Must Have Android Apps and Games?

jeffk

Ill add some non battery saver apps

AirDroid-Best Device Manager
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid
Manage your Android devices on the web, all over the air.
- No USB cable required.
- No driver installation required.
- Same WiFi network or Internet

I use it for taking videos or pictures off the phone,you can also find your phone with it by gps or making it ring and also send text messages from it

ES File Explorer File Manager
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop
I use to access a folder I share on my computer,mostly to install apps after downloading the apk file. Can also copy files from your phone to your computer(but is very slow)

Opera Max beta-Save data
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.max
If you are on a limited data package and cant find wifi you can use this to compress the data size,option in it for video quality if you want to watch youtube etc and save on data

SofaScore LiveScore World Cup
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sofascore.android
Live football scores(used to have videos of the goals),also does the League Of Ireland which is normally hard to get

gaius c

Think killbill was only kidding. Thanks for taking the time to list them.

polaris68

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2601318


Thread from XDA on achieving better battery life.

jeffk

polaris68 wrote: »

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2601318


Thread from XDA on achieving better battery life.

XDA is a great site in general!

EGriff

Are people still having battery troubles? I've had my N4 for 18 months now and it hasn't died on me once. I use it pretty heavily all day, stream music over 3g, browse and a bit of YouTube.

jeffk

EGriff wrote: »

Are people still having battery troubles? I've had my N4 for 18 months now and it hasn't died on me once. I use it pretty heavily all day, stream music over 3g, browse and a bit of YouTube.

Mostly down to battery size really

My Phone(Huawei Ascend G510)Li-Ion 1700 mAh
Your Phone Li-Po 2100 mAh battery

timetogo

Show your purchased apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azefsw.purchasedapps
There may be a better way of doing this. If there is then let me know. I've had android phones since 2011. After installing this I saw a pile of apps that I'd purchased and forgotten about.


Automateit
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage
Get your phone to perform certain tasks based on time / location etc. etc. It's like Tasker except simple to use.

Some rules I've put in Automateit are
- Silence the phone (except for ringtones at 10PM) - I have a couple of mates that can text at 3AM which I don't find hilarious.
- Turn the volume back on at 7AM
- Turn off 3G when WiFi connects - I always forget to turn 3G off and have a crappy quota. So this turns off the 3G whenever I go home or arrive in work.
- On my TV box. Start up XBMC automatically when the box starts up.

Pique

timetogo wrote: »

Show your purchased apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azefsw.purchasedapps
There may be a better way of doing this. If there is then let me know. I've had android phones since 2011. After installing this I saw a pile of apps that I'd purchased and forgotten about.

Open the Play Store, go to My Apps, then All.

Shows you a list of all the Apps you own, free or purchased.


Something like the app ou linked to is pointless and serves no purpose so I would be really wary of it

28064212

Pique wrote: »

Open the Play Store, go to My Apps, then All.

Shows you a list of all the Apps you own, free or purchased.

That's a pretty useless list if you just want to see apps you've purchased.

• It's ordered by installation time, with no way to change the order
• you can't filter it
• you can't just go to the bottom - it's dynamically loaded, so you have to scroll down screen by screen
• if you have an app installed at the moment there's no way to tell if it was purchased or free
• you can remove uninstalled, purchased apps from that list. The apps are still purchased, but won't show up there

killbillvol2

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Using that many apps to save battery must drain the battery!

jeffk wrote: »

Put the effort into listing apps to help save battery/a better phone and get one thanks and the rest knock it without trying.

What are these peoples tips to a better battery/phone experience so??

gaius c wrote: »

Think killbill was only kidding. Thanks for taking the time to list them.

Any apps for developing a sense of humour? :P

jeffk

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Any apps for developing a sense of humour? :P

I spent many years with keyboard warriors on the pro wrestling boards,it makes you sensitive to all posters

killbillvol2

Pique wrote: »

Open the Play Store, go to My Apps, then All.

Shows you a list of all the Apps you own, free or purchased.


Something like the app ou linked to is pointless and serves no purpose so I would be really wary of it

A list of all your apps in no particular order is useless.

I use My Paid Apps to do the same as timetogo's app.

A list of your paid apps is particularly useful if you have multiple android devices.

timetogo

28064212 wrote: »

That's a pretty useless list if you just want to see apps you've purchased.

• It's ordered by installation time, with no way to change the order
• you can't filter it
• you can't just go to the bottom - it's dynamically loaded, so you have to scroll down screen by screen
• if you have an app installed at the moment there's no way to tell if it was purchased or free
• you can remove uninstalled, purchased apps from that list. The apps are still purchased, but won't show up there

Absofeckinglutely. I've been using Android since 2011 I think. Every app I've ever installed, even if it was only for 2 minutes before I uninstalled it appears on this list. I've so many apps on it, it takes minutes to load the page. It's unusable. If they had a way of removing apps from the My Apps list it would be some use.

marcbrophy

timetogo wrote: »

Absofeckinglutely. I've been using Android since 2011 I think. Every app I've ever installed, even if it was only for 2 minutes before I uninstalled it appears on this list. I've so many apps on it, it takes minutes to load the page. It's unusable. If they had a way of removing apps from the My Apps list it would be some use.

Click the X on the right side of apps that you've no longer installed and you can remove them from that list!

Doge

If any one fancies playing the classics:

The .emu emulators from Ex Plus Alpha are the best for consoles like the Mega Drive, SNES, NES ,Master System, Commodore 64 etc.

For arcade games then mame4droid is awesome and it's free. You can download from the playstore also.
It supports netplay (multiplayer) between android AND iOS devices, so its totally cross platform. You can play over wifi or bluetooth. Which is awesome!

A free alternative called RetroArch does every game system and more, its an all in one app.

Discussion of acquiring ROMs is prohibited on boards.ie so don't even think about it!

Anyone interested in the classics should check out the The Arcade and Retro forum, a real nice community there, and we won't bite I promise!

_Whimsical_

I don't think this will on play for too long so might be handy to get it while you can.
Popcorn hour, the same as the once online service you had to pay for.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dp.ws.popcorntime

TitianGerm

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I don't think this will on play for too long so might be handy to get it while you can.
Popcorn hour, the same as the once online service you had to pay for.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dp.ws.popcorntime

Just downloaded it there. Will give it a go tomorrow !!

toby2111

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I don't think this will on play for too long so might be handy to get it while you can.
Popcorn hour, the same as the once online service you had to pay for.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dp.ws.popcorntime

Looks like it's gone already!

Basq

Spoticast - Spotify to Chromecast.

Have been connecting my Nexus 4 via 3.5mm jack on my sound system but as the sound system is connected to a TV with a Chromecast, no need!

Very handy!

TitianGerm

toby2111 wrote: »

Looks like it's gone already!

I have it and just watched Frozen. Great app !! Anybody know of a way to download the film to watch later ?

corkie

Be careful using the Popcorn Time app!

Dozen Wicked Words

FLIXTOR is surprisingly still on the Play store, works well enough, bit slow to load, not as quick as the film app I no longer mention but does a decent job.

TitianGerm

corkie wrote: »

Be careful using the Popcorn Time app!

Would you recommend deleting ?

corkie

emmetkenny wrote: »

Would you recommend deleting ?

It is up to yourself! There is alternative's listed in the above link, some of which let you download. Especially the app that can't be mentioned here.

I am surprised that this app is allowed to be mentioned at all here.

A Mod will probably get around to removing mentions of it eventually?

toby2111

corkie wrote: »

Be careful using the Popcorn Time app!

That article says not to use Time4Popcorn app not Popcorn Time app..... Or have I read it wrong??! It still doesn't work for me so I've uninstalled anyway, should I do anything else to remove all traces of it from my phone?

corkie

toby2111 wrote: »

That article says not to use Time4Popcorn app not Popcorn Time app..... Or have I read it wrong??! It still doesn't work for me so I've uninstalled anyway, should I do anything else to remove all traces of it from my phone?

Time4Popcorn has recently released their own Android version, which uses the same "cloud" that the windows version used aswell. This might be dangerous regarding Android malware but then again, at this point No dangerous code was found in their app. As far as name goes, they named it Popcorn Time, which is not a nice thing to do. This could be to steal traffic from the official Popcorn time (/r/popcorntime) but could also just be because they want a name change.

Although the authors of the linked page changed the content, overnight!
It was more strongly worded against the use of Time4Popcorn.

killbillvol2

TuneIn Radio Pro has been updated and the update is a complete balls up. Apart from the awful look they've removed the feature I use most, the alarm clock.

So, can anyone recommend an alternative radio app with alarm clock functionality or, would anyone have the apk for the older version (current is 12.0).

droidman123

killbillvol2 wrote: »

TuneIn Radio Pro has been updated and the update is a complete balls up. Apart from the awful look they've removed the feature I use most, the alarm clock.

So, can anyone recommend an alternative radio app with alarm clock functionality or, would anyone have the apk for the older version (current is 12.0).

You could try radio cent,good app and has an alarm function.available in the play store,and its free.

peckerhead

killbillvol2 wrote: »

So, can anyone recommend an alternative radio app with alarm clock functionality or, would anyone have the apk for the older version (current is 12.0).

http://bit.ly/1gli65E

Vinz Mesrine

killbillvol2 wrote: »

TuneIn Radio Pro has been updated and the update is a complete balls up. Apart from the awful look they've removed the feature I use most, the alarm clock.

So, can anyone recommend an alternative radio app with alarm clock functionality or, would anyone have the apk for the older version (current is 12.0).

Go into the app settings and clear updates. It will go back to the original version.