Action Launcher 3 for Android Updated with Marshmallow Icon Pack

Most of these improvements are related to Android 6.0 Marshmallow, so those who haven't upgraded to the new version of the OS will be able to take advantage of all these enhancements to get used to the new features included in Marshmallow.

One of the major new features implemented in this update is Quickedit, a menu that allows users to quickly uninstall, edit labels, or find app info.

Apart from that, developers have also confirmed they have added support for Marshmallow's permission system. Smartsize icons is another new feature announced by developers, even though it's only available in a beta form.

With this new feature, icons will be automatically resized to fit in the Material Design icon grid. Also, a bundled Marshmallow icon pack has been added too, which should come in handy to those who own non-Nexus devices.

Users can now become supporters of the application

The official changelog also mentions developers have done a complete overhaul of the icon picker and included a new image crop functionality.

Developers have confirmed they have added bundled Google Calendar icons that display the correct day for each day of the month.

There's also a new Supporter pack that is now available for purchase, which allows users who bought the application a long time ago the option to make another purchase.

Last but not least, developers have announced that the free version of Action Launcher 3 can now apply icon packs and that lots of bug fixes have been implemented.

You can now download Action Launcher 3 for Android for free via Google Play Store. The application should be fully compatible with all devices running Android 4.1 and up.

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Genius now displays song lyrics no matter what music app you use

Genius has unleashed an update that will give you live lyrics to whatever song you’re listening to. What’s particularly brilliant about it, however, is that you don’t have to use any particular app to get this service. Whether you’re listening to Pandora, Google Play Music, Spotify, or whatever, Genius will hunt down those lyrics and make them available in a tap.

Genius, which was originally “Rap Genius,” has made a lot of progress over the past two years. What started out as a collection of rap lyrics hardly competitive with larger lyric-based sites has grown and evolved into something much more mainstream and much more interesting. The company’s service is unique because it offers high quality annotations alongside lyrics. Previously, the closest we came to this kind of in-text interpretations were the meandering and often vapid comments over at SongMeanings. Last year, Genius launched an iOS app, but it wasn’t until this past August that the lyric database hit Android.

Currently, the app does not allow users to add or edit annotations, but the company says they are working to bring this functionality to Android as soon as possible. Once that feature becomes available, Genius might just become a ubiquitous app for music lovers.

To give the app a spin, click the button below to download it from the Google Play Store.

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Badland 2 is coming soon to Android

It’s been a little over two years since the Finland-based developer Frogmind brought its extremely popular Badland game to the Google Play Store, and now it looks like we’re getting a sequel sometime very soon. Badland 2 just launched on iOS a few days ago, which means a release on Android is imminent. According to a few responses on the developer’s various social networking pages, Frogmind is working hard on the Android release, and it should be on its way soon.

So what does Badland 2 bring to the table? It’ll likely be very similar to the original Badland. You’ll still get to control the cute little forest dwellers on a mission to find out what’s happened to their home. You’ll run into various traps and obstacles along the way, too. Even though this may not be the description that’ll be posted on the Play Store, take a look at the official description for Badland 2 on the Appstore:

Witness the award-winning world of BADLAND in even more stunning beauty with levels that extend and scroll to all directions. Survive through new elements such as liquids, flamethrowers, frost, magma, water and volumetric burning light. Fall down deadly rifts, fly to any direction and race & jump along the surfaces as a rolling character on your way to safety. Challenge your friends and strangers in constantly updating global online events. Race against their best performances and rise in the global rankings.

Basically we can expect a title that’s very similar to the original, and that’s not a bad thing in the slightest. Badland is still one of my favorite games that’s ever launched on Android, and I can’t wait to see what Badland 2 has to offer.

We’re not sure of a specific release date at this time, but we imagine it won’t be too far off. Are you excited to play Badland 2?

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VLC finally available for Chrome OS

When in doubt of whether you’ll be able to play some obscure media file or not, just download VLC. That has been our philosophy for a long time. VLC is famous for supporting the largest variety of media formats. I have personally never encountered a file which doesn’t work with this player, and now Chrome OS users can finally enjoy it.

This happens to be huge news, as Chrome OS was one of the last major operating systems without official VLC support. VLC is pretty much everywhere right now. There are versions for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and OS X, as well as more obscure operating systems like Solaris, Haiku, ReactOS and others.

Chrome OS was certainly late to the party, but that is due to very valid reasons. Adopting solutions like PPAPI, NaCL and Javascript would require rewriting all the code and would bring some issues to the database. Of course, this was before Google announced ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome), a feature that would allow Chromebooks to run Android apps.

This changed everything for VLC. They were able to keep 95% of the code they already had, and adapting the rest to work with the web-based operating system. The final result is an application that works just as well as all other VLC versions.

It supports the same video and audio formats, as well as subtitle files. You can even play streams. Other supported features include playlists, accelerated playback, an audio equalizer, audio/video synchronization and hardware-accelerated video/audio decoding.

The only trick here is that the team has only tested it with two Chrome OS devices: the Chromebook Pixel and the HP Chromebook 14, which are the only two machines the team had access to. Please do test it on your own devices, though, and try to report any bugs you find.

Ready for some mad media playback? Just click through the button below to download the app from the Chrome Web Store. And don’t forget to hit the comments and let us know how VLC for Chrome OS is treating you!

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