Essential Android Apps

mrk · 24 Jun 2011 at 11:32

Arf, I'm stuck on level 3

Robbo · 24 Jun 2011 at 12:58

Cut the rope is awesome! Yay

Grrrrr · 24 Jun 2011 at 13:02

qqg3 said:
and an easy way to kill data usage across apps?

Droidwall is good, requires root though

Nexus18 · 24 Jun 2011 at 13:29

GO contacts has been updated

The dark theme looks so much better now and plus some new UI stuff

benjo · 24 Jun 2011 at 14:30

R5Rich said:
Quick question for you all.

I am using Galaxy S (1) and launcher pro I have it set to 5x6 so one screen has a lot of icons for short cuts.
The problem I have is when I try and add a widget to a blank screen I end up with one row across the top that doesn't get used. It looks very annoying! It's fine with my current screen with twitter on just not when I want to add Jorte.

If you've purchased Launcher Pro, try resizing the widget once you've added it

Pigeon_Killer · 24 Jun 2011 at 15:24

Khaaan! said:
Cut The Rope out, free

Thanks. Awesome game :cool:

Brabbinho · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:06

Noobish question- Looking at apps there all require varying permissions. Is there any problems with this or I suppose more specifically any permissions that it is a bad idea to allow

mrk · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:23

I just blindly tap next next install. Works for me ¬_¬

I don't blindly install any old app though

Brabbinho · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:26

Khaaan! said:
I just blindly tap next next install. Works for me ¬_¬

I don't blindly install any old app though

Cool, I'm new to this andriod and app stuff so just finding my feet

Grrrrr · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:59

Brabbinho said:
Noobish question- Looking at apps there all require varying permissions. Is there any problems with this or I suppose more specifically any permissions that it is a bad idea to allow

Just a little common sense really.

If, say, a calculator app required location permission i would ask myself why the hell does a calculator need to know where i am? A weather app on the other hand probably would need to know your location.

Firegod · 24 Jun 2011 at 18:32

Anyone know a good weather widget? Animated if possible, but just something that looks cool. Free preferably. I've had a look through and most seem to get 1 star ratings on Market Place for either crashing or not reporting the weather/temp correctly.

Thanks!

Nexus18 · 24 Jun 2011 at 18:34

Nexus18 said:
Fancy widgets is very good so far.

Although costs money for all the extra features, which are very useful, but it is well worth it.

Can even choose what weather service provider you want, which I have been wanting for a long time

The weather animations are just like sense version.

Although you have to pay for the animations but as said it really is very good.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets&feature=search_result

JIM_BOB7813 · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:01

Firegod said:
Anyone know a good weather widget? Animated if possible, but just something that looks cool. Free preferably. I've had a look through and most seem to get 1 star ratings on Market Place for either crashing or not reporting the weather/temp correctly.

Thanks!

AIX weather widget

Noobish question- Looking at apps there all require varying permissions. Is there any problems with this or I suppose more specifically any permissions that it is a bad idea to allow

Read the summary for each permission and decide if you trust the app.

Lots of apps will require Internet access and "read phone identity and state" to serve up adverts. Some will require coarse network location for ads too (and some fine/GPS location)
'Phone identity and state' is basically your IMEI number, ad providers use it to uniquely identify you.

It's the tradeoff for getting free apps though.

FeFiDoh · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:12

I did buy it and resizing doesn't help I can only drag it out and down but there is still a 1 row gap along the top.

Firegod · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:38

JIM_BOB7813 said:
AIX weather widget

Cool will give it a go, thanks.

Nexus18 · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:51

Not like the one I mentioned

EDIT:

Don't think pulse news has been mentioned in this thread before :eek:

Probably the best news app there is IMO, combine all the feeds into 1 app, very nice UI and plus it is very quick and smooth now compared to what it was like a few months ago

benjo · 24 Jun 2011 at 23:28

Facebok App updated

Deep · 25 Jun 2011 at 00:02

benjo said:
Facebok App updated

Still no push notifications though

mjones1 · 25 Jun 2011 at 00:09

Deep said:
Still no push notifications though

You can go into the settings and turn it on.

Deep · 25 Jun 2011 at 08:58

For people writing on your wall and stuff?

It used to be only for private messages, friend requests and events