Czech Republic-based Madfinger Games just released a huge update for Dead Trigger 2 on the iTunes App Store and Google Play, just two months after its initial release.

The first person zombie shooter already has over 10 million downloads, and this massive Christmas update, with its new additions and added zombie-killing gadgets, will nearly double the game content for all.

In addition, the Madfinger team has updated the original Dead Trigger with support for new devices so even more folks can join in on the fun.

This post was written by Andras Kindler (@andraskindler).

Recently an interesting blog post started to circle around the internet titled Why Android First is a Myth. The article points out that developing Android apps is expensive and time-consuming, so startups tend to choose iOS as their first platform. Some reports have also argued that you can’t make money on Google Play.

While some of this is true, Android is a platform full of opportunity: with global market share exceeding 80%, the constant evolution of Google’s design guidelines and fragmentation issues starting to fade away, things are looking pretty good. Not to mention Android’s APIs let developers do much more than on other platforms, making possible to create truly integrated services.

So we compiled a list of awesome of applications and services that are killing it as Android exclusives.

UPDATE: Facebook has now confirmed auto-playing ads will rollout this week. See the update at the bottom of this post.

Facebook’s auto-playing video ads, which first appeared on iOS last week, will be seen by all users on all platforms later this week, The Wall Street Journal reports. You’ll see them on your desktop as well as your mobile devices, and they will play automatically as you scroll through your timeline.

When Google started rolling out Android 4.3 Jelly Bean to the Nexus 4 back in July, some users stumbled upon a very handy privacy feature, called “App Ops”, hidden in the Developer’s section of the built-in settings application, which enabled them to “install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book” — which I am pretty sure we can all agree is a rather useful security function to have on our devices.

While the Google Chrome web browser is arguably the best there is on Android, you’ve probably noticed that it isn’t always the fastest in certain areas. When you tap a link, for example, there’s a delay of around 300ms before Chrome recognizes that tap.

That doesn’t sound like much, but when you take it away, Chrome becomes noticeably snappier. Fortunately, that’s exactly what Google has done with its latest beta release.