There are publishers who
bet on publishing their applications in iOs because they know that the owners
of Apple devices are more likely to spend. However, there are those who seek a
wider market, such as Android, to launch their applications. And, according to
the analysis company Appfigures published in its study on mobile trends in
2018, while the App Store contained 1.6 million applications in 2017, Google
Play had 3.2 million. You might think that the secret is to publish
simultaneously on both platforms, but curiously, and according to the same
study, the two stores only shared 450,000 'apps' last year.
Fornite Battle Royale
We start with one of the most addictive online
games and that most users concentrate at the moment. Until now only for PCs and
consoles, it came out recently for mobile phones with iOS getting in a short
time more success than Candy Crush, Clash of clans and Pokémon GO. According to
data from the company SensorPower, which indicates that in its first week it
remained in the top 10 downloads, at which time the collections for
micro-transactions made in the game, such as personalized equipment or skins,
the famous dances or the creative parachutes, reached 6.4 million dollars. We
put it on this list because this game will still take a couple of months to get
to Android, but it will inevitably make its way to a wider market, like other
games that started on iOS, such as Monument Valley.
Accompany
This 'app' created by
Cisco works as a contact manager with calendar features. Accompany, like
LinkedIn, seeks to offer contact and knowledge about professionals and
companies, but also works for us in the background allowing us to prepare
meetings and review the latest communications made with our contacts. Create
complete and detailed organizational maps that appear structured with exclusive
information of profiles and companies. This allows you to quickly identify the
important relationships of any organization, its affiliations, its competitors
and the most outstanding profiles of each of them.
The magnificent cameras
that carry the iPhone are complemented by this 'app' for editing Premium
category photographs, which achieves the perfect balance between traditional
Photoshop¬ controls and filters and artistic effects. It allows advanced
functions such as tone curves, predefined settings, spectacular and
customizable filters, its clean and easy-to-use interface that replaces most
applications of this type.
The effect of
superimposing photographs, the possibility of painting them and endless
artistic possibilities enormously activate the creativity of the user and give
a surprising result.
The numerous sensors that
incorporate the latest models of Apple smart phones are well used by this
application of puzzles. It includes numerous and ingenious challenges that will
make us perform all kinds of actions and fuss with the iPhone to solve them:
tilt, shout or lift. Everything except touch the screen, this way we will spend
time trying to guess the mysterious clues that the game proposes.
An iPad is a great device
to use as a sketchbook. This is precisely what Paper does, putting in our hands
a tool that helps us to write, draw, take notes, sketch ideas and much more. It
provides a varied selection of brushes and colors. It also uses simple gestures
to add notes to photos in a second or transform texts into lists. Paper is an
excellent medium for capturing the analog environment of a notebook in a
digitized environment and therefore easily transformable and shareable.
In iOS there are no
alternatives for programs to clean cache or delete unusable files. In this
environment it is usually a more complex and less effective process. However in
Android there are numerous applications that help us the much-needed task of
keeping the memory of the mobile phone clean of useless or duplicate files,
cool the CPU, block notifications and increase the speed of the processor, in
addition, of course, to eliminate viruses and malware. Turbo Booster is a
simple way to do it with just a touch of the screen.
Nova Launcher
Application launchers, ie
the software that deals with the appearance of the screen, the access menus,
the layout of the icons, etc., usually come by default with each operating
system. In the case of iOS, although it is minimally editable, it will not let
us install another one that is not the one that comes standard. However the
launchers of alternative applications are frequent in Android and with them we
can customize to the maximum how they are going to see the screens, menus or
icons of the interface of our devices.
Unclouded
It is easy that today we
use various storage services in the cloud: Google Drive, Drop box, One Drive, Google Photos, MEGA or
Flickr among others. Keeping all those access files controlled is complicated
if you have to jump from one 'app' to another on the mobile screen. The ideal
is to have a single application as a single control center for all those
accounts. And you have them. Examples like Unclouded, Clouds or Amerigo are
good proof of that.
Twilight
It seems that the blue
light emitted by the screens of electronic devices can affect sleep, so it is
advisable to attenuate it. Although Apple incorporated a filter for blue light
in the update of iOS 11, until now could only find an application of
attenuation and elimination of blue light in Android. On the other hand, Twilight
is undoubtedly more complete, since it causes the screen to filter the blue
spectrum of the Smartphone or tablet after sunset, replacing it with a soft and
pleasant red filter. The intensity of the filter can be adjusted and programmed
to start at the time that best fits our rhythm of life.
