Android :: Recommended Good Applications For Phone?
Jul 8, 2010
So, after three long years with my Samsung Alias, which I bought before it was popular enough to get the fancy Alias brand name, I am upgrading to the Droid X. This is my first Android phone and so I am wondering about what the "essential" Android apps are. What finally sold me on switching to Android was the Endomondo sports tracking app. I was contemplating getting a smartphone and a Garmin Edge bike computer, but when I saw a post about Endomondo, I axed the plans on the Garmin and decided to pull the trigger on the DX. In case this helps people in their advice-giving, I am a cyclist racing in college right now, I have an almost unhealthy interest in everything gadgets/computers/video games (and I suspect I'm not the only forum member like this ), I love sports (hockey, lacrosse, football, basketball, baseball, cycling, wakeboarding, skiing, surfing, etc.), and I love movies and TV (especially Entourage and Californication). So, with all of that in mind, who's got some good apps that I simply must have once I get my shiny new piece of hardware?
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Jun 8, 2010
Been looking on and off for weeks and can not find a good a good app for either.I have been using the "People" shortcut and that is not bad just looking for somethign with a cleaner interface if possible.And since trying out LauncherPro I don't have use to the HTC bookmark widget but can't find anything to replace it with.
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Sep 25, 2010
I am looking at which HTC phone to buy. I need WiFi to connect to the Internet at home. I also want PUSH email, my understand of PUSH email is that every half n hour or something I can get the software to go out and search for new emails whilst not having to go into the app and click refresh to see new emails, something which I have to do on my N95. I also need a decent SatNAV, now I know that google navigation is out. I don't know how good it is due to the lack of information out on the Internet. Do all HTC phones drain the battery with GPS? Okay so I need SatNAV, then I also need a phone with decent car cradles, I need something that enables me to rotation it portrait and landscape easily.
Do HTC phones come with a car charger in the box? I also use Gmail a lot, now is there any advantages that I will get from getting a HTC phone and utilizing my Gmail account, as well as calendar. Is there a simple way of getting the phone to sync with outlook such as the tasks and notes you make? Are most applications on Android free? Do the phones last a long time? I like the idea of the kickstand in the Droid incredible I think, that phone is very appealing for me. I am just thinking of getting the phone not for phone and text use but for just Internet and applications.
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Aug 18, 2010
I have a major issue that my first android phone (Samsung Galaxy S). It does not support auto synching of Exchange email sub folders. This is a show stopper for me (see earlier posting):
http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/77734-outlook-subfolder-alerting-when-exchange-syncd.html
There has to be other apps that work well wih this and will not degrate my overall android experiance.
I looked at Dataviz Roadsynch - however latest release slated in market place. I've heard about touchdown but hoping for more feedback. What other options do I have?
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Aug 4, 2010
I've Factory re-set after 2.2 OTA and all seems fine now...Just want a couple good apps, 1st for downloading music, and 2nd for downloading YouTube Videos.
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Nov 12, 2010
My intention is to create a spam-free thread containing all sort of applications that are useful (or not ) for our lovely phone , I'll try to organize this head post to contain all the apps you post here, So, you should post this 4 topics: Name: <name of the application>Category: <game, util, etc...>Location: (optional) <URl for example, or the QR Code>Brief Description. And I'll say it again, please, no answers like "no application to make coffee?" or "I can't find it? I even looked under my bed!"
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Aug 20, 2010
I haven't seen a post on this in a while. Does anyone have a list of recommended or not recommended browsers? Maybe some pros and cons of each.
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Nov 17, 2010
I'm looking for good free Android Applications. does anyone know of any good free Android Applications?
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Sep 23, 2010
I'm really surprised and disappointed by the lack of podcast apps out there, especially for videos. I don't want to pay for Doggcatcher, but all the free ones are very poor apparently and don't do a good job. I use Google Listen for my audio podcasts, and even tho it isn't great it is does the business. However I can't view any video podcasts with ease or without having to download them first. Does anyone know of any at all? or of any that are in development?
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Jul 29, 2010
Anyone know of any good apps that create a 3D photo gallery similar to that of the nexus one?
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Jun 8, 2010
My phone is set to arrive tomorrow, and all I want to know are two things:
1. Did you charge the phone for the 8 hours (or until full) before you used it, or did you get to playing with it right away?
2. What were your results, in terms of battery life? It seems like every phone manufacturer says to do this, but I'm wondering how much of a difference it actually makes.
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Dec 1, 2010
Anyone know any good apps from Market that are good for basic music editing and play functions for X10? I already use spotify for playlists but would like to do a few other things that are not built in.
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Oct 6, 2010
anyone can recommend any free + good cache cleaner for unroot phone? i cant find any on market.also, currently im using advance task killer free.somehow i dun like the interface. any better interface or app for free task killer?
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Oct 15, 2010
There is any decent app useful to see the photos stored in my Desire? I have a lot of photos stored in the SD card and the stock one is slow, and hangs up quite often.
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Nov 14, 2009
I want to download a WiFi Toggle On/Off App on my Sprint HTC Hero. I assume this will save battery power. Correct? This will save battery power because when it's toggled off, it won't waste power searching for available WiFi networks when I don't need to be looking for them. Correct? I can go into Menu, Settings (so many steps) to change my settings to turn this on and off. So, there's Apps on the Android Market that can be downloaded to have a WiFi - On and Off - toggle switch. I went to the Android Market and there were so many!
Question:
What is the most recommended - simple - practical - no bells and whistles - most reliable - absolutely best that nobody beats it - WiFi - On and Off - Toggle switch? I see this one from Curvefish is quite popular: WiFi OnOff v1.2.1 Application for Android | Tools
Is this one the most recommended?
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Oct 6, 2010
Some of my app's preferences could use some more explanation than the scarce space available for the summary. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be support from the system, like an optional help button that shows a longer text. How do you solve this problem? The first thing that comes to mind is an additional custom "preference" like "more information to above entry" that opens an AlertDialog with the help text, but that's not really nice for both user (two entries for the same preference) and the developer (manual work to do in Preference Activity). A bit nicer for the user, but way more work for the developer would be custom dialogs for each preference with more text and/or a help button. Is there a better solution or even an officially recommended best practice?
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Dec 17, 2009
Anyone know of a really good phone book type app for the Hero? I hate the organization of the Hero's contacts, etc. The moment for peats sake has at least the tabular tabs at the top for organization. I like that.. I saw Phonebook in the market, but the reviews dont speak volumes.
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Mar 6, 2010
I have wanted a smart phone for a while now. I originally leaned towards an iPhone, but I don't like the fact that you have to have a Mac to develop for it. This lead me to download the Android SDK and begin messing around.
I do want to get an Android phone soon, so I can really test my code on the actual device (and just to have a smart phone =P).
I'm looking for a balance between value and power/functionality/features. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. What are your experiences? What do you use? Would you suggest what you use? If not, what would you suggest?
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Jun 12, 2010
I'm currently using launcher dock and am wondering if theres anything like it but better?
Launcher Dock | AndroidApplications.com
read the review to see what i mean in terms of what it does
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Jul 20, 2010
Is there a good hockey application for Android? I know there are a few all-sports apps but I wondered if some of you hockey fans could chime in on your favorites.
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Sep 16, 2010
I just bought a new Epic 4G and I can't stand the phone app that came with the phone. I tried installing phone dialer and while a little better it still not that great. I had an Evo before and I actually liked that phone app as well as sense all together but I won't go there.
So any recomendations for a better phone application? I'm willing to pay.
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Jul 3, 2010
I have finally - after days and days of agony - figured out that I need two forms of encryption for my Digital Signatures Project. The first will will be symmetric (AES) and will encrypt the license data and the second will be a asymmetric (RSA) an will encrypt the symmetric key. Can someone give me pointers on the best methods to use for Android.
For the public/private keys I am using: "RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding"(I head ECB is bad so what should I use?, what about the PKCS1Padding - shoudl I be using PKCS5Padding?)
For the symetric keys I will probably use: "AES/?/?" (What mode and padding should I use?)
The provider: "BC"
RSA Keysize: 1024 (I tried 2048 but it didn't work for some reason)
AES Keysize: ?
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Apr 23, 2010
What is the recommended way of creating a demo version for an application. Basically, the demo version will be fully functional, but will be limited to running it 25 times. My worry is that if the user uninstalls and reinstalls, the count will be reset. I thought about writing a data file to the SD Card with the count of executions (hoping that would persist after uninstall), but I do not want to add that permission if I can avoid it. Any suggestions on how to have some type of demo flag persist after an uninstall?
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Oct 22, 2010
My girlfriend is looking for a new phone - and she likes the android platform (I have a Nexus One).
However, she is not impressed with the sound quality (both in terms of what you hear and what the other person can hear). Plus, the speaker phone on the Nexus One is nigh on useless.
I don't have any experience of the Desire HD, or others - can anyone recommend any that they know has good sound?
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Sep 11, 2010
I have been looking for a good gmail widget.
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Sep 25, 2010
I'm looking for a good Android phone (other than the Samsung Galaxy S) that is good on the music front. I'm looking for something that has the following features:
1. the ability to edit/make a playlist on-the-fly (without the use of a software)
2. have the ability to add songs to the playlist on-the-fly
4. the ability to customise the EQ settings on ALL or a particular song to my liking.
5. some form of surround/3D/propreitory sound enhancing feature
6. one that supports most audio formats (like WMA, MP3 and Flac)
my budget is between �150 to �250 region.
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Oct 12, 2010
How should i use Set CPU i am pretty confused with using it and right now its not saving me any battery life what should i do so.
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Nov 8, 2010
I am running into a peculiar issue with an app which has multiple Activities.I have a screen manager class that is bound to a service.The service polls a server for data.The screen manager starts Activity A, B, or C, based on the data.It will also allow the user to select to display the other Activities or it may swap out an Activity automatically based on new data from the service.Currently all the navigation works great and if the user presses Home, the applicable Activity comes back to the foreground when the user presses the apps icon from the Android home screen or the recently run apps list.I then had to implement a new feature to display an icon and notification.I first implemented this by only displaying the notification when the Activities were no longer visible by setting it in each Activities on Pause.Worked like a charm and gave the user a third option to redisplay the app after Home button press.However if the data from the server (when the app is not displayed) causes the screen manager to update the Activity to be displayed I have issues. I think my Activity stack is getting screwed up.I have since tried a little different model where the screen Manager handles the notifications and always displays the notification, updating it with a new Intent whenever an Activity is updated, but its still not cutting it.
When the app is minimized and the data changes I can see the screen manager call the startActivityForResult on the new Activity and it seems like Android knows we are minimized and does not display the Activity. I can then also the screen Manager call to finish on the old top Activity.Each Activity currently has the flag set to singleTop in the manifest and FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP in the code. When the data hasn't changed on the server, I pull the app back up using any of the above I get what I expect and the Activity's onNewIntent is called. However when the data has changed and the user calls up the app via the notification it calls the Activities onCreate. The Activity does come up and runs, but then pressing back takes me to what seems like another instance of the same Activity instead of exiting. I just took a closer look at my logcat and I see 2 calls to the Activity's onResume, but then no doubles after that.
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Mar 26, 2010
I'm generating about 6 wav audio files at runtime. I want to store them in internal memory. Is a blob to sqlite the right/recommended way?
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Jun 2, 2010
I recently ordered a Droid Incredible and starting looking through the Google documentation for the Android, but I learn better by reading a book. So I need some programming book recommendations for Androids.
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