WhatsApp is an essential part of our lives, from sending exam notes to sharing your memories on WhatsApp story, WhatsApp is the most important part of our social media. But in recent years, WhatsApp launched their developer program wherein anyone could become their BETA tester and could test the App’s upcoming features before the masses.
Android mobile operating system though being one of the most powerful os for mobile devices has a lot of functionality. In case you don’t know Android is open sourced that it’s source code is available for public release and developers can use this code to customize the operating the way they want. Engineers at Google are also constantly working to improve the user experience and make it’s performance even better. With every new release Android is improving and the user complaint for fragmentation of the operating system is now slowly eliminating.
Facebook is definitely the winner when it comes to social network and is one of the most popular websites people visit. Earlier when people used to ping Google to check whether their internet connection is working or not, now the first thing they type is Facebook.com.
Google Play Store which was renamed two years ago from Android Market is the largest repository of applications for any smartphone operating system. There is always a fight between the Android app database and iOS app database which keeps on turning as the number increases or decreases.
Google Hangouts the new instant messaging service introduced by Google this I/O is the new communication medium for Google users. Hangouts has replaced Google Talk one of the most popular instant messaging service expanding it limits to reach new heights but some of the users are not able to head that way.
Samsung’s TouchWiz is a custom UI layering on the Android mobile operating system. The latest 4.2.2 update on some of the Galaxy devices have been started rolling out and some of the devices ship with 4.2.2 installed. Touchwiz no wonder is just a layering on Android but it still changes a lot of things which make it different from the vanilla rom which is released by Google.
Android 4.2.2 has a prominent feature of lock screen widgets which seem to be very useful for some users. TouchWiz does not enables this by default but instead we have to change it in the settings in order to activate lock screen widgets. Below are the steps to be followed to enable the lock screen widgets on Samsung TouchWiz.
Now your lock screen widgets are activated and you can now swipe on the lock screen to change lock screen widgets. To add lock screen widgets swipe left on the lock screen and select more by tapping on the ‘+’ icon.
If you all remember Facebook had launched Facebook Home for Android and HTC First the Facebook dedicated phone which though resulted in a complete failure. The basic idea behind all this was to take Facebook experience to a new level with Cover Feed and Chat heads. Chat heads came to Facebook Messenger with the update to every Android device but Facebook Home which was the Facebook dedicated launcher which has Cover Feed was limited to some devices only.
Chat heads are the floating popup bubbles which has the contact’s display picture as the icon image and expands to full messenger on tapping. This looks very cool on the device giving a different experience to coversations. We think this really counts in innovation unleashing the power of Android and replacing notifications for Facebook Messages with chatheads. Facebook Messenger also overrides the default messaging app and can be used replacing it which adds on to its use case.
These popups can be irritating for some in the case when they receive so many notifications. Facebook does not force you to use this feature instead if you are not comfortable you always have the option to revert back to the original notifications. To get back the original notifications follow our guide below
