Android Apps

[andrewducker]

the_magician asked for advice on Android Apps, so here's the list I left as a comment over there:

K9 is a better email client than the stock one
Plume is a great Twitter client
LauncherPro replaces the Home screen very nicely
Touch Calendar is better than the stock calendar
Auto Rotate Status Bar Switch is very handy for reading on the phone while lying down, as it stops the phone changing from landscape to portrait (or vice versa)
Upvise is a good shopping list manager (Julie enters things from the web, it syncs to my phone, I buy them on the way home)
MoveToSD is a quick way to move apps to the SD card
Swype is a better keyboard than you'd imagined could exist on a touch screen (not available through the market, you have to sign up for the beta on their web site).
Handcent SMS is superior to the built-in SMS client.

Anything I'm missing that I should have?

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

All-in-one IM client? Personally I'm loving the quality of Trilian over any of the others on my BB.

[andrewducker]

I don't really use one on my mobile. I tend to send SMS or emails.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Skype, so you can make phone calls while you make phone calls.
LJ-Beetle, the Livejournal client.
Photoshop Express, because simple photo editing on the phone is kind of neat.
AndFTP, because file transfer is something I do all the time. And being able to do it without needing a computer is nice. Connectbot is an SSH client that I like for similar reasons.
Vlingo, if you can get it - because controlling your phone via audible command is awesome, and Car Mode for making the phone automatically read incoming email and texts and allowing you to respond by speaking, which starts automatically when it detects your car's GPS? AWESOME.
IMDB and WikiDroyd: Because looking stuff up should be fast and easy.
Flixster Movies: Locates nearby theatres, pulls up showtimes and coming soons, lets you buy tickets if that's your thing, and yanks in RottenTomatoes reviews.
Barcode Scanner: Because, face it, your phone neeeeeds a barcode scanner. Dozens of uses!
PrintBot: Because print-from-phone is useful.
Bump: Transfer files, apps, contact details, pictures, etc to other Bump users by banging your phones together. What's not to love?
Zooborns: baby animal pictures.
Andoku: Sudoku on crack.

I also love Em_Weather, but it's useless for you since it pulls local weather off ec.gc.ca

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

Widgetsoid2 is pretty neat for creating widgets with various toggles and shortcuts.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

My most used -
I am guessing everyone already has these?
Phono
Advanced Task Killer
3G watchdog

Then:
TVGuide, because er well obviously
Jorte is my favourite calendar app
News republic, BBC News app and the Guardian Anywhere apps
Alcodroid - really really liking this one, if you are a regular drinker you will also appreciate
PT period and fertility tracker, although Andrew may have less use for this
Catch That Bus - syncs with bus timetables (in Newcastle, not tried anywhere else)
Freecell :)
Google Skymap (obv)
Note Everything, although I am open to suggestions for a better note taker app
Ulysse Gizmos, is a compass/gps/clinometer app
Tricorder because of the squee
xe-currency converter
gvSIG Mini - very good mapping client

I could not find a decent weather app for the UK, at least for the main weather sites I use (Mountain Weather Information Service and XC-weather)

[andrewducker]

I've heard too many things about how using ATK can actually make things worse since Android 2.1 to use anything like that.

Couple of good other ones though. I'll take a look at Jorte!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

oo, really? I might drop it then. Also I remebered I quite often lie in bed on a Sunday morning listening to Scanner Radio - live streams of police/emergancy services radio from across the world. But I'm strange like that.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I also love PhotoShop Express.
TweetDeck. (I've not used Plume, though I have tried Seesmic and HootSuite.)
Firefox, though I rarely use it.
Dropbox - very useful.
I've ben using Swype for the last couple of week's - can't work out if I like it our not (mostly great, but there are some things it just doesn't get right).
Diigo/Power Note. (notes and bookmarking)
Note Me. Lists and notes. And reminders.
CurveFish silent mode/GPS/brightness apps.
Maps Rule (measures distances).
Lots of people like AudioBoo.
Gdocs.
Maybe others...

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Handcent SMS annoyed me by looking bad and I went back to the native interface. Cheers for mentioning the autorotate thing - it's been annoying me for ages that the screen flips if I try to use my phone while lying down or turn it so that I can better follow a map while walking somewhere (I am not brilliant with maps and tend to need to turn them so it's looking the same way I am).

As for my own recs: Dropbox! Now I can see everything on my phone <3 It makes me very happy.

JuiceDefender and JuicePlotter are incredibly good for tracking and prolonging battery life. There's been a notable improvement on my HTC Desire since I installed them.

Super Box does lots of useful things all in one app: trackers for battery life and memory/CPU use, an installer and an uninstaller for apps (much better than the native uninstaller in the Market) a simple app2sd mover, easy cache clearing, a good taskkiller and easy battery life setting switcher, a file manager (this is brilliant - I couldn't do this without plugging the phone into a computer before) and a simple interface for tracking app security settings. Much simpler than having different apps for all these things, and less hard on phone capacity.

I can't imagine this will be of much use to the_magician, but for anyone who's interested I've tried loads of different menstrual cycle trackers and found WomanLog to be the best.

LJBeetle is the best LJ client. I also like TweetDeck for doing Twitter, Facebook and Buzz all together. (The Buzz support isn't perfect, but then all Buzz apps are rubbish for some reason.) TweetDeck also does Foursquare, though very badly and I use the Foursquare official app for that.

Brightness Level does what it says on the tin, and has a lovely little widget.