Good Android Apps - free or otherwise - recommendations please

[Ham]

Tbh while they may help a little, I'm finding the stars and reviews relatively uncritical, with pretty eye candy scoring higher than functionality.

Tools wise I've got
Advanced Task Manager (paid for version now)
Clean Master
WiFi Manager
Speed test
Avast (not convinced it will stay long term)

Utility wise
Scan for Android
Go Locker

General
Tapatalk
Skype
Opera

Navigation & Transport
Everytrail (paid)
LT Pro
National Rail

Plus a few others, just because

[andyoxon]

Avast do an anti-theft app.  Worth bothering with, or something else?   Tracking your phone or some sort of remote nukeing?   

[tom_e]

Avast do an anti-theft app.  Worth bothering with, or something else?   Tracking your phone or some sort of remote nukeing?   

Google just did one themselves.  Tracking, wiping, and ringing functions:

https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

[Woofage]

Bike nerd alert:
linky

[Jacomus]

My most used apps are:

Google Keep
iGoogle (Surprisingly powerful public transport planner via Google Maps. Outrageously accurate timings)
Google Maps
Wikipedia
LastPass
Facebook
LT Free (Really good, if a little clunky, London transport planning app. Synched to TfL data, so you can find out how long your next bus will be, closures etc. Journey time estimation is impressively accurate.)
National Rail
London Tube Map (Works offline)

Hardly used, but fun.
QR Droid Private - Reads or makes QR and XQR codes.

[andyoxon]

Avast do an anti-theft app.  Worth bothering with, or something else?   Tracking your phone or some sort of remote nukeing?   

Google just did one themselves.  Tracking, wiping, and ringing functions:

https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

I tried to start this on mini ao's and my phone, both times "locational unavailable".  wifi & GPS were on...

[tom_e]

Hmm.  Just tried it on mine and it worked.  Obviously not the most reliable then.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Apologies if this has been mentioned.

Amazon Kindle app.

Free to install. Comes with a number of free books (mine had the first 4 Game of Thrones books + 3 others).

[cycleman]

i have that on my nexus 7 and it now says app not working . i can find no way of getting it working so i have lost some the books  .still it still works on the laptop.  . the Amazon app store keeps crashing as well  .

[fuaran]

Any decent apps for viewing photos stored on a network drive / NAS?
It would be nice if I could use my tablet as a digital photo frame, so browsing photos or viewing a slideshow, for photos on the NAS (standard SMB share, or I could setup a DLNA server if necessary).
I've tried a couple of apps for this - "Digital Photo Frame" looks good, but seems a bit unreliable at connecting to the server. Or "Slideshow.net", but it only does slideshows, not browsing and viewing a particular photo.

[Ham]

I would have thought picasa might be worth a try? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=larry.zou.colorfullife

[Ham]

Just found this - an app that mimics all your loyalty cards - if it works I will be very happy. Although US based, it knows Tesco, Nectar etc

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.froogloid.kring.google.zxing.client.android

[Sergeant Pluck]

Catch seems to work well:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.threebanana.notes&feature=search_result

Not any more - they've killed it. For some reason I either didn't get, or completely forgot that I'd received, any notification of this so I was glad to become aware of it today and export the contents to a text file.

[hbunnet]

Viewranger  http://www.viewranger.com/en-gb

A GPS and maps application. For UK uses OSM (free) or OS maps (pay). OS 1:50 000 are reasonably priced too.  Also allows free download of OS 1:250 000 map which I use a lot.

[andyoxon]

Google translate app is amazing.  You select translation languages, then speak, write, or take an image of text (highlighting area of interest), and it will translate it, and speak it for you.   

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en

[rusky]

What can I say?? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kch.Elevator3D

[MikeFromLFE]

Not had my Android phone long, but my brain is being fried with the capabilities of an app called "llama" which uses location awareness (not GPS reliant as it uses cell towers) to perform pre-defined actions. For example you can set it to set your phone to silent, turn off Bluetooth and run Angry Birds as soon as you arrive at work; or only when at home at 11pm turn your phone to silent until 7am.
Very clever and as complixcated as you want it.

[Sergeant Pluck]

Clean Master

Is there any real benefit to these "cleaning" apps in Android? Whatever is being cleaned seems to reappear within moments.

[pcolbeck]

Will definitely want a good RPN calculator with stack type function (HP Stylee).

Free42 works on Android (and Windows, Linux, OSX and IOS) and is a full simulation of the HP 42s. Default skin is HP42s but there are other skins for it.

Free42

[LEE]

Google translate app is amazing.  You select translation languages, then speak, write, or take an image of text (highlighting area of interest), and it will translate it, and speak it for you.   

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en

Word Lens (for modern Android phones and iPhones) is amazing.

Don't believe me?  This is a photo of my phone running Word lens.

[Kim]

Word Lens (for modern Android phones and iPhones) is amazing.

Don't believe me?  This is a photo of my phone running Word lens.

Coolest thing since DanKam!

[Biggsy]

Mind you don't get burnt at the stake.  That's pure witchcraft.

There's no version for BlackBerry. 

[urban_biker]

Looks like potentially a killer app for Google Glass! Would be amazing if you could just put on a pair of glasses while abroad and just read everything you see.

Google Ear to be the next hardware?

[Kim]

The one I'm looking forward to is realtime subtitling of humans (in whatever language).  We're not there yet, but it'll be a game-changer when it happens.

[urban_biker]

Yes - and its increasingly looking like when, not if. I suspect within ten years, maybe five this will all be just common place. Should make foreign travel a lot more fun.

Now all we need is a warp drive, oh and matter transference.