The ever-growing Android Market is flooded with apps that never cease to push the boundaries for better user experience. These apps number by the hundreds of thousands, well past the halfway mark towards a million by now, but not all of them are crowd favorites. Here are some apps that are nice to have in your android.
1. Facebook
Facebook for Android is the official Facebook App which allows you to communicate with your friends, family and clients right from your Phone. With the Facebook Android App, you can send messages to anybody on your friends’ list anytime, and you can do real-time chat too.
The app also gives you the option to update your status and photos. It also syncs your Phone contacts with Facebook friends and shows Facebook data in your Contact.
2. WhatsApp
Essential app for every Android phone, if you're not using WhatsApp, then how exactly are you communicating? As long as both phones have WhatsApp and have a data or Wi-Fi connection, then you can make free calls and send messages for free. You can also share photos and videos to your Contacts for free. WhatsApp is ubiquitous, like Facebook, and is easily the most popular instant messaging app in the world.
3. Facebook Messenger
Of course, where Facebook goes, Facebook Messenger is soon to follow. If you want to chat on Facebook, you now have to do it via Facebook's Messenger app, as the chat function no longer exists in the official Facebook app.
4. Twitter
Tweet right from your Android Phone and update your status instantly. You can follow your friends to see what’s going on with them.
Other features of this app include Tweets, Retweets, the Follow option, photo and link sharing, and direct messages to your Followers.
5. Instagram
Instagram is available on Android! This app lets you apply a variety of photo filters and effects after capturing photos within the app before you share it with other Instagram users.
6. Dropbox
Dropbox lets you expand your internal storage into a cloud based backup of everything that's important to you. Music, photos, files and more can be saved, accessed on all your devices and restored if you ever lose your phone.
7. Avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus
The most popular feature is the app which gives you the ability to create photos with the Tilt-Shift effect.
The chances that you'll actually encounter malware for your Android are pretty slim—but it's a chance not worth taking. Avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus comes packed not only with anti-malware tools, but anti-theft tools, privacy tools, and more besides. It's also got an unbeatable price tag: free. If you're willing to spend a bit of cash, Bitdefender is choice for paid Android security apps. You should also familiarize yourself with Android Device Manager, which is a good backup to the your security apps' anti-theft tools.
8. Google Drive
Google Drive is a great cloud storage service, but it does double duty as an excellent mobile office suite. With Drive, you can access your important files from anywhere; create new spreadsheet, text, and presentation documents; and collaborate with other people, all from your Android. Throw Quickoffice into the mix, and you'll be able to create and edit MS Officedocuments on the go.
9. Google Chrome
1. Facebook
Facebook for Android is the official Facebook App which allows you to communicate with your friends, family and clients right from your Phone. With the Facebook Android App, you can send messages to anybody on your friends’ list anytime, and you can do real-time chat too.
The app also gives you the option to update your status and photos. It also syncs your Phone contacts with Facebook friends and shows Facebook data in your Contact.
2. WhatsApp
Essential app for every Android phone, if you're not using WhatsApp, then how exactly are you communicating? As long as both phones have WhatsApp and have a data or Wi-Fi connection, then you can make free calls and send messages for free. You can also share photos and videos to your Contacts for free. WhatsApp is ubiquitous, like Facebook, and is easily the most popular instant messaging app in the world.
3. Facebook Messenger
Of course, where Facebook goes, Facebook Messenger is soon to follow. If you want to chat on Facebook, you now have to do it via Facebook's Messenger app, as the chat function no longer exists in the official Facebook app.
4. Twitter
Tweet right from your Android Phone and update your status instantly. You can follow your friends to see what’s going on with them.
Other features of this app include Tweets, Retweets, the Follow option, photo and link sharing, and direct messages to your Followers.
5. Instagram
Instagram is available on Android! This app lets you apply a variety of photo filters and effects after capturing photos within the app before you share it with other Instagram users.
6. Dropbox
Dropbox lets you expand your internal storage into a cloud based backup of everything that's important to you. Music, photos, files and more can be saved, accessed on all your devices and restored if you ever lose your phone.
7. Avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus
The most popular feature is the app which gives you the ability to create photos with the Tilt-Shift effect.
The chances that you'll actually encounter malware for your Android are pretty slim—but it's a chance not worth taking. Avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus comes packed not only with anti-malware tools, but anti-theft tools, privacy tools, and more besides. It's also got an unbeatable price tag: free. If you're willing to spend a bit of cash, Bitdefender is choice for paid Android security apps. You should also familiarize yourself with Android Device Manager, which is a good backup to the your security apps' anti-theft tools.
8. Google Drive
Google Drive is a great cloud storage service, but it does double duty as an excellent mobile office suite. With Drive, you can access your important files from anywhere; create new spreadsheet, text, and presentation documents; and collaborate with other people, all from your Android. Throw Quickoffice into the mix, and you'll be able to create and edit MS Officedocuments on the go.
9. Google Chrome
Browse fast on your Android phone and tablet with the Google Chrome browser you love on desktop. Pick up where you left off on your other devices with tab sync, search by voice, and save up to 50% of data usage while browsing.
10. Waze
Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, fuel and improve daily commuting for all.
Just by driving with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic information to your local community. You can also actively report accidents, police and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts along your route and find the cheapest fuel prices around you shared by the community. Plus, you can add friends, send location or keep others posted on your arrival time.
11. Google Photos
Google Photos was unveiled at Google I/O 2015 and made headlines for being a free app which offers unlimited photo and video storage (though there are some restrictions on file types).
Photos combines automatic backup, sharing and editing functions, as well as just about the best photo organization tool you can find, to create a powerful photo app which is hard to beat. Seriously, every gallery app should have "click and drag" style selection, shouldn't it?
12. Evernote
Evernote is your digital multitool. It’s a great list keeper, note taker, voice recorder, to-do manager, and web clipper. It's so open and powerful that it's overwhelming at first, but you'll quickly find smart ways to use it. My favorite feature? Optical Character Recognition, which makes text in photos searchable.
While you can use Evernote for just about everything, you might start to feel that a standalone app will serve you better. Take a look at Any.do for to-do lists and Pocket for web-clipping.
13. Any.do Task List & To-do
If you want to expand your horizons from the Google Keep world, there are many list and task apps which are actually really good, like Any.do Task List & To-do List. It’s got it all in one clean-looking user interface.
You can make multiple kinds of lists, like for chores, shopping lists etc, as well as attach videos, photos and Dropbox files. The lists can be shared with colleagues or family members. There’s also an Any.do Moment feature which is a daily planner that has received a lot of praise.
14. Snapseed
Your Android probably has a camera attached to it. Take those pictures from good to great on the go with Snapseed. This handy photo editor has tons of features and fine-grain controls so your pictures come out perfect. If you're in a hurry, the app also has powerful autocorrect features to boot.
Looking for something to do with your nicely edited images? Share them on Instagram, or try to fill up your free terabyte of space by uploading all of them to Flickr.
15. VLC
VLC is the app for every Android. If you want to play any media file on Android, VLC is the one app that can handle everything. VLC is technically still in beta, but it is already just as awesome as you'd expect it to be when it's finished.
10. Waze
Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, fuel and improve daily commuting for all.
Just by driving with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic information to your local community. You can also actively report accidents, police and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts along your route and find the cheapest fuel prices around you shared by the community. Plus, you can add friends, send location or keep others posted on your arrival time.
11. Google Photos
Google Photos was unveiled at Google I/O 2015 and made headlines for being a free app which offers unlimited photo and video storage (though there are some restrictions on file types).
Photos combines automatic backup, sharing and editing functions, as well as just about the best photo organization tool you can find, to create a powerful photo app which is hard to beat. Seriously, every gallery app should have "click and drag" style selection, shouldn't it?
12. Evernote
Evernote is your digital multitool. It’s a great list keeper, note taker, voice recorder, to-do manager, and web clipper. It's so open and powerful that it's overwhelming at first, but you'll quickly find smart ways to use it. My favorite feature? Optical Character Recognition, which makes text in photos searchable.
While you can use Evernote for just about everything, you might start to feel that a standalone app will serve you better. Take a look at Any.do for to-do lists and Pocket for web-clipping.
13. Any.do Task List & To-do
If you want to expand your horizons from the Google Keep world, there are many list and task apps which are actually really good, like Any.do Task List & To-do List. It’s got it all in one clean-looking user interface.
You can make multiple kinds of lists, like for chores, shopping lists etc, as well as attach videos, photos and Dropbox files. The lists can be shared with colleagues or family members. There’s also an Any.do Moment feature which is a daily planner that has received a lot of praise.
14. Snapseed
Your Android probably has a camera attached to it. Take those pictures from good to great on the go with Snapseed. This handy photo editor has tons of features and fine-grain controls so your pictures come out perfect. If you're in a hurry, the app also has powerful autocorrect features to boot.
Looking for something to do with your nicely edited images? Share them on Instagram, or try to fill up your free terabyte of space by uploading all of them to Flickr.
15. VLC
VLC is the app for every Android. If you want to play any media file on Android, VLC is the one app that can handle everything. VLC is technically still in beta, but it is already just as awesome as you'd expect it to be when it's finished.
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