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Best Applications for Android
There are only a few applications in the market now, but I figured I'd start a thread for the future to share your recommendations on cool applications for Android. ShopSavvy made me think to make this thread, as it's something that seems incredibly useful in the future. All of us PPC lovers have been in a store and seen a price on something, saying "I wonder if I can get it cheaper"... Then we pull out the phone, hit up Google shopping or something of the like, and run a search... How nice would it be to just pull out the phone, open ShopSavvy, scan the bar code and immediately know if you're getting a good deal?
http://www.android.com/market.html
Description: "ShopSavvy is your shopping assistant. Using the camera in your phone, you can scan the barcode of any product to find the best prices on the internet and at nearby, local stores."
www.biggu.com
Movie and Music Streaming
i would like to see a program that will allow me to stream movies from my netflix account or stream music from my sirius subscription
dnyperez said:
i would like to see a program that will allow me to stream movies from my netflix account or stream music from my sirius subscription
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Well, for Sirius you need a satellite radio receiver... Not built into the hardware. Perhaps they'll come out with an application that you can pay like $8 a month for, like XM Radio Mobile for Windows Mobile, but definitely not true satellite radio as the phone just isn't capable. As for NetFlix, that'd have to be done by them, send them an email requesting it.
Probably won't get anything done, but ya never know, if they see money in it maybe they'll put something together.
i have sirius on my dash it works with my online subscription i would like to see that on my upcoming G1
i would like to see Music ID its a good app for music enthusiasts
ShopSavvy IS a really cool program, but it doesn't have a huge amount of stuff in the database it's using. I used the barcode reader on a few things in my house and the one thing it was able to was a book I had. When it works it is incredible, one of those "Holy crap that's cool" things.
GiZZy said:
i would like to see Music ID its a good app for music enthusiasts
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http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/ here are some of the winners who made apps for the g1 and gizzy you looking for this TuneWiki it is one of the winners
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http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/ here are some of the winners who made apps for the g1 and gizzy you looking for this TuneWiki it is one of the winners
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I thought i looked at all the winners but i guess somehow i missed that one, its a pretty good app. What i meant was you have a tune playing in the background and the app tells you what the song is, I didnt rly see that in the TuneWiki's features.
i know for a fact that there will prolly be new apps bout every week.. and they will all be the best
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I thought i looked at all the winners but i guess somehow i missed that one, its a pretty good app. What i meant was you have a tune playing in the background and the app tells you what the song is, I didnt rly see that in the TuneWiki's features.
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You are probably referring to Shazam, a program that's been a hit on the iphone. Good news, they're developing it for the Android platform.
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/17746/18770/shazam-developing-app-for-android.phtml
I'd love to see a pandora client as far as music goes. Sirius just axed my favorite music station (29) so it's not that big a deal for me having sirius streaming.
But given how sirius' streaming website works, coding a java app to log you in and get the station information and music streams wouldn't be a big deal at all.
I need to see an android version of eReader before I can by one.. Though they still do not support Blackberry, so I could wait a while....
That would be very slick
dnyperez said:
...i would like to see a program that will allow me to stream movies from my netflix account...
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UMA APP
I am hoping that an APP to add UMA can be created it's a shame T_MO did not demand this out of the box. It would have made the phone more aligned with being unique to T-mobile at launch
I know this is pretty much a NOOB question but we would have to buy the apps right?
beartard said:
I'd love to see a pandora client as far as music goes. Sirius just axed my favorite music station (29) so it's not that big a deal for me having sirius streaming.
But given how sirius' streaming website works, coding a java app to log you in and get the station information and music streams wouldn't be a big deal at all.
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That would be pretty pimp as well.
str8g1 said:
I know this is pretty much a NOOB question but we would have to buy the apps right?
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So far, they've said the first three months or so would be free-only apps, but that after that they would open the market up, at the developer's option, to charging for apps. Any developer can release his app for-pay, free, or even free/open-source.
Funambol
It may be of some interest to some of you, that a Funambol connector for Android is now available. It's open source software.
"The Funambol Push Email and PIM client for Android aims to synchronize Android email and pim data (contacts, calendar and notes) with a Funambol (or SyncML compliant) server."
You can run it on a desktop machine, or on a server (or exchange server), or through a third party server like my.funambol.com. Various connectors are available to synchronise contacts, and calendar, with a multitude of systems - client and server. The funambol connector runs on your android phone and connects to the server.
https://www.forge.funambol.org/participate/projects.html
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I believe google has also released a program which connects your exchange calendar to googles calendar.
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funambol is a little different. It will connect any client to any server. Clients now include Funambol, and servers include (but not exclusively - I've also used it with kolab for example) exchange. Funambol is very useful for connecting multi-platform clients (including non-smartphones as long as they have a syncML client) and servers. It may be useful on occasions when the google app isn't appropriate.
Of course the great thing is that there will very soon be a range of options. I'm not saying funambol is better, or worse, but it's certainly handy for people to know about.
I would like to see a few of my favorite apps that i have on dash on g1 such as 10 live or even better an english version lol. A program like the mp3 trimmer for the diamond so i can make my own ringtones would be awesome. Talking phrase books on learning different languages would be a plus as well since I'm trying to learn spanish.
Hello all!
I guess I'm a great mobile enthusiast rather than an expert.
I lost count lots of years ago, but for sure i'm past 50 smartphones owning... some for just a couple of weeks... from the "oldie" WinMobile (2003), android(1.5) (also 2 tablets already), iOS(1.0) i had them all...
I must say, as an owner of apple computers, i guess it's the main reason i always come back to iphone... it's a restrict OS, compared to the others, even with the jailbreak, no news here. but the sync is amazing!
I tried to look for such solutions like iTunes is for iOS on android, found some of course, but not complete!
Maybe i'm wrong, and then, can u point me on the right direction...
But wouldn't it be amazing the same concept as itunes for iOS ?
with a plug of a cable, we could get:
1-google sync with contacts and calendar is great, but could be done on this "droidsynccentral"
2-managing installed apps, just adding the apk to the library, and on pluging, installing/removing (on ios, the appsync hack)
3-music / photo / video / podcast etc library
4-full backup / restore
he who is used to do it all on the phone or connect SD as a usb drive maybe doesn't miss theese features, but i guess lots of you do, right?
So, is there any software that sorts this out? (win + mac or just mac?)
If not, anyone sees this as good idea to start an app?
Cheers!
Have you seen DoubleTwist?
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MyPhoneExplorer does most of these. I've been using it since my K800i days, but when the dev included Android, I haven't looked back. DoubleTwist does the media sync better than MyPhoneExplorer btw.
Ehm.. Hello.. I am Ahmed Nefzaoui.. I am a Mozilla Community member.. From Tunisia.. and a Mozilla Official Representative.
No one denies Firefox OS needs more Apps.. OR let's say needs more well performing Apps.. That's what I am aiming at making true.. Or making part of it true.. That is why I am asking around:
What Apps do you want to see on Firefox OS marketplace? Maybe the question should be: What apps you miss from Android or iOS that you want in Firefox OS?
Please list as many Apps as possible. Thanx!
A SSH client
Well, I am a sysadmin, not a developer.
Try port FirefoxSSH to Firefox OS
Calendar and address book app with full caldav and carddav support.
CPU control or something like this
Great ones But to be honest.. I was expecting kind of apps like productivity, utilities, news, weather + some style guides, custom UIs..
Remote desktop to windows machine.
Multimedia apps like NetFlix, Hulu, HBO Go, etc.
Launchers, so you can pick and choose the feel of the phone, etc.
How about "Personal Accounting Software" or like this?
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Great ones But to be honest.. I was expecting kind of apps like productivity, utilities, news, weather + some style guides, custom UIs..
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How about a fully customizable open source (!) dictionary software with full (!) support for StarDict?
Whatsapp. None other needed. I have sent a request to the developers but no response as yet. Rest not that necessary...
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Ahmed Nefzaoui said:
Ehm.. Hello.. I am Ahmed Nefzaoui..
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Im an android user ever since eclair and this apps make me stay on android os:
AIDE (on the Phone IDE and compiler)
AndFTP
AndroPHP (on the Phone PHP/MySQL Server)
Android Assistant (Multi-Purpose Phone Monitoring Tool)
Beats or DSP by CM (Sound Enhancement)
Control Panel for cPanel
Dj Studio
Droid VPN
Expense Manager
Fast Burst Camera
Firefox
FPse
Go SMS
gStrings
Guitar PRO
GameBoid
Genesis
Geroid
GBcoid
Halo/Multiwindow
Instagram
Jbed
Joooid
Link2SD
My Tracks
Mx Player
Nesoid
Nova Launcher
Open Bibles
Opera Mini
PPSSPP
Project NOAH
QuickPIC
Root Explorer
Shadyface
SMS Bomber
Sweep2wake
Titanium BackUP
uTorrent
I was browsing around and saw this thread. Good timing too!
I have been thinking a lot about Firefox OS and how it may be the best hope at open source seeing as how Google is slowly taking backing away from open sourcing and making things rely on their closed APIs.
Anyway, I've given it some thought and I've realized that for Firefox OS to ever succeed, it will really be up to the app developers that choose to port or write apps, and lastly OEMs.
I'm not sure the people got the idea as they're listing forms of apps that are non essential or third party entertainment, that will eventually make its way over once the OS gains numbers.
Netflix, emulators, games ...would be nice but not essential to my mobile device as a productivity device. I would love if all my apps could be ported, but that's being too hopeful.
Bare bones, at the minimum, these are the most essential things:
1) A good simple note taking app. Nothing fancy. Think of AK Notepad or ColorNote
2) An office suite like OfficeSuite by Mobile Systems. & A good PDF reader with annotation support like ezPDF Reader
3) A good ebook reader with multi format support, like Cool Reader or Aldiko
4) A Google Voice dialer app (GrooveIP) + SIP and VOIP capabilities
+ A built-in text/messaging app would beat any third party options
5) A good email and contact system. This is a must have. I want to see easy transfer of Gmail and Outlook contacts + no frills push notifications.
6) An intuitive stocks app. I want to be able to gains / loses and real time prices. Lock screen widget of this would be nice.
7) Maps + Navigation (This a must)
It doesn't have to be Google. Although it would be preferred.
8) News/RSS reader + an app like pocket or read it later. + Podcast support
+ A forums reader like Tapatalk
Bonus...
If you guys could get devs or companies on board...
Dropbox
Pandora
Microsoft's recently released remote desktop or another alternative like Splashtop
Might be moot, but maybe you guys can work together with Adobe to port Flash (I know it's a long shot given they called it quits on mobile)
whatsapp. zello, line,viber hangouts...
Thanks
Share files with a computer through wifi
Offline dictionary
Control PC
VPN
Thanks
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SMOKERBUNNY said:
whatsapp. zello, line,viber hangouts...
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Firefox OS WhatsApp reach before end of year
http://www.movilzona.es/2013/10/04/whatsapp-llegara-firefox-os-antes-de-final-de-ano/
VK, google maps, hangouts, guitar tuner, some country-specific apps like 2gis, yandex.traffic, anybalance.
Ahmed Nefzaoui said:
Ehm.. Hello.. I am Ahmed Nefzaoui.. I am a Mozilla Community member.. From Tunisia.. and a Mozilla Official Representative.
No one denies Firefox OS needs more Apps.. OR let's say needs more well performing Apps.. That's what I am aiming at making true.. Or making part of it true.. That is why I am asking around:
What Apps do you want to see on Firefox OS marketplace? Maybe the question should be: What apps you miss from Android or iOS that you want in Firefox OS?
Please list as many Apps as possible. Thanx!
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A MUST for me: Spotify
Not so neccesary: Instagram, Netflix, Photoshop Express, maybe Google Music, Snapchat, native Foursquare, Facebook Messenger...
For me the most needed smartphone apps are (not in this order.) : mail clients, chat clients, internet browser, navigation/maps, file manager, ssh/sftp clients, conversation recording (I'm using it very seldom, but it is a quite nice, almost important feature for me.), camera, sms , smart keyboards are quite nice also, notifications, calendar / task planners, video players... That's it I think.
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Before to get Apps,we need an Excelent App-Caching(the most important part in such OS) and the best Responsiveness we can get.
About Apps,i think you guys(Mozilla) should do a Campaign to incite/stimulate developers to port their existing apps to Firefos OS(i hope all Packaged apps,at least near all of them)so you won't have the need to code,or other stuff related.
I actually own an Alcatel one Touch Fire..as main phone,and i think this will be very handly,i have this hope in Mozilla.
We need an Official channel directly with the our mother(Mozilla) to have upgrades for our phones,cause carriers are going to do a Bottle-neck effect on our phone software,and to do this ,the best choice is to get prebuilded-builds,probably it's hard but not all the people can follow that loooong Wiki on how-to-build-it-your-self.
Take the idea to implement Node-Js,i think it will be helpful this guy already doing something http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374160
As Google and the others company,Mozilla need to do simple way to take care of his Users
about apps: OpenVpn,SSH,PC-remote controlling(i'm thinking about a Gnome-Mozilla Collaboration
If you ask me, Firefox has had "apps" almost from the beginning. They are called "addons" (or, before that, extensions) and they handled all sorts of tasks which, prior to that, had only been possible as standalone applications on your desktop.
So consider my disappointment in finding out that all these addons are gone from the Firefox OS browser. They cannot be installed, as far as I can tell. There is not even any Adblock Plus. To me, this is insane, because the addons are the Firefox browser's greatest strength. Can someone explain this to me?
Graphic calculator will be a nice addition
Screen dimmer/ color editor (to make it look more green or red or anything)
adblock?
Hei Azuz !did you read this?
we all replyed to you,can you show to us a conversation about you and this topic to Mozilla?
Hello guys. About half a year ago I created WAIL Beta — last.fm scrobbler for Android with pretty good and simple UI.
But I just have no enough time to provide support to it, so I decided to make it Open Source.
I am writing here with little hope, that xda developers can help WAIL app.
Little description of Last.fm: it's a service for those, who love music. Main feature — scrobbling, when you send information about playing tracks to the last.fm and service stores it and give you recommendations based on scrobbled music.
Main features of WAIL Beta:
Catching broadcast intents from Music Players and scrobbling playing music information
Updaiting #nowplaying on last.fm
Offline support (WAIL will send data when network will be available)
Minimalistic Holo UI, looks good on Android L too
Sound notifications feature
App architecture:
WAIL — What am I listening
1) Main part of the WAIL — WAILService, it handles info about music track states and decides what to do (scrobble, update #nowplaying and more)
2) BroadcastReceivers — they catches information from Music players on your Android device and send it to the WAILService
3) SQLite database with tracks info, it allows WAIL to work offline. WAILService periodically checks it
4) UI — all UI based on fragments, Main Activity supports tablets
Main features for future:
Support for RemoteClientController. It will allow WAIL to support about 90% of music players, because it's a common API from Android to work with media apps. For example, your lockscreen uses RemoteControllerClient to show and control playing music.
Showing current playing track on the Main Screen, many users does not understand what's going on at the moment, is WAIL catching something or not
Notifications in the status bar about scrobbling, #nowplaying updates and so on
Settings for control scrobbling in different types of network (mobile, wifi)
You can easily suggest your features in issues list on the GitHub!
Who could be interested in helping WAIL?
Serious Android developers, who want show their skills and help Android App Open Source project
Android newbies, developers who want to become more skilled in Android Development. I suggest you to create or take small issues and send pull requests with implementation.
WAIL users, who is also Java or Android developers and want to fix/change or add something to the WAIL
If you decided to help WAIL Beta app:
Thank you from me and WAIL users!
I created small WIKI with git commits styleguides, git flow on the project and styleguides about source code and resources, please check WIKI on the GitHub page of the project (I can not attach links at the moment)
Yep, succesfully merged pull requests from you will be deployed to the Google Play, to real users!
I will be project maintainer, I will check pull requests and help WAIL as developer at my free time
GitHub repo: http://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/android-wail-app
Also app can be found on the Google Play (WAIL Beta).
It is fully non-commercial.
You can ask questions about app or something else in this thread!
Use this app for a long time. Like it more than other lastfm scrobblers: it's easy to use, it's not buggy, it had a lot of features that other scrobblers don't have
Good luck to you, artem_zin and hope that community will like it too
Have a way to WAIL Beta work with MixZing or it has no compatibility with this player?
You'd better write to developer in cornments on Google play. He always give a quick reply
Thanks for this great App.
Now i can back to scrobble my music on CM13 phone.
Simple Last FM scrobbler wont work because stupid permission.
But this App work perfect and smoth
Kurajmo said:
Thanks for this great App.
Now i can back to scrobble my music on CM13 phone.
Simple Last FM scrobbler wont work because stupid permission.
But YouTube App work perfect and smoth
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I also tried this and it seems very useful, will get back to this thread if I find any bugs or errors with the services
kalakala said:
I also tried this and it seems very useful, will get back to this thread if I find any bugs or errors with the services
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Yup this App work perfect on my phone with cm13.
Stupid last FM official app is to heavy, and simple last FM scrobbler wont work.
Will no one ever pick this up and update it? Not that we really need one, but I'm sure last.fm will **** up their system sometime in thr future and this will require scrobblers to update.
voshchronos said:
Will no one ever pick this up and update it? Not that we really need one, but I'm sure last.fm will **** up their system sometime in thr future and this will require scrobblers to update.
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It would be nice if it worked with Apple Music on Android, for starters.
I still cant see this fantastic app in my country store (Poland, cant write comment)
Not working for Apple Music for Android. There is no app available for Apple Music
I think the app needs to require notification access to get to scrobble Apple Music tracks. Is there any way to implement this option ?
Hey, found a little bug with the Samsung Music app on my S8. Wail can´t detect the title of the playing track, it always scrobbles things like Metallica -null
just took a look, it scrobbles as now playing to last.fm (with title and interpret), but last fm wont save the scrobble. Working great on poweramp
Will you add a feature to upload your data to Libre fm?
it keeps crashing on Nougat (samsung a5)
Wont work on Huawei Honor 4c stock Android 6.0
Simply not scrobble anything from any music player. I use AIMP from Play Store
Any news about this app? Its really handy for last.fm users
it's a shame to see this app not updated because it used to work great for me
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it still works on my Xperia Z LineageOS 14.1 nightly builds.......
but love to see it updated.
alternative: Pano Scrobbler
Huawei Y6 Slim OS 7
Android 7.1.2
Not work.
Alternative is Scrobbal for last.fm
Has anyway been able to successfully import this to android studio lately?
Hi all!
I'm been searching on google for quite a while, but can't find any information in regards to the number of active android wear users. I'd also like to know advanced information such as how much is spent on android wear apps etc as I'm thinking of developing a game for the platform. It would also be handy to have the same statistics for the apple watch if possible. Does anyone have any idea where I can find the data I'm looking for?
Cheers!
I'd also be curious to see this data. Doesn't help that the likes of Apple won't release their sales figures, and the top charts for Android Wear apps include both apps for the watch and apps that are really meant for the phone and do very little for the watch beyond push notifications.