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It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for Android smartphones and tablets.
It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases. The equivalent iOS roundup will be published later in the day.
For now, read on for this week's Android selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best Android apps posts).
BT Sport (Free)
BT Sport went live this week in the UK to give BSkyB a run for its money in TV sports coverage. Its app is also available, promising live streams of the BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN channels (plus the odd exclusive), catch-up with previously-aired shows, video highlights and second-screen features for people watching live Premier League football matches.Homestyler (Free)
Autodesk's Homestyler app is aimed at anyone thinking of redecorating their house. It gets you to take a photo of a room, then fiddle about with 3D models of furniture to see how they might look, trying out different colours and textures, while browsing the "design stream" to get ideas.My Muppets Show (Free)
It's time to play the music... This new game from Disney turns the Muppets into a free-to-play resource management game, with a musical twist. It involves recruiting a house band from more than 20 Muppets, then keeping them happy and levelling up their skills to make beautiful music. In-app purchases of virtual diamonds fund the action.Breezie (£299)
No, that price isn't a typo, but then Breezie isn't just an app. For your 300 quid you get a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet with Breezie pre-installed, plus a year's subscription to the service. And that service is? An attempt to make Android easier to use for "digitally isolated over 55s" without patronising them. And the device can then be remotely managed by family members or Breezie's own staff.Google AdSense (Free)
Google's latest app is clearly only useful if you run a website running AdSense ads. If that's you, expect the ability to browse how much money you're making, analytics of top custom and URL channels, and get individual payment alerts. More features are planned for the coming months.Rymdkapsel (£3.29)
There is considerable buzz around Rymdkapsel this week, and with good reason: it's an addictive, accessible game that offers a twist on the real-time strategy genre. The emphasis is on building a space-base through Tetris-like block-placement, while fending off waves of enemies. It's simple in all the best ways, and well worth the purchase price.Dropchord (£1.97)
This may be the best week for new Android games in the platform's history, with a host of impressive new titles jostling for attention. Dropchord is a music game by Double Fine Productions (of Kickstarter fame) that sees you manipulating an on-screen laser beam while dodging scratches and collecting notes. Neon-tastic visuals and a 10-track electronica soundtrack add to the fun.Tunester (Free)
If Rymdkapsel is minimalist and Dropchord is musical, here's something minimalist and musical. Tunester is a music-player app for Android that tries to strip out unnecessary feature-clutter in order to make finding and playing your music collection as fast as possible. Its developer is promising plenty more "surprises" in future updates, making this one to watch.Blood Sword THD (£0.57)
One reason for the flurry of new games this week is the release of Nvidia's Shield handheld gaming device. Blood Sword THD is one of the key launch titles, although it'll run on any Android device with a Tegra 4 processor inside. Expect big swords, bigger monsters and plenty of spiffingly-presented combat.Office Mobile for Office 365 (Free)
Microsoft's long-awaited Office Mobile app is – for now at least – only available in the US for Android smartphones. Tablet owners and the rest of the world will have to wait a little longer. It also requires an Office 365 subscription. If you fulfil the necessary requirements, you'll be able to view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, including email attachments.Bamboo Loop (Free)
Bamboo Loop is the work of Wacom, designed to work with its Bamboo range of stylus accessories – although it also promises to be "finger-friendly". It's a photo-sharing app with Instagram-style filters, and the twist that you can scribble on pics before sharing them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram itself, or sending them directly to a friend.Choplifter HD (£3.28)
Helicopter-rescue game Choplifter's latest incarnation is also out in time for the Nvidia Shield's debut, as you fly through a series of 3D environments completing 30 missions of a military nature. Including shaking off zombies, which as far as I'm aware, isn't a part of real-world military helicopter training. Not yet, anyway.Tainted Keep (£3.28)
More Tegra-powered gaming here – this time for Tegra 3 and Tegra 4 devices – with a high-quality dungeoncrawling game based around saving a village from a nefarious wizard named Morg. Spells, swords and monsters all over the shop.TouchFree Photo HomeSync (£1.62)
One for tech-savvier Android users this: an app that automatically uploads photos and videos from your smartphone to your home server at the same time every night, when in range of your Wi-Fi network. It requires a PHP web-server on the network, with the developer promising support for Google's new Chromecast TV-dongle soon.Hero Forge (Free)
Hero Forge has been around for a while in beta, but is now available to everyone on Google Play. Like a growing number of mobile games, it combines RPG-style features with match-puzzlingL in this case, 3D blocks that you put together in rounds, while also crafting weapons and armour.Word Bucket (Free)
This is certainly ambitious: "Your language dictionary, notebook and word learning game all in one great app". It's an app for language-learning through vocabulary, covering Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Russian and English. Mini-games provide the actual learning, and there are social features to link with friends too.Blastron (Free)
Turn-based robo-combat game Blastron has proved popular on iOS, but now Android users can join in the fun. Published by social gaming firm Kabam, it sees you collecting weapons, upgrading your robot and competing against other players around the world in the platform-based action.Transit App (Free)
Another one for Americans: this app covers 43 cities across the US, pulling in timetables for public transit of all kinds, and showing you on a map when the next departures are from the nearest station/stop.Chuck's Challenge 3D (Free)
Another game "enriched" for Nvidia's Shield handheld, Chuck's Challenge comes from the same braincells that invented popular puzzler Chip's Challenge. That means 125 levels to find your way through, overcoming obstacles and solving puzzles as you go. The game also includes a level creator to make your own and share them with other players – or just browse and play what the community has been creating.Twine (Free)
Finally, a local social networking app – the latest among many, admittedly. Twine wants to connect you with "people nearby that share similar interests with you... your mobile wingman that knows what topics both of you would enjoy talking about". Which rather relies on lots of people using it, while its aim for an "even ratio of guys to girls" seems ambitious. Even so, mobile flirting apps can get popular very quickly, so it's worth watching.That's this week's selection, but what do you think? Make your own recommendations, or give your views on the apps above, by posting a comment.
source: The Guardian
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