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
Shazam — Spotify 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
Straw — toast 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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