Showing posts with label Google Play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Play. Show all posts

Microsoft goes dead with golem apps for business

If you visit the Google Play Store on your humanoid phone right away, you will find no fewer than eighty five apps from Microsoft. The list contains some serious heavyweights, as well as the whole workplace suite, with Word, Excel, Outlook, and company boast over ten million downloads from each one.

Even a lot of spectacular is however ofttimes those apps are updated within the past year. Last year around this point, I surveyed the Microsoft app landscape on humanoid and located some serious gaps. the sole possibility for operating with workplace files was the weak workplace Mobile app, as an example, and Outlook was still well-known by its recent name, Acompli.

I've been exploitation Microsoft apps and services on humanoid for the past 9 months, and therein transient time the evolution has been spectacular. Not amazingly, I've become considerably a lot of productive therein time.

For this post and attendant gallery, I've assembled a list of fascinating business-class apps from Microsoft. I've missed some consumer-focused stalwarts, as well as the much-improved Groove Music and also the Xbox One SmartGlass app, that is an imperative late tool.

If your work life revolves around Microsoft services and humanoid hardware, here's a guidebook to assist you discover the most effective apps kicking off of Redmond. (To see the total assortment of apps, visit Microsoft's page at the Google Play Store.)

ONEDRIVE
Ironically, the iOS and humanoid apps beat their Windows counterparts to the punch with a key feature. you'll be able to currently connect the OneDrive apps to private and business accounts, then switch between those files as simply as you'd switch between accounts in associate email app.

One feature I notably like regarding the show of files within the OneDrive humanoid app may be a little data icon at the proper of every file and folder. faucet that icon for details regarding the choice, and for files, slide a switch to stay the file offered offline.

I used the picture sharing options of OneDrive to share screenshots from my phone to the gallery that accompanies this text, a method that took solely a couple of faucets.

OFFICE
What a distinction a year makes. Last year at this point, {trying|making associate attempt|attempting} to urge any serious work through with workplace documents on an humanoid smartphone was troublesome, as a result of solely the weak workplace Mobile app was offered. Today, there ar neat workplace apps, offered for the platform, as well as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

You probably would not need to form a scholar treatise in one among these apps, except for reading and light-weight written material they are extraordinarily effective. And even as with the desktop workplace apps on Windows and OS X, the consistent interface makes it simple to modify between apps whereas remaining productive.

Explaining the Google Settings icon on your Android device See a new Google Settings app icon appear on your Android device and wonder what it is? Don't worry, it's nothing major. Here's what you need to know.



 




Google recently rolled out Google sign-ins affording Web and app developers the ability to have users sign in with Google credentials. Once an app is integrated with Google sign-in, data from the app can then be shared to Google+ much like sharing data with Facebook has occurred for a while now.
In order for the apps on your Android device to be compatible with the new system, an update to Google Play Services is required. There's nothing you need to do for the update to happen, it all takes place in the background and normally you wouldn't notice a thing. But this update also adds a new app icon to your Android device. The icon is for an app called Google Settings. The app really isn't an app, but more of a collection of shortcuts to the various settings screens for you Google account.



Launching the app will provide shortcuts to your Google+ settings, Maps & Latitude, Location, Search, and Ads. All of the options I just mentioned are already accessible on the device through different methods, but the Apps with Google+ Sign-In option is new. This setting allows you to manage the apps you've used to sign in and allowed to share information with your Google+ account. Tapping on an app listed will revoke its access.