Android Apps I Use (Nov 2010) - Main Ones
Okay will try and be quick. Here’s the main ones. I suppose my Must Have list. These tend to be on the front page of my phone or on a screen either side of it:
App Brain. No brainer more like. Excellent way of managing apps from the phone or the web site. Yes the 2 can be kept in synch and hence gets a big tick from me. Plus has search and Top Apps listed in various categories and time frames. And it’s free.
Gmail for email
Android Agenda Widget for calendar summary on front home screen. Uses Google’s automatic Birthday calendar too. Nice. Another screen has Jorte icon for the full Google calendar view etc.
NewsRob for RSS news headlines and summaries. Synchs to Google Reader. Images turned off to save time and bandwidth
SwiftKey Keyboard. Paid for this and am very happy with it. Excellent predictive words – in context – not just text/next-letter.
iSyncr for PC. After trying a few other ones, finally bought this one. Synchs your nominated iTunes playlists from the PC to the Android phone. It is mainly a Windows App (.exe file) that runs directly from the SD Card; actually from the drive you mount the SD Card as inside Windows.
Zimly. My main music player. Can add playlists on the phone’
Dolphin HD Browser. Fast web browsing
Handcent SMS. Fast, flexible SMS client
InstaFetch Instapaper client.
ColorNote Ideal for local (non-synched) notes. Like: Car parked in yellow J21 (true)
Got To Do For not just to do list items but a bit of an info database as per here (replace iPhone with Android etc). It too synchs with Toodledo
BeyondPod. Podcast manager and player.
Other keys ones:
ToMarket Lite : shopping lists, sorted by aisle to make shopping quicker
Dropbox: as they say it ‘is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online”. Runs on my main PC, laptop and Android phone.
ES File Explorer : local and LAN (Wifi) access to your files. Copy, delete etc
WiFi Manager
Titanium Backup (phone is rooted). Paid for this to enable batching up of operations. Much easier than one-by-one.
Train Trapper: Melbourne train timetables, location aware.
That’s it for now. App Brain tells me I have 81 apps installed, some are services and extras so I don’t actually ‘see’ them. With Android 2.2 – aka Froyo – I have a number that have installed themselves to the SD Card, which increases the total number that can be installed compared to 2.1 (which only used the limited ‘internal’ memory for apps).
