Android App Recommendations
From Collexion
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 | |
| SoundHound | Identify songs you are listening to or sign to the device | ||
| 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" |
| 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 | ||
| Device Tracking | Prey | Remote recovery and/or wipe in case of theft | OSSish |
| Lookout | Remote recovery and/or wipe in case of theft | Free, as in beer | |
| Web Browsing | Chrome to Phone | Send clipboard & links to your tablet from your browser (Firefox extension available) | |
| Location | GPS Status | Technical readout of GPS parameters | Started ad-free, now has semi-intrusive ads |
| Llama | Awesome location- and time-of-day-based settings management without using battery-hungry GPS. Can assign observed cell towers or wifi/bluetooth devices to locations, then change settings when entering/leaving. I have it disable GPS and enable wifi when I get home, start my podcast app (Google Listen) when I connect line out in the car. You can also create desktop shortcuts to gangs of actions. | Awesome | |
| 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:
- 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.
