Must Have Android Apps and Games?

mawk

Peter B wrote: »

Long shot here but any apps you can use to read message boards such as boards.ie? I use the browser but the menu at the top is impossible to use.

I you press on the menu then slide your finger off it, the menu drops open like a mouse hover. In everything not just boards.
Or try m.boards.ie which I usually use instead

bogman

Best apps I have

Rainy days................................Your weather rainfall radar (or snowfall) images, zoom
Barcode Scanner Zxing Team.....Scan Barcodes on products, prices n reviews
Quadrant standard.....................CPU, I/O, 3D graphics benchmark
Rte News Now...........................Latest news, business, sport, video of news now
Google Sky Map........................Window on the night sky
Trapster....................................Speed Trap and other road hazzard locations
Angry Birds................................Addictive game
Brightness Profile.......................Easily adjusts the device's brightness
Mini Info....................................Battery percent left/device info++

EGriff

I used to have this great app on my N95 called shake SMS. When you got a txt you would just shake the phone and it would unlock and open the message, then you just shake it again and the phone would lock and you pop it back in your pocket.

Anything similar for android? Google says no.

Otacon

EGriff wrote: »

I used to have this great app on my N95 called shake SMS. When you got a txt you would just shake the phone and it would unlock and open the message, then you just shake it again and the phone would lock and you pop it back in your pocket.

Anything similar for android? Google says no.

I'm sure you could do something with Tasker to accomplish this.

mickoneill30

EGriff wrote: »

I used to have this great app on my N95 called shake SMS. When you got a txt you would just shake the phone and it would unlock and open the message, then you just shake it again and the phone would lock and you pop it back in your pocket.

Anything similar for android? Google says no.

Not similar but might do you. Handcent can show the contents of a message over the locked screen.
Message arrives.
Appears on screen.
You hit X to close it.

Phone remains locked.

I've turned off that option though on mine because I leave my phone lieing around on my desk so I'd prefer to check them myself manually rather than have passers by read them

god's toy

Dont forget the Angry Birds Seasons! top stuff!

Sherifu

The just released official google reader app has gone in as a default app on my phone.

bogman

god's toy wrote: »

Dont forget the Angry Birds Seasons! top stuff!

Very tasty, comes with the previously unreleased Halloween levels :rolleyes:

BenEadir

Hi all,

I've a Samsung SGS and I got the offical 2.2 update then rooted with z4root and installed OCLF. What a difference, the phone absolutely flies along.

Since then I've replaced the stock dialer with "Dialer One" which works really well (I tried aTAKEphONE but didn't like it), installed the Whatsapp IM client as a lot of my contacts have BlackBerry's and Whatsapp is a cross platform IM client and also installed the PhoneUseage app to keep track of my VF plan and not allow them to screw me each month for out of plan useage.

I now have two problems which I feel are related to installation of the above apps but have no way of proving it.

1. From time to time when I hit the "Home" icon the phone returns to the home screen but only displays the bottom four apps and it takes up to 20 seconds to refresh the home screens (I have a total of 5 home screens) with the other icons and widgets. This is a serious Lag which seems to be preceeded very briefly by the aplication I am exiting blowing up in size by a huge magnitude i.e. if I am running the Internet app and I hit the home screen for an instant the internet page I was looking at appears to zoom in to the maximum amount (literally a split second) then it switches to the main home screen with just the four bottom apps and then up to 20 seconds later the rest of the homescreen icons and widgets appear. During the 20 seconds the phone seems 'hung' but afterwards it flies along again. This only happens intermittently and not on exiting any one particular application as far as I can tell. Thoughts anyone?

2. I am unable to remove the missed calls notification from either the drop down notification area (when I tap on the notification it doesn't bring me to the missed calls list on Dialer One) and the same applies to the orange jigsaw notification if the phone is locked i.e. if I unlock by moving the orange jigsaw piece with the number of missed calls on it to the appropriate spot when I lock the screen again and go to unlock it I am still presented with the missed calls jigsaw. I suspect this has something to do with the notification actions looking for the stock dialer app whereas I'm running Dialer One but I'd appreciate your thougths if you've had a similar issue and how you resolved it. The only way I'm able to remove the missed calls notifications is by doing a battery pull which is a royal pain in the ass.

Lastly, I'd appreciate it if someone can tell me why certain apps show up in the list of apps displayed by the Automatic Task Killer app and others don't? Dialer One being a good example. I've installed the app and it's now my default dialer but it doesn't show up in the Automatic Task Killer list of apps, same with the Whatsapp IM app.

I look forward to getting your thoughts.

Ben

Colonel Clink

Just got this game last night good fun! Platformer type game as a octopus swinging around. Controls are good too.

http://www.masshabit.com/games/squibble

rushnaldo

Are there any good football manager games going?

BopNiblets

Anyone check out the new Dolphin Mini browser?
Much snappier than Dolphin HD!

robo

Dolphin looks good - just downloaded it.

Ste-

rushnaldo wrote: »

Are there any good football manager games going?

Wondered this myself. Miss losing lots of hours to Championship Manager on my mobile.
I couldn't use teh Java versions either, they'd install but not run.

pcboy

For those who depend on dublin bus, search the app on Market. Its still beta, not really nice UI but has loads of info that we need for the bus timetable, latest news etc

Feckfox

Can someone tell me the file sizes of the apps? I can't see it anywhere. Any apps, just to give me an idea. Or to be really helpful.. Tasker, Multicon, Evernote, Skype, Kik, Quickipedia.. just to name a few:D

28064212

Feckfox wrote: »

Can someone tell me the file sizes of the apps? I can't see it anywhere. Any apps, just to give me an idea. Or to be really helpful.. Tasker, Multicon, Evernote, Skype, Kik, Quickipedia.. just to name a few:D

It varies between about 2kb - 15MB or more. Use the Appbrain website to check them yourself

Settings > Applications will also show you how much storage apps are using. It'll show the app's size as well as the size of any cache or databases.

BenEadir

All,

Santa is bringing me a set of bluetooth headphones for Xmas which I'd like to use for listening to Audoi books. I have "Audio Book Player" installed but don't know where to go to download MP3 audiobooks. I'm looking for John Grishham and similar type books.

Ideas anyone?

Ben

madmoe

BenEadir wrote: »

All,

Santa is bringing me a set of bluetooth headphones for Xmas which I'd like to use for listening to Audoi books. I have "Audio Book Player" installed but don't know where to go to download MP3 audiobooks. I'm looking for John Grishham and similar type books.

Ideas anyone?

Ben

Lucky you Ben! Which set is he bringing? Since getting my Galaxy Tab I have been in the market for a set but want ones that I can listen to music on and answer phone calls with, can yours do this?

Cheers,
M

BenEadir

madmoe,

Don't know what I'm getting to be honest, have to wait for the big day to find out.

What options are you looking at yourself?

Ben

madmoe

Hey Ben,
Have not done a lot of research to be honest, maybe after Xmas. Do let me know how yours go ;-)

Cheers,
M

mickoneill30

BenEadir wrote: »

All,

Santa is bringing me a set of bluetooth headphones for Xmas which I'd like to use for listening to Audoi books. I have "Audio Book Player" installed but don't know where to go to download MP3 audiobooks. I'm looking for John Grishham and similar type books.

This site is pretty good.

http://www.audible.co.uk/

scudzilla

Been trying out 'Tune in Radio', FREE from the market

It's awesome, has ALL the Dublin Radio stations on, checked for some smaller obsucre radio stations from back home in Wales and it has them too.

An excellent internet radio :D

angel01

scudzilla wrote: »

Been trying out 'Tune in Radio', FREE from the market

It's awesome, has ALL the Dublin Radio stations on, checked for some smaller obsucre radio stations from back home in Wales and it has them too.

An excellent internet radio :D

Big fan of that app myself too!

petes

scudzilla wrote: »

Been trying out 'Tune in Radio', FREE from the market

It's awesome, has ALL the Dublin Radio stations on, checked for some smaller obsucre radio stations from back home in Wales and it has them too.

An excellent internet radio :D

Think that was one of the first apps I tried when I got a Desire!

madmoe

scudzilla wrote: »

Been trying out 'Tune in Radio', FREE from the market

It's awesome, has ALL the Dublin Radio stations on, checked for some smaller obsucre radio stations from back home in Wales and it has them too.

An excellent internet radio :D

Love, love love this! About the ONLY radio app on Android that could find all the Irish stations....I am well impressed with it!

Cheers,
M

god's toy

scudzilla wrote: »

Been trying out 'Tune in Radio', FREE from the market

It's awesome, has ALL the Dublin Radio stations on, checked for some smaller obsucre radio stations from back home in Wales and it has them too.

An excellent internet radio :D

Very cool app and super slick!

Thanks for the info

Zascar

Guys someone here posted a while back about a website yuo pay $10 to sign up to and then you get access to loads of free apps, can anyone tell me what its called?

Abelloid

Zascar wrote: »

Guys someone here posted a while back about a website yuo pay $10 to sign up to and then you get access to loads of free apps, can anyone tell me what its called?

Not on here. They're stolen apps.