App updates this week: Gmail, Google+, Secret and more!

If you are an app happy person, then there’s lot of exciting news for you. This week Facebook introduced a new feature for music and TV fiends, while the Secret anonymous sharing app is finally available for Android users. Here’s a quick recap of what happened in the app arena throughout the week.   Facebook Facebook adds new technology to its mobile apps that **recognises the music, movies or television** shows its users are enjoying, in the company’s latest move to give prominence to media and entertainment on its social network. The new feature, which must be activated by the user and is off by default, would create a status update on Facebook that identifies the song a user is listening to and provide a 30-second preview of it that’s available to the user’s friends. Download the Facebook app for Android and iOS users from the Google Play store and Apple App store, respectively.     Gmail for Android Within a week of  **announcing**  Gmail as the first Android app to cross 1 billion downloads on  Play store, Google has bumped up the app to version 4.8. The new Gmail update brings a slew of new features including saving attachments to Drive, spam explanations, improved side navigation menu, and support for those users, who read languages from right to left like Arabic or Persian. [caption id=“attachment_224025” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”]  Save to Drive[/caption]   Google+ for Android Google has just rolled out a massive update for Google+ on Android which removes a lot of apparently extraneous elements, while bringing a new design language. Google+ app now features a prominent red action bar on top for access to Google+ notifications, the settings menu and account picker. The biggest change in terms of features is the Auto Awesome Stories mode. Google will now combine your photos, videos and the places you visit into beautiful side-scrolling travelogues. Then there’s Auto Awesome Movies, improved Google+ stories, support for really big photo libraries and more. Download Google+ for Android from the Google Play store.   Any.do for web Any.do – the popular to-do lists mobile app - now comes to the web. It  allows users to sync the task from the smartphones and PCs. In addition, Chrome users can access a quick shortcut, allowing users to manage tasks from the browser directly.  Users can access Any.do on web by  signing in with Facebook, Google+ or email. [caption id=“attachment_224336” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”]  Now comes to the web[/caption]   Secret for Android Secret, the anonymous sharing app, has **finally arrived on Android** after winning hordes of fans and users on iOS.  Secret lets you post messages on a global forum anonymously for anyone in the world to see, but it won’t reveal your identity no matter what. You see on Android, the exclusive launch feature means your feed will be split into Friends and Explore. The former shows you only the messages posted by someone in your contact list, without displaying their name.   Download the Secret app from the Google Play store.   Google Chrome The latest release of Chrome now allows users to search by voice. One has to simply open a new tab or visit Google.com, click on the mic icon,  and say “Ok Google”.