Nexus 7!

I just picked up a second generation Nexus 7 and it just updated to Kitkat 4.4.2
I will play around with it for a few days and post my findings. I'm liking it so far.

App of the Week: Twitter 12/17/2013

Now some might bag on me writing for a well-coded (*), more-commerical app and think "Hey, what about the little guys?"

Now I'm a huge supporter of up-and-coming app creators, and many of them will be featured here. But with the ground-up redesign of the app, Twitter gets a feature this week.

Many of the pros with the new redesign are: A better UI with larger buttons on top, messages are now accessed from the bar at the top of the home screen, and a slight change to the color scheme from before, "Discover" has been featured on the front page as well. The "find people" button has been moved to the bar.

Cons are: Access to your timeline has been moved to a indiscernible button on the extreme right-hand corner. "Discover" now compiles tweets/retweets from people you follow and/or favorite, trending topics, hashtags you've followed, and top posts from people you follow. Making for a jumbled mess at times.

Today is Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Hoping you have a day filled with family and great food!

Coming soon...

Hi, everyone...

It's been a busy couple of months for me, so the app of the week had been on hold. I'm working on a new review, and still playing with the ins and outs of Chromecast.

Stay tuned!

It's coming!! (Link fixed)

Kit Kat Android promotion

I haven't seen any of these here I in the US but I've been on the lookout for them everywhere I go!
Let us know in the comments if your town/country has these on store shelves yet! If anyone wins let us know so we can share in the excitement with you. Good luck to all!

App Of The Week, 9/23/13: Easy Scorecard

This week's app is an easy nod to one of my favorites. It has only been on my phone for about a month, and I love it. Easy Scorecard is an app you can use to track your games at different courses. Hybrid setup allows for using holes for disc golf or golf. It simply takes the data you enter for each hole (Hole #, Par #) and will track your scores which are entered by on-screen buttons. As of testing, scores can be entered up to 20 shots.

Features of the free app: Round timer (tracks the amount of time per round, useful for tracking how long it takes you to play each round), setup for tee styles (and an estimated rating for them).

(Per Google Play page:)

* 9/18/27/custom-holes scoring (36-hole support for disc golf)
* Scoring for more than 4 players
* Email scorecard in HTML/CSV
* Share scorecard via Facebook/Twitter
* USGA/EGA/CONGU Handicap tracking
* Primitive rangefinder using phone's GPS
* Scoring statistics
* Disc Golf friendly
* Handicap tracking for Disc golf (methods: discgolf.com and PDGA-like rating system)
* Stableford scoring
* Nassau side game

Note: No review of Pro features, as I've not dropped the change on that yet. A future review when I do have the Pro app is planned.

The main menu gives you access to starting a new round, looking at previous rounds, looking over courses you have played at, players and teams (which you can use to setup handicap calculations, and methods), Stats, and settings/help. Navigation of the whole app is dirt simple. I tried two other apps, and the interface wasn't as clean as this one. It's all simple text and buttons.

Setting up a course is as simple as naming it, setting the type (disc/golf), and adding the par for each hole. It will allow you to leave the par blank so you can fill in the info later. Also, from the screen during a round, par can be adjusted by tapping the par indicator on the top of the screen.

The screen during the round becomes the scorecard breakdown for each hole. It will show the hole number, timer, location settings (pro), notepad for each hole (can switch tab to note for course notes), distance, and tracking scores for each player, and buttons for scoring, previous hole, and next hole.

Overall, I've used this app to track scores for ten rounds of disc golf. Of all the rounds, I've never been disappointed. Like I said, the interface is simple. Easy to read in shadows (could be part of my screen protector). The only thing I would like would be for a light/dark switch so it could more easily be read in daytime shooting. The app is solid.

Now get out there and throw some discs or hit some balls!

Contact information

If you want to suggest a app for us to try and review you can email the request directly to askaccessandroid@gmail.com

Welcome...

I'm using google voice text to type this so I hope this works.

Hi, I'm Jason, and I'm going to be contributing here, hopefully on the regular, and here's a few of the things that you can expect from my entries.

--App of the Week: I'm going to be reviewing a app every Monday and it's going to be one of the best apps out there for what you can do with your life. Why Monday you ask? Because the weekend is my time and I'm usually off work, so I can actually spend time giving you the ins and the outs of the app and have it posted on Monday. Because Mondays suck that bad anyways so you should have some good news to start the week off with.

App of the Week will most likely review Android products, but could also feature a few iOS offerings on occasion, and will also feature things like Google Chrome cast , and its related application. Most reviews will be of free applications, or apps that I have paid for, or apps that I have got for free on the Amazon app store. However, future options could be for paid apps that are supported by the followers of the blog through PayPal.

App of the Week suggestions for categories or other apps could be emailed to me.

-- other articles could be a tips and tricks blog, or something to do with Ice cream sandwich, or to do with whatever the heck version of Android I have on my phone is.  I might also use the space to talk about different phones coming up, or interesting little quirks about operating systems, or settings you might not know about.

so tell your friends about this blog, follow it yourself, and you can follow me on Twitter

Android 4.4 KitKat

Update 9/27/13: Looking like October 12th with the release of the Nexus 5 and also on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as well.

I'm at first thought this was a joke but i realized its a long ways from April! So after watching the cheesy video they released I thought wow that was money well spent!! NOT!
If you haven't seen the video already just search "android kitkat" The official page is up now head on over and check it out. There is also a contest in specially marked packages of Kit Kat with the Android robot on the front with the chance to win either a Nexus 7 or Google Play store credit. I'm guessing there is codes on the wrappers to enter on the above mentioned official page. I'm looking forward to what is in store with this new version! Hopefully something very cool or useful. Whatever it may be I'm sure I will want a phone that runs it! Haven't heard of when it will be released. So now we wait.

--Josh