My Personal Essential Android Apps List

8/13/2019 My Personal Essential Android Apps List

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MY PERSONAL ESSENTIAL ANDROID APPS LIST (ALSO, FOR

AUSTIN)

NOT COMPREHENSIVE. JUST POINTERS. I 'M NOT EVEN LISTING THINGS LIKE

DROPBOX NOW (DUH)

ESSENTIALS

DEFINED BY HOW SOON I INSTALL AFTER GETTING NEW PHONE.

ES file explorer - absolute must. Must have fileexplorer.

O A LOT OF ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS:o dropbox (box, gdrive, skydrive...) browsing

support, integrated task manager, integrated appmanager, etc

Display Brihgtness by RubberBigPepper - brightnesscontrol from anywhere any time. One of the first toinstall for me. I put it left center, big, and volumestyle.

Helium (formerly Carbon) - backup. If you do notroot (if), this is a good easy to use backup solution.

Not quite as powerful as Titanium Backup, but noroot required.


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Juice Defender - prolong battery life. It made a greatdifference for Nexus4. Not sure if it will be asneeded/useful for Nexus 5, but assume it will.

Night filter by digipom - when using phone in thedark, even lowest brightness is too much. Unlike

other 'night filter' apps, this one lets you adjust notonly brightness, but also the temperature of the filter(color tint). PS: for night reading, make it warmer.

MX player - arguably the best general media player podiversity - was my goto podcast app, but it

changed business model and functionality now. solooking for replacement.

o Allpodcast is pretty great. but the play rendereritself is a bit clunky.

NEW Stitcher Radio. New top choice. Great UI,simple, streamlined. However, different philosophy.It's more like web 2.0 radio than a podcastdownloading app... Very good though. Does notseem to have a function to download specific episodeoffline. Only to cache a station in general... Hm.

Google goggles - functions as QR reader, businesscard reader, and much more.

Chrome browser - choice #1o used to use Dolphin and Maxthon


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Swiftkey keyboard - it's recommendation engine isjust mind blowing (not really given it's input ofpersonalized data. It just works very well). It

manages well even though I write in Czech and inEnglish

o before Swiftkey I was using Swype. But now bothSwiftkey and Google default keyboard incorporatedSwype's technology... and I still prefer Swifkey.

Google Play Music - works well and frees tons ofspace on phone

ANNOTATION AND READING

Adobe reader - got much better over time and is avery capable reader/annotator. However, it does notallow highlighting and annotating in text reflow

mode. Argh. ezPDF reader - the most powerful of them all. truly.

but not the most easy to use one or the nicest. lookslike an engineer made it.

o great column locking and the fine text reflow. newtext reflow is superb, but no annotation support

while in it. repligo reader - I keep coming back. compared to

exPDF or others, its functionality is limited, however,it's the est to just read and annotate simply. Superb


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text reflow that allows annotating (it's the onlyreader that does that!)

fb reader - for not-a-pdfso also Aldiko, which is powerful to the hilt, if you

need it. unless you read ebooks, no need...

MISC

pattrn - I just love this app to death. not sure why. Ijust love patters changing on my background. I have

it set so that it's different every day.

contacts+ - was a must for previous version ofAndroid, but the new contacts integration into thedefault caller app seems just fine in Kit Kat.

franco.Kernel updater - if you root, this gives you alot of superpowers. like seriously.

wifi tether router by Fabio Grasso - if you root, thisone just works. (yay!)

o if you don't root, use ClockworkMod Tether Duolingo - good language software, good app. songza - great service, great app. better than last.fm

or pandora.

Do it (Tomorrow) by Adylitica - I like this simpleTODO list.


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firefox - cause it's good to have more browsers justin case

CSIP simple - best SIP application if you know whatit is and need one

yelp - totally folder sync - very powerful especially if the

connection is shotty. I use this to sync changes indocs I annotate to my cloud services and more. Usedit to get music on my phone from cloud long beforeGoogle Music was born.

o if you only have Dropbox, Dropsync performs greatand may be easier to use.

airdroid - usefful sometimes, but can be slow. IVONA text to speech - if you are to use text-to-

speech, these are amazing. I liked Kendra UK thebest I think

onenote - no brainer, if you use it on desktop evernote - no brainer if yo don't use onenote google keep - no brainer if you don't use evernote or

onenote timeriffic - if you have any sort of set schedule (aka

student...), this is invaluable. Haven't used it sincecollege though.


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skype, duh default app manager lite - can be useful sometimes.

olive office - before google made their own ms officeediting tools a few months back, this was the onlyfree and capable word, excel, etc editor

diigo - if u use it on desktop. otherwise the androidapp is not too good.

twitter - still using the official app, but open toreplacing

tumblr - really cool android app

GAMES

robot unicorn attack 2 - the flow and the graphicsare amazing

candy crush saga - is just interesting. greatscaffolding and game mechanics in general. this is

one of the apps that makes the most money despitebeing technically free! it's useful to see/experiencehow they do it.

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