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5 best Pokemon apps (not games) for Android

Pokemon is a series of video games, which has attracted the attention of the kids. It has apparently gained a lot of popularity. Pokemon video games are known to all, but what about the Pokemon apps? They are rare in the minds of the audience. In this article, you will get the rare knowledge of the Pokemon apps and all about them.

List of pokemon apps

Bulbapedia

This is the only official Pokemon encyclopedia. It shows you all the facts, every guide, and all the articles, imparting useful knowledge about Pokemon. It’s great to get all this in an easily accessible application, called Bulbapedia. It contains 31,000+ articles about everything you can think of about Pokemon, including Pokemon Go.

If you have some issues with your data and Wifi, you don’t need to worry about that. Bulbapedia has got a remarkable feature for its users. You can save the selected articles for viewing them later offline in the ‘Reading list’.

You can randomly discover new articles, which might be created by some yet another fan of Pokemon. This app gives you a feature to open multiple tabs at a time and read the selected articles. This application will automatically save the view history for you.

DataDex

It is an unofficial app, in comparison to Bulbapedia, which is official. The app provides you with detailed data about every single Pokemon game, ever released. It provides support in multiple languages like English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Hebrew. But the data is available in only Japanese and Chinese languages.

You can search, filter and sort the Pokemon, item or ability by the use of Pokemon multi-button. There is no need for an internet connection as this app can work offline.

Pokemon HOME

This is a cloud-based application, in which you can bring any Pokemon from the Pokemon series to appear at Home. Then you will be able to trade Pokemons with players all over the world, anytime and anywhere. There can be various ways of trading like the Wonder Box and GTS.

To compete with your national Pokedex, bring a lot of Pokemon to the Home. You can also receive mystery gifts. Using this app, you can easily get to know all the abilities and moves that your Pokemon have. This application can be used in devices using Android 6 and above. On other devices, take care that the Home may not work as expected.

TCG Hub

If you need some help to sort your Pikachus, this is the right application for you. You can scan your cards with the camera and add these to your collection. This unofficial app is basically the record of your collection of cards. You can do a lot with it. You can sync your progress through a simple sign-in step. One can use the backup feature. You can add cards to the wishlist and can buy them later.

1000+ Poke Wallpapers

These are HD Pokemon wallpapers for mobile and tablet backgrounds. You can search and save your favorite wallpapers and can apply them anytime.

So, above were the few of many Pokemon apps for you. Try them and have fun.

March 19, 2020
Pokémon Go’s New Buddy Adventure Feature Rolled Out: All You Need to Know

Most of us grew up watching a lot of Pokémon cartoons and they shaped up a better part of our childhood. Back then if anyone would’ve told me that someday this simple cartoon would become the physically interactive game that it has today, I wouldn’t have believed it (well let’s be honest I was a kid I would’ve believed it of course).

But the amount of progress that the franchise has put into its legacy is undoubtedly admirable and there is just so much that has been introduced off of the original cartoons. From games to even a standalone movie, the Pokémon franchise has done a good job of standing on its own.

A number of players were excited over the Pokémon Go game back when it made its great debut in early July 2016. A lot of fans were clouding online app stores to grab hold of the game and have their own personalized copies. But their excitement couldn’t be matched to how they were when the new buddy adventure feature rolled out late last year.

The Levels Of New Buddy Adventure

Niantic announced that the rollout would be available for trainers above level 2. The new feature lets the player experience their Pokémon characters in a more life-like manner.

In short words, this mode allows the player’s character to be his/her virtual Artificial Intelligence-based buddy. The character can walk around and explore the map, express feelings and be more interactive.

Each Pokémon character has its own unique way of expressing itself that players are bound to find entertaining to learn. Players will be able to level up by earning affection from their character which is denoted by hearts.

The Pokémon Go app went out of its way to make sure that all of its users are given a more personalized experience. This app is just a good show of how well AI can be used to blend with the physical environment.

It takes a lot of guts above fear to take something that has been such an old franchise and merge it with modern technology to bring something new off of an old concept such as the Pokémon franchise.

The developers have not been sloppy and are obviously well aware of what the franchise means to the public hence their frequent and even their most recent update.

Wrapping Up

Though this is just a game, there is so much more. This program helps establish and a direct bridge between the artificial world of technology and the physical world. With such technology being out there, there is no telling if what is to be expected of the near future.

All we can say that the future of Artificial Intelligence has never been more descriptive and definite as it is now. Hence, we hopefully wish to see a future generation that doesn’t depend so much on video calls but rather virtual representations of callers and a more personalized form of communication.

January 24, 2020
Pokemon Sword And Shield

In the first week of its release, Pokemon Sword and Shield sold over six million copies to become the fastest-selling Switch game ever. The Pokemon Company announced this via a tweet, which also states that the 6 million figure included both physical as well as digital sales.

The record was previously held by Super Smash Bros., which was also released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch in 2018.

Super Smash Bros. recorded a first-week sales figure of five million copies worldwide.

While Pokémon Sword and Shield now holds the record and is also the best-selling Nintendo Switch game, Pokemon Sun and Moon remains the fastest-selling game in the Pokemon franchise.

Sun and Moon sold a little over 7.2 million copies in the first week of its release alone. Also, the game has sold over 16 million copies in total.

The Controversy Behind Pokémon Sword and Shield

The Pokemon Company announced that Pokemon Sword and Shield wouldn’t consist of a National Pokedex, cutting players off from the rich heritage of Pokemon they have collected from previous games.

The Pokedex, short for Pokémon Index, is a catalog of every Pokemon in the game. As players progress through the game and encounter and catch Pokemon, the Pokedex in the game records the details of the Pokemon.

When the player has caught every Pokemon in the game, the player has ‘completed’ their Pokedex.

Every Pokemon game has a limited set of Pokemon that appear in the game. The games use the concept of ‘generations’ and ‘regions.’ The only way to play with a Pokemon of a previous generation or from another region is by transferring it from another Pokemon game over the internet.

A catalog that has a record of every Pokemon that was ever available to be caught across games is called the ‘National Pokedex.’

Players pride themselves in having completed the National Pokedex and enjoy playing with Pokemon that they’ve caught in other games of the franchise.

“Gotta catch ‘em all.”

Pokemon Sword and Shield, and presumably every other game in the franchise from this point forward, will limit players to playing with Pokemon included in the game only. No more National Pokedex, or the ability to transfer Pokemon across games.

This move surprised fans and sparked widespread controversy, which led them to question the Pokemon Company’s plan going forward.

There are already over 800 species of Pokemon, excluding the ones in Sword and Shield.

The producer of the game, Junichi Masuda, stated the growing number of Pokemon species as a reason for the removal of the National Pokedex.

In the same interview, Masuda also addressed fans’ concerns over the quality of animation of the Pokemon featured in the game.

Masuda also states that he and his team have not decided whether the game will incorporate more Pokemon post-launch.

The move has left Pokemon fans with a bad taste in their mouths.

In spite of the controversy over the National Pokedex, Sword and Shield surprised critics with record-breaking sales figures.

Will the franchise stay true to its fans? Only time will tell.

December 23, 2019