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10 Top-Rated Health & Fitness Apps For Your Android Devices
AppWizard
December 15, 2024

10 Top-Rated Health & Fitness Apps For Your Android Devices

Android fitness applications are essential for tracking progress and maintaining motivation toward health goals. Notable apps include: - Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker: Over 380 million users, tracks ovulation, fertility, water intake, physical activity, and mood, offers reminders and a content library on health topics, and includes a feature for couples to connect accounts. - JustFit - Lazy Workout: Focuses on home workouts without gym memberships, allows personalized fitness plans, and includes Pilates workouts requiring minimal equipment. - MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter: Provides visibility into health profiles with a database of 14 million food items, features a barcode scanner, and integrates with over 50 apps and devices. - Calorie Counter - MyNetDiary: User-friendly for weight loss and nutrition management with over 1.7 million food items, an AI-powered scanner, and a community feature for motivation. - Pilates Workout at Home: Offers budget-friendly Pilates workouts with personalized plans and step-by-step video tutorials designed by certified experts. - Finch: Self-Care Pet: Introduces a virtual pet that evolves with user engagement in self-care activities, offering quizzes, motivational quotes, and journaling spaces. - Fasting - Intermittent Fasting: Simplifies intermittent fasting with customizable plans and a resource hub for tips, integrating with wearable devices. - Wysa: Anxiety, therapy chatbot: An AI-powered chatbot using CBT and DBT techniques for emotional support, includes mood tracking, mindfulness exercises, and options to connect with therapists. - TrainingPeaks: Designed for endurance coaching, offers structured training plans, real-time tracking with wearables, and advanced features for serious athletes. - Muscle Monster Workout Planner: A comprehensive workout planner with over 300 exercises, AI-driven guidance, and support for various training environments.
Wear OS 5 blocks one of the best watch apps and it's high time Google fixes things
AppWizard
October 16, 2024

Wear OS 5 blocks one of the best watch apps and it’s high time Google fixes things

Google has introduced the XML Watch Face Format (WFF) for Wear OS, optimizing memory usage and enhancing battery life for smartwatches. However, this has led to a decline in creativity for Android watch faces, resulting in the loss of popular apps like Facer. The WFF restricts complex animations and features, limiting memory usage to 10MB in ambient mode and 100MB in interactive mode. Users of the Galaxy Watch 7 and Pixel Watch 3 are left with default options or limited WFF alternatives, discouraging innovation. Facer is working with Google to integrate its service with Wear OS 5, but the transition requires converting its library of 500,000 faces to XML, which would strip away many features. Users would need to repurchase previously acquired faces, as the current Play Store structure lacks adequate support for developers. There are suggestions for Google to allow third-party installations of WFF faces or acquire Facer to improve watch face discovery.
Android game and app price drops: High Sea Saga DX, Dream Town Island, and more
AppWizard
August 14, 2024

Android game and app price drops: High Sea Saga DX, Dream Town Island, and more

Today's Android games and applications include pre-order promotions for the Pixel 9 handsets, offering Amazon credit, trade-in discounts, and deals on Pixel Buds Pro 2. Motorola's unlocked 2024 Edge is available at competitive prices, along with limited-time discounts on select Sonos sound bars. The Google Ace LTE Kids Smartwatch and Sony XM4 ANC Headphones are also featured in current promotions. Standout Android games include High Sea Saga DX, Dream Town Island, and Tropical Resort Story. High Sea Saga DX involves maritime adventures with treasure hunting, monsters, and rival players, requiring a skilled team and a well-constructed ship.
3D app and game design platform Spline raises $10M and extends support to Android - SiliconANGLE
AppWizard
August 13, 2024

3D app and game design platform Spline raises $10M and extends support to Android – SiliconANGLE

Spline Inc. has secured funding in its latest Series A round, led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures, Firestreak, and angel investors Jorn van Dijk and Guillermo Rauch. The startup has launched Android support, expanding its platform's collaborative capabilities for developers. Spline offers a no-code 3D design platform that allows users to create 3D content without extensive coding knowledge, featuring tools for 3D modeling, animation, material layers, sculpting, a physics engine, and generative AI. It claims to be the first platform enabling no-code 3D design specifically for Android applications. New features include a "Real-time API" for dynamic 3D creations and support for webhooks, enhancing interactivity and allowing integration with third-party tools. Spline aims to use the funding to further develop its platform and integrate more AI design capabilities.
Princess Cruises expands Wi-Fi speeds on cruise ships and hosts UGC game competition
AppWizard
August 9, 2024

Princess Cruises expands Wi-Fi speeds on cruise ships and hosts UGC game competition

Princess Cruises has launched MedallionNet Max, an advanced onboard Wi-Fi service that offers speeds reaching hundreds of megabits per second. The company has been enhancing onboard connectivity since 2018, utilizing various bandwidth sources including low Earth orbit satellites like Starlink. With the introduction of two Wi-Fi service tiers—MedallionNet Classic and MedallionNet Max—guests can enjoy prioritized access to high-quality bandwidth. The Classic tier offers reliable performance, while the Max tier is included in popular bundles like Princess Plus and Princess Premier. Princess Cruises has retrofitted its fleet for high-speed internet access, ensuring Wi-Fi coverage in staterooms and public areas. The cruise line is also hosting a Minecraft event featuring influencers, showcasing the potential for gaming experiences onboard.
How to Delete the Health Data Your Android Is Tracking | Lifehacker
AppWizard
August 2, 2024

How to Delete the Health Data Your Android Is Tracking | Lifehacker

Android phones can independently monitor health metrics through applications like Google Fit and Samsung Health, tracking activities such as steps taken, active minutes, and calories burned. Google Fit uses Health Connect to manage health data locally on the smartphone, ensuring encryption, while data synchronized to the cloud is not end-to-end encrypted. Samsung Health also stores data locally with encryption via Knox technology, and offers cloud storage options that are not end-to-end encrypted, though an Enhanced Data Protection mode is available for Samsung Galaxy S24 series users. Users can check and manage their health data tracking preferences in both applications, including options to delete data or stop tracking specific metrics.
Android 15 Beta 2 is Now Rolling Out with Pixel Private Space, Saving App Pairs, and More
AppWizard
May 16, 2024

Android 15 Beta 2 is Now Rolling Out with Pixel Private Space, Saving App Pairs, and More

Google has rolled out Android 15 Beta 2, which introduces features such as Private Space for selected apps, taskbar pinning, and App pairs for multitasking. The update also includes Health Connect improvements, a new setting for gendered language addressing, and various other updates like selected photos access improvement and smoother Picture-in-Picture transitions.
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