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Animal Crossing Pocket Camp v2.0.0 Is Live; Adds Cabin, Updated Friends List, More
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has received its biggest update yet, with the game being brought up to version 2.0.0. and receiving a host of new features. These include the likes of a brand new area on the map called the cabin, as well as big changes to the friends list that makes life a lot easier.
New Area – The Cabin
First up we have the cabin, which is a medium-sized room that players can customize just like they can with their campsite or camper. They’ll even be able to invite animals to the cabin, allowing them to liven the place up a bit. You will need to be at level 15 or higher to have access to the cabin, though if you’ve been playing the game since the beginning then you should be well over that threshold.
Updated Friends List
Next up we have the updated friends list, which has several new tweaks and improvements to talk about. One of the biggest is the new “Fave Photo” feature, which allows players to snap a pic and then feature it on their friends list page. This will allow other players to check out your pics, and may just cause them to give you kudos.
Speaking of kudos, players can now give kudos to other players directly from the menu. This is accompanied by now being able to lend a hand at Shovelstrike Quarry and purchase items from other players’ market boxes from the menu. The total amount of kudos that a player has received is now displayed on Player Information pages, though only kudos that were given after November 27th at 10 PM PST.
Inventory Increase
A couple of inventory increases also took place, with the maximum capacity for furniture and clothing increasing from 2,000 to 3,000. Also, the maximum capacity for collected items has been increased by 50, which should come as a sigh of relief for players finding themselves having to regularly sell items. Players may also use Leaf Tickets to increase their collected items inventory space by a maximum of 200 slots, which gives notably more breathing room.
Special NPC Furniture Change
The NPC furniture items also got a welcomed tweak, allowing players to be able to display up to four of these items and have the accompanying four animals all show up at the same time. This was previously capped at just one animal at a time, so this is a great improvement. One caveat is that two of the same animal cannot be there at once, so displaying the K.K. Slider chair and the K.K. Slider prize guitar will not result in two K.K.’s appearing.
Miscellaneous tweaks and improvements
We’re now moving on to some miscellaneous changes, which have a couple of nice quality of life improvements. Various animal animations can now be skipped by using the new “skip” check box displayed on animal conversation windows. Players can also level up amenities from the Craft menu without having to actually display the amenity at their campsite. All lamp-type furniture will now also turn on at the same time, saving you the trouble of having to turn them all on manually. A number of other smaller tweaks were made to animal dialogue and goals.
Bugs
Finally, we have arrived at the bugs section. This section confirms that the company is aware of a new bug related to the cabin, which has to due with players being unable to change the wallpaper, flooring or rug if they’ve placed the maximum amount of furniture or clothing in it. Putting away one piece of clothing or furniture should fix the issue for the time being. An ongoing issue with the on-screen display was also fixed.
That wraps up everything that is included in the massive new 2.0.0 update for the game, which should be enough to keep players busy for a little while. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is available now on iOS and Android devices.
Google has recently used CES as a platform to present its philosophy of “Better Together,” the notion that all devices should get along with one another. Typically, this entails making announcements regarding new Cast compatibility and features like Fast Pair. The business revealed that it is collaborating with Spotify to incorporate the Connect streaming capability into the Android UI at CES 2023. Additionally, it showed a sneak peek at an audio handoff tool that would recommend various devices to shift your music to based on your preferences and location.
However, CES is a significant vehicle event, and Google also sells items for cars. Additionally, it said today that the Polestar 3 would receive its higher-resolution maps, and it debuted the most recent Android Auto user interface for the first time since it was revealed at I/O 2022.
Two vehicles, a Volvo EX90 with Google preinstalled and a BMW i7 with the new Android Auto experience, were at the Google stand in the trailer lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. We had never seen the Volvo before, and we’ll be posting a separate hands-on on that experience shortly. The new Android Auto is the main topic of this article and video.
The redesigned interface will support larger screen sizes and have a split screen layout, as we discovered at I/O. Google has eliminated the status bar and inserted a row of shortcut keys below it, along with some indication icons in a small area to the top left. When we were in the car, the Spotify app was located on the left panel, and we could access a list of suggested playlists by swiping in from the right side.
Alerts that you won’t have time to respond to while driving are likewise stored in this left pane. For instance, you can swipe right on a notification to move it to the dock, where it will wait until you’re ready to deal with it.
Check out the video up top for more of our experience with the updated Android Auto in the BMW i7! And be sure to pay attention this week as there will be a ton of news at CES 2023.
Additionally, stand-alone groups will now have access to 32-person video chats.
One of the new features that WhatsApp is introducing is one that aims to group together related group chats. The Communities feature, which was introduced earlier this year by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, aims to let users consolidate group chats “under one umbrella with a structure that works for them.” For Facebook and Instagram, comparable technologies are under development.
In the upcoming months, communities will be accessible to all WhatsApp users. To discuss topics that are important to you, you can create smaller group chats inside a community and easily switch between them. WhatsApp will provide administrators with “strong new capabilities” to govern communities, including the capacity to select which groups to include and the option to broadcast announcements to all users.
WhatsApp suggests that communities may be created through local areas, workplaces, and parents with children attending the same school. To begin, select the Communities tab from the menu at the top of the Android app or the bottom of the iOS screen. You will have the option of building a community from scratch or expanding an existing one.
The Communities feature has some similarities to Facebook Groups (as well as Nextdoor and Discord), but it is protected by end-to-end encryption. Making group chats more like Facebook Groups, where false information has thrived in recent years, may have some drawbacks, even though Zuckerberg has been eying a community-driven model to lessen the reliance on feeds across Meta’s applications. Due to the platform’s focus on encryption, WhatsApp generally has fewer moderation capabilities, which may make it harder to keep a lid on fabrications.
In other places, WhatsApp is giving groups—including those that aren’t connected to a community—new functionality. Group polls are also being added, along with support for the 32-person encrypted video conversations that Meta has been beta-testing over the past few weeks. Furthermore, groups now support a maximum of 1,024 people.
Numerous apps are available for music, which has the power to uplift individuals. The top Android music player apps are listed here!
Nowadays, private music collections are uncommon due to music streaming. A personal music collection is still beneficial to many people, though. Higher-quality music is available; it is offline-compatible and doesn’t require a subscription. Thankfully, there are several options available for grooving out to your favorite music. Here are our top choices for Android music player apps.
The best music player apps for Android
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