Android Games/Fun Apps

Kill Time with Floating Image App for Android

Every now and then you need to kill a few moments while you are waiting for something to take place. Maybe you are sitting in a doctor’s office, waiting for a teacher to finish with a student ahead of you or anything else of that sort. You might not have the time to run a full game even if you have a short one on your phone, but you will have time to enjoy Floating Image app for Android until your wait is over.

The explanation is in the name

There are few apps out there for the Android or for any other smart phone platform that are as aptly named as Floating Image. Floating Image Android app literally is about you looking at floating images on the screen that float onto the screen and then float off the screen giving way to other pictures. This allows you to simply stare at the screen of your phone and see all kinds of interesting pictures. In a way this is like a screen saver that you activate manually and that cycles through an always increasing cache of pictures.

Images come from the phone

Any images that you have stored on your phone could potentially end up appearing on Android Floating Image app. This means that as you continue to take pictures and expand that collection, you also provide more fodder to this Android mobile application for later use.

Images come from Flickr

At the same time that you are going to be able to feed pictures from your phone into this app, it will also augment those pictures with pictures that have appeared in the Flickr Explore service. This is a feed that showcases some of the most interesting pictures that Flickr has to offer and because of that you can definitely appreciate pictures that you may never have seen before. It is a great way to look at new things.

Final Score

Floating Image app for Android is one of the simplest apps out there. No other app reviewed thus far for the Android in the entertainment category can probably be seen as simpler (although there are some candidates for ties). In spite of this, there is a useful purpose served by Floating Image and therefore even though it is not an involved app, it can certainly be useful for the average person. Taking that into consideration, we’ve given Android Floating Image app a final score of 7 out of 10.

Android Snake Game App Review

Those that were around to experience the original are always filled with nostalgia about it. Those that have never experienced it before would probably like the chance to experience it now that they’ve heard about it. Regardless of which group you belong to, you will probably enjoy getting the chance to try out Snake for the Android, a free gaming app that you can quickly download to whatever smart phone device you have.

Roam around and eat apples

The basic point of this Android Snake game is a little bit different from the classic. In this game, your goal is to simply eat as many apples as you can. Apples are eaten by your snake by simply lining the snake up with the apple. Your snake is always moving forward and if the front of your snake meets the apple then they will eat the apple. Your goal is to carry that on for as long as possible. Sound simple? Well it actually is far from simple.

The apples make you bigger and faster

Every single apple that is eaten by your snake makes the snake bigger and faster. At the start, you have a lumbering snake that is not very impressive in size but as time goes on you’ll find that the apples eaten by the snake have both of those effects. The reason that this is important is that you lose the game if your snake hits the wall or if it hits another part of its own body. The wall danger is higher the faster your snake goes and of course the idea of slamming into your own body also becomes more likely as your snake grows. So while eating more apples will give you a higher score when all is said and done, it also makes the game far more challenging with each successive scrumptious fruit that your snake is able to consume.

Final Score

Snake for Android app is not exactly the same as the original was, but it is certainly a game that does a lot to be faithful to the original. For those of you that have played the original, this will be a memorable throwback that you will likely derive hours of fun from playing. For those of you that have not played the original, you can still derive hours of fun from playing it. In the end, we’ve given Android Snake game app a final score of 8 out of 10.

Texas Hold ‘Em Online App for Google Android

Texas Hold ‘Em Online App for Google Android

Summary

In recent years, poker has really had a major popularity boost around the world. The combination of online poker and televised poker was what did it and now everyone seems to want to play poker whenever they get the opportunity. Well, if you have a Google Android, the good news is that you can actually go online and play poker whenever you want to now with Texas Hold ‘Em Online. This latest app for the Google Android was created by Westtek LLC and represents the newest in online poker gaming action.

User Interaction

Interacting with Texas Hold ‘Em Online app for Google Android is a very simple matter. The only things that you need to do are make selections at the original menu and then press the button that corresponds to the action that you would like to take when the play comes around to you. The only actions that will be available to you are calling, checking, raising, betting and folding and on any given hand you will only have at most three of those actions available as buttons. Once again, this is an example of a Google Android app that is so easy to use that you could easily start using it immediately even if you had no idea how to use the advanced controls on the Android platform.

User Interface

The interface of Texas Hold ‘Em Online application for Google Android is a relatively easy one to navigate and like most apps starts with the opening menu. Within that menu, all you have to do is select whether you would like to play poker online against other players or whether you would rather take on the computer in a single player mode.

Once you have made that selection, the other major screen is the game screen. It contains information on the chip stacks of the players around the table as well as a graphical user interface that is similar to what you would see on any other poker software package. Recognizing everything on the interface is easy to do and in the end getting all of the information that is available on the screen at one time should be something that comes to you instantaneously because of just how intuitive this setup happens to be.

Utility and Productivity

Poker hands do not take very long to play. In fact, a single hand might take less than a minute depending on how fast the players make their decisions. Therefore, you can easily get in a few hands of Texas Hold ‘Em if you have a non-driving commute to work. Even if you do, this app can be a good friend to you during boring lunch breaks where you have nothing else to do. For that reason, it definitely has a high utility rating, although in the end it won’t really do that much to enhance your productivity.

Rating

When all of the factors are taken into account, the appropriate conclusion to this review is to state that Texas Hold ‘Em Online is definitely a welcome addition to the Google Android app arsenal. For this reason, we’ll score it at 9.0 out of 10.

Wuzzle App for Google Android

Wuzzle App for Google Android

Summary

For anyone that was a Boggle fan or still is a fan of that very popular word game Wuzzle. Wuzzle app for Google Android is a game that is definitely worth taking a closer look at. Out of all of the games that are currently available for public consumption, Wuzzle is the one that really does the game it was modeled after justice. There are a few new features added in for this game that was developed by Robert Green, but in the basics it is still essentially Boggle under a new name.

User Interaction

Interacting with Wuzzle app for Google Android is extremely easy to do. All you need is access to the letter keys so that you can type in words as you see them on the screen and then access to the scrolling so that you can look through the results and then select the options that you want from the original menu that comes onto the screen. It is essentially very low skill interaction and for that reason even a person that has just picked up their Google Android can download Wuzzle and have a great time playing this game again and again.

User Interface

The interface of Wuzzle application for Google Android starts with the menu screen. This includes the title of the game and five different options that you can select. You can start a new game, play online against friends or total strangers, take a look at your personal statistics that are kept by the software as you play along, change some of the difficulty or play settings or take a closer look at the basic metadata surrounding the game’s release.

From that basic menu, you basically just have the actual game screen as the other major interface in the game. It contains either a 4 x 4 or 5 x 5 grid with one letter per block in the grid. It has a time left indicator as well as a score indicator and the bottom of the screen is reserved for information about this round and a field where you can enter in the words that you have found. All in all, it is a simple and straightforward interface that is very easy to interpret.

Utility and Productivity

As far as this category is concerned, Wuzzle for Google Android definitely has to be a game that gets a lot of kudos from the people that have downloaded it and continue to play it to this day. When you are playing a game like Wuzzle, what you will find is that a single round is short enough that you can quickly wrap up the round and put the Android away when you have come to the end of a commute. You don’t have to worry about overshooting your commuting time and therefore diminishing your productivity as a result. That is exceptionally good for a mobile application and it definitely gains positive scoring points for Wuzzle as a result.

Rating

In the end, Wuzzle app for Google Android gets a score of 9.0 out of 10 for all of the amazing things that were mentioned above.

Google Sky Map App for Android Platform

Google Sky Map App for Android Platform

Summary

Have you ever looked up at the sky, seen a collection of stars and felt embarrassed that you were not able to name the constellation? Furthermore, have you ever seen a bright star in the sky and wondered what it was only to later find out that you were actually looking at one of the planets? You are by no means alone in either of these things, but the Google Sky Map app, recent released by Google for their Android platform, has the potential to make those mistakes a thing of the past.

User Interaction

Interacting with the Google Sky Map app for Google Android is a powerful process that can allow you to do two very important things. The first thing that you can do is scroll through the different sky maps that Google has available, importing the one to your screen that best represents the sky above you. Once you have done that, you can then scroll down the list of elements that are supposed to be in the night sky. Once you have selected a specific element, a circle with an arrow will appear on the screen, pointing you in the direction of the object that you would like to see. At that point, all you have to do is follow the viewing instructions laid out for you by Google Sky Map and you should be able to find the desired object without too much difficulty.

User Interface

If you have ever used Starry Night or any other observational software that allows you to look through star charts and pretend that you are outside, you are undoubtedly already more than familiar with the interface of Google Sky Map. Many of the sky map software packages are going to have the same or similar interfaces regardless of what their specific features happen to be. With a blue-black background and different colors representing the lines of different constellations, Google Sky Map is no different from the vast majority of other sky map observing applications available out there. The real strength of this app is in its interaction and features as mentioned above and not really in the graphical user interface that it brings to the table.

Utility and Productivity

Normally, observing might take the average person hours to do in order to find all of the things that they wanted to find. The Google Sky Map app for Android will cut this time down significantly, since all you have to do is refer to the map and you will be able to see all of the other objects in the night sky. Simply point it upward and follow the directions on the screen to find whatever it is you are looking for. In the end, that is a very effective app and one that many people will appreciate.

Rating

One needs to take the whole picture into account when rating a specific application. Even though Google Sky Map app for Android has some great innovative features, the interface is not particularly ground-breaking in any way. That reduces its final score to 8.5 out of 10.