Dropbox for Android gets Material Design update

Finally, the Dropbox app on Android is starting to look and feel like an app for Google’s mobile operating system. The version 3.0 update of the app gets the full Material Design overhaul to make the interface look similar to how Android apps should look. It features the flat, slide-out menu for accessing your files, photos, favorites, and notifications. Your name and initials take up the top portion of this slide-out menu as well. You’ll notice that the interface also adds color to the status bar on some screens. There's also floating action bar that lets you either create a new folder or text file, upload files, add content from your computer, or take a photo. Rollout of the update should be coming to your device soon.

Source: PCWorld | Download: Google Play Store

Beltone releases HearPlus app for Apple Watch

Beltone will now have an easier, more discrete way to adjust the settings on their hearing aids. The company just updated its iOS HearPlus app to add Apple Watch support. You can adjust settings like programs, volume levels, and noise reduction right from the wearable. Beltone Legend users can adjust settings like background and wind noise as well as speech focus.

Source: Beltone | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Amazon plans to pay self-publishing writers per page read

Amazon is introducing a new payment method for self-publishing writers on Kindle’s Direct Publishing platform. The independent authors will be paid based on the number of pages read instead of the number of times the books have been borrowed. Amazon has a complex method to determine payment for the indie authors. The company has a fund they use that’s set every month. This new plan will give authors a share of that fund based on the pages read.

The Kindle Direct Publishing platform lets authors make key decisions about their books, including setting list prices, managing rights, and editing the book at any time.

Source: Reuters

Google releases 17 new Android Wear watch faces

Google’s adding more customizability to the Android Wear with another round of new watch faces from designers and popular brands. There are 17 new faces from the likes of Bang & Olufsen, Cynthia Rowley, Hello Kitty, Moomin, and Muji. If you aren’t too keen on them, according to Google, there are over 1,500 downloadable watch faces on the Play Store. You can check out the collection over here.

Source: Android Police