Top forum threads: our new baby, Android 5.0, antivirus apps...

Loie Favre 2014-04-20T08:00:01Z2 hours ago

Loie Favre

Loie Favre is a Canadian-German, food-loving, live-music-craving globe-trotter. Coming from a humble background in the Canadian Prairies centred around nature and the Arts, she studied Translation and Languages in Edmonton. She left his home on the Pacific Coast of Canada, to seek her fortune in Berlin. She is now an Editor and Manager for AndroidPIT.com and is enjoying discovering about everything and anything under the sun about Android.

It was an exciting week in forumland. After months and months of hard work, AndroidPIT launched their new responsive, Holo, super clear, super cool, super amazing forum you just got to love! Away with the clutter and in with the content that matters (yours). Other than that, Android 5.0 was again a topic, as well as scam-free antivirus apps and what people look at first when buying a new smartphone.

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Welcome to our new forum (aka our baby)

This week marked the launch of our new AndroidPIT forum, that is now responsive, meaning it will fit perfectly to every screen size, no more annoying zooming, scrolling or illegible text. The forum now uses more of the browser page, meaning more space for your content in much clearer overview. The design overhaul which was built from the ground up is also clean looking and flat to match the Holo look of your other Android apps. Tell us what you think!

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What will Android 5.0 be named?

Here’s a topic that has been possessing the minds of many Androiders. What the heck will the next version of Android be called? The letter K is out of the question seeing as it was used for Android 4.4 KitKat, so no Key Lime Pie. Lime Pie just sounds dumb. So we’ve been hearing things like lollipop, lemon drop, lamingtons (??). What do you think? Add what you think to the thread.

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What’s the most important thing when buying a phone?

When considering upgrading to a new phone, what matters the most? A huge screen, many built-in apps, the price/performance ratio, it all comes down to personal taste. Our community members actually have surprisingly different things they look at first when purchasing a phone, and not all has to do with the phone itself, but the manufacturers’ attitude towards customer service. Let us know what you check out first in the forum thread.

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Best antivirus apps (that aren't scams)

Last week, the best app in the Google Play Store was a antivirus app, that turned out sadly to be a complete fake, which leads us to wonder if Google and the Play Store are actually that good at keeping at keeping the rubbish out and it turns out they are not! Thankfully, you have us. In this thread we talk about the most trusted antivirus apps your Android can have, that aren’t scams. Tell us what apps you know are safe!

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Kris Carlon 2014-04-13T08:00:01Z1 day ago

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Putting down roots in Berlin after six years of traveling is a major step for Kris Carlon, who has spent more time living out of a tent lately than sitting at a desk. Kris comes to the AndroidPIT Editorial Team via a lengthy period spent writing on art and culture in Australia and other places he has lived. He joined the Android community while resurfacing in civilization back in 2010 and has never looked back, using technology to replace his actual presence in other people's lives ever since.

If you've got unanswered questions about Android devices, the platform itself, apps or manufacturers, get in the AndroidPIT forum and put those questions to rest! This week the most read threads were a mixed bag, much like the AndroidPIT staff! Come join the fun.

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Google has decided to take a position on porn and 'adult' apps in the Google Play Store that seems to be a little hypocritical considering that Google's fortune was half made on the volume of porn on the internet. What do you think about the decision? Can you come up wit a more appropriate way to deal with adult content in the Play Store?

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Everyone has heard about the scammy antivirus app in the Google Play Store that, despite costing $4 and doing absolutely nothing, rocketed to the top of the paid apps in a week. With that thought in mind we started a discussion about the best, non-scammy antivirus apps for Android. Check it out if you're looking for one and share your thoughts if you're using one.

With so many antivirus apps available there's bound to be the good, the bad and the ugly. / © Avira

With all the new flagship devices coming out, many people are considering making an upgrade. But to what device? Which manufacturer has your loyalty? Which features can you not live without? Are you willing to make sacrifices in some areas to get better specs in others?

A better battery life is becoming increasingly important these days. / © Samsung

In this thread, one of our new members gets a rough and ready introduction from one of our learned Mods on the ins and outs of the custom ROM scene. If you're new to the whole shebang too it's a one page conversation with pretty much all the first questions asked and answered.

Thinking about flashing your first custom ROM? / © Google, CyanogenMod, AOKP, Paranoid Android, Omni/AndroidPIT

Some games are so processor hungry that you can't even charge them while playing them because the battery drain is faster than the battery charge. Check out the games causing the problems and the possible solutions. Has this happened to you?

No one wants to only be able to play a game while charging - and still lose battery. / © AndroidPIT

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Our new responsive forum is live!

Loie Favre 2014-04-14T13:49:58Z2 hours ago

Loie Favre

Loie Favre is a Canadian-German, food-loving, live-music-craving globe-trotter. Coming from a humble background in the Canadian Prairies centred around nature and the Arts, she studied Translation and Languages in Edmonton. She left his home on the Pacific Coast of Canada, to seek her fortune in Berlin. She is now an Editor and Manager for AndroidPIT.com and is enjoying discovering about everything and anything under the sun about Android.

Our newly redesigned web-based forum is being released from the beta phase today and will be available to all of our users. It has been completely rebuilt from the ground up and offers heaps of improvements that we are sure you will enjoy!

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Thanks to the feedback from users who played the role of beta-testers, we were able to work towards optimizing the forum the way our users would like to see it. Today, we feel that we have made something that indeed meets these requests. In removing the beta label and launching the new forum for all to use, we’ve done away with the old and in with a brand-new and improved setup to house our ever-growing AndroidPIT community.

Highlights

New design

The moment you navigate to the forum, the first thing you’ll see that is quite different from before is the design, which now offers more room for content and is a lot clearer. During the beta-phase, the design was repeatedly improved. One of these changes include the increased space (width) of content which appears on the page. This will allow for a better usage of the desktop browser space.

Responsive design

Whether you have a smartphone, tablet, notebook and PC, the new design is responsive, meaning that it will adapt to the size of your display. This is of course perfect for keeping up with the latest forum threads while on the go.

New editor

The new editor for users to add threads in the forum has been simplified. Thanks to a new formatting function (Markdown instead of BBCode), creating a new post can be completed much quicker and with less complication. And thanks to the live-preview in real-time, you can view how your post will appear as it is written.

So what’s next?

The new forum has been revealed today, but that of course doesn’t mean that we will sit back and enjoy the show. No, we will proactively strive to add requested features and improvements after today’s launch, so that the forum will be increasingly better with every new version. Stay tuned for future news, but in the meantime, enjoy the new forum!

Click here to access the new forum!

Have fun in the new forum!

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Top 5 forum threads of the week

Loie Favre 2014-03-23T09:00:00Z5 hours ago

Loie Favre

Loie Favre is a Canadian-German, food-loving, live-music-craving globe-trotter. Coming from a humble background in the Canadian Prairies centred around nature and the Arts, she studied Translation and Languages in Edmonton. She left his home on the Pacific Coast of Canada, to seek her fortune in Berlin. She is now an Editor and Manager for AndroidPIT.com and is enjoying discovering about everything and anything under the sun about Android.

Have a problem with your phone? Ask it! Have a new app you’ve developed? Share it! Feel the need to complain about your most recent update to 4.3 Jelly Bean or 4.4.2 KitKat or any other problem with your Android device? Spew it! That is what the forum is for. Here are the top 5 forum threads of the week. Don’t miss out on the conversation.

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With the update to Android 4.4.2 KitKat, the possibility to save to the SD card has been removed, much to the frustration of Android users. In this thread, we explain how to be able to use this function again.

Are you still wondering when the KitKat update will come to your device, both tablet and smartphone? Here is a list of all the devices that are in line to receive the Android 4.4.2 update.

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Having your pictures accidentally erased (or anything from your smartphone for that matter) is a heart-wrenching feeling. In this thread, we discuss the ways that you can retrieve your erased data.

Did you buy a new Android smartphone and don’t want to part with your WhatsApp conversations (which includes pictures, voice messages, video etc sent by a contact), here is how you can transfer your data from one Android phone to another.

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Another pesky Android problem are the apps that always crash and suddenly stop working. A major pain in the derriere. If you receive the message ‘’Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped working’’, it is explained in this post how you can rectify the situation.

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