New essential Android apps thread

I saw this posted on XDA: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swapit.expander.de

It allows you to expand available RAM to Android via your SD card and the guy posting it said he saw a notable performance gain using it on his car head unit which has 512MB of RAM. So those with 1GB RAM phones could give it a try and see how it works out. Use the free version to check compatibility.

I have the same head unit so will be buying the full version and expand RAM to 3GB on a fast SD card :D
 
No good for my OPO. I guess good for Moto G users?

I know a lot of people use Pushbullet and I'm going to try it now that I'm a generic desk-monkey in my new job :D But I have a really dumb question.. I take it your phone doesn't need to be near your PC? It's all done via Google? My girlfriend seems to spend her life in meetings and leaves her phone at her desk so this might be a good solution for her. So that I can actually ya know, talk to her, like if I actually need to :rolleyes:
 
Yeah PushBullet works via Google and you simply send/receive between devices added to your PushBullet from either end. It's pretty neat!
 
What is the currant best nav app, I've come across a few new ones, Nokia's here, tomtom. maps.me, navmii, MapFactor and google.
 
All things considered, I think Google is still the best with TomTom a close second (mainly as it's not free). TomTom has better traffic info and more options for route plotting/diverting etc, as well as offline mode but the interface isn't as good as Google Maps (IMO).
 
Ah true. So I have a question now I've tried it out. How to send SMS from the Mac app? Easy to do from the Chrome extension but nobodies details seem to come up when using the full Mac app? :confused:
 
RE my browser post earlier on. Opera Mini fell at the first hurdle; it feels slower, I loaded a page earlier and despite the page been fully displayed it took almost a minute for the wheel to stop spinning and allow me to bookmark it. Finally, it couldn't load a link earlier this afternoon (page didn't display properly), which worked fine on the other browsers. 1st world problems!
 
xibinim said:
RE my browser post earlier on. Opera Mini fell at the first hurdle; it feels slower, I loaded a page earlier and despite the page been fully displayed it took almost a minute for the wheel to stop spinning and allow me to bookmark it. Finally, it couldn't load a link earlier this afternoon (page didn't display properly), which worked fine on the other browsers. 1st world problems!
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I use this one rather than Opera Mini

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser
 
Frozennova said:
I use this one rather than Opera Mini

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser
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Same here. I've tried most browsers for Android I think, but keep going back to Opera. Seems to be the best for reflowing text when you zoom. Also now has bookmark sync between a desktop running Opera and other Android devices using the same. Not perfect though. Could do with more options for default double tap zoom for one and a quicker way to request a full page rather than a mobile. Never find it particularly slow to load web pages unless there are network problems. Development seems slow but all told is currently my go to browser. Also use Dolphin and CM Browser occasionally.
 
I don't understand how that app can state it gives the best colour calibrated colours for any specific phone. Every panel, even 2 same models side by side, will be different. this is why every monitor in a multimonitor computer set-up needs to be individually calibrated to any matched desired value (say sRGB 6500K, 110cd/m2).

You can't take one calibration profile from one display and apply it to the other as it most likely won't be displaying accurate colours with that profile applied (which is what it sounds like this app is doing).

The way I calibrated my phone display was to hold it up to my PC monitor (calibrated with 0.2% deviation) and adjust the RGB controls on it until the phone screen is as visually close to the PC image as possible (both displaying the same photo). This way I am not limited to any single app to get close to accurate, all apps display good colour accuracy.
 
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Casper is a nice app for snapchat users, its not in the play store tho.

I'm sure this has been mentioned but Xposed with Gravity Box module is pretty useful. GBox is for changing things like the clock in the notification bar, making the notification bar transparent, enabling crt-off effect etc.
 
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