?!1", downloaded it, installed, enabled, tapped on a text box, keyboard pops up, it was cool!

After some time, Chinese Android smartphones came into market place, people saw what this phone can do, friends told their friends, Android got viral here, and after few more months, 30% of population had their own Android phones.

Now it's like 5 years, at least 90% here own 1 Android phone, 80% own 2 or more Android phones, and 99% of them used 1 Android phone.

QuadRooter vulnerability, over 1 billion devices vulnerable

QuadRooter - A new Android bug, over 1b devices vulnerable

What is QuadRooter?

QuadRooter is a set of four vulnerabilities affecting Android devices built using Qualcomm chipsets. Qualcomm is the world’s leading designer of LTE chipsets with a 65% share of the LTE modem base-band market. If any one of the four vulnerabilities is exploited, an attacker can trigger privilege escalations for the purpose of gaining root access to a device.

Which devices QuadRooter can attack?

QuadRooter vulnerabilities are found in software drivers that ship with Qualcomm chipsets. Any Android device built using these chipsets is at risk. The drivers, which control communication between chipset components, become incorporated into Android builds manufacturers develop for their devices.Since the vulnerable drivers are pre-installed on devices at the point of manufacture, they can only be fixed by installing a patch from the distributor or carrier. Distributors and carriers issuing patches can only do so after receiving fixed driver packs from Qualcomm.This situation highlights the inherent risks in the Android security model. Critical security updates must pass through the entire supply chain before they can be made available to end users. Once available, the end users must then be sure to install these updates to protect their devices and data.

Is my device safe?
Your device might be safe if it's not Qualcomm, or maybe if it is Qualcomm, even without patched installed.But there's also a slight chance that your device has it, even if you visit trustworthy websites, or use trusted apps.But you should install and run scan to check QuadRooter vulnerability.