New essential Android apps thread

PiKe · 21 Mar 2014 at 16:13

£35 of paid apps for free on Amazon Appstore today and tomorrow:

Runtastic Pro
Swype Keyboard
Worms 2: Armageddon
Dr Panda's Airport
Monopoly
MSecure
Printhand Mobile Print Premium
Sketchbook Pro
Ski Safari: Adventure Time
Fruit Ninja Puss in Boots

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/mas/get/android/

Begbie · 21 Mar 2014 at 21:05

benjo said:
I think there's quite a few apps out there that do this for all notifications. I just searched on the store quickly and found this one, but i'm sure there's others that might do it better.

Installed, but doesn't seem to work at all! Playing with it for hours now. Nothing. Shall have a look. Thanks.

PiKe said:
£35 of paid apps for free on Amazon Appstore today and tomorrow:

Runtastic Pro
Swype Keyboard
Worms 2: Armageddon
Dr Panda's Airport
Monopoly
MSecure
Printhand Mobile Print Premium
Sketchbook Pro
Ski Safari: Adventure Time
Fruit Ninja Puss in Boots

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/mas/get/android/

Nice! Love a bit worms!

petridish · 22 Mar 2014 at 17:03

How do Amazon app store apps differ from regular play store apps? Are there any differences?

RaV · 22 Mar 2014 at 17:32

Begbie said:
Does a SMS app exist like the Facebook heads thing? I know you can use the app but I'd rather a standalone app for texts. It's really good, especially when watching Netflix etc as you don't need to exit it.

Something like Hoverchat free? (used to be Ninja SMS)

Orcvader · 22 Mar 2014 at 18:19

petridish said:
How do Amazon app store apps differ from regular play store apps? Are there any differences?

They're linked to the Amazon app store instead of the Play store.

Beans on toast Dave · 22 Mar 2014 at 18:30

hi, whats the difference between boat browser and hd boat browser?

are they both OK for phones and tablets
as i don't really want to buy both

thanks

petridish · 22 Mar 2014 at 19:37

Orcvader said:
They're linked to the Amazon app store instead of the Play store.

Thanks. Wondered if there was any slight differences due to the way Amazon uses its own modified Android but I guess not then

Orcvader · 22 Mar 2014 at 21:44

challengedavid said:
hi, whats the difference between boat browser and hd boat browser?

are they both OK for phones and tablets
as i don't really want to buy both

thanks

One is designed for phones, the other for tablets. Although to be honest they both function exactly the same, so I only got the phone version one.

On the other hand I keep flipping back to Firefox, I never knew how annoying some adverts were with mobile pop ups... This time I'm using the Bluhell Firewall addon instead of ABP, and it seems to block ads just fine. Not as good as ABP, but doesn't severly slow down the starting time for FF.

Lartyconshayo · 23 Mar 2014 at 00:10

Downloaded and found very effective guitartuna.

PinkFloyd · 26 Mar 2014 at 14:09

Can anyone recommend a decent calendar app that has colour coding / annotation when looking in a full screen entire month view?

I'm just using the stock google calendar at the moment which has been ok until now, but the next month or so I have so much in my calendar it's hard to make heads or tails of it.
Even in the fullscreen, it just puts blue blocks on each day with no further detail, and I have to look at it at a day level to see any more info.

Ideally what I'd like to have is different colours (ie blue for day at work, green for holiday, red for something else...) whilst viewing the calendar in full screen or via a widget.

Only other request would be that it shows my google calendar and that I don't have to recreate everything - but I imagine any decent calendar app will sync like this anyway!

Orcvader · 26 Mar 2014 at 14:38

PinkFloyd said:
Can anyone recommend a decent calendar app that has colour coding / annotation when looking in a full screen entire month view?

I'm just using the stock google calendar at the moment which has been ok until now, but the next month or so I have so much in my calendar it's hard to make heads or tails of it.
Even in the fullscreen, it just puts blue blocks on each day with no further detail, and I have to look at it at a day level to see any more info.

Ideally what I'd like to have is different colours (ie blue for day at work, green for holiday, red for something else...) whilst viewing the calendar in full screen or via a widget.

Only other request would be that it shows my google calendar and that I don't have to recreate everything - but I imagine any decent calendar app will sync like this anyway!

Personally on the desktop version I made multiple calendars for different things, with different colours (red for holidays, blue for Facebook, etc...), so it's easier to see on my phone. But then that will require you to edit these events to move them to the correct calendar.

Swarfega · 26 Mar 2014 at 15:19

I use different calendars for different things. Personal, work shift times, weeks I am on call, days to put the bins out

For the most stock calendar works.

V_R · 26 Mar 2014 at 15:22

I use...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.withouthat.acalendarplus

Works for me.

mrk · 27 Mar 2014 at 13:14

The latest update to ES File Explorer tweaks the “Home” screen and now works nicely on large screen phones. Is really the best file manager out there.

QuickPic for photo/video management.

PinkFloyd · 27 Mar 2014 at 19:51

V_R said:
I use...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.withouthat.acalendarplus

Works for me.

I'll give that a shot. Don't really want to have to go with multiple calendars or editing them on a desktop machine. Will try the free version first and see how I get along.

zpos · 27 Mar 2014 at 21:27

Microsoft Office Mobile....free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub

Belloni · 27 Mar 2014 at 23:13

It's getting terrible reviews.

unwashed potato! · 28 Mar 2014 at 00:24

PinkFloyd said:
I'll give that a shot. Don't really want to have to go with multiple calendars or editing them on a desktop machine. Will try the free version first and see how I get along.

you should really consider doing mutliply calendars. makes it so much more managable.

Cyclone · 28 Mar 2014 at 02:26

Mrk, is that a 128gb card in ur phone? I've seen some for about £80.

Orcvader · 28 Mar 2014 at 10:57

zpos said:
Microsoft Office Mobile....free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub

While it's nice to see it free and can connect with my Onedrive, it doesn't feel as solid as Google Drive. It seems when you open a document on your Onedrive, it downloads a copy, but if you opened a lot there's no way to clear all the downloads at once. I think I prefer OfficeSuite, it feels more full featured compared to Microsoft Office, not to mention it can connect to multiple cloud storages.