News & Reviews:   Android

We have been talking about Facebook's Messenger Rooms recently and starting today onwards, the feature is now rolling out globally! To refresh your memory, Messenger Rooms is a new feature that allows you to create a room for video calls with up to 50 people. Here's how you activate Messenger Rooms.

Back at the end of April, Facebook introduced Messenger Rooms where people are allowed to have a video call up to 50 people. That's pretty cool and all considering that most people have Messenger already so they don't need to register at all, and it seems that WhatsApp users will be able to access into that soon!

It seems that Forza Street, which was Microsoft’s free-to-play racing game, is now officially available on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store for free. In addition to that, those who downloaded the game from the Samsung Galaxy Store will be eligible for a 2015 Ford Mustang GT which comes with a Galaxy-themed skin or even more.

In this short announcement, we reported that WhatsApp will have new updated group video and voice call feature. This new update will now allow 8 people in total to join now you may see the new update now in the Apple App Store. At the moment, Android doesn't have the new update yet. 

Dark mode is a popular feature that many apps and operating systems have offered to users. For instance, vivo smartphone users can enjoy dark mode via FunTouchOS system. WhatsApp and Instagram have also adopted it, then Facebook's new desktop design also lets you choose the option. Oh wait, the Facebook app on both iOS and Android doesn't have one.

Yesterday, we talked about Facebook releasing their own mobile gaming app releasing today and it is now live. However, it's only available on the Google Play Store now and has yet to appear in the Apple App Store. Promptly named Facebook Gaming, it functions the same way as the desktop version allowing you to stream your games or play with your friends and family together.

The problem with Android apps is that they can sometimes be geo-locked. For instance, some apps may not be available in the Malaysian Google Play Store. When that is the case, users have to turn to third-party to download the apps they want. But these third-party stores are not very secured since one of them was recently hacked.

Have you been itching for a new coop game to play during the movement control order (MCO)? Well, you could try out Dead by Daylight Mobile, the coop survival horror game that has now been ported to mobile phones. Publisher NetEase promised that the game would be available in Southeast Asia in Spring 2020 and it has finally been released on the Google Play Store.

The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission(MCMC) is now testing a beta app called Gerak Malaysia that can identify every person that may have contacted with an Covid-19 Infectee by using location tracking. This will aid the Ministry of Health (MOH) in contact tracing.

Have y’all noticed a few changes that have been made to your YouTube app recently? It looks like YouTube has been making changes here and there through app updates to bring better experiences for the users. From the user interface to new features, the popular video-sharing platform has revealed a few things that we might see on the app, which includes a feature called video chapters.