Android App Recommendations

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.

Entertainment
Category	Name	Description	Recommendations
Music	Google Music	Play MP3 files	"surprisingly solid"
	Meridian	Supports gestures and headset buttons for next/prev/etc, which reduces the need to look at the device	Good, free music player
Game Console Emulator	GBA Emulator Lite	Play Gameboy Games on your Android device
	Snes9x	Play Super Nintendo Games on your Android device
	Bit64
Games	Free Android Angry Birds	Shoot birds at pigs to get points	comes with all levels available, paying just gets rid of ads
Utilities
Category	Name	Description	Recommendations
SSH Client	ConnectBot
Keyboard	Hacker's Keyboard	Adds an alternate on-screen keyboard with better punctuation support for coders	Handy with ConnectBot
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
Advertisement Removal	Ad-Free Android	Remove advertisements from apps
Backup	Titanium Backup		Handy for removal of crapware
ROM Manager	For dealing with bootloaders and ROMs	"Highly recommended"
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"
Mail	K-9 Mail	OSS mail client based on the built-in one	"Much, much better." (than built-in client
QR/Barcode Reader	Barcode Scanner (by ZXing)	Handles QR and other Barcodes
	ixMAT Scanner	Can share stuff via QR code
	QR Droid	Many acquisition & sharing options, including from image