Android

How To Hide Files, Photos And Apps On Your Android Device

June 22, 2018 by Satyapriya

Our smartphones contain a lot of our personal information which we don’t need to be publicized. Anyone who has the control of our phone will obviously control all our data and if you are among the ones who don’t wish it to be like that then don’t worry, here I am to explain to you how to hide your various files and stay tension free even if you give your smartphone to someone. There are a variety of options to hide files on your device and let us go through a few of them

Apps To Hide Files On Android

File Hide Expert:

Most of the android devices don’t have the ability to hide files by default, but thanks to these wonderful applications and there are a number of such applications available in the Google Play store. You just need to download the File Hide Expert application from the Play store and open the application, this app works like a basic file management application and you can just add files here by clicking on the folder icon on the top right corner of the app startup screen. Then add as many files as you like and also add files of any type and after you are done with adding files and folders, then head to the previous screen and click on Hide All option which will make them invisible in any other file managers and galleries. You can make them visible again by just clicking the restore all button or you can even bring a particular file or folder visible by just clicking the x icon parallel to the particular file or folder.

KeepSafe:

And the most important thing that you shouldn’t forget to do is enabling password for this app. Just open the app and click on the menu, then click on settings, now check the enable password option and then enter the password.

If you are searching for the most efficient photo hiding app, then this is the right one you are searching for. Along with hiding your photos, it can also help you in saving your sensitive data like passwords and id cards. You can simply download the app from the Playstore and set up is pretty easy.

Just open the application and it will take you through the PIN setup process, set up the PIN, after that you can just click on the add picture option on the bottom right corner of the app screen. You can also add pictures to this by just sharing the pictures you would like to hide and then selecting the KeepSafe option from the share menu.

Hide files without any third party apps:

There is actually a simple trick using which you can easily hide any type of files that you wish to without having to download any third party applications. All you need to do is just add a “.” At the beginning of the file name that you wish to hide, you can edit the file name in your file manager. This simple trick will prevent the files, pictures and audios, videos from showing up in their respective players.

How To Enable The Floating Bubble Of The Google Dialer

June 20, 2018 by Satyapriya

If you are aware of the new Floating Bubble feature that Google has recently rolled out exclusively for its very own Pixel and Nexus series, you might want it on your device too. But if you are not, don’t mind I will let you know what it is and how to get it on your Android device. The Google Dialer in Pixel and Nexus devices has got a new update called the Floating bubble which basically allows the users to make the different call actions without being on the call screen. A Facebook Messenger kind of a chat head will be seen as soon as the users exit the call screen which can be moved all over the borders of the screen. Users can tap it to find three options which are speaker mode, mute the call, end the call.

Enabling Google Dialer Floating Bubble

Let us now look at the process of getting this feature in our Android devices

Note: Your device needs to be rooted for this process

Download and install the Google Phone APK
In the next step, you have to set this Google Phone app as your default phone app. You can do that by going to Settings>Apps. Then tap on the gear icon which you can find on the top right corner of your device’s screen. A new app configuration screen will appear, select option Phone App and then tap on the app that you just installed. It will have a navy blue icon
Now head to /data/data/com.google.android.dialer/shared_prefs using any root file explorer of your choice and then tap dialer_phenotype_flags.xml to edit
Once the file is opened, search for the string G_enable_return_to_call_bubble, change the value set from false to true, save the file and exit
Now head back to Settings>Apps>Phone App> then tap on Force Stop
Then open the app to reload it in the system memory

That is it, you are done with the process, you can experience the floating bubble feature in the Google Dialer the next time you make a call or receive a call.

How To Create Shortcut Text Phrases In Your Android

June 17, 2018 by Satyapriya

Typing is the most used processes these days as the communication these days is happening over the internet through messages. We all may not be fast at typing but definitely would wish to be fast. And to be fast at typing, first of all, you need to get used to the keyboard, there are a lot of tricks and tips that can help you to gain typing speed and be a pro at it. Today, in this article I am going to show you another simple trick which will help you type really quickly. We may feel bored of typing long text phrases and typing the same thing a lot of times, what if they have some keyboard shortcuts which will help us and save our time. Right!

Creating Text Phrases With Gboard

The Gboard from android has this inbuilt feature which we can make use of to be fast at typing on our Android devices.

First, open your settings, then scroll down to language and input, click on it
Then go to Gboard
Now open the Dictionary option
Then go to Personal dictionary, then click on all languages
Hereby selecting the plus icon you can just add shortcuts to various text phrases that you regularly and most frequently used by the full phrase in the first box and then entering the shortcut to that word in the box below

That is it, you are thus done with the setting up of the keyboard shortcuts for long phrases, now as soon as you enter the shortcut words to the long text phrases, the keyboard will show up the phrase in the suggestion which you can just select to get it typed and make your work really fast and quick.

Do try these simple steps and create your own text phrases for the words or sentences that you use the most and make life easy.

Some Of The Best Mobile Document Scanning Apps

June 14, 2018 by Satyapriya

These days no one is actually waiting or looking for scanners to scan the important documents that they have, as everyone has got a pocket-sized scanner with them all by themselves. It’s nothing but their phone. Yeah, smartphones have almost replaced many things and scanners are one of those many things. Depending on the quality of the camera, we can get scanned them as neatly as possible and so, if you are also one of them who uses your smartphone a lot for scanning the documents, then you should not miss in any way the below list of some very cool document scanning apps.

Office Lens:

This document scanning application from Microsoft is a flexible and portable scanner with lots of features. One can scan documents, business cards, blackboards, whiteboards, notes using this simple tool. Office Lens even has the Optical Character Recognition feature which recognizes the handwritten or printed text and allows the users to edit, copy, paste. This app even allows the users to instantly save contacts in the address book by simply scanning them.

CamScanner:

This is yet another very useful application available on the Google play store. Using this the users can scan receipts, notes, boards, documents and all. This one of the very useful document scanning apps that also has the OCR feature which it uses to extract the text from the images. Scanned documents or pages can be easily and instantly shared on various platforms.CamScanner allows the users the option to save the scanned image in either .jpg format or as a pdf file whatever they want.

Genius Scan:

This is another great choice available for the Android users, this one allows the users to scan various types of documents, cards, boards, notes, receipts like all the other document scanners do. This one, in addition, has a smart page detection feature which enhances the images that you have scanned.

Scanbot:

This application comes with a built-in QR code scanner. Users can scan almost anything using this simple yet brilliant app. And users will be given a choice to save the scanned images either in jpg or as pdf whatever they need. Users can scan multiple pages of documents, edit, annotate to enhance the images.