Apps for Tablets

killbillvol2

I was going to make a list of apps that work well with the new Honeycomb tablets but after a lot of searching I think stuntdouble over at xda developers has created a pretty much definitive list.

I presume it's ok to post a link.

Personal favourites of mine would be Hacker's Keyboard, Air Attack HD, Pocket, IMDB and MoboPlayer.

Blazer

That's exactly what we need.

From my experience FBReader works perfectly as an e-book reader and allows you to import your local ebooks.

For a browser nothing beats Dolphin HD...it's pretty awesome.:)


Also can we sticky this just like the Apps for Ipad in the Apple forum.

Blazer

Movie playback- Highly recommend Moboplayer. Has played everything I've thrown at it including HD mkv.

Rocklite I don't recommend as it causes to speaker to squawk intermittently and annoying as hell.

Filemanger- Basic enough but allows you to see files/paths on your device.

Seemic- Pretty nice, supports twitter and facebook accounts as an all in one app.

killbillvol2

Sc@recrow wrote: »

Movie playback- Highly recommend Moboplayer. Has played everything I've thrown at it including HD mkv.

Rocklite I don't recommend as it causes to speaker to squawk intermittently and annoying as hell.

Filemanger- Basic enough but allows you to see files/paths on your device.

Seemic- Pretty nice, supports twitter and facebook accounts as an all in one app.

File Manager HD is optimised for tablets. Looks great.

Maxthon have also released a browser for 10 inch tablets. I like it.

mickoneill30

These aren't Honecomb specific. They work on my Desire HD & Xoom but I'm putting them here because they work better or more comfortably on a tablet.

Plex - Not Free - Allows you to stream media from your PC without copying to your device first.

ezPDF - Not Free - You can read an A4 page comfortably on the tablet screens.

Pulse - Newreader.

Now that I look at it there are shag all Honeycomb specific apps which is annoying, but I used to have a 2.2 tablet and I don't regret moving to 3.1.

squire23

Can anyone recommend a good Exchange Email app. Like a lot people I file my emails under the seperate folders in my Inbox depending on the Project etc. I am undecided about buying a Tablet - one of the main reasons I want one is I travel a lot but I need a Tablet that will I can access all of these folders from.

The Stock Mail app on my Legend only allows me to access my actual 'Inbox' & none of the sub-folders.

squire

subway

Touchdown by nitrodesk.
Completely free for 30 days. Or forever if you clear data once a month...

It's amazing for exchange mail

allen175

UPnPlay Free Media streaming from your PC, works well on honeycomb.

mickoneill30

Syype have a Honeycomb version out. It's probably not for everyone. I've just installed it on my tablet and I'm not sure if it'll be staying but I like it on the phone.

I'd say if you can type pretty efficiently on your tablet (using more than one finger) then it's not worth it. If you hunt and peck it's probably quicker with Swype.

elderlemon

news360 is another slick news app for honeycomb.

bd250110

squire23 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good Exchange Email app. Like a lot people I file my emails under the seperate folders in my Inbox depending on the Project etc. I am undecided about buying a Tablet - one of the main reasons I want one is I travel a lot but I need a Tablet that will I can access all of these folders

It's called an iPad. It supports this right out of the box.
As much as some posters seem to hate on all iOS devices, the iPad is the only tablet game in town, right now. You get more battery life, more apps, better performance for your money. ok you won't have flash games, but there are so many great games to choose from in the App Store, do you really need them? Loads of browsers available in the app store for flash video.

Blazer

bd250110 wrote: »

It's called an iPad. It supports this right out of the box.
As much as some posters seem to hate on all iOS devices, the iPad is the only tablet game in town, right now. You get more battery life, more apps, better performance for your money. ok you won't have flash games, but there are so many great games to choose from in the App Store, do you really need them? Loads of browsers available in the app store for flash video.

See..it's dumbass suggestions like yours that get non-apple fans riled up...
I have an iphone 4 and love it and love the ipad too...but this is the Android section....butt out troll!!!!

Touchdown is supposed to be pretty good for exchange.

elderlemon

Actually you're wrong. We don't hate ios -we just like choice. We have two iphones in our house (the women!) and yet sold our ipad1 to get the Asus transformer - best decision we ever made. Try tell the kids in our house that the wonderful ipad can't access moshi monsters and they laugh. So yes in this house "flash" is required.

More battery life? We get around 9/10 hours of heavy use. Add in the dock and you double that - Can the ipad do that?

bd250110 wrote: »

It's called an iPad. It supports this right out of the box.
As much as some posters seem to hate on all iOS devices, the iPad is the only tablet game in town, right now. You get more battery life, more apps, better performance for your money. ok you won't have flash games, but there are so many great games to choose from in the App Store, do you really need them? Loads of browsers available in the app store for flash video.

bd250110

elderlemon wrote: »

Actually you're wrong. We don't hate ios -we just like choice. We have two iphones in our house (the women!) and yet sold our ipad1 to get the Asus transformer - best decision we ever made. Try tell the kids in our house that the wonderful ipad can't access moshi monsters and they laugh. So yes in this house "flash" is required.

More battery life? We get around 9/10 hours of heavy use. Add in the dock and you double that - Can the ipad do that?

Sorry that was a bit trollish, didnt mean it like that. In fairness he asked about exchange. It's an option to consider, that's all.

I would say the iPad gets about 10 hours, more or less. It's hard to tell, but it seems to need less charging than I would expect for the usage, if you see what I mean? It has defiantly done London to the west coast playing video and had about 20% battery left. Obviously 3G wifi off so that helped, and I wasn't using it the whole 12 hour flight.
Not sure what you mean by a dock? Is that like a desk charger, or auxiliary battery?

Just my usage of both android and iOS would suggest that iOS is better for enterprise functions. I'm all for the choice too, just want the most bang for my buck.
Either way a tablet is great for travelling and working with. Brilliantly light and just really convenient. I've been travelling exclusively with my iPad for almost a year now, recently I took my laptop to a conference and it was so bloody awkward and heavy compared to the tablet!

Another cool app is something like SplashTop, basically allows you to connect to your PC over 3G/WiFi and control it from the iPad. (sure android will have something comparable) it's very handy if you need to see something on your PC while on the road.

elderlemon

Fair enough.

The "dock" is a keyboard with a built in battery and allows you to charge it in the dock or use it like a laptop. Another "cool" feature is that it allows the kids to use their xbox contollers in games which they love.

Asus is also coming out with usb host support so that you can attach an external mouse if required. Just makes the transformer a very very flexible tablet.

Where tablets are a problem is in inputting data. Typing a long doc using a touch screen is hard work on any touch screen device and the transformer or ipad are no different. I've taken the tablet and dock away and it really does make it easier using the keyboard.

bd250110 wrote: »

Sorry that was a bit trollish, didnt mean it like that. In fairness he asked about exchange. It's an option to consider, that's all.

I would say the iPad gets about 10 hours, more or less. It's hard to tell, but it seems to need less charging than I would expect for the usage, if you see what I mean? It has defiantly done London to the west coast playing video and had about 20% battery left. Obviously 3G wifi off so that helped, and I wasn't using it the whole 12 hour flight.
Not sure what you mean by a dock? Is that like a desk charger, or auxiliary battery?

Just my usage of both android and iOS would suggest that iOS is better for enterprise functions. I'm all for the choice too, just want the most bang for my buck.
Either way a tablet is great for travelling and working with. Brilliantly light and just really convenient. I've been travelling exclusively with my iPad for almost a year now, recently I took my laptop to a conference and it was so bloody awkward and heavy compared to the tablet!

Another cool app is something like SplashTop, basically allows you to connect to your PC over 3G/WiFi and control it from the iPad. (sure android will have something comparable) it's very handy if you need to see something on your PC while on the road.

killbillvol2

bd250110 wrote: »

It's called an iPad. It supports this right out of the box.
As much as some posters seem to hate on all iOS devices, the iPad is the only tablet game in town, right now. You get more battery life, more apps, better performance for your money. ok you won't have flash games, but there are so many great games to choose from in the App Store, do you really need them? Loads of browsers available in the app store for flash video.

Maybe you should adjust the font on your expensive toy so you can read. This is the Android forum.

bd250110

That's quite cool. Does the tablet somehow 'flip' into the keyboard? If I am thinking of the right one?
I agree, no one is going to write a thesis with a touch screen keyboard. as it stands you can use any Bluetooth keyboard with an iPad, but there is no mouse option. I'm not sure how well mixing a keyboard without a mouse would work, it wouldn't appeal to me. I have seen an iPad docked into a keyboard which makes it a laptop, seemed a bit bizarre to me, as the keyboard was pretty heavy, bulky and was pricy too, IIRC. Worked out at nearly $1000, which is nuts. You'd have a great laptop for that price!
I suppose the flexibility is nice, but if you need a keyboard, I would really question if a tablet was the right device choice?
All of that said, if my choice was a tablet or a netbook, I would pick the tablet any day. Ive never found a netbook with with a decent keyboard yet.

elderlemon

Clicks into the dock and then folds shut like a laptop. To be honest its used in tablet mode about 70% of the time. The kids tend to use the keyboard for games and stuff which suits them. I just like the flexibility of it all. You use it in whatever mode suits you.

bd250110 wrote: »

That's quite cool. Does the tablet somehow 'flip' into the keyboard? If I am thinking of the right one?
I agree, no one is going to write a thesis with a touch screen keyboard. as it stands you can use any Bluetooth keyboard with an iPad, but there is no mouse option. I'm not sure how well mixing a keyboard without a mouse would work, it wouldn't appeal to me. I have seen an iPad docked into a keyboard which makes it a laptop, seemed a bit bizarre to me, as the keyboard was pretty heavy, bulky and was pricy too, IIRC. Worked out at nearly $1000, which is nuts. You'd have a great laptop for that price!
I suppose the flexibility is nice, but if you need a keyboard, I would really question if a tablet was the right device choice?
All of that said, if my choice was a tablet or a netbook, I would pick the tablet any day. Ive never found a netbook with with a decent keyboard yet.

bd250110

Any decent comparable Android tab is equally as expensive, if not more so than an iPad, so not sure what you are getting at there.

elderlemon wrote: »

Clicks into the dock and then folds shut like a laptop. To be honest its used in tablet mode about 70% of the time. The kids tend to use the keyboard for games and stuff which suits them. I just like the flexibility of it all. You use it in whatever mode suits you.

Definitely sounds good. Looking on-line, seems like a really good price, about the same price as the comparable iPad, a lot cheaper than the Xoom, Tab 10.1, etc. Just wondering what it is like to use on you lap? Presumably it is fairly top heavy with the screen open? Or do the additional batteries counter the weight of the screen?
Are there any word processing / spreadsheet / presentation software available yet?

mickoneill30

This thread isn't very lively. It might have gotten derailed by the pointless iPad chat. I thought I'd try waking it up.

Here's a few apps I found over the last couple of weeks that work well on tablets.

Face Costume - Honeycomb only. It's a bit of a laugh. Takes 12 photos of your face and messes with it. If you want to take photos of your messed up faces you have to get the paid version.

File Manager Honeycomb
Open Manager - I prefer the look of Open Manager but it doesn't have the option to map to a server like File Manger Honeycomb does.

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News 360 - Shows you a topic and then gives you the option to view it in several publications.

Then these aren't tablet specific but work well on a tablet with two players.
Four In A Line - Connect 4
Backgammon
Checkers Free

squire23

It looks like this app is great Mail App for Exchange. Just released.

Moxier Mail for Tablet
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.moxier.mail.tablet.trial

killbillvol2

A few I've come across recently:

Cut the Rope. Looks great on tablet and the extra space on screen really helps.

Battleship Solitaire. Scarily addictive, and FREE!

Just Pictures

Samurai II: Vengeance. Great gane for the bloodthirsty. Really shows off your tablet.

Wuala. Like Dropbox, but secure.

I must say I also really like Kindle for Android. I love that I can open a book on my phone when I'm sitting on a bus and it opens on the same page as I was reading on the tablet.

ronan.h

Not the busiest of threads

Recently picked up a Xoom and looking to stock it up

What are the must have apps??

captain P

Dolphin browser hd is a must, as is Pulse for news.
Tunein radio for streaming radio
Angry birds rio is great on my Transformer
Comixology is apparently great, but won't let me register at the moment.
Google body is a nice show-off app, not much use for it though.
Aldiko is a good reader.
Rockplayer lite for playing avi files etc.

killbillvol2

ronan.h wrote: »

Not the busiest of threads

Recently picked up a Xoom and looking to stock it up

What are the must have apps??

captain P wrote: »

Dolphin browser hd is a must, as is Pulse for news.
Tunein radio for streaming radio
Angry birds rio is great on my Transformer
Comixology is apparently great, but won't let me register at the moment.
Google body is a nice show-off app, not much use for it though.
Aldiko is a good reader.
Rockplayer lite for playing avi files etc.

The list linked in the OP is constantly updated.

There's a new Dolphin browser for tablets which is really nice. There's also a new media player called Diceplayer which plays HD mkvs but I'm having trouble buying it. Dev sats it's a market issue and he'll get it sorted. You can get the trial free for 3 days.

mickoneill30

I just got Splashtop HD for my Xoom.

It allows you to remotely control your PC from your tablet. If you play a video it appears on your tablet screen and when on a LAN it's possible to watch a video from your PC on the tablet.

I tested it tethered to my phone and when on 3G I can connect and control the PC. The video plays but it's not watchable. Loads of frames dropped.

It's not free but it's pretty cool.

mickoneill30

Has anybody got Facebook installed on their Honeycomb? I did before but I did a reset to defaults over the weekend and when I went to install Facebook yesterday it says it's not compatible.

If you check it here, the bar in the left shows you which devices it's compatible with.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.facebook.katana&feature=search_result

So is it just me? (I've a Xoom).

By the way a reset to defaults is worth it. I've had mine since April and filled it with crap. After the wipe and reinstall it runs much better. Most apps need minimal config to get them up and running again.

Ste-

Won't help with your facebook problem but you could try these

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158035

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156836

thirtythirty

Anyone tried Dual Web Browser yet?

Looks pretty good

mickoneill30

Ste- wrote: »

Won't help with your facebook problem but you could try these

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158035

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156836

Thanks for those. They look better than the old Facebook app looked on it before I wiped.

killbillvol2

Posted this in the main apps thread: NFL '11 for Android Tablets

It's really top notch if you're an NFL fan. (You need to "pretend" to be in the US to install but it works beautifully afterwards).

seanman is me

What's the best app for video calling to all platforms mostly other PC users? I have a Motorola xoom which does not support Skype video chat and Google talk is us only.