Android App Recommendations - Revision history

Shrapnel: s/sign/sing/

2012-06-21T01:05:35Z

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Wrdieter: Should be complete info from emails, need to organize some more

2012-06-17T14:34:33Z

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2012-06-17T14:32:20Z

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2012-06-17T13:53:54Z

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Wrdieter: Recommended Android apps from the mailing list

2012-06-17T13:22:55Z

Recommended Android apps from the mailing list

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The following list of applications is taken from a sequence of emails on the Collexion mailing list. Please feel free to update it and add your favorites.

{| class="wikitable"
! align="left"| Function
! Application Name
! Description
! Recommendations
|-
! align="left"| SSH Client
| ConnectBot
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2" align="left"| File Browser
| ES File Explorer
|
| "you will need a file browser", "least hated free"
|-
| File Expert
| Like ES File Explorer, but supports sharing phone files via FTP/WWW/SMB over wifi
| Featureful
|-
! align="left"| Advertisement Removal
| Ad-Free Android
| Remove advertisements from apps
|
|-
! align="left"| Music
| Google Music
| Play MP3 files
| "surprisingly solid"
|-
! rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top"| Game Console Emulator
| GBA Emulator Lite
| Play Gameboy Games on your Android device
|
|-
| Snes9x
| Play Super Nintendo Games on your Android device
|
|-
| Bit64
|
|
|-
! align="left"| Games
| Free Android Angry Birds
| Shoot birds at pigs to get points
| comes with all levels available, paying just gets rid of ads
|-
! align="left"| Backup
| Titanium Backup
|
| Handy for removal of crapware
|-
! align="left"| ROM Manager
| For dealing with bootloaders and ROMs
| "Highly recommended"
|-
! align="left"| Application Store
| Amazon App Store
| An additional source of applications
| "free app of the day brings interesting (if apparently developer unfriendly) stuff from time to time"
|-
!
|}

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 |-
 | SoundHound
-| Identify songs you are listening to or sign to the device
+| Identify songs you are listening to or sing to the device
+|
 |-

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+|
 |-
-! align="left"| Games
+! align="left" valign="top"| Games
 | Free Android Angry Birds
 | Shoot birds at pigs to get points
 | comes with all levels available, paying just gets rid of ads
 |-
-| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"| Serial Reader
+! rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"| Serial Reader
 | Fast Dilbert Reader
 | gives a nice minimal frontend for the entire colorized Dilbert archive with good prefetch behavior and such.
@@ Line 113: / Line 113: @@
+|
 |-
-! rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"| Device Tracking
+! rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top"| Device Tracking
 | Prey
 | Remote recovery and/or wipe in case of theft
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 Other recommendations and helpful info for Android phones/tablets:
-* Don't forget to add the built-in Power Control Widget to one of your
+* Don't forget to add the built-in Power Control Widget to one of your desktops if it's not already there. Nice quick toggles for various hardware bits.
 desktops if it's not already there. Nice quick toggles for various
 hardware bits.
-* The two largest/most functional Android hacking communities I've come
+* The two largest/most functional Android hacking communities I've come across are rootzwiki.com and xda-developers.com  They both have some internet politics and drama, and n00bhorde problems that come with being for a dominant platform, but you can usually shake the information you need out of their forums and wikis.
 across are rootzwiki.com and xda-developers.com  They both have some
 internet politics and drama, and n00bhorde problems that come with
 being for a dominant platform, but you can usually shake the
 information you need out of their forums and wikis.

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 | Shoot birds at pigs to get points
 | comes with all levels available, paying just gets rid of ads
 |-
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 | Barcode Scanner (by ZXing)
 | Handles QR and other Barcodes
+| preferred bar/QR app as well;  Goggles does it too, but this ZXing is quicker and nicer.
 |-
 | ixMAT Scanner
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 | Prey
 | Remote recovery and/or wipe in case of theft
-| OSSish
+| OSSish; "Prey does your basic locate/lock/alarm, but doesn't have remote wipe or a companion app for live location from another phone (works through email or the website). I like Prey because it's open, the people seem privacy-minded, and it's also available for PCs. The PC version can operate independently of their service, activating when it detects a 404 not found for a file at a URL you control."
 |-
 | Lookout
 | Remote recovery and/or wipe in case of theft
-| Free, as in beer
+| Free, as in beer; I think Lookout is the most popular. They also make "Plan B" that you can remotely install from the Market's web interface if you forgot to install a tracker before your device was misplaced/stolen, which is a clever trick.
 |-
 ! align="left" valign="top"| Web Browsing
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 | Awesome
 |-
-! align="left" valign="top"| Network
+! rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"| Network
 | Wifi Analyzer
 | Wifi site survey showing who's on what channel; Can do audible signal strength indicator
 | Started ad-free, now has semi-intrusive ads
 |}
-General recommendations:
+Other recommendations and helpful info for Android phones/tablets:
 * Don't forget to add the built-in Power Control Widget to one of your
 desktops if it's not already there. Nice quick toggles for various
 hardware bits.

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 ! Recommendations
 |-
-! rowspan="2" align="left"|  Music
+! rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top"|  Music
 | Google Music
 | Play MP3 files
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 | Supports gestures and headset buttons for next/prev/etc, which reduces the need to look at the device
 | Good, free music player
 |-
 ! rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top"| Game Console Emulator
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+|
 |-
-! align="left"| Keyboard
+! align="left" valign="top"| Keyboard
 | Hacker's Keyboard
 | Adds an alternate on-screen keyboard with better punctuation support for coders
 | Handy with ConnectBot
 |-
-! rowspan="2" align="left"|  File Browser
+! rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|  File Browser
 | ES File Explorer
+|
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 | Handy for removal of crapware
 |-
-! align="left"| ROM Manager
+! align="left" valign="top"| ROM Manager
 | For dealing with bootloaders and ROMs
 | "Highly recommended"
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 | "free app of the day brings interesting (if apparently developer unfriendly) stuff from time to time"
 |-
-! align="left"| Mail
+! align="left" valign="top"| Mail
 | K-9 Mail
 | OSS mail client based on the built-in one
 | "Much, much better." (than built-in client
 |-
-! rowspan="3" align="left"| QR/Barcode Reader
+! rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top"| QR/Barcode Reader
 | Barcode Scanner (by ZXing)
 | Handles QR and other Barcodes
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 | Many acquisition & sharing options, including from image
+|
 |}

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-The following list of applications is taken from a sequence of emails on the Collexion mailing list.  Please feel free to update it and add your favorites.
+The following list of applications is taken from a sequence of emails on the Collexion mailing list.  Much of the text is copied directly from emails.  Thanks to Paul, Tim, Mike, and Dave for your input.  Please feel free to update it and add your favorites.
 {| class="wikitable"
-! align="left"| Function
+! colspan="4"| Entertainment
-! Application Name
+|-
 ! Description
 ! Recommendations
 |-
-! align="left"|  SSH Client
+! rowspan="2" align="left"|  Music
-| ConnectBot
-−
-−
-|-
-! rowspan="2" align="left"|  File Browser
-| ES File Explorer
-−
-| "you will need a file browser", "least hated free"
-|-
-| File Expert
-| Like ES File Explorer, but supports sharing phone files via FTP/WWW/SMB over wifi
-| Featureful
-|-
-! align="left"|  Advertisement Removal
-| Ad-Free Android
-| Remove advertisements from apps
-−
-|-
-! align="left"|  Music
 | Google Music
 | Play MP3 files
 | "surprisingly solid"
 |-
 ! rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top"| Game Console Emulator
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 | comes with all levels available, paying just gets rid of ads
 |-
 ! align="left"| Backup
 | Titanium Backup
@@ Line 63: / Line 82: @@
 | "free app of the day brings interesting (if apparently developer unfriendly) stuff from time to time"
 |-
+! align="left"| Mail
 |}