Essential Android Apps

mrk · 23 Jul 2013 at 01:46

Some apps in this list already known about it a few new ones I've not seen yet as well.

Shush and Plug In Launcher are ones of note for me!

http://phandroid.com/2013/07/21/the-most-unique-android-apps-you-can-download/

MeMeMeMe · 23 Jul 2013 at 06:05

benjo said:
Airdroid 2 introduced non-lan mode. Pretty sure there isn't a data cap when you're on the lan.

Ah, that makes sense, and explains why i hadn't noticed the limit. I only ever use lan mode.

mrk · 23 Jul 2013 at 20:45

New Swiftkey BETA is out:

Hi all,

We’re really excited to launch SwiftKey Cloud today as part of our latest beta!

Many of you have told us you love SwiftKey, but want a way for your personalized language insights to be backed up safely, so the moment you get a great new phone or tablet, or if it’s stolen or lost, your language data is already there waiting for you. Well that’s exactly what we’re rolling out today - plus a whole lot more.

There are three main features included in SwiftKey Cloud:

Backup your personalized language profile and sync across multiple devices.
Enhance predictions with Trending Phrases based on current news and Twitter buzz.
Teach SwiftKey your writing style from even more online message archives.

Download SwiftKey 4.2 beta featuring SwiftKey Cloud now here:

Link: http://bit.ly/skcloudbeta

sniffy · 23 Jul 2013 at 23:14

I'm looking for a free/cheap app for my S3 that will turn off pin screenlock if I have entered my pin in the past X minutes. "Delayed lock" does exactly this but £2 for what amounts to very little code is pretty cheeky in my opinion. Does anyone know of any alternatives?

kona786 · 23 Jul 2013 at 23:17

sniffy said:
I'm looking for a free/cheap app for my S3 that will turn off pin screenlock if I have entered my pin in the past X minutes. "Delayed lock" does exactly this but £2 for what amounts to very little code is pretty cheeky in my opinion. Does anyone know of any alternatives?

Are you rooted? Cutom roms normally have this feature baked in.

sniffy · 23 Jul 2013 at 23:25

I'm not rooted but I've been meaning to look into it. I got the phone only recently

Simian · 24 Jul 2013 at 06:54

sniffy said:
I'm looking for a free/cheap app for my S3 that will turn off pin screenlock if I have entered my pin in the past X minutes. "Delayed lock" does exactly this but £2 for what amounts to very little code is pretty cheeky in my opinion. Does anyone know of any alternatives?

Think the 'Automatically Lock' function under Security can do that for you??

or have Samsung removed this function??

EniGmA1981 · 24 Jul 2013 at 07:13

No no, that's there in Sammy ROM's too

Cosimo · 24 Jul 2013 at 07:55

SwiftKey Cloud Beta for tablets is here:

http://beta.swiftkey.net/

Scougar · 24 Jul 2013 at 10:26

Really not liking the stock email client on my Y300 as it keeps bringing up old emails, there is no 'date range' (last 7 days etc) for example. Mails that are marked as read on my PC are not being synced as read in this client... so... what's the 'go-to' mail client please (even if it is stock jelly bean.)

dasyad · 24 Jul 2013 at 10:34

Are you using the right email protocol first? POP doesn't show stuff as read across multiple clients

Scougar · 24 Jul 2013 at 10:45

dasyad said:
Are you using the right email protocol first? POP doesn't show stuff as read across multiple clients

I was using POP3, that's what it was by default (Hotmail). Switch to IMAP/SMTP? (Guessing SMTP with Hotmail. Don't really want to take this thread off topic though.) Shoved on K-9 Mail for the moment.

EDIT: (I see the replies below mine, but rather than bumping.... I looked up the settings for Exchange for hotmail, and am back to trying out the stock email app with that instead of POP3. Seems to work as expected for Hotmail :-)

). K-9 Mail has many more features though so I may go back to that regardless... will see.

wellibob · 24 Jul 2013 at 10:52

Riptide 2 is at Google play now. Same as before but prettier.

dasyad · 24 Jul 2013 at 11:10

Scougar said:
I was using POP3, that's what it was by default (Hotmail). Switch to IMAP/SMTP? (Guessing SMTP with Hotmail. Don't really want to take this thread off topic though.) Shoved on K-9 Mail for the moment.

Yeah using IMAP should sync up read statuses etc. Installing K-9 probably isn't a bad idea though still

sniffy · 24 Jul 2013 at 19:23

Simian said:
Think the 'Automatically Lock' function under Security can do that for you??

or have Samsung removed this function??

Ah, legend. I did initially try this but had to deselect another option to get it working as expected. Thanks mate

Simian · 24 Jul 2013 at 21:47

sniffy said:
Ah, legend. I did initially try this but had to deselect another option to get it working as expected. Thanks mate

I aims to please!

But if you ask my Ex-Wife she'd say I was a crap shot!!

millsy888 · 24 Jul 2013 at 22:33

As announced earlier today, Google Play Games app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...&utm_campaign=playgames&pcampaignid=socialPG1

m4rk84 · 25 Jul 2013 at 15:40

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s-hidden-app-permission-manager-control-permissions-for-individual-apps/

This seems awesome. Giving control over permissions allows you to really control battery drain on certain apps, looks like it will be a really great feature once Google clean it up and release it officially. With some trickery it is already accessible in 4.3!

benjo · 25 Jul 2013 at 16:00

Yeah looks good, hopefully a more integrated solution to what we're using at the moment (Xprivacy, pdroid etc).

Like the article says though, it's a bit of a security flaw that you can't disable a permission until the app actually requests it :/

Nexus18 · 25 Jul 2013 at 16:11

haha some developers will be ****ed off!