Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Abelloid

paddy2k wrote: »

It's quality Irish software engineering.
Myself and a guy from Spain have made the Firefox extension.
Plus the main project its led by an Irish lad from Google

Nice one. It's one of my top Firefox plugins, very simple but effective.

eoferrall

There's now an app on the market for checking your used & remaining units in your bill for o2 and meteor customers.

search for 'mobile account checker' and you got it!

handy little app, no need to book mark the o2 page now!

Brian

paddy2k wrote: »

It's quality Irish software engineering.
Myself and a guy from Spain have made the Firefox extension.
Plus the main project its led by an Irish lad from Google

Any plans to do a Firefox equivalent of android2cloud?
http://lifehacker.com/5604248/android2cloud-opens-urls-from-your-phone-in-chrome

5starpool

paddy2k wrote: »

It's quality Irish software engineering.
Myself and a guy from Spain have made the Firefox extension.
Plus the main project its led by an Irish lad from Google

When I install Chrome to Phone on my Desire it says unable to connect using one of the gmail accounts linked on my phone.

Any ideas? I have the plugin above for firefox installed on my browser.

vengeance52

5starpool wrote: »

When I install Chrome to Phone on my Desire it says unable to connect using one of the gmail accounts linked on my phone.

Any ideas? I have the plugin above for firefox installed on my browser.

It only supports 2.2 i think. What are you running?

5starpool

vengeance52 wrote: »

It only supports 2.2 i think. What are you running?

Stock 2.2, upgraded at the weekend.

ru437z9t8fidq2

hey just wondering if ye know if both the hero and legend would be able for all these apps yere talking about?... trying to decide what model to get atm...

vengeance52

Lorelei Plump Farm wrote: »

hey just wondering if ye know if both the hero and legend would be able for all these apps yere talking about?... trying to decide what model to get atm...

I have the Legend and I have lots of these Apps. I love my Legend

ru437z9t8fidq2

so youd reccommend tha legend so?... hows your battery?

vengeance52

Lorelei Plump Farm wrote: »

so youd reccommend tha legend so?... hows your battery?

Yes. the case is nice and comfortable in my hand or pocket. Using Advance Task Killer i get 2 days with average usage, or just over a day with heavy usage. I love this phone

ru437z9t8fidq2

cool... ya mighta just made my mind up...

partyatmygaff

Lorelei Plump Farm wrote: »

so youd reccommend tha legend so?... hows your battery?

You should get a Desire tbh. It beats the Legend on all accounts barring looks and the price difference between both is negligible.

5starpool

partyatmygaff wrote: »

You should get a Desire tbh. It beats the Legend on all accounts barring looks and the price difference between both is negligible.

I haven't seen a Legend up close, but I can't see how people think it is a better looking phone? The Desire isn't the best looking phone out there, but it is better than the legend imo.

TheIrishGrover

Nimbuzz update now supports SkypeOut. (Meaning you can now use your Skype credit to dial numbers)

Abelloid

5starpool wrote: »

I haven't seen a Legend up close, but I can't see how people think it is a better looking phone? The Desire isn't the best looking phone out there, but it is better than the legend imo.

It's the aluminium case, which I hear will be used on the new Desire.

Krusty_Clown

JohnK wrote: »

I filled in the form the day it was announced but I've still not heard anything

As per the App Inventor thread, I got my invite this morning, so they seem to be rolling them out at the moment.

BopNiblets

Awesome Drop, push files over wifi to your phone!

Bookmark this: http://labs.dashwire.com/drop
Download this:


Very convenient, no hooking up to your USB cable anymore (unless you're transferring huge files)

Edit: bah beaten to it a few pages back.

youcancallmeal

I find Multicon quite useful, fit 4 icons in the space of one

madmoe

Multicin and Awsome drop are both great apps, been using them for a while.

Anyone know a way to permenanlty disable the stock music app? I have TuneWiki which I love but the stock app seems to keep popping up when least wanted!!

JohnM81

• A Top 10 (unordered) list of my most recommended FREE apps from the Android Market.
• List does not include any apps pre-installed with Android version 2.2 (Froyo).

Would be interesting to see other similar listings. Plenty of other FREE apps i've yet to find and try out !

1. Cabbage -- free texting using your webtexts
2. AndWobble -- hours of fun, and happens to cost $1.99 on the App Store !
3. Fake-Call Me -- better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it
4. Picsay photo editor -- excellent picture editing app, easy to use and fun
5. Astro File Manager -- if you like poking around with your phones files then look no further
6. Google Sky Map -- truly amazing app, we are officially the spoilt generation !
7. Gmail -- if your a gmail user
8. Twitter -- if your the tweeting type
9. Memory Trainer -- brain training game, only started to use it but already addicted
10. Advanced Task Killer -- one of the best, a must if your not happy with battery performance

squire23

About 5 threads down below this....
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055658304

JohnM81

Cheers Squire! I was specifically looking at a Top 10 'Free' apps/games list for android, i'm just new here too but it's really nice to know that 'someone' can delete the thread i created and then re-post it to another thread without even notifying me...

PH4T

Anyone recommend any good paid games to while away those hours stuck in airports etc?

So far I have Robo Defense and Barrr.

eoferrall

JohnM81 wrote: »

Cheers Squire! I was specifically looking at a Top 10 'Free' apps/games list for android, i'm just new here too but it's really nice to know that 'someone' can delete the thread i created and then re-post it to another thread without even notifying me...

Mods are all powerful, they can merge threads all they like!

eoferrall

PH4T wrote: »

Anyone recommend any good paid games to while away those hours stuck in airports etc?

So far I have Robo Defense and Barrr.

Abduction, free version is excellent - not going to get paid till after my exams. very simple but I find highly addictive!

Goodshape

5starpool wrote: »

I haven't seen a Legend up close, but I can't see how people think it is a better looking phone? The Desire isn't the best looking phone out there, but it is better than the legend imo.

+1. Not seen it up close but from pictures it looks like an ugly silver monolith of a thing.

I actually think the Desire is a great looking phone. In the Android side of things, maybe just behind the Nexus One for good looks. And I love the feel of the kinda rubbery matt finish back to it.


Anyroad... eh, back on topic... I've finally gotten around to setting up Tasker. Awesome app!

Mr E

What kind of profiles have you set up, Goodshape?

Goodshape

A couple of simple one's so far... it kinda feels like my imagination is the only limiter here

'At home' -- turn wifi on.

'Plugged in' -- turn on GPS, WiFi, blutooth and auto updates, keep screen active for longer.

'Battery 20%' -- basically the reverse of plugged in. Also quits certain apps, like Talk.

Zagato

PH4T wrote: »

Anyone recommend any good paid games to while away those hours stuck in airports etc?

So far I have Robo Defense and Barrr.

I find My Paper Plane 2 pretty good/addictive lite version available for free to try.

Zagato

Goodshape wrote: »

A couple of simple one's so far... it kinda feels like my imagination is the only limiter here

'At home' -- turn wifi on.

'Plugged in' -- turn on GPS, WiFi, blutooth and auto updates, keep screen active for longer.

'Battery 20%' -- basically the reverse of plugged in. Also quits certain apps, like Talk.

For At home, I presume you are using location. I have this set up too, using network location. Usually switches on fine, but doesn't switch off when I leave home, which it is supposed to happen as an exit task.
Does it work for you?

Goodshape

Zagato wrote: »

For At home, I presume you are using location. I have this set up too, using network location. Usually switches on fine, but doesn't switch off when I leave home, which it is supposed to happen as an exit task.
Does it work for you?

It will still be running the 'at home' profile when you leave, or it will exit the profile but not revert your settings?

I'll test it a bit more this evening.. the 'at home' profile is the only location based one I've got currently. And the only thing it does is switch on wifi -- which I usually have on anyway, so I wouldn't expect it to turn off when I leave (it will "revert" my setting, which is still 'on').

I'll turn wifi off before I go home this evening and see how it works when I get there and leave again.

Zagato

It's a bit of both.
I need to use a proxy to use wifi at work (this is my biggest gripe with android) so not on during the day. It always switches wifi home when I get home. When I got into work in this morning, the at home profile was still active so I went into maps (which does have a profile to switch on GPS) to see where it thought I was, it knew where I was, and then when I checked which profiles were active again, there were none active, but wifi was still on:(

Interested to see how it works for you, and what radius you use.

kearneybobs

Anyone know if paddy power has released a mobile app for Android?
I know they have an ipod/iphone app. Anynews when It's coming?

JohnM81

eoferrall wrote: »

Mods are all powerful, they can merge threads all they like!

The later of your comment appears to be true...
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca.

vengeance52

5starpool wrote: »

I haven't seen a Legend up close, but I can't see how people think it is a better looking phone? The Desire isn't the best looking phone out there, but it is better than the legend imo.

I have the legend and the case has a nice feel, comfortable in your hand and i think the one piece aluminum looks great.

Goodshape

Zagato wrote: »

Interested to see how it works for you, and what radius you use.

Radius is set to 200m. Using Net and GPS although GPS was switched off as I went home.

I'm going to reduce it from 200m as that seems like quite a lot actually... but it seemed to switch on the WiFi OK, and switch it off again when I went out. So far no problems!

yabadabado

Anyone know if there is a betting calculator on the market, i cant find one?
This type of thing all the betting sites have them.
http://betcalculator.paddypower.com/start.php?lang=en

Keano

briankearon666 wrote: »

Anyone know if paddy power has released a mobile app for Android?
I know they have an ipod/iphone app. Anynews when It's coming?

It's on its way. I sent a tweet to @askPaddyPower and the came back telling me their development team was working on it

kc66

New Chrome to Phone app out. Havent tried it yet as it requires Froyo but could be handy on the odd occasion. Might install Froyd Villain soon.

BopNiblets

I am enjoying this game called Hungry Shark!

Om nom nom nom, great fun!

squire23

Keano A Legend wrote: »

It's on its way. I sent a tweet to @askPaddyPower and the came back telling me their development team was working on it

They all say that

JohnM81

Bluefoam wrote: »

Name: Flixter Movies
very cool, find cinema times & reviews - uses gps to locate cinemas near you
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:net.flixster.android

Are you using Flixster Movies app in Ireland? Maybe i'm doing something wrong but Flixster is not available or even found on the Android Market for Irish users. I'm a big fan of rotten tomatoes myself so a bit disappointed about this...

28064212

JohnM81 wrote: »

Are you using Flixster Movies app in Ireland? Maybe i'm doing something wrong but Flixster is not available or even found on the Android Market for Irish users. I'm a big fan of rotten tomatoes myself so a bit disappointed about this...

It's not available on the Irish Market. What you can do is get the SlideMe.org "alternative market" app instead (search for Mobentoo on the Market). Install that, then you can use it to install Flixster

JohnM81

28064212 wrote: »

It's not available on the Irish Market. What you can do is get the SlideMe.org "alternative market" app instead (search for Mobentoo on the Market). Install that, then you can use it to install Flixster

That works a treat, sound man! Now to re located all those other apps that i passed out for the same reason

JohnM81

BigAl81 wrote: »

I can't install Flixter or Babbler, they dont show up in market searches and any links I find don't work either? Do I need a UK sim for these???

Not sure if you got a response on this or not, it's a pretty long thread! In case you didn't try the below out, compliments of 28064212.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67451743&postcount=594

JohnM81

Baza210 wrote: »

What do you mean one click? Once you link your google checkout account it essentially is one click.

you wont see one click ordering until its licensed by amazon.com who happen to hold a patent for this - no flies on them lads!

budhabob

BopNiblets wrote: »

I am enjoying this game called Hungry Shark!

Om nom nom nom, great fun!

This isnt on the market is it? couldnt find it, and it looks like a good laugh.

cakesnjelly

Without having to look through 40 pages of this thread can anyone tell me if there's an app that i can keep certain files in that i don't want others to see that has a password. Thanks

evolutionqy7

cakesnjelly wrote: »

Without having to look through 40 pages of this thread can anyone tell me if there's an app that i can keep certain files in that i don't want others to see that has a password. Thanks

trying to hide the porn? there's a search button on the top right corner aswell you got bing/google

Darksaga87

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

trying to hide the porn? there's a search button on the top right corner aswell you got bing/google

Maybe hes a secret agent?