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SimpleSyrup: App updates for the week ended December 12th, 2014

App updates galore! Every week, developers push out updates to your favourite applications. There’s just too many for us to dedicate an individual post to every app, especially when the updates are often very minor or just to add one specific feature.

This week delivered a ton of app updates. Google Fit got support for 100 more exercises, BBM got updated across iOS, Android, and BB10. Most important of all, Mojang released Scrolls for Android tablets and Windows Phone users can finally join in the Candy Crush Saga craze that the rest of the smartphone-owning world got over a year ago. Check out our list of updated apps below!

iOS

Google — complete revamp with Google Button, Google Maps, Material Design UI, bigger photos for image search, and support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Spotify — Access to the top tracks in your network, support for iPhone 6 Plus

ShazamSpotify integration, ability to see what’s trending on Shazam, number of Shazams for each track is now viewable

Snapchat — support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, improvements to captions, ability to change the colour of special text, and pinch to resize

BBM — support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, ability to send stickers to groups, support for timed messages up to 60 seconds long

SoundCloud — ability to create playlists, support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Google Docs — support for viewing and editing in tables, system standard text editing controls, enhances VoiceOver support, support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Google Slides — ability to inset, resize and move text boxes, shapes, and lines, support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Google Sheets — iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus support, bug fixes

Clash of Clans — ability to compare your clan to others in local leaderboard, Archer Towers shoot twice as fast, Inferno Towers shoot for longer, Hitpoint values rebalanced for many buildings, ability to save multiple layouts for your home Village and War Base, and more

MSN Food & Drink — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN food content

MSN Health & Fitness — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN health and fitness content

MSN Money — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN finance

MSN News — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN news

MSN Sports — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN sports news

Android

Hangouts — Animated emoji. last seen timestamps, location share suggestions, sticker packs, ability to connect with others via phone number

Chromecast — Material Design, bug fixes, ability to cast from your phone while off WiFi

Indigogo — new on Play Store, offers ability to pledge, donate, discover and explore campaigns

Scrolls — new on Play Store; card-based game designed for tablets

MSN Food & Drink — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN food content

MSN Health & Fitness — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN health and fitness content

MSN Money — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN finance

MSN News — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN news

MSN Sports — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN sports news

MSN Weather — new on Play Store, offers access to MSN weather

Strawtoast notifications when a pill ends, bug fixes

Google Fit — support for 100 new types of exercise, offline support for Android Wear

Plex — support for playlists, settings on each category on new pages, video content and audio content can coexist, videos from On Desk will play continuously

BBM — Support for Lollipop, ability to send stickers to groups, timed messages up to 60 seconds, ability to add photos or attachments from SD storage

Shazam — redesigned home screen, new play all button to listen to full playlists, swipe right to save a track to My Shazam, instant access to the freshest Shazam charts

HERE Maps — now available for download in the Play Store

Action Launcher 3 — completely new application with new premium features (paid), ability to create app widgets by swing that app’s icon, ability to change colour of layout based on wallpaper, view notifications by swiping down on a blank part of the screen, and more

Windows Phone

Office Lens – faster image processing, business card mode that allows you to capture business cards and extract contact information.

Swarm – Emoji keyboard support, active leaderboards, faster load time for sticker image loading times, bug fixes

Facebook – improved navigation, performance enhancements, improvements to notications, ability to view comments on stickers

Straw – toast notifications when a pill ends, bug fixes

OneDrive – UX improvements, ability to view all photos, recycle bin access, search updates for personal and work accounts

Fhotoroom – ability to launch app directly to editor, new filter options, the ability to add and group favourites, improved cropping, bug fixes

Qik – new menu that allows you to delete, save or send your message to another conversation

Candy Crush Saga — new in the Windows Phone Store; no explanation necessary

BlackBerry

BBM – ability to send stickers to groups, ability to share pictures and attachments,

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