5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week – Android Apps Weekly

Welcome to the 492nd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week:

Google Play has officially relaxed its rules regarding NFT sales in apps and games. The new policy does have some rules that developers have to follow. For example, developers of NFT apps need to be even more transparent than typically required for an app developer. You can read more about it at the link.
Google TV got over 80,000 free movies and TV shows this week via The Roku Channel. It’s available to owners of Google TV and Android TV devices as of this writing. Installing The Roku Channel grants access to the aforementioned movies and TV shows along with Roku-exclusive content. This is a huge deal for folks who are running out of things to watch.
We did two APK teardowns this week. The first showed that Samsung may start using ChatGPT in its own in-house browser. It could be part of the Labs part of the settings. That means it would be an experimental feature. Additionally, a Reddit APK teardown showed that Reddit may be up for giving folks real money for their accumulated Reddit gold and karma. This is probably not the best news after all of the controversy so far this summer, but we’ll see how it plays out.
Threads by Instagram took off like a lightning rod since its initial release. We covered it when it passed 30 million subscribers, but that number has ballooned to 100 million in one week. It was such a big deal that Twitter threatened legal action. This is the beginning to a much longer story, but for now, it’s pretty simple stuff. Threads is blowing up and Twitter is angry about it.
The US approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard this week. It seemed that was all that was needed to get the deal done. However, the FTC has halted the deal with an appeal. The appeal was filed on July 12th, so we’ll learn more about it as it happens. However, the court has already ruled against the FTC, so it’s fairly likely that it’ll do so again. That said, anything can happen, so we’ll keep you up to date.