Jon's Android App List

[woodwardiocom]

Inspired by (and partly changed by) beowabbit's app list. Note that I got my Android phone recently, and so am still a bit app-happy. There's a lot of silly crap in here.

AcMeter Graphs live accelerometer data.
Amazon
AndroSensor Shows raw output of all the phone's sensors.
Antivirus
ATM Hunter Directs you to nearest ATM.
Barcode Scanner
Beautiful Widgets Various alternative clocks, weather widgets, toggles.
Bejeweled 2
Bump Share contacts, pics, apps securely through fist-bumping.
Calc. Memory A calculator with "paper tape" so I can look back and see where I went wrong.
Carcassonne
Catan
Compass
Cool Reader I needed an RTF reader.
DC Comics In case I get the urge to buy comics digitally, or they decide to offer older issues free.
Dictionary
Docs Google Docs.
Dropbox An easy way to share and sync files between home, phone, and work.
Earth Google Earth.
Emergency A panic button, that will text selected people with my location.
Epistle A text editor that integrates with Dropbox.
ES File Explorer
Fandango For buying movie tickets.
Goggles Google Goggles. Identifies things you photograph.
Google Sky Map An augmented reality app.
Hit Chance An app for a wargame I play.
iBodger Ditto.
IMDb
Layar An augmented reality app I haven't played with much yet.
LevelCounter An official level counter for Munchkin, with in-game bonuses!
LiveJournal
MBTA Realtime T Somewhat dodgy.
Metal Detector Uses the phone's compass to detect metal. Cute, but not useful so far.
Netflix
Not Always Right I visit the site all the time, so...
Pandora Dynamic Internet radio.
Paper Camera A silly app for taking photos that look like sketches, etc.
Parcels Track packages.
ProfiMail An email client with quirks that suit me.
RIDGID Digital Level Both a bubble level and a laser level.
ShareMyApps Print this list.
Skype
Solitaire
Sound Meter Another more-fun-than-useful sensor app.
SoundHound From, "Hey, what's that song?" to owning it in under a minute.
SystemPanel One of many muck-around-with-your-phone's-workings apps.
Talk To Me Cloud Audio translator. Say, "Where is the bathroom?" and your phone replies, "Donde esta el bano?"
TETRIS
The Protection App
Twisty Play Zork and other text adventures on your phone.
Vibrometer Another more-fun-than-useful sensor app.
Wallpaper Changer Rotates my phone's wallpaper.
Watchdog Lite Monitors apps for bad behavior.
Wi-Fi Automatic Automatically enables or disables wi-fi based on whether my phone is plugged in and charging.
WiFiKeyboard Use your desktop keyboard to type on your phone.
Wiki Encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Wikitude Another augmented reality app I haven't played with yet.
Words Free A Scrabble clone.

Edit: Also Kindle, which came with the phone.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Where's Kindle and Nook? O:>

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Kindle came pre-installed, and thus didn't show up on the above list.

[archangelbeth]

Ahhhh.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

no Angry Birds?

btw, I don't use the MBTA Realtime, because it was often off for me. However, I bookmarked http://www.nextbus.com/wireless/miniRoute.shtml?a=mbta

NextBus has been accurate within a minute in the field; I have only had problems with it (not their fault) at stations, when a bus is *there* and supposed to leave at 8:03, say, but 8:05 comes and the driver is nowhere to be seen. But the satellite tracking is very accurate live when out on the routes.

I use Chess Clock for Android, which is a simple little timer thing that is handy for games where one wants a limit (I use it for scrabble games), Astro, which is a file browser, and MoboPlayer, the most complete video player I have found (I have a pile of avis that I ripped from DVD for a class I was taking, and I review them in transit).

You might also be interested in Quick Settings, which takes all the various and sundry settings options, and puts them in one much easier to get at page with one tap (so instead of GPS use being Menu button > Preferences > Location and Security > Enable GPS, and then the ok button, it is Quick Settings > GPS, and you are done).

The other tool I find indispensable is Android Assistant, which will help you with battery life like mad. If you are finding you have a lot of drain, it can monitor to tell you what is using your battery, it has an autoboost function that just kills all the background apps (not the necessary ones, but android apps don't quit when you switch, and it can be easy to have 20 apps running you aren't using), and it also has a task manager to allow you to kill any single app that you need to. It will also kill selected programs on startup (I like the groupon now program, but I use it 3 or 4 times a week and don't need it running on startup, constantly updating new deals, which is what it is programmed to do).

I also didn't find the GoodReads site very useful until I had my Android. the GoodReads app has a book barcode tool that makes using it much better. You can scan barcodes for adding to your library, or to distinct lists like want lists. I recently sold a pile of books that I reread every 3-4 years, with the intent of buying them digitally the next time I want them, rather than moving them around each time I go.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Angry Birds takes up too much room for how little I play it.

I have the assorted toggles right there on my desktop for power management: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Sync, Brightness, 4G, Mobile Network, etc.