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5 Android apps you shouldn't miss this week! - Android Apps Weekly

The 235th Android Apps Weekly is live! This week we talk about Google Play Protect stats from 2017, the launch of Florence and My Tamagotchi Forever, a new password manager from TunnelBear, and more Android apps and games news and releases!
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March 19, 2018
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Welcome to the 235th edition of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the headlines from this week:

  • Google Play Protect did a lot of good things in 2017. Google released a blog post with all of the details this week. Google’s machine learning algorithms took down tens of millions of potentially harmful apps. Google Play Protect also gained an offline mode that scrapped about ten million more installs of harmful apps. They expect 2018 to be a much better year for Google Play Protect.
  • PUBG is getting closer to a worldwide launch. It soft launched in Canada this week. That’s the first non-Asian country with a release. That means a proper worldwide release may not be far off. Fortnite is hot on their heels with an iOS closed beta up and running now. They both may hit the market at around the same time. We’ll see which of these two shooters wins.
  • It turns out that people spend tons of money on mobile games. In fact, they spend more on mobile games than they do on PC games. This is solely a measurement of game software, not hardware, though. It’s easy to get into a mobile game because everyone has a mobile phone. It’s a little harder to get into a console or PC when the barrier to entry costs a lot more. In any case, mobile games have outsold PC/Mac titles for a few years now. This year just sees that gap widen even more.
  • Get ready for a lot more AR games. Google integrated the Unity game engine into Google Maps. That gives developers a good head start with new AR games. Additionally, Google Maps API is available to game developers specifically for AR games. This gives everyone the advantage that Niantic Labs had with Pokemon Go. 2018 will probably see a ton of AR games and releases. Stay tuned!
  • Facebook Lite officially launched in the US and other developed markets this week. The app was originally for developing countries with poor Internet. However, after the perceived success of Messenger Lite, Facebook went all the way with Facebook Lite as well. It lets you do the basics on Facebook without all of the extra bloat. We love this release because it’s a good alternative to the bloated, battery draining main app.

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