The best Android apps for May 2014
Swarm
Foursquare's new app, Swarm, is taking the reins of the
location-based check-in, leaving the original core app for venue
recommendations and reviews. The biggest addition Swarm has to offer to
the Foursquare experience is planning. Now you can indicate which spots
you're going to in the near future, and ping your nearby buddies to see
if they're interested in doing the same. Mayorships are now only
relative to your group of friends, but stuff like badges and check-ins
are still very much the same. It's great to see a veteran in mobile apps
take a chance at redefining itself, and we suspect the change will be
for the better.
Secret
Secret is an infamous confession app for Android similar to Whisper.
Users can sign in, post public, anonymous confessions, and let others
comment on, like, and share them. Users within your immediate social
circle are visible in the Friend stream, though identities don't get any
more specific than that. You can also check the Explore stream to see
popular public secrets. The release also includes new features such as a
question & answer framework, and a view of how many friends you
have using Secret.
Though there's zero guarantee to the legitimacy of the posts on Secret, it can at very least be entertaining.
AllCast Receiver
AllCast Receiver is an expansion on an already great app that allows
your Android device to host content from many other local sources,
namely other Android devices. For example, if you have a music library
on your Android phone, and you want to play it on your tablet, just
launch AllCast Receiver on your tablet and the core app on your phone to
beam it over. The simplicity and reliability of the app is a godsend
for the media-hungry, and with an ever-expanding group of supporting
hosts (such as Chrome browsers), AllCast will likely become a permanent fixture on many devices.
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