Essential Android Apps

Buddah · 9 Oct 2010 at 20:42

benjo said:
Does anyone know when Carhome will support the Desire?

It already does, as stated above I've been using it for about a week or so without a hitch.

benjo · 9 Oct 2010 at 20:47

Buddah said:
It already does, as stated above I've been using it for about a week or so without a hitch.

I can't get it to work. I've tried finding it on the market, and it says the requested item cannot be found.

I've also tried installing it through appbrain, it downloads to my phone but doesn't appear in my apps folder :/

ChroniC · 9 Oct 2010 at 23:12

Not sure if its been said in the last 10 pages, but adobe air is available on android, which is great as now there will be unlimited flash games.

Kreeeee · 9 Oct 2010 at 23:24

benjo said:
I can't get it to work. I've tried finding it on the market, and it says the requested item cannot be found.

I've also tried installing it through appbrain, it downloads to my phone but doesn't appear in my apps folder :/

Works fine for me.

Buddah · 9 Oct 2010 at 23:56

benjo said:
I can't get it to work. I've tried finding it on the market, and it says the requested item cannot be found.

I've also tried installing it through appbrain, it downloads to my phone but doesn't appear in my apps folder :/

Here's the correct files Here

Unzip and run both apk's from your sd card (can't remember which one first). If it doesn't work try uninstalling the old carhome first and rebooting. Works fine for me using this method.

muon · 9 Oct 2010 at 23:59

Already dozens of Adobe Air apps.

http://www.appbrain.com/apps/adobe-air

ChroniC · 10 Oct 2010 at 00:06

ghost101 said:
Already dozens of Adobe Air apps.

http://www.appbrain.com/apps/adobe-air

There all pretty rubbish atm, the only one i've bothered getting is meteor shower.

benjo · 10 Oct 2010 at 00:20

Buddah said:
Here's the correct files Here

Unzip and run both apk's from your sd card (can't remember which one first). If it doesn't work try uninstalling the old carhome first and rebooting. Works fine for me using this method.

Thanks, i'll give it a try.

edit: Worked fine, cheers

benjo · 10 Oct 2010 at 00:35

ChroniC said:
There all pretty rubbish atm, the only one i've bothered getting is meteor shower.

It's annoying that you can't move Air to sd. I seem to fill up the internal storage on my Desire pretty quickly :/ I don't really have that many apps either.

sarge78 · 10 Oct 2010 at 02:30

Nexus18 said:
Right been having a play with a lot of apps today

So trying to decide between skyfire and xscope, there's just something about skyfire which I really like, but I can't quite work out what it is yet lol

Although think I will be using xscope for now

Which browser do you think is better, skyfire or xscope?

xscope is blinding and easily the fastest (try the javascript benchies, it destroys everything else) If only text reflow and double tap was more natural, still the best though...

Skyfire is great too but like opera it's server based, not a huge fan of all these companies monitoring your web use.

MikeHunt79 · 10 Oct 2010 at 03:16

I'm tempted by that new San Francisco phone, but are there any music good creation apps for Android at all?

Right now I use Nanostudio on my iPod which is an amazing app, is there anything similar for Android?

Here's a video of Nanostudio so you can get an idea of what I'm after:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stcf_8H_qVM

Cheers.

Ratbag · 10 Oct 2010 at 08:59

sarge78 said:
xscope is blinding and easily the fastest (try the javascript benchies, it destroys everything else) If only text reflow and double tap was more natural, still the best though...

Skyfire is great too but like opera it's server based, not a huge fan of all these companies monitoring your web use.

With android being from google I've a feeling we're all being monitored anyway!

What does one more cyberstalker matter?

gam3r · 10 Oct 2010 at 11:55

what's the difference between flash and air?

Immsy · 10 Oct 2010 at 12:04

gam3r said:
what's the difference between flash and air?

Flash on android is the same as it would be on a browser on a computer. AIR goes much further allowing access to the phones features like camera, dialler file system etc.

_Jimlad_ · 10 Oct 2010 at 13:10

Immsy said:
Flash on android is the same as it would be on a browser on a computer. AIR goes much further allowing access to the phones features like camera, dialler file system etc.

i presume you need both then? by that i mean, you cant uninstall flash and just have flash air?

im running out of space on the desire, and might have to look at rooting or other long winded methods to free up space.

gam3r · 10 Oct 2010 at 13:20

does apps2sd only work on 2.1?

deadite66 · 10 Oct 2010 at 13:29

official apps2sd needs 2.2

benjo · 10 Oct 2010 at 13:58

Apparently 2.2 ships with Flash, so I've uninstalled the Flash that I installed, and I've kept Air

Immsy · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:04

_Jimlad_ said:
i presume you need both then? by that i mean, you cant uninstall flash and just have flash air?

im running out of space on the desire, and might have to look at rooting or other long winded methods to free up space.

You only need AIR if you want to run an app that has been designed using Adobe AIR. This will be a separate app and functions like other apps you would expect from the market. The normal flash player still runs within the browser so you still need that to run anything from the browser. So to sum up:

Using the browser only - Flash Needed
Running an App made using Adobe AIR - AIR needed also

Just to note, if you install an app that has been made using AIR and you dont have it installed you will get a prompt to install it and it takes you straight to the market to download it.

Shadowness · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:33

Guys, whats the best app for adding effects to photos AFTER theyre taken? Most ive seen do the effects when you're actually taking the photo. I've tried adobes app and thats pretty good, any others?