Android Best Apps Thread

[1812lsd]

Take a look a OtterBox cases, they are the best imho: http://www.otterbox.com/desire-cases/desire-cases,default,sc.html

 

[1812lsd]

Apps I use on my HTC Desire:

http://www.appbrain.com/user/Mr1812lsd/apps-on-the-htc-desire

I highly recommend the DailyRoads app for recording your journeys, also works very well for accidents as it uses the G force sensor to detect rapid changes in G force due to crashing.

 

[b1lly]

Anyone got the handcent sms app?

I use that, as when I text the mrs it's normally about 7 pages of shite and it doesn't convert the message to multi media

 

[.Ben.]

^ I use Go SMS Pro. It's brilliant.

 

[realnumber 1]

Thought I'd revive the thread with a few great games.

Shrek Cart

Air Attack HD

GT Free+ HD

 

[Cookie]

Tiny Tower is also now on Android

I R addicted

 

[.Adam.]

Are the Game Dev style apps good? I see they do a football, racing version etc.

SportMate is f**king ace for footy scores and stats.

 

[treemanx]

Game Dev, Grand prix story are amazing. Very addictive.

 

[davo172]

http://www.case-mate.com/iPhone-3G-Cases/Case-Mate-iPhone-3G-3GS-Barely-There-Cases.asp

Best cases on the market IMO

 

[.Adam.]

Wrong section buddy.

 

[davo172]

Paper Toss

 

[Final Maxim]

kick it out! only game i play

football manager game

 

[Cookie]

New Kairosoft game is up, https://market.android.com/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.cruise_en

It's good fun so far

 

[iain187]

help


facebook contact syncing - when i turn facebook contact syncing on (even the option that says only contacts that are already there)

it pulls down ALL the numbers of every nugget on my list that has put their number on facebook and displays them when you press phone



all i want to do is go to 'people' and be able to link those people to facebook profiles so i get pictures etc but without having a shed load of numbers on my phone from people i dont want to ring

 

[K1NGY]

Sames happend to me, all my callender has their birthdays which i dont give a f**k about...

 

[iain187]

its well pissing me off

 

[richy22]

Turn off Facebook contact sync

 

[iain187]

but i want it to work properly.

 

[realnumber 1]

but i want it to work properly.

This has been one of my gripes with my S2. My Desire worked loads better at this with Sense.

I've yet to find a decent way around it. You can end up with loads of duplicate contacts...

 

[iain187]

Properly loving tapatalk for Android

 

[Matt Cup]

Leos RC Simulator... awesome

 

[koi]

whatsapp messenger - cross platform messenger: so works on Android, Apple and Blackberry

Great for group chats and sending pics

 

[Greeny.]

myplayer is great for streaming tv

 

[iain187]

If anyone has the stupid facebook syncing issue then there is a free app called syncmypics

 

[koi]

Lots of free stuff here http://mktg.getjar.com/getjargoldcatalogue.html

 

[Matt Cup]

Pretty impressed with the new sky+ app, now it gives you the choice to series link your recordings, also the new UI looks nice too.

 

[PinkoCommie]

DSLR Controller. Allows you to control your Canon DSLR from your phone/tablet. Give you full liveview functionality, exactly as if you had a laptop plugged in.

 

[.Adam.]

DSLR Controller. Allows you to control your Canon DSLR from your phone/tablet. Give you full liveview functionality, exactly as if you had a laptop plugged in.

SRS? Sounds decent. Do you need anything to plug in to the camera etc?

 

[PinkoCommie]

SRS? Sounds decent. Do you need anything to plug in to the camera etc?

You simply need the right cable to go from the phone to the camera, for my Samsung Galaxy S2 I simply needed a USB Host on-the-go cable (£4 from ebay, it's a usb-micro plug to USB-A socket).

You need android 2.3.1 at a minimum, and if you are lower than 3.1 Honeycomb you may also need to be rooted.

It's in beta at the moment, but if you buy the beta you get a free upgrade to the full release (which will cost more).

What you can do with it is frankly amazing. It has inbuilt support for doing HDR with a single click, allows your to review previously taken shots on your mobile device (very handy if you have a compatible tablet)



Rather than just forking out for the app without knowing whether it works, the guy who writes it (Chainfire (also does cf-root) has done Remote Release, which is a simple remote control without liveview, but it's free. I just went ahead and bought the app and the cable anyway, as it's only about £10 in total, so I just said f**k it

 

[.Adam.]

That looks really good. I will have a proper look at that when I'm home tonight. Would be very handy actually.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[koi]

DSLR controller sounds good, need to look into it later

 

[Unlucky Alf]

Recently I've downloaded GO launcher, GO SMS pro and GO keyboard. They're pretty good, i just wanted to change the way my phone looked cause i got bored of the blue. So I now have a new theme for everything. Easy to use aswell

 

[Jcs]

App of the week is Fourshared.

Search on it for the paid apps you want and get them for free.

 

[Mystic.clown]

Some i have on my gs2

super stickman golf (great golf game)
zedge (for ringtones and hd pics)
jamcam(awsome for checking motorway traffic etc)
ultra voice changer (good fun)
mx video player (plays pretty much every format avi ,divx etc)
keepsafe(for them dirty pics of the bird)
air attack hd part 1 (old school 1942 game)
plumber(excellent puzzle/brain game)
fruit shoot(great fun for 5 or ten mins if your bored, headshot ftl)
myplayer(freeview on your phone )

 

[Junior Bear]

Transdroid

Amazing torrent manager which works properly on 3G data

Can control all my downloads at home from my phone, can also search and add new downloads to my home pc and they are ready to use when I get back

Just a shame there isn't anything like this for the iPhone (which I now have)

 

[daydotz]

does anyone know of a good car tracking app ?

 

[koi]

Can get Cut the Rope on android now

 

[andymcconnell44]

DSLR Controller. Allows you to control your Canon DSLR from your phone/tablet. Give you full liveview functionality, exactly as if you had a laptop plugged in.

Reading about this app I don't think it will work with my 20D

 

[PinkoCommie]

Reading about this app I don't think it will work with my 20D

I think the 20D is a bit old, so uses a pre-VXWorks firmware. Don't think any pre-2006/7 model will work unfortunately.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Got a few for my Nexus

Ceramic Destroyer - Bomb apart objects, can get slightly annoying!

Fragger - Grenade throwing game

Devil Hunter - Logic/puzzle solving game. Not many levels but I find some of them quite testing!