Essential Android Apps

[mrk]

Preferences > Prevent Screen Lock.

Screen will dim after your preset screen timeout period and bottom buttons will light out.

 

[Robbo]

New LauncherPro is out!

More improvements

Not showing on the market atm but I suppose it will soon!

From the guys twitter -

New LauncherPro v0.4.2 -- Dock backgrounds, customizable drawer columns, 4x5 grid on homescreens and more!

 

[V4NT0M]

He's too fast!

Hmm to go with the froyo dock or not to...

Also of note: Having a rooted device eff tee double u.

 

[Rimsy]

is it better than sense? and is it easy to switch between the two

 

[V4NT0M]

Easy as pie to switch, if you want time to see if you like it when you install it will ask you which launcher you want to use with a little tickbox to save the one you select as default, just don't tick the box and everytime you go home you'll be asked which to use.

Then when you realise that launcher pro pwns just tick the box

 

[Rimsy]

ah good stuff cheers bud

 

[Rimsy]

Doubletwist player, very good free for limited time, read over at engadget!

seems quite nice but doesnt find the album art (which 3 does)

 

[wesley]

any good RSS feeder, need to alert me when there is a new update, it's for my work job list, got the rss url

 

[Danger Phoenix]

The modded version of the native app is still better than this IMO. However hopefully it will be developed to be better!

Where can I find this modded app?

 

[Mekrel]

Here: http://development.piratemedia.tv/2010-05-27-music-mod-v1-5-mdpi-and-hdpi/

The widget and screen overlay when playing a song look great, but library is the standard black Android crap and the tabs look horrid.

You need to adb push the Music.apk to /system/app whilst in recovery.

 

[CliffyBiro]

Doesn't work with Froyo

 

[Scottland]

Here: http://development.piratemedia.tv/2010-05-27-music-mod-v1-5-mdpi-and-hdpi/

The widget and screen overlay when playing a song look great, but library is the standard black Android crap and the tabs look horrid.

You need to adb push the Music.apk to /system/app whilst in recovery.

Horses for courses, I think the plain black android look is quite attractive. Better than the blue/white scheme of virtually all iPhone apps

 

[Cuchulain]

How come Launcher Pro has disappeared off the market? (at least for me!)

Seems to have gone for lots of people, some odd market issue, anyway, if you don't have it already someone posted a mirror, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30367/LauncherPro_0.4.2.apk

 

[Nick1881]

Gone for me too, I looked last night after reading about the update.

 

[mrk]

My aTrackDog says that the Handcent I have is version 3.0.2 and that 3.0.3 is out but I cannot update because I cannot find handcentbut the Handcent Website goes from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3.


Basically I think long story short = What the deal y0!?

 

[Cosimo]

I played with Google Sky Map last night, great little pocket planetarium. The location and time based real time map is excellent. Who needs sat nav.

 

[DiG]

any good RSS feeder, need to alert me when there is a new update, it's for my work job list, got the rss url

Newroom does this, can select individual feeds or have all of the notify on update

 

[mortals]

Here: http://development.piratemedia.tv/2010-05-27-music-mod-v1-5-mdpi-and-hdpi/

The widget and screen overlay when playing a song look great, but library is the standard black Android crap and the tabs look horrid.

You need to adb push the Music.apk to /system/app whilst in recovery.

That's the one I'm using atm

The widget is really nice

 

[Mailman86]

I'm sure this has probably been asked already, but I couldn't find a definitive answer with a quick search.

What's the best music player out there for my Desire? Most important to me is gapless playback. I've had a quick go with museek, but that seems a bit of a fudge. I've tried it with the default settings and it didn't work with the first two tracks I tried. I hate to say it, but it worked perfectly on my iPhone! Also it could probably be fixed by editing the meta data but certain tracks don't seem to flag correctly as being in the same album if I search by album. However, selecting one of those tracks on my iPhone, it would instantly bring up the whole album in track order. Although I've not extensively tested it, I can't seem to get anything to do this easily on Android. The best I've had is alphabetical order after manually doing a word search for the album. This seems to only effect some compilations (I believe it's something to do with whether an album is flagged as done by various artists or not).

 

[chaparral]

1479 replys that going take me forever to read through

Anyone got a short list of the best free apps with links (Am lazy )