Apple picker News in the current App Week can bring a new look to mobile live streaming with Houseparty, Twitter with Leaf, email with Alto, and Skype with CallKit. But that's still not all... Read the 39th Application Week to learn more.
News from the world of applications
Meerkat Launches New Group Video Chat Service Houseparty, Original App Gone From App Store (30/9)
The application Meerkat, which last year took care of the popularity of filming live broadcasts within mobile devices, came out with a novelty built on a similar basis. It's called Houseparty and it combines elements of live streaming and group chat, where up to 8 people can be invited via text message.
With this initiative, Meerkat is trying to attract as many users as possible to its side. The original application was a success, but after Periscope (purchased by Twitter) and Facebook came up with a similar concept, Meerkat's user base shrank relatively. As a result, the Meerkat application was even pulled from the App Store this week, and the developers will now focus 100% on the new Houseparty.
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Source: The Verge [1, 2]
Apps from The Omni Group will now be free, but with microtransactions (30/9)
The Omni Group, the company behind the popular productivity apps for macOS and iOS, announced an interesting news. Its products, including GTD tool OmniFocus, will be offered as free downloads with in-app purchases. This should allow users to try out the app first and then buy the full package if they are interested. Among other things, a two-week trial with all features will also be offered for free.
Source: Mac Stories
New applications
Leaf brings a (slightly) new look to Twitter
It's not entirely obvious from its user interface why, but an interesting new Twitter client is called Leaf. Its basic concept is the same as all the others, but it differs in enough features to make it feel new and fresh.
The application is classically divided into four main sections according to the displayed content, and the individual sections behave as a Twitter user would expect. For example, the main overview of tweets automatically combines text with images or video if they are attached to it. So the user sees both, but the tweet doesn't take up much more space than plain text. Private messages are also handled in an unusual way. It does not scroll between conversations in a vertical list, but horizontally between user icons at the top of the display.
Another visually striking element is the presence of a dark night mode, to which the application can automatically switch at a set time.
In addition, Leaf also includes useful features such as the ability to manually update conversations by swiping up at their end (mostly the other way around), in-app and push notifications, support for lists and several Twitter accounts, etc.
Leaf is available in the App Store for 4,99 euros.
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AOL's Alto processes e-mails as sets of information rather than individual messages
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AOL introduced a new email client. It tries to stand out from the plethora of competing applications by automatically processing the information contained in e-mails and offering them in a clear system of cards.
Some will probably remember the Inbox, which offers something similar, but Alto is even more focused on working with information without the user having to work directly with specific emails. Part of this is the connection of several e-mail accounts into one stream of information, which is not necessarily dependent on the sources from which they come (i.e. from which e-mail or mailbox).
When working with emails, Alto differs from its competitors primarily in three basic functions:
- Graphic processing of the information contained in individual e-mails and their display in a classic list - if the e-mail contains, for example, information about the shipment, instead of plain text, a clear card is displayed that provides the necessary parameters of the order without the need to open the e-mail.
- The so-called "Stacks" - a category of content that the application extracts from e-mails and offers them together in one folder. Available categories include: snoozed, personal, photos, files, flagged, unread, shopping, travel, finance, etc.
- The so-called "Dashboard" - a single list containing only cards with information.
Because the app uses keywords to process and categorize information, it currently only works for emails in supported languages, which are English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Even in the supported languages it is not completely reliable, but at least it shows great potential.
Of course, Alto can also function as a classic e-mail client divided into mailboxes, conversations and messages.
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"Do you know it?" is a Czech word game for iOS
The principle of the Czech game "Do you know it?" is simple. You need to guess the word that corresponds to all four presented pictures. The game has a simple graphic and functional processing, but the puzzles should not be too simple. There are more than 100 puzzles of varying difficulty (according to word length) to choose from, and more will be added with regular updates.
The game "Do you know it?" is available for free in the App Store.
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Important update
The Google app for iOS comes with incognito mode support and other novelties
The official Google application for the iOS operating system has been updated and brings certain changes. Among the most prominent are the support of incognito mode (the same principle as the "anonymous" mode in mobile Safari) with the possibility of higher security using Touch ID, instant playback of videos from YouTube directly in this application and generally better optimization for iOS 10.
Source: 9to5Mac
Skype integrates more deeply into iOS 10 thanks to CallKit
iOS 10 appeared to be not very prominent at first, it only begins to show fully in cooperation with third-party application developers. For example, a new update to Skype greatly simplifies communication through it. To connect with someone through this service, it is no longer necessary to open the relevant application. Skype contacts will also appear in iOS "Contacts". In addition, it is not necessary to open "Contacts" either, just ask Siri to initiate a Skype call. The Skype call itself will also work almost the same as a classic call through an operator or FaceTime, thanks to CallKit, which gives developers access to a unified user experience.
The Skype notification will also appear when using CarPlay.
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- How to prioritize and manage app downloads in iOS 10
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so if I already bought omni stuff once, what does that mean? like again
like nothing, you'll go the same way as me.