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Google's Play Movie service is now available in Australia, but the app is hidden in my app drawer (I'm guessing because the service was not available previously and Google hid the app).
I rented a movie but I'm unable to watch it. When I choose YouTube to view it, it says unsupported codec or something.
When I search for Play Movie in the Market, it says that its installed.. but its not listed under "My Apps".
How can I get Play Movies to appear so I can watch movies?
Will greatly appreciate any help.
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Can someone please post the latest Play Movies apk for Galaxy Nexus
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http://www.mediafire.com/?4v2515439b9t32u
Thank you
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Same for me. It is listed as installed but I dont see it or can open it.
Is there a way to unhide it?
If you're rooted, use Titanium Backup to defrost it.
Mostly Movies, Magazines, Books and Sound Search (Google Ears) are frozen by default if you're outside US or Canada. I said mostly because for some users in some countries the apps are there.
Cheers!
Hi Everyone,
I'm interested in all your opinions in a poll for the best Office Suite app (paid or free) to run on the Nexus 7.
My only real personal requirements are:
Google Drive integration
Full (as much as possible) editing of documents
Integrated fonts
Autosave
It's interesting to see that last month Google acquired Quick Office too!
Your thoughts...and more importantly reasons for your choice!
OP: good question. I was frankly quite disappointed that the new, improved Google Drive only allowed offline editing, but not offline document creation.
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Thanks for the reply malcontent510, I had noticed that feature was lacking too and to me with the acquisition it is quite plain that eventually Quick Office + Drive will merge and it will be a force to be reckoned with. Until then one of the £5-10 ($7-15) range of apps will do the job I think, what was your personal pick?
on the phone I have experience with quick office, documents to go and preferred quick office.
On the tablet(nexus 7), I tried quick office pro hd and really like it so far.
I'm still learning how to use it but it is visually appealing to me & I love that I can sync my dropbox, box, drive accounts with it.
Vote= quick office pro hd
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Thanks ateebtk, so can you open/save to/from Drive offline and then sync your saves when you're back online?
Are there several fonts included?
bertles86 said:
Thanks ateebtk, so can you open/save to/from Drive offline and then sync your saves when you're back online?
Are there several fonts included?
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Alright..there are 19 fonts included.
Won't let you save file on drive without Wi-Fi.
You are forced to save on local storage without Wi-Fi.once you get Wi-Fi, you can easily drag files from local storage to the Google drive account very easily using the file explorer built in the app.
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Thanks!
Does it Autosave in the background?
I like king soft office
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Quite a few votes for Google Drive/Docs, I do like the app, but you can't work offline unlike the others...
phantasybm does KingSoft have Drive integration?
Bump
OnLive Desktop looks pretty good, only downside is the need for a decent internet connection.
Hey ben, that's a very interesting app! Very cloud based but if you were at home/in an office with Wi-Fi then it could be worthwhile.
I just came across this app in the store that you might want to check out as well...
CloudOn
ateebtk said:
On the tablet(nexus 7), I tried quick office pro hd and really like it so far.
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How did you install Quick Office Pro HD on the tablet? The app page on Google Play says it's not compatible with the Nexus 7.
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How did you install Quick Office Pro HD on the tablet? The app page on Google Play says it's not compatible with the Nexus 7.
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Turn on unknown sources from menu(setting) and install apk from your tibu/online
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A full featured, MS office compatible office package would be the "unreleased" SoftMaker Office Mobile for Android.
They have a free release candidate version you can download from their website and try.
This is the only one I've ever found that's 100% compatible with Office 2007 and 2010 without any formatting changes, etc.
It's really a heavy package tho. it includes "word", "excel" and "powerpoint".
Interesting find compusmurf! Have you tested it?
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Officesuite HD. Works really well and works with a number of cloud services.
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I use OfficeSuite Pro- It was Amazon's free app of the day a few months ago and I have no real complaints with it. Nothing particularly spectacular about it either.
Does anyone know if the Google Drive app allows you to save directly to .docx/.xlsx?
Anybody know a good epub reader with an excellent interface?
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I had moon reader but tried mantano recently. Both of them are good but i find mantano is very well polished. Try both of them and see what suits your taste.
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Anyone with page flip animation?
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Anyone with page flip animation?
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Moon+ Reader has excellent page flip. Like IPad. Have to turn it on though. See options.
Aldiko is one of the best ebook reader on the play store. It doesn't have a page turn animation(just slides).
Another good reader is kindle, if you take the epub file and covert it to mobi using zamzar, then put it in the kindle folder.
I like Mantano reader. It's good for epub and PDF.
Fb reader has a lot of options
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The new Aldiko UI is beautiful, but no page flipping.
Aldiko is what my GF swears by although I did notice FB reader today that has got screen lock
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I think the nook app does epub exceptionally, just save the epubs in sdcard/nook/mydocuments really nice reader app and not limited to their store
And very nice page flip.
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Mantano is current best for epub, works great with PDF too.
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Mantano ( I have the premium version) is good for epubs. Not sure about the animations cause I never use them if it has it I would have turned it off in the initial setup and never looked back. It looks very nice and polished. Alot of sorting and viewing options for the bookshelf/ library area. You can tag books and also create collections and even sub-collections (which I LOVE :victory.
Moon+ reader is also nice. My pet peeve there is that you can't sort by date, like sort it so I see the most recently added 1st which kinda annoys me . The premium version says that it allows you to password protect the app itself. I guess that comes in handy if you are reading some questionable/embarrassing things
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Mantano ( I have the premium version) is good for epubs. Not sure about the animations cause I never use them if it has it I would have turned it off in the initial setup and never looked back...
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You should, with the latest update the page turn animation with epub files is just butter, slick and real.
Not sure if there is one for pdfs
I've tried all the readers mentioned and have bought a few, but my current favorite is moon+. its the visually most appealing, and I love its dropbox support for synced books. I also like that it gives number of pages left in chapters.
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Aldiko, but like everyone else said, there isn't a page flip animation.
OK back and found a good reader called moon+reader it has loads of nice options and page turning. I am using the free version but you can also pay for a pro version.
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My vote would be aldiko. I don't even like to read the books I've purchased from B&N using the nook app, aldiko there also
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Just bought Mantano here, I've tried them all and this is the nicest one I've used, its fast to load, loads all the book covers quickly and it has night mode and nice cataloging features to group your books, all the rest just didn't feel right to me, thanks for the mention of Mantano as I didn't know about till this post
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I tried all of the readers suggested here and none of them have a 3D page flip animation?
Is there a way to use the Google Books app to read epub files?
Moon reader has the 3d page flipping animation, at least that is what I see in the pro version.
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Hello everyone. I've been thinking about reading some ebooks on my commute to school and was wondering what some of the apps you use. I would really like to be able to import books in and have the page turning animation that Play Books has. Any app suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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TheRC51 said:
Hello everyone. I've been thinking about reading some ebooks on my commute to school and was wondering what some of the apps you use. I would really like to be able to import books in and have the page turning animation that Play Books has. Any app suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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yeah play books is very nice but im a big fan of FREE! lol I use kindle app because I can rent ebooks from local library with my library card. Its pretty cool and FREE! lol check it out!
I use Moon Reader for non-Amazon Kindle books and of course the Amazon Kindle app.
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yeah play books is very nice but im a big fan of FREE! lol I use kindle app because I can rent ebooks from local library with my library card. Its pretty cool and FREE! lol check it out!
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I use Aldiko, no clue if its the best but it works fine for me.
Aldiko 100%
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FBReader. Customized it to look like my old Nook and has offline dictionary add-on
Moon+ Reader Pro on my devices, with Calibre on desktop
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreaderpd
or free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreader
http://calibre-ebook.com/
+1 Aldiko
I primarily use the Kindle app since I own a Kindle and like the sync feature. Before I got a Kindle I was a fan of FBreader. Aldikio has a better interface, but FBreader does a better job with displaying the text properly (I ran into a number of issues with Aldikio when there were multiple font sizes within a section) and allows you to customize it to a greater degree.
Moon reader
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This one is fairly young but is good looking and drop box sync is easy as pie
Dev is very active with feature requests and updates
FabrikReader
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883143
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Forgot to mention: I use MoonReader pro with Calibre on my desktop... Calibre let's you crest an online catalog through a built in server... Moon can be set up to access this, works well once its all configured.
I have a collection of university publications and textbooks that is 400+ in addition to a slew of novels. Started as a way to get my grandfather to use the tab I got for him more often. He loves it now and I've been building his library steadily, he calls me very excited when I add the ebooks to his computer remotely and Calibre scans the folder and notifies him of the new additions. He's even learned on his own how to share his library with his friends and colleagues so if my gramps can do it it should be a descent option for the average user:thumbup:
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Ive been using Aldiko and it seems to be doing its job just fine (I need an app that also can import pdfs), anyone have an alternative or better app ?
Maybe Moon Reader+
I just use Google Play Books. With the ability to upload your own books and the apps style consistent with the other android applications, I see no reason to use anything else.
+1 for moon+ reader
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If someone helps you, PLEASE use the THANKS button.
Mantano reader. Been using it for years happily. If they added dropbox support it would be perfect.
Kindle app works great for me with pdf's.
Definitely Moon+ Reader.
Kobo serves me best for the last couple of years!
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+1 for moon+ reader.
I like the calibre and dropbox integration
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+1 for Monn Reader +
=> The best PDF reflow I found until yet.
Another vote for Moon Reader. I've been using it for over a year, many hundreds of hours on it, no complaints.
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Another vote for Moon Reader. I've been using it for over a year, many hundreds of hours on it, no complaints.
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Moon Reader gets my vote as well. Very versatile and very user friendly.
My vote for Moon Reader+. Excellent app.
I like fbreader smooth transtition is all I want
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I used Aldiko up until the point that Google Books finally let you import your own library. With syncing across multiple devices, I'm set.
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Kindle for sure..
Well, KINDLE works great for reading ebook's over your device. Why don't you try installing that one.
:fingers-crossed:http://www.rapidtechventures.com/
I use Google Play Books as well. I really like the ability to upload PDFs and ePub and have them available across my devices. There probably are better e readers out there with more functionality, but it does everything I need really well.
I'm using Kindle, Moon Reader & Nook
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I use Google Play Books as well. I really like the ability to upload PDFs and ePub and have them available across my devices. There probably are better e readers out there with more functionality, but it does everything I need really well.
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Most of my pdf's for uni won't work on there, but the do on Kindle.
Epub: 1. Moon Reader. 2.FbReader (with tts). 3.Cool Reader
PDF: 1. EZ Reader. 2. Adobe Reader (only ones found with both night/reversed view and good text reflow)