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Check Out The Most Useful Android Shortcuts You Should Know

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Android devices have gained a lot of popularity and the increased use of smartphones have made a growth in the use of Android devices. Android occupies the maximum share of the smartphone market, it may be because of its user-friendly features. Everyone uses the phone, but using it smartly is what it matters. In this article let us go through some of the most useful Android shortcuts that might be very much useful to you.

Android Shortcuts:

  • You can easily check your notification history in your android phone. Just create a shortcut to the notification which will help you to take a look at all the recent notifications. You may have swiped the notification from the notification bar accidentally, don’t worry, you can view them too here.

Enable this by just going to widgets and then click on the settings icon and place it on the home screen and then select the notification log from the various options you have.

  • Enable No on tap under the Google now settings and this will let you share and find the info related to anything that is present on your current screen.
  • Using the Quick reply app you can directly reply to various messages from any of your contacts in various messaging services like WhatsApp, Messenger, Hangouts.
  • Switching between apps has been made faster in android nougat, but if your phone doesn’t support it or if you don’t want to update, there is an app to help you with that you can switch between apps really quick and the app is last app switcher.
  • Unlock your phone faster, with one of the best android shortcuts which are available for marshmallow or newer devices. Enable trusted face, voice, location or anything and unlock phone quicker than before.
  • Nougat has some of the very cool interesting android gestures, but even if you don’t have nougat you can get those customized gestures with the simple app called all in one gesture which allows you a lot of options for gestures.

Thus these android shortcuts are the most useful shortcuts for anyone and I hope you like them and make use of them.

How To Protect An Android Device From Being Hacked

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Android is without any doubt the most popular mobile operating system in the world. However, it is also said through various surveys that Android operating system is also very much prone to hacking.  But don’t be horrified. There are some simple and easy precautions and steps that we must be taking care of to protect our android devices from being hacked.

All this doesn’t require you to be an IT professional or anything else, no matter how important, confidential personal your data is, it should be with you until and unless you give access to somebody else with your interest.

Steps to protect your device from being hacked

  • Never ever expose your phone to websites and apps which can have a negative influence on your privacy. Be wise in choosing apps and it is always a better thing do a research before going with some app or a website.
  • Be well equipped with some essential gadgets and accessories that can make your android device hack proof.
  • Always better to secure your device with a secure password that no one knows, the password should be kept as a secret.
  • At the same time, you must be having a backup of all your passwords of your device.
  • Make use of the various security settings that your device has come inbuilt in it. Make full use of them wisely.
  • It is also better to secure your apps which might you think to have the most sensitive personal information of yours.
  • Avoid using Public WiFi network for banking transactions that you do.
  • Stay updated with the latest technological developments happening in the world of technology.

These steps will ensure your personal files, information is with you only and thus can help you stay protected with your device. Protect your device with these steps and stay secure.

Unlock Your Phone With A Simple Ok Google Command

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Unlocking your android device can be done in various ways. Like I have mentioned in my earlier articles, you can easily unlock your device without having to enter any PIN, password or pattern as they will be irritating at times. I have described to you the process of unlocking a phone using the face detection feature in my earlier article. If you haven’t checked it yet Click here. I used it for a long time. I want to try new every time and the unlocking process has a lot of options that we can try. So, today let us go through the simple process of unlocking an android device with a simple Ok Google voice command.

Unlocking Your Device Using Ok Google

  • Go to settings in your android device
  • Then click on security
  • As this is one of the smart unlock features we are going to use, first your device must be locked using any of the other secured locking features like a pattern, pin, or password.
  • Then you will see an option smart lock, click on it
  • Now confirm the password that you have set
  • It will take you to a screen which says about the smart lock, just read it and click on understood
  • Then click on Trusted voice
  • Here turn on ‘From any screen’ and ‘Trusted voice’ options using the toggle button
  • It will take you to another screen, click on Get started
  • In the next page, just say Ok Google command three times after which it detects your voice and directs to the next page with some information, click Yes I’m in
  • Confirm your password for the last time
  • Finally, click on finish

Use this simple set up process and unlock your device using the Ok Google voice command within no time and without any kind of hassles.

How To Instantly Translate Text In Android Phones

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In this new era of Android phones, we all may be well very much aware of the Google translate application which is an application from the search engine giant Google to translate text from one language to the other making it easy to communicate in various languages. We all know how to translate text using the Google translate application; we just copy the text that we would like to translate and then paste it in the app which lets us translate to the required language.

How To Translate Text Instantly

This process is very well known and used by everyone. I guess. But it will be quiet difficult to communicate or chat with persons in other languages using this process. Google Translate has come up with a solution to this. It has introduced an update to the app which allows the users to translate text without having to exit the app that they are currently using.

With this recent update, the app is now available as a chat head once you copy something to your clipboard and you can click on that chat head and then paste there to translate the text and copy it again to paste it in the chat box where you are texting. All this can be done without leaving the app that you are currently using.

First of all, you have to make sure that your app is updated with the latest version, and then open the app and go to Settings>Tap to Translate>Enable Tap to translate, This should be on. That is it you are done with setting up.

Now every time you feel like translating text in your Android device, you don’t actually have to head out of the app or program that you are currently using as this simple setup and process will make the translation easy for you.

Taking Scrolling Screenshots On Your Android Device

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Many of us wish to take long screenshots sometime or the other and Xiaomi first caught the desire the basic users and has introduced the ability to capture scrolling screenshots. Eventually, other smartphones have started following this thing which has become quite useful to the users. But what if your device manufacturer hasn’t offered you that feature by default on your device. Don’t worry, there is actually a way where you can take the long screenshots on your device and here are the applications that can be useful to you

Apps For Taking Long Scrolling Screenshots

LongShot:

It is one of the best applications that can help you in getting this feature that you would love to have on your device. The basic features of this app are capturing screenshots, capturing a web page, stitching screenshots. You can just download and install the LongShot application from the Google Play store. And after that when you open the app, you can find the options capture screenshot, capture a web page, which you can just tap and go to the app or web page of which you would like to capture the screen of, scroll the screen till the point you would like to take a screenshot of. When you are done, then hit the done button.

You will be taken to the back page, where you can find individual screenshots, just hit the join button and the app will combine all those shots into one. In the next page where it shows the combined shot, you can even adjust the screenshot manually if you wish to.

Scroll Capture:

If you don’t find the above app interesting and if you are looking for a more easier application, then Scroll Capture is your right choice.  And one thing to remember is that this app works with only web pages and when you open this app, you will find an interface just like the web browser. You can just copy and paste the URL of the web page that you would like to capture the screenshot of. After that, you can see the app capturing the entire web page and will present in front of you the fully captured screenshot and there is no need for you to stitch the screenshots.

Thus these apps make the process of taking scrolling screenshots pretty simple.