Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Shzm · 04-03-2012 8:58pm

ShaneU wrote: »

Another kairosoft game, Dungeon village is out, if you've played game dev story you know the drill

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.bouken_en&feature=apps_topselling_new_paid

... ah crap. :cool:

Crucifix · 05-03-2012 3:42pm

Anyone know of a good free app for editing mp3 tags? Ideally one where you can tag whole albums at once

The_B_Man · 05-03-2012 8:54pm

Crucifix wrote: »

Anyone know of a good free app for editing mp3 tags? Ideally one where you can tag whole albums at once

In addition to this, does anyone know an app that downloads album art?

Gran Hermano · 05-03-2012 9:53pm

Crucifix wrote: »

Anyone know of a good free app for editing mp3 tags? Ideally one where you can tag whole albums at once

The_B_Man wrote: »

In addition to this, does anyone know an app that downloads album art?

Not an app but a free pc program called Tagscanner is what I use before I transfer the music.

Headshot · 05-03-2012 9:55pm

A paid app poweramp does the job

the whole year inn · 05-03-2012 10:38pm

Im putting up launch controll up again,I use it everyday and saves having loads of icons on the home screen,it keeps it very organized!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dreamdom.launchcontrol&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kcmVhbWRvbS5sYXVuY2hjb250cm9sIl0.

Zagato · 06-03-2012 12:02am

The_B_Man wrote: »

In addition to this, does anyone know an app that downloads album art?

Free app '3' by Filipe Abrantes does this - nice UI too

ED E · 06-03-2012 12:48am

Anyone know of an app that can compress stero sound into mono? I need to listen with just one ear, but I dont wanna miss out on parts with very clearly stereo mastered tracks.

Professey Chin · 06-03-2012 1:11am

Anyone take a look at Helicon Remote?
Remote control app for DSLRs. Live preview is slow but not a bad Beta

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 06-03-2012 11:38am

I'm looking for a timed profile app.

Anyone have any recommendation?

irishgeo · 06-03-2012 11:43am

BearNecessities wrote: »

I'm looking for a timed profile app.

Anyone have any recommendation?

tasker can do that and a lot more.

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en

budgemook · 06-03-2012 12:11pm

Just a +1 on Triple Town mentioned a few posts back. Very addictive game and challenging too. I was delighted with a 80,000 point score last night but see achievements for scores of something like 10,000,000 :eek:

You'd really need to be paying for this one though, they give you a certain amount of moves and after that you have to wait for them to build up or buy unlimited moves for 4.99 I think. Not a bad business model, similar to the Detroit crack dealers - Get 'em hooked, then charge them for more.

Grassey · 06-03-2012 4:52pm

For anyone with a tablet, this is a great app, came across it on XDA

Overskreen:Floating Browser
"Gone are the days of trying to switch back and forth, and wasted screen real estate. OverSkreen Browser can live on top of your screen, above any of your other applications and allow you to use your device’s other features while browsing ! Enjoy the desktop experience on your Android device !
View and interact with multiple instance at once. Device with OverSkreen enable true multi-tasking, utilizing the screen real estate to let users browse the internet."

Features :
☆ Multiple instance
☆ Truly floating : move, resize or minimize
☆ Adobe Flash support (Android 3.0 and above)
☆ System wide bookmarks
☆ Built-in Desktop/iPhone/iPad/Honeycomb/Froyo user-agent
☆ Suggest-while-typing URL bar

hKqB8etB9ocEC1ycVNfVLNs1agSssYD_lnvu4dqiXj5QenE4UN_3RyrzN447vP4LNEQ

hKqB8etB9ocEC1ycVNfVLNs1agSssYD_lnvu4dqiXj5QenE4UN_3RyrzN447vP4LNEQ

On sale for 1.50 on market, well worth it!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.myboyfriendisageek.airbrowser

Theimprover · 06-03-2012 8:13pm

Looking for an app to block adds coming trough on my notifications bar, looked up a few in the market but they all needed your phone to be rooted.

Professey Chin · 06-03-2012 8:15pm

Theimprover wrote: »

Looking for an app to block adds coming trough on my notifications bar, looked up a few in the market but they all needed your phone to be rooted.

Why not just uninstall the app causing the ads? 99% of them have an alternative that isnt a spamwhore

Theimprover · 06-03-2012 8:30pm

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Theimprover wrote: »

Looking for an app to block adds coming trough on my notifications bar, looked up a few in the market but they all needed your phone to be rooted.

Why not just uninstall the app causing the ads? 99% of them have an alternative that isnt a spamwhore

How do I find out which app is causing the ads?

Brian · 06-03-2012 8:43pm

Grassey wrote: »

For anyone with a tablet, this is a great app, came across it on XDA

Overskreen:Floating Browser
"Gone are the days of trying to switch back and forth, and wasted screen real estate. OverSkreen Browser can live on top of your screen, above any of your other applications and allow you to use your device’s other features while browsing ! Enjoy the desktop experience on your Android device !
View and interact with multiple instance at once. Device with OverSkreen enable true multi-tasking, utilizing the screen real estate to let users browse the internet."

Features :
☆ Multiple instance
☆ Truly floating : move, resize or minimize
☆ Adobe Flash support (Android 3.0 and above)
☆ System wide bookmarks
☆ Built-in Desktop/iPhone/iPad/Honeycomb/Froyo user-agent
☆ Suggest-while-typing URL bar
On sale for 1.50 on market, well worth it!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.myboyfriendisageek.airbrowser

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/14/cyanogenmod-looks-to-integrate-onskreens-cornerstone-and-bring-true-tablet-multitasking-to-cm9/

free, open source, already available in some roms

Grassey · 06-03-2012 8:51pm

Saw that before and was hopeful, but then a week later the guy in cyanogenmod who was looking to implement it posted this

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106527379151691513977/posts/3hkAaD6eah4

basically saying that they are dropping implementation as "the code base is immature" and would require too much effort to patch it into cm9.

So at the moment it doesn't look like it'll be implemented in the short term, so 1.50 isn't going to break the bank while I wait for it to get implemented into CM7/9

Professey Chin · 06-03-2012 8:54pm

Theimprover wrote: »

How do I find out which app is causing the ads?

Airpush Detector

killbillvol2 · 06-03-2012 9:20pm

Grassey wrote: »

For anyone with a tablet, this is a great app, came across it on XDA

Overskreen:Floating Browser
"Gone are the days of trying to switch back and forth, and wasted screen real estate. OverSkreen Browser can live on top of your screen, above any of your other applications and allow you to use your device’s other features while browsing ! Enjoy the desktop experience on your Android device !
View and interact with multiple instance at once. Device with OverSkreen enable true multi-tasking, utilizing the screen real estate to let users browse the internet."

Features :
☆ Multiple instance
☆ Truly floating : move, resize or minimize
☆ Adobe Flash support (Android 3.0 and above)
☆ System wide bookmarks
☆ Built-in Desktop/iPhone/iPad/Honeycomb/Froyo user-agent
☆ Suggest-while-typing URL bar

On sale for 1.50 on market, well worth it!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.myboyfriendisageek.airbrowser

Decided to splash out for this as I'd saved a few euro on the latest market sale (see other thread here). I'm very impressed. Looks very good and seems very smooth and quick.
Still a few issues to iron out but worth buying it now.

irishgeo · 07-03-2012 9:41pm

whoever mentioned triple town, i want my life back its been taken over.

PrzemoF · 08-03-2012 12:02pm

http://f-droid.org/ - independend open source apps market.
Direct link: http://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk

I'm not sure if it's on google market as I refuse to accept the new licence.

Brian · 08-03-2012 12:30pm

Why do you refuse?

nedd · 08-03-2012 12:33pm

Baza210 wrote: »

Why do you refuse?

You shouldn't have asked that! I feel a rant coming.

dulpit · 08-03-2012 1:16pm

nedd wrote: »

You shouldn't have asked that! I feel a rant coming.

I'm curious myself though too, what's the issue?

PrzemoF · 08-03-2012 1:36pm

OK, here comes the rant!

Imagine situation that someone has unrelated information that :
- there is a car on street X parked ot house No. 23
- a car is audi A4
- you own a car
- your name is Y
- you live on the street X

Now link all those informations and you have a full big brother type info that you live on the street X, your name is Y, you own audi A4, so it's obvious that you have to be presented with an advertisment where to buy your next audi! Replace type of the info with something more relevant to the internet, "someone" with your favourite web page and ask youself if you're OK with the fact that your full dossier is somewhere completely out-of-your-control. I'm not OK with that..

I know I might join Richard Stallman, but he's a good fella...

dulpit · 08-03-2012 1:43pm

PrzemoF wrote: »

OK, here comes the rant!

Imagine situation that someone has unrelated information that :
- there is a car on street X parked ot house No. 23
- a car is audi A4
- you own a car
- your name is Y
- you live on the street X

Now link all those informations and you have a full big brother type info that you live on the street X, your name is Y, you own audi A4, so it's obvious that you have to be presented with an advertisment where to buy your next audi! Replace type of the info with something more relevant to the internet, "someone" with your favourite web page and ask youself if you're OK with the fact that your full dossier is somewhere completely out-of-your-control. I'm not OK with that..

I know I might join Richard Stallman, but he's a good fella...

But in all seriousness, do Google really care about you or me? They only care about the aggregates, the rest is all automation...

kearneybobs · 08-03-2012 1:45pm

PrzemoF wrote: »

OK, here comes the rant!

Imagine situation that someone has unrelated information that :
- there is a car on street X parked ot house No. 23
- a car is audi A4
- you own a car
- your name is Y
- you live on the street X
- you like wear a tin hat on street X

Now link all those informations and you have a full big brother type info that you live on the street X, your name is Y, you own audi A4, so it's obvious that you have to be presented with an advertisment where to buy your next audi! Replace type of the info with something more relevant to the internet, "someone" with your favourite web page and ask youself if you're OK with the fact that your full dossier is somewhere completely out-of-your-control. I'm not OK with that..

I know I might join Richard Stallman, but he's a good fella...

fyp

Also, if that sort of thing concerns you, you might not want to be be on the internet at all. Sure your ISP knows what you like to surf based on your ip.

Atomic Pineapple · 08-03-2012 1:46pm

I have to laugh about people who are complaining about Googles new T&C's especially when they're complaining on Facebook!

ShooterSF · 08-03-2012 1:48pm

I never understood that. A lot of app developers make their income through advertisements and plenty of consumers prefer free ad containing apps as opposed paid ad free apps. With that in mind it makes sense to try and tailor the ads to the consumer as much as possible. If you owned an audi I'm sure you would be more interested in seeing the new model as opposed the new micra. So you get ads more relevant to you, stuff you might actually want to buy and are glad it was brought to your attention and the developer has a better chance of increasing his revenue which increases the likelihood of them developing more and better apps for you, the consumer.

PrzemoF · 08-03-2012 2:21pm

ShooterSF wrote: »

A lot of app developers make their income through advertisements and plenty of consumers prefer free ad containing apps as opposed paid ad free apps.

What about GPLed app & donate if you like? Check OsmAnd and OsmAnd+ - it's a very good example.

ShooterSF wrote: »

If you owned an audi I'm sure you would be more interested in seeing the new model as opposed the new micra. So you get ads more relevant to you, stuff you might actually want to buy and are glad it was brought to your attention and the developer has a better chance of increasing his revenue which increases the likelihood of them developing more and better apps for you, the consumer.

ShooterSF, just to keep the topic in the car world - I'd prefer to see a merc/kia/honda adds just to have a choice :rolleyes:

BTW You're drawing a line between developers and consumers. I prefer to treat everyone as users, just some of us bothered to learn how to code.

griffdaddy · 08-03-2012 4:55pm

I'm gonna go out on a limb with this wild suggestion...but maybe... just don't click an ad that you don't have any interest in?

I'm sure google knows I like naked women, I haven't seen any queuing up for me on my street yet though

Zagato · 09-03-2012 3:13pm

griffdaddy wrote: »

I'm sure google knows I like naked women, I haven't seen any queuing up for me on my street yet though

Do they know what time of day you like to look at them though??
If this doesn't fix it you should probably drop google an email and maybe they could update their algorithm;)

AntiRip · 11-03-2012 7:32pm

Just noticed DoneDeal.ie have android app. A damn nice app too if you're interested in that

Haha, seems I wrote a poem

budgemook · 12-03-2012 3:42pm

Good app for accessing your files through a web browser on a laptop using the same network as your phone. This works very much like Kies Air does for Samsung phones:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zYW5kLmFpcmRyb2lkIl0

hawkwind23 · 12-03-2012 7:18pm

i also want my life back due to triple town

so addictive once you get the hang of it!

ShaneU · 13-03-2012 12:29am

Temple Run is coming out March 27th

omg a kitty · 13-03-2012 6:08pm

Did anyones Market update to Play Store yet?
Am I the only one who still hasnt got it?

madmoe · 13-03-2012 6:12pm

omg a kitty wrote: »

Did anyones Market update to Google Play yet?
Am I the only one who still hasnt got it?

Mine has on both my Galaxy Nexus and My Galaxy Tab 10.1. What you running mate?

Cheers,
M

Jackobyte · 13-03-2012 6:22pm

omg a kitty wrote: »

Did anyones Market update to Play Store yet?
Am I the only one who still hasnt got it?

On both my Galaxy Ace and Galaxy 10.1 tab.

Osmos HD is quite a nice app and is reduced at the moment, as is Camara Zoom FX as part of the current sale.

jonski · 13-03-2012 6:34pm

My htc desire s is on google play so is my daughters galaxy mini , but my other daughters sony and my sons older galaxy are still on android market .

dulpit · 13-03-2012 6:44pm

I got bored waiting so downloaded the apk...

(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535071)

omg a kitty · 13-03-2012 6:57pm

dulpit wrote: »

I got bored waiting so downloaded the apk...

(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535071)

I tried this earlier and I tried it now. When I open the .apk file it opens package installer gives an error "There was a problem parsing the package" and quits

Its a Vodafone 845 running 2.1. Unlocked if that matters, but its Google pushing the update not the carrier so

Well at least I know Im not the only one haha

PogMoThoin · 13-03-2012 9:01pm

omg a kitty wrote: »

I tried this earlier and I tried it now. When I open the .apk file it opens package installer gives an error "There was a problem parsing the package" and quits

Its a Vodafone 845 running 2.1. Unlocked if that matters, but its Google pushing the update not the carrier so

Well at least I know Im not the only one haha

You don't install it, you need to replace your existing market with it, copy it to your system folder

irishgeo · 13-03-2012 9:23pm

budgemook wrote: »

Good app for accessing your files through a web browser on a laptop using the same network as your phone. This works very much like Kies Air does for Samsung phones:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zYW5kLmFpcmRyb2lkIl0

brillant app much better than Kies Air.

hawkwind23 wrote: »

i also want my life back due to triple town
so addictive once you get the hang of it!

i know the feeling.

DrZeuss · 13-03-2012 10:34pm

For anyone that likes developing apps
AIDE Android IDE , create and run apps on your device. Quite amazing.

madmoe · 14-03-2012 8:47am

Hi all,
I read a lot of ePubs on my phone but it's not a a HTC even though I love the in built HTC reader the best. I found the APK online but it won't install :-( Anyone here have any luck getting it installed on a non HTC phone??

Ste- · 14-03-2012 12:15pm

madmoe wrote: »

Hi all,
I read a lot of ePubs on my phone but it's not a a HTC even though I love the in built HTC reader the best. I found the APK online but it won't install :-( Anyone here have any luck getting it installed on a non HTC phone??

What's it called ?
For epubs I use Aldiko and amazon for downloading them.

madmoe · 14-03-2012 2:00pm

Ste- wrote: »

What's it called ?
For epubs I use Aldiko and amazon for downloading them.

It's the eReader built into all HTC phones. Just love the look and feel and how it works!

Zascar · 14-03-2012 2:35pm

Guys can anyone tell me how to get my wifi to automatically switch on when at home but off when I'm anywhere else? I just reset my phone and it used to do this fine, but now its not. I'm not sure what app i had before wiping and reinstalling it, but whenever I came within 100m or so of my house the Wifi would automatically turn on, but then it would just use the data everywhere else.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks

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