Twitter’s six-second video creation app, Vine, is now available for download on Google Play. The once iOS-only app allows you to create six second videos that loop infinitely. You can either record short snippets within the six seconds instead of shooting one entire six second video, although you can do that if you wish. Google+

Super Stickman Golf 2 is not a particularly new app in the grand scheme of things, but what has brought it into the limelight is its use of the new Google Play games services that were announced at Google I/O a couple of weeks ago. There’s no major learning curve involved in SSG2, you just [...]

The Google Play store is getting an update which is rolling out to Android devices gradually, the update from 4.1.6 to 4.1.10 is specifically addressing a bug which was causing severe battery drain that was affecting HTC onwers. Android Police had a look into the update and found that it downloads a Network Location Provider [...]

Google’s Hugo Barra took the stage at Google I/O to announce some pretty amazing stats for the Google Play Store. Those can be broken down into the following: 48 billion app installs 2.5 billion installs in the last month More money paid out to developers since the start of 2013 compared to the whole of [...]

Google I/O isn’t even underway yet, and Google Play Games still hasn’t been given it’s official titled or been unveiled at all, but developers are stating that they’ve integrated the service into the games already. One game is Euphloria HD which states in its changelog that “Google Play Games achievements have been added!“. What exactly [...]

Google has done a little bit of a refresh of the Google Play Store, adding not much in terms of functionality, but there are a few UI tweaks that are welcomed. The content section buttons on the main screen have a new design that’s a little more fresh and less flat-design. The open/install/update/uninstall buttons are [...]

Back in June 2012, Google gave ‘top developers’ the ability to respond directly to user reviews through the Play Store, which is great for communication between customers and developers. Then in January this year, Google started giving more developers the ability to respond and now Google have officially announced that all developers can reply to [...]

A favourite launcher replacement amongst Ausdroid’s writers is TeslaCoil Software’s Nova Launcher, and it’s easy to see why. Released shortly after Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, Nova Launcher feels like a stock AOSP-based launcher, but it has enough extra features and speed to make it a viable alternative to many of the OEM-provided launchers on [...]

Over a year since releasing their app for iPhone, Catch of the Day have finally caught up with an Android version. The announcement posted on Facebook Friday night said: “WANTED: Testers for our brand-spanking new Android App! Be the first in Australia to get it!”. So I acceded to their request, despite my self-inflicted shopping [...]

While I personally have no need to purchase these via Google Play as I’m geeky enough to own them as a box set, those of you who are yet to make the purchase of any or all of the Star Trek movies should be making your way to the Play Store today. The Star Trek [...]

There’s been many a discussion had on the pricing of the Nexus 4 from Harvey Norman. The Google flagship phone launched at $496, but Harvey Norman have now knocked the price of the Nexus 4 down to $419 coming desperately close to actually matching the Google Play Store price of $418.99 (including shipping). The advantage [...]

Google has obviously been watching the antics of Facebook over the last month or so very closely because they’ve updated the Google Play content policies page to remind developers that any updates to apps should only be updated via Google Play not through their own inbuilt native mechanisms. In a note added to the top [...]

After almost nine months of being teased on the Australian Google Play store and being available freely at retail stores for nearly seven months, Google has finally made the Nexus Travel covers available for purchase in Google Play. The hard-wearing rubberised cover which fits snugly around your Nexus 7 is available in three colours – [...]