Essential Android Apps

Participant · 15 Feb 2011 at 18:26

Wildfire's a good one, enjoy.

Loving Dolphin Mini, the latest update allows new tabs to default to an overview view, meaning that pages 'wrap' correctly and are visible without having to double tap or pinch.

Xinn · 15 Feb 2011 at 18:55

Just seen this suave little app on Android Police. Looks great for making any kind of clock widget you could want.

roboffer · 15 Feb 2011 at 18:56

Scam said:
Uh oh. Never played WWF but the ability to play my inferior iphone friends is pretty tempting! Is it better than Wordfeud?

Wordfeud will be available on the iPhone soon. I've paid for it, so I'm sticking with it.

PiKe · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:02

roboffer said:
Wordfeud will be available on the iPhone soon. I've paid for it, so I'm sticking with it.

That's good news.

roboffer · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:12

PiKe said:
That's good news.

http://wordfeud.com/blog/2011/02/09/wordfeud-for-ios-sneak-peek/

Mansize_tissue · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:35

Memphis said:
Thanks for that .

I'm also hoping to find a file manager that will allow me to access the shares on my Windows PC and copy files via WiFi to the tablet. Any ideas on the best app for that?

ES File Explorer will tick your boxes.

Scam · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:42

Can anyone point me in the direction of a free national rail app? Something along the lines of the official app/ Rail Planner, but free! I pay enough for the shoddy service every month so refuse on principle to hand over any more money

Are there any decent ones out there?

SiD the Turtle · 15 Feb 2011 at 21:21

The only free ones I used to use were killed or stopped being developed. I bought Rail Planner Live and it's pretty good FWIW.

Scam · 15 Feb 2011 at 23:04

roboffer said:
Wordfeud will be available on the iPhone soon. I've paid for it, so I'm sticking with it.

It seems most Androiders aren't that impressed with wwf (inc me) so that is good news indeed!

Sid, thats a shame. I wonder if devs can't get hold of the train data they need? Wouldn't be surprised if it was locked down.

Russinating · 15 Feb 2011 at 23:07

It's not an app, but www.national-rail.co.uk in its mobile view straight through a browser is pretty good if you just want train times and the like.

mrk · 15 Feb 2011 at 23:16

Yeah dude, stick to WordFeud

Stellios · 15 Feb 2011 at 23:23

Khaaan! said:
Yeah dude, stick to WordFeud

Agreed, ive uninstalled the other one as whilst its a bit more fancy WF seems to just work a lot better.

Hen_Dawg · 15 Feb 2011 at 23:25

Russinating said:
It's not an app, but www.national-rail.co.uk in its mobile view straight through a browser is pretty good if you just want train times and the like.

it's http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
The speed an ease of Rail Planner Live make it a worthy investment if you catch lots of trains. It's very quick indeed to get times on your screen plus platforms etc

farmer · 16 Feb 2011 at 01:19

Grabbing Wordfeud and iPlayer now, cheers for the recommendations guys.

Deep · 16 Feb 2011 at 02:31

farmer said:
Grabbing Wordfeud and iPlayer now, cheers for the recommendations guys.

Put your username in the WordFued thread

physichull · 16 Feb 2011 at 12:48

The Train Line app is pretty useful for train times/prices etc.

Rimsy · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:26

Scam said:
Can anyone point me in the direction of a free national rail app? Something along the lines of the official app/ Rail Planner, but free! I pay enough for the shoddy service every month so refuse on principle to hand over any more money Are there any decent ones out there?

if its any consolation the money for rail planner live goes to thales (engineering company) rather than any rail company responsible for the rather high ticket prices!
its a good app and well supported

Cosimo · 17 Feb 2011 at 22:31

MapQuest has now arrived:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/17/mapquest-for-android-brings-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-openst/

Greenlizard0 · 18 Feb 2011 at 00:04

Looking at Amazon's Kindle app for reading books which seems an interesting idea.

Is that the best one, if you not could a better one be suggested?

Cheers.

manveruppd · 18 Feb 2011 at 01:46

I want to ask that too, I know that both Amazon's and Sony's e-book stores have DRM, is there a store that sells DRM-free ebooks?

PS. Also, why isn't there an official Google Docs app? Maybe with optional local caching so you don't need an always-on connection? I think Google are really losing out here! There's GDocs on the market, but it's really basic, doesn't display the document in full (only supports one font, for instance), you have to download them rather than editing them on the server directly, and manually sync to reupload them (at which point it'll screw up your formatting by changing everything to its own font).