The most well-known manufacturers in the Android ecosystem stand out precisely for this reason, for making more than competent phones for all the ranges that dominate the market. However, many include solutions in the software devices: there are the famous customization layers to give a differential touch to Google’s operating system.
OnePlus is no exception, it has OxygenOS as its main system, but what you might not know is that They keep a series of the most useful applications. We show you what they are, what functions they have and what they are used for.
OnePlus has two repositories on the Play Store
If we access the Google Play Store, the official store of Android, and search for “OnePlus”, we will obtain a list of applications that the manufacturer has uploaded to the platform. Some of them remain exclusive for their own mobiles, as they are part of the OxygenOS ecosystem, but others are available for any phone.
On the one hand we have the editor labeled as “OnePlus Ltd.” where the manufacturer downloads its most classic applications: Health, clone phone, Community, and others that, as they say, are only for mobiles of the Chinese brand. However, they have an ace up their sleeve with the developer”OneLab by OnePlus“.
This “laboratory” is nothing more than a division of softwarea small development team more experimental apps. It is precisely this that brings us an application of the time that we liked, but let’s continue with the subject at hand.
Ignore those that we cannot install on Android phones from other manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Samsung or Google itself, we have a few left that we can enjoy. Among them he stands out clone phone (or “Clone phone” in Spanish), an interesting tool to transfer data from any mobile to a OnePlus.
At the same time, we find OnePlus Health, your own application to record all aspects related to our health. Of course we must have a portable from the company either a OnePlus Watch or OnePlus Band to get the most out of it. However, it helps us record our sports routes, using GPS.
The last app accessible to all is less relevant: we are talking about OnePlus Community. As its name suggests, it is a quick access to community forumsinteresting to follow the news and the latest updates if we are a fan of the brand, but it cannot offer us anything else.
The secret lab brings us the best discoveries
As we said in the previous section, OneLab He is responsible for the develop less common applications, and with that we don’t want to give it a negative tint, quite the contrary. For the moment, this developer has accumulated up to four different proposals, linked to slightly more specific or specialized functions.
We were talking this week about Weather Sense, still in development but with the promise of being a very aesthetic application. This shows us the Weather forecast with very stylish backgrounds, neat interface and nature sounds. This is one of the experiences that OneLab performs, but it is not the only one.
radically different is clipan application aimed at becoming a universal clipboard. We can link our Google Drive account to it to link the mobile to the computer. Then you just need to download the extension in your main browser to share all kinds of texts between mobile and PC.
You still have two solutions: GoodPaper It plants live wallpaper on our android desktop with small information. By touching the already set wallpaper, it will appear the time we spent using our favorite appsorganized by categories.
The apps of OneLab They are very careful aesthetically and try to break the mold with different proposals from what we already know.
Finally, we have Zoning, a kind of world clock with a worked design. Through it we can see the live weather in different places of the globe, with our location as the main one. Beyond knowing the time, this allows us to synchronize these times in different uses: if we are waiting for a presentation that takes place in China, we can check what time it would take place in London.
Thus, we end this pleasant walk through the the most diverse applications of the Chinese manufacturer OnePlus. It’s clear that the core developer is focused on the ecosystem itself, but OneLab is keeping some very salient secrets. In the future, we will see what kind of applications they can develop more, taking innovation by flag.
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