Camera360 Ultimate 6.0.1 APK

The Camera360 Ultimate Android app has been updated in the Google Play Store with return to original Magic Skin Effects. This newest version also brings some improvements for its many users to check out, thanks to its just released version 6.0.1 update that also has some under-the-hood performance improvements.

Camera360 Ultimate is one of the best Photography app for editing your pictures on your mobile. This app is making it possible to put the art of taking wonderful photos to life and for making the pictures more beautiful. There are so many options and so many combinations to make. What's awesome is that you can take any picture, even from your gallery album and edit it up.

Camera360 Ultimate has provided a quick change log of the Android update:
- Return to original Magic Skin Effects
- Quick access to Easy Camera is available on homepage.
- Easy and quick share after shooting..
- Fixed bug. Now photos exported from external SD card can now be saved successfully after editing.

The latest version of Camera360 Ultimate is live on the Google Play Store, so it's a good idea to have a look and see if yours is ready. And for those who can't get it on the Play Store, you can download Camera360 Ultimate APK version 6.0.1 at the link below.

Requires Android: 2.3+
Download File: 30MB (Camera360 Ultimate APK)

SimCity BuildIt 1.2.23.20736 APK

The best and most beautiful city builder game on mobile, SimCity BuildIt has been updated in the Google Play Store brings some improvement. Following version 1.2.23, this game is now even easier to manage, because you can build your city without worrying about residential and service buildings switching functions.

Like in PC game, SimCity BuildIt has been adapted great for mobile platforms. It has an excellent graphics and game mechanics are a shadow of the PC version that you'll love to construct big foundations and let it grow over time.

If you are a fan of the original SimCity games on the PC, this game will  be a clear choice to download. In SimCity BuildIt build, you have to create your own gorgeous, the city of your dreams that has citizens vying to move in. All you do is continually make resources to upgrade buildings or to make the advanced resources with all of the problems that come with it.

While the game is free to play, like most mobile games, it marred by the presence of microtransactions but it's possible to play without spending real money.

SimCity BuildIt is available for the Android, iPhone and iPad. The update is live right now if you have the app installed and if you've been waiting to grab the latest SimCity BuildIt APK, now is the time to do.

Requires Android: 2.3.3+
Download File: 22.7MB (SimCity BuildIt APK)

Efficient Game Textures with Hardware Compression

Posted by Shanee
Nishry, Developer Advocate

As you may know, high resolution textures contribute to better graphics and a
more impressive game experience. Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC)
helps solve many of the challenges involved including reducing memory
footprint and loading time and even increase performance and battery life.

If you have a lot of textures, you are probably already compressing them.
Unfortunately, not all compression algorithms are made equal. PNG, JPG and
other common formats are not GPU friendly. Some of the highest-quality
algorithms today are proprietary and limited to certain GPUs. Until recently,
the only broadly supported GPU accelerated formats were relatively primitive
and produced poor results.

With the introduction of ASTC, a new compression technique invented by ARM
and standardized by the Khronos group, we expect to see dramatic changes for
the better. ASTC promises to be both high quality and broadly supported by
future Android devices. But until devices with ASTC support become widely
available, it’s important to understand the variety of legacy formats that
exist today.

We will examine preferable compression formats which are supported on the GPU
to help you reduce .apk size and loading times of your game.

Texture Compression

Popular compressed formats include PNG and JPG, which can’t be decoded
directly by the GPU. As a consequence, they need to be decompressed before
copying them to the GPU memory. Decompressing the textures takes time and
leads to increased loading times.

A better option is to use hardware accelerated formats. These formats are
lossy but have the advantage of being designed for the GPU.

This means they do not need to be decompressed before being copied and result
in decreased loading times for the player and may even lead to increased
performance due to hardware optimizations.

Hardware Accelerated Formats

Hardware accelerated formats have many benefits. As mentioned before, they
help improve loading times and the runtime memory footprint.

Additionally, these formats help improve performance, battery life and reduce
heating of the device, requiring less bandwidth while also consuming less
energy.

There are two categories of hardware accelerated formats, standard and
proprietary. This table shows the standard formats:

ETC1	Supported on all Android devices with OpenGL ES 2.0 and above. Does not support alpha channel.
ETC2	Requires OpenGL ES 3.0 and above.
ASTC	Higher quality than ETC1 and ETC2. Supported with the Android Extension Pack.

As you can see, with higher OpenGL support you gain access to better formats.
There are proprietary formats to replace ETC1, delivering higher quality and
alpha channel support. These are shown in the following table:

ATC	Available with Adreno GPU.
PVRTC	Available with a PowerVR GPU.
DXT1	S3 DXT1 texture compression. Supported on devices running Nvidia Tegra platform.
S3TC	S3 texture compression, nonspecific to DXT variant. Supported on devices running Nvidia Tegra platform.

That’s a lot of formats, revealing a different problem. How do you choose
which format to use?

To best support all devices you need to create multiple apks using different
texture formats. The Google Play developer console allows you to add multiple
apks and will deliver the right one to the user based on their device. For
more information check "http://developer.android.com/training/multiple-apks/texture.html?utm_campaign=ASTC-115&utm_source=dac&utm_medium=blog">
this page.

When a device only supports OpenGL ES 2.0 it is recommended to use a
proprietary format to get the best results possible, this means making an apk
for each hardware.

On devices with access to OpenGL ES 3.0 you can use ETC2. The
GL_COMPRESSED_RGBA8_ETC2_EAC format is an improved version of ETC1
with added alpha support.

The best case is when the device supports the Android Extension Pack. Then
you should use the ASTC format which has better quality and is more efficient
than the other formats.

Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC)

The Android Extension Pack has ASTC as a standard format, removing the need
to have different formats for different devices.

In addition to being supported on modern hardware, ASTC also offers improved
quality over other GPU formats by having full alpha support and better
quality preservation.

ASTC is a block based texture compression algorithm developed by "http://www.arm.com/">ARM. It offers multiple block footprints and
bitrate options to lower the size of the final texture. The higher the block
footprint, the smaller the final file but possibly more quality loss.

Note that some images compress better than others. Images with similar
neighboring pixels tend to have better quality compared to images with vastly
different neighboring pixels.

Let’s examine a texture to better understand ASTC:

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This bitmap is 1.1MB uncompressed and 299KB when compressed as PNG.

Compressing the Android jellybean jar texture into ASTC through the "http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/tools/asset-creation/mali-gpu-texture-compression-tool/">
Mali GPU Texture Compression Tool yields the following results.

Block Footprint	4x4	6x6	8x8
Memory	262KB	119KB	70KB
Image Output	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjGS7dfYwoERF1Pn-HSEUoCLLko6OX-XmsxgcwuBrN0Zo-ElDnEG2p4Wo6868f75CUZblKg8bLErp4IF8Jvs0G2dfEkyqtTB04-U8HVJuL9wzNgu6z__mHOX5ZDkmVXulJMhzSXSRy1wG/s1600/jelly-astc-4x4.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjGS7dfYwoERF1Pn-HSEUoCLLko6OX-XmsxgcwuBrN0Zo-ElDnEG2p4Wo6868f75CUZblKg8bLErp4IF8Jvs0G2dfEkyqtTB04-U8HVJuL9wzNgu6z__mHOX5ZDkmVXulJMhzSXSRy1wG/s200/jelly-astc-4x4.png">	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtHmPT-kHbY-UsKVVDe4WO-RhO0kYhWOqT7uCZ5myYpfj8c_30zeLhvMnnw40f-NAkSG4yY-hZJsYrpElU1yjgkPxJ5xQnOipYrnCV_dJD0tsXl2CIiYsQvbJ5_h6Y38Hyb0gSJDJ9J9Dn/s1600/jelly-astc-6x6.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtHmPT-kHbY-UsKVVDe4WO-RhO0kYhWOqT7uCZ5myYpfj8c_30zeLhvMnnw40f-NAkSG4yY-hZJsYrpElU1yjgkPxJ5xQnOipYrnCV_dJD0tsXl2CIiYsQvbJ5_h6Y38Hyb0gSJDJ9J9Dn/s200/jelly-astc-6x6.png">	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiN8BnBXQbFkh7PfWpIV2mMoPSsveA3DdBma3xOZlaK4jb5NEbajtleCcX8SpD2tjCsnMdEpEoNm0K_s8bIzmpEknbkrITWCga9bsoFaPOx1OdAaIcb3qpw8C87PQKaBSQOX9_VnVRtPgH/s1600/jelly-astc-8x8.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiN8BnBXQbFkh7PfWpIV2mMoPSsveA3DdBma3xOZlaK4jb5NEbajtleCcX8SpD2tjCsnMdEpEoNm0K_s8bIzmpEknbkrITWCga9bsoFaPOx1OdAaIcb3qpw8C87PQKaBSQOX9_VnVRtPgH/s200/jelly-astc-8x8.png">
Difference Map	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51UFLN1gsA83SO3g_o1QF4fOFZKf1Btt6JSHDsygaYUqD5ylxePW42BHnbA2Zesurybf3ccBHGsn13JBHmBY5sC-NoCPtorj8f06zTfEGpZMz6R9-ie4adRIMl25a_PeWLBDwsG4WXOHJ/s1600/4x4-1x.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51UFLN1gsA83SO3g_o1QF4fOFZKf1Btt6JSHDsygaYUqD5ylxePW42BHnbA2Zesurybf3ccBHGsn13JBHmBY5sC-NoCPtorj8f06zTfEGpZMz6R9-ie4adRIMl25a_PeWLBDwsG4WXOHJ/s200/4x4-1x.png">	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6WSrN-OxhOugi6ps7rYRwyUxeaGts4CGRN6e311RHeA6u7bUOPgpqbUYSDl5qwHmgtyA2FycWf-qBAM0pHbouz3ybDuqg4-ma_CdzyOQiIdEKPjgSEXnm4L1n2jr4l3lh-Wy_Sk4ECF_Y/s1600/6x6-1x.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6WSrN-OxhOugi6ps7rYRwyUxeaGts4CGRN6e311RHeA6u7bUOPgpqbUYSDl5qwHmgtyA2FycWf-qBAM0pHbouz3ybDuqg4-ma_CdzyOQiIdEKPjgSEXnm4L1n2jr4l3lh-Wy_Sk4ECF_Y/s200/6x6-1x.png">	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1-42bGF0N9xXZbw9CjuHMpQoFIQ0BwYXK2vW7WrxLu4II6M6FX8muYi9YiNNd-WUz0j4elB3ZL8wFxEAxvBJPp5A9C6BAe9iBn7QGYNRVyPnCbNnjG-gV3qJJKX7S9Gz0q2iQvbYCkZh/s1600/8x8-1x.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1-42bGF0N9xXZbw9CjuHMpQoFIQ0BwYXK2vW7WrxLu4II6M6FX8muYi9YiNNd-WUz0j4elB3ZL8wFxEAxvBJPp5A9C6BAe9iBn7QGYNRVyPnCbNnjG-gV3qJJKX7S9Gz0q2iQvbYCkZh/s200/8x8-1x.png">
5x Enhanced Difference Map	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIOegnQ8S-PZ704tQHW983HOO5EVQuK4-aPwpF89TFDkyQ95FlmkXJi2s1GqPipIyuT5f-HJo-2TLI3Igbgek9Ll-6FgtGGTW2Jo5e6Ug61KMoM1PTdDDMZfMUAGPf3RfFNI2LFcVUOEF/s1600/4x4-5x.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIOegnQ8S-PZ704tQHW983HOO5EVQuK4-aPwpF89TFDkyQ95FlmkXJi2s1GqPipIyuT5f-HJo-2TLI3Igbgek9Ll-6FgtGGTW2Jo5e6Ug61KMoM1PTdDDMZfMUAGPf3RfFNI2LFcVUOEF/s200/4x4-5x.png">	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgE5Yugncez2bRx0PLXjM73MG65WKSaZc2pS9WP9BmWL9GDr-6qBx884MFY0pnmhAsj93V6wNNTqUqueX9j6wTiiJq8yf9UlIbtZVW11p3cP9icyaqJ4PbMYtvGrGEF58alzKRTIzRf7q/s1600/6x6-5x.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgE5Yugncez2bRx0PLXjM73MG65WKSaZc2pS9WP9BmWL9GDr-6qBx884MFY0pnmhAsj93V6wNNTqUqueX9j6wTiiJq8yf9UlIbtZVW11p3cP9icyaqJ4PbMYtvGrGEF58alzKRTIzRf7q/s200/6x6-5x.png">	"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSBY113gYBPO0EsMrzmKFzJDjb4fny5DreRDaf-p6Q64U4KtzG-Wcb5pZhxztcmMpcf45ho5lB6sbck0XQxwCJsiwV6V5f9xp6bMflYG2gAFBBCeeI3JYX7gw_P18AN71kePF1f1Qjopz/s1600/8x8-5x.png" imageanchor="1"> "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSBY113gYBPO0EsMrzmKFzJDjb4fny5DreRDaf-p6Q64U4KtzG-Wcb5pZhxztcmMpcf45ho5lB6sbck0XQxwCJsiwV6V5f9xp6bMflYG2gAFBBCeeI3JYX7gw_P18AN71kePF1f1Qjopz/s200/8x8-5x.png">

As you can see, the highest quality (4x4) bitrate for ASTC already gains over
PNG in memory size. Unlike PNG, this gain stays even after copying the image
to the GPU.

The tradeoff comes in the detail, so it is important to carefully examine
textures when compressing them to see how much compression is acceptable.

Conclusion

Using hardware accelerated textures in your games will help you reduce the
size of your .apk, runtime memory use as well as loading times.

Improve performance on a wider range of devices by uploading multiple apks
with different GPU texture formats and "http://developer.android.com/training/multiple-apks/texture.html?utm_campaign=ASTC-115&utm_source=dac&utm_medium=blog">
declaring the texture type in the AndroidManifest.xml.

If you are aiming for high end devices, make sure to use ASTC which is
included in the Android Extension Pack.

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Trivia Crack 1.9.4 APK

Etermax has released an update for its international smash hit game Trivia Crack for Android in the Google Play Store that adds, among other things, new items in the store.

Trivia Crack is a game of strategy that lets you against a friend to determine who has the most trivia knowledge. Play against friends to answer a question in each of categories like Science, Sports, Entertainment, Art, Geography and History. It's fun trying to think of your own questions to submit and answer the question that makes you feel stupid because you don't know a certain random fact.

The game itself has cute graphics, fun way to kill time and challenge friends. It's an entertaining and educational game to play with your friends or complete strangers. There are so many interesting questions that even if you don't know the answers to you still learn something new. Not only can you play the trivia game but you can contribute to the questions by making up your own. You can play this at work, at home or in the office.

Here's what's new and improved in the new Trivia Crack Android app update:
- New items in the store! Endless lives and 5-life limit.
- Watch a video and get a free life!
- Bug fixes

Trivia Crack is quite honestly one of the best free games on Android devices. While the game is free to download and play, be aware that it also contains in-game purchases. Yes, it has optional ad-free premium and optional perks to help you win, there is no better way to make your friends feel inferior to your superior intellect.

You can check it out on the Google Play Store now or pick up the latest Trivia Crack APK file at the link below. Download the game and begin challenging your friends!

Requires Android: 2.3+
Download File: 25.5MB (Trivia Crack APK)

Summoners War 1.3.8 APK

Com2uS has released an update for its popular Role Playing game Summoners War in the Google Play Store that adds language Setting Menu, fixed skills errors and bugs. Following version 1.3.8 update, you can now play Summoners War in Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.

Summoners War has aspects of Pokemon, world of warcraft, and anime. The game let's Collect as many monsters as you can from a collection of over 400 monsters with different Attributes of Fire, Water, Wind, Light, and Dark. The collection of monsters are awesome although there are some that just don't need to be added into the collection.

This is one of the best games for mobile. Summoning creatures, fairies, werewolves, and Ninjas is one of the coolest things you can do. If you are a kid this game may take some time to get good at. The gameplay concept itself is very enjoyable though, you'll always find many things to do. Yes, it fun and there are plenty of things to do, from leveling and evolving your monsters to completing the story.

If you like action and adventure, this game is for you. It's available for free and absolutely no money is required to play. However, it has in-app purchases. If you want to level up faster and go for some rare monsters quicker there is the option to put money in, but it's not a requirement like other top grossing games.

The update is live right now if you have the app installed and if you've been waiting to grab the latest Summoners War APK file, now is the time to do.

Have you just downloaded? What do you think of this newly released update and do you like the changes the Dev Team has made to its Android app?

Requires Android: 2.3+
Download File: 12MB (Summoners War APK)

Brothers in Arms 3 1.0.2b APK

The popular World War II first-person shooter game Brothers in Arms 3 for Android received an update this week in the Google Play Store with some improvements and minor bug fixes.

Published by Gameloft, Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War is an arcade game. The game set during World War II, and sees you jumping into the boots of Sergeant Wright, challenged with leading his band of brothers through the war around them. Now, the game is available on the iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

An excellent game, well balanced and totally addictive. You know like everyone says this is a knock off of frontline commando, but this is better than frontline commando. This game ended up being way better than expected. It has a lot of explosions and brothers to help you on the mission, and the have consumables rocket launcher and sniper. The fact that you can play offline as well is a plus. Yes, you can play this game with no connection required though having it fun also.

The latest version of Brothers in Arms 3 is live on the Google Play Store, so it's a good idea to have a look and see if yours is ready. And for those who can't get it on the Play Store, you can download Brothers in Arms 3 1.0.2b APK at the link below.

Have you just downloaded? What do you think of this newly released update? If you have a problem with this game you can contact the dev, they will get back to you and quick using their in-game support.

Requires Android: 4.0+
Download File: 34MB (Brothers in Arms 3 APK)

Crossy Road 1.0.0 APK

Crossy Road by Yodo1 Games has hit the Google Play store after being exclusively on the Amazon Appstore and iOS, offering an absolutely addictive one-touch action game.

You start the game off as a chicken, you have to get the chicken to cross the road so he can get to the other side. You're just jumping into the side of a truck, falling in the water, having a train run over you, or being eaten by another animal.

Crossy Road is basically a Frogger clone, an infinite version of the classic "Frogger" with added style. It's a perfect game to play in short bursts on a mobile device that you simply couldn't stop playing. It also offers incentives to continue playing by adding a variety of cutely designed characters. All the different characters have sound effects, and some change the layout of the game and they have such creative names and random comic sans phrases show up when you play as doge.

Here's a quick look at the features of the game:
- Cross roads, train tracks, and rivers – endlessly hop forever
- Collect over 50 retro-styled, pop art inspired characters with more added
- Simple, pure, innovative gameplay
- Dodge traffic in a candy wonderland with the Android Robot
- Free to play

While the game is free to play and does not force advertisements, but rather encourages it by offering in-game currency as a reward.

You can download Crossy Road for Android over at the Google Play store, but it’s also available today for iOS on AppStore. And for those who can't get it on the market you can download Crossy Road APK file at the link below. Play the games and let us know what you think about Crossy Road on Android.

Requires Android: 2.3+
Download File: 20MB (Crossy Road APK)