Posted by Phil Moore on Jul 13, 2013 in News, Tech |
Android users are awash in updates big and small for popular apps this week, with some of the new apps meeting a more positive response than others. Vine for Android picked up the ability to “re-vine” a fellow user’s video clip, in the tradition of retweeting created by Vine parent company Twitter, moving the Vine Android app closer to parity with the iPhone version. Google Maps also made a point of delivering its new Google Maps interface to Android users first, but that briefly backfired when the ability to use the Maps app while offline vanished in the new version and was then re-added.
Google’s Chrome web browser was also updated for both Android and iOS, picking up refinements along the way. But despite the initial backlash against the new Google Maps app, it may prove to be the most significant update of this week’s haul. Google first demonstrated its new cleaner Maps interface two months ago at its developer conference, and has now applied that interface to the Maps app well ahead of the upcoming new Android Jelly Bean software update, which was expected to mark the debut of the new Maps.
Vine continues to scramble to try to bring its Android app into feature parity with the six month old iPhone version, after initially launching the Android version of Vine last month with basic features like the ability to use the front facing camera missing.
Phil covers tech for Stabley Times.
Android users are awash in updates big and small for popular apps this week, with some of the new apps meeting a more positive response than others. Vine for Android picked up the ability to “re-vine” a fellow user’s video clip, in the tradition of retweeting created by Vine parent company Twitter, moving the Vine Android app closer to parity with the iPhone version. Google Maps also made a point of delivering its new Google Maps interface to Android users first, but that briefly backfired when the ability to use the Maps app while offline vanished in the new version and was then re-added.
Google’s Chrome web browser was also updated for both Android and iOS, picking up refinements along the way. But despite the initial backlash against the new Google Maps app, it may prove to be the most significant update of this week’s haul. Google first demonstrated its new cleaner Maps interface two months ago at its developer conference, and has now applied that interface to the Maps app well ahead of the upcoming new Android Jelly Bean software update, which was expected to mark the debut of the new Maps.
Vine continues to scramble to try to bring its Android app into feature parity with the six month old iPhone version, after initially launching the Android version of Vine last month with basic features like the ability to use the front facing camera missing.
Phil covers tech for Stabley Times.