Essential Android Apps

kona786 · 8 Jun 2011 at 20:10

PianoBasher said:
What's the best traffic monitoring app/widget? Not that I'm bothered as I have unlimited data but I'm curious.

I'm thinking that this kind of app would have to run frequently to get counter data and plot graphs so might be a battery muncher..

+1 for 3G Watchdog - great widget and accurate readings

I use 'Phoneusage' too

Wicksta · 8 Jun 2011 at 21:12

Richdog said:
Ok, Internet Police.

There is no internet police about it, at least have the balls to back up what you were implying. Do you really think anyone is that stupid here to not know what you meant. :rolleyes:

Richdog · 8 Jun 2011 at 21:31

Wicksta said:
There is no internet police about it, at least have the balls to back up what you were implying. Do you really think anyone is that stupid here to not know what you meant.

What implications you choose to take from it are down to you. Either way I (genuinely, and I mean that) do not care of yours or others opinions on the matter. In accordance with forum rules I won't directly discuss warez or illegal apps. Just as torrents can be used for good as well as ill, the same goes for Aptoide... it is a delivery platform. For me that's discussion over.

V4NT0M · 8 Jun 2011 at 23:26

lol T-Racer is out for Tegra and it's a complete joke.

Richdog · 9 Jun 2011 at 08:23

Skyfall said:
lol T-Racer is out for Tegra and it's a complete joke.

Is there a site that lists all the Tegra 2 games?

V4NT0M · 9 Jun 2011 at 13:18

Richdog said:
Is there a site that lists all the Tegra 2 games?

The Tegrazone app lists them all.

Richdog · 9 Jun 2011 at 13:22

Skyfall said:
The Tegrazone app lists them all.

Ahhh awesome, cheers chap.

[ASSE]Hinchy · 9 Jun 2011 at 14:54

Thanks for the recommendation on here for SwiftKey Beta X keyboard. Its absolutely fantastic, as is Go SMS. I was previously using the Gingerbread 2.3 download and ChompSMS. Haven't regretted leaving them since.

mrk · 9 Jun 2011 at 15:39

http://www.appbrain.com/app/the-most-useless-app-ever/com.chris_economou.the_most_useless_app_ever

The best app ever, beats anything any other phone has.

Nexus18 · 9 Jun 2011 at 15:53

Yup, using swiftkey beta x now instead of the gingerbread keyboard, absolutely amazing

Khaaaaaaan, have you got a similar gingerbread black and green style (that you had for handcent) for go sms yet? Care to share it, if you do?

Narj · 9 Jun 2011 at 15:55

Nexus18 said:
Yup, using swiftkey beta x now instead of the gingerbread keyboard, absolutely amazing

Khaaaaaaan, have you got a similar gingerbread black and green style (that you had for handcent) for go sms yet? Care to share it, if you do?

How does this compare to using Swype?

benjo · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:05

Tried swiftkey beta x for a couple of days and just got frustrated with it. Tried to guess my next words and got it wrong nearly the whole time

Went back to the Gingerbread keyboard and I'm typing a lot faster..

mrk · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:09

Swiftkey X Beta isn't a swipable keyboard, it's a normal keyboard but with better layout and features more inline with Cyanogen's 2.3 keyboard but with bigger keys.

Nexus18 I have created my own colours yeah but can't find where GoSMS stores these settings for appearance even though I've created the user setting. Looking at the app settings backup itself that's just the settings, ringtones, password details etc so that's not it. Need the customisation backup location.

Nexus18 · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:15

PianoBasher said:
How does this compare to using Swype?

I like swype a lot as well, although swiftkey is just a normal QWERTY keyboard with no swiping, swype is better for when your only using one hand to type I find, but I prefer using 2 hands and I don't find swype as good for that as the gingerbread or swiftkey keyboards.

Plus I found that the gingerbread keyboard prediction was much better than swype although this new swiftkey keyboard is amazing, it learns from your texts, emails etc. and continues to learn, so you will need to give it a day or 2 of use.

All comes down to personal preference in the end, should give it a go for a few days, plus it's free for now

Nexus18 · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:26

Khaaan! said:
Nexus18 I have created my own colours yeah but can't find where GoSMS stores these settings for appearance even though I've created the user setting. Looking at the app settings backup itself that's just the settings, ringtones, password details etc so that's not it. Need the customisation backup location.

Hmm, not got a clue where that is!

Are they roughly the same as what the handcent settings where:

Khaaan! said:
Custom Style
Main Theme: Black
Main skin: Hero

Bubble Setttings
Incoming & Outgoing BG colour: 170/170/170/50 (R, G, B, Transparency)
Incoming & Outgoing font colour: 255/255/255/225 (R, G, B, Transparency)

Conversation Style: iPhone
Background: Black (theme)
Hyperlink Colours: 102/225/255/255 (R, G, B, Transparency)
Date Font colour: 143/165/47/255 (R, G, B, Transparency)

mrk · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:29

Nexus18 said:
Hmm, not got a clue where that is!

Are they roughly the same as what the handcent settings where:

The layout and application of the settings are the same pretty much yeah

Nexus18 · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:30

Khaaan! said:
The layout and application of the settings are the same pretty much yeah

Ok, thanks

Also one more thing, what style are you using, dark, iphone etc.

lamboman · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:56

Just wondering, how is everybody finding GoSMS's performance when receiving and sending texts? While I love the app, it's just so slow...not a problem that I can fix, so I've just gone back to chompSMS again.

mrk · 9 Jun 2011 at 16:56

Dark theme here. I don't find it slow though^^ Just as fast as Handcent and stock.

Just tried out Thumb Keyboard and using the Gingerbread theme it's everything CM7 keyboard is but better

Adjusting keyboard height is a neat thing too

I like!

Nexus18 · 9 Jun 2011 at 17:35

lamboman said:
Just wondering, how is everybody finding GoSMS's performance when receiving and sending texts? While I love the app, it's just so slow...not a problem that I can fix, so I've just gone back to chompSMS again.

Perfectly fine for me as well, although I keep gosms running constantly and on normal mode I think.

Handcent SMS for me was sooo slow, took forever to open the main app and to open a conversation.

Khaaan! said:
Dark theme here. I don't find it slow though^^ Just as fast as Handcent and stock.

Just tried out Thumb Keyboard and using the Gingerbread theme it's everything CM7 keyboard is but better

Adjusting keyboard height is a neat thing too

I like!

Ok, thanks

Will also check out that keyboard and see how it compares to swift key beta X.