How's the Android app? The most necessary applications for Android
Today, Android is undoubtedly the most popular mobile operating system, used equally well on smartphones and tablets. Hundreds of thousands of applications have been written for this OS, so it is not at all surprising that beginners Android users It is very difficult to decide which programs you need to install on your device first.
We decided to dedicate this short post to newcomers who have recently joined the huge army of admirers of this most popular. Below is a list of ten applications that we believe should be installed on any Android device one way or another.
Antiviruses
Since Android is considered, and quite rightly, not only the most popular, but also the most vulnerable operating system, the first thing after purchasing a tablet or smartphone running this OS is to install a good antivirus program. Which antivirus is better is a rather rhetorical question and there can be as many opinions on this matter as there are users.
We can only say one thing - the antivirus program must be developed by a well-known, reputable company, have real-time protection and be regularly updated.
Backup
GO Backup Pro– simpler and easier to use, boasts a user-friendly interface. Backup contacts, messages, settings, applications, apps data. You can work with or without root. Synchronization with .
G Cloud Backup – quite powerful and convenient program for synchronizing and backing up data in the cloud. Supports backup of settings, messages, contacts, photos, audio and video, documents, contents of external SD cards, etc. G Cloud Backup provides 1 GB of free disk space.
Traffic Control Applications
Not all users of Android mobile devices can boast of access to unlimited Internet. If you are one of them, be sure to download and install 3G WatchDog – free application to control consumed traffic.
The program has a simple and intuitive interface, works with 4G, 3G, EDGE, GPRS networks, displays a detailed report on Internet traffic consumption (bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes), and can remind you about the end of the tariff package.
Memory optimizers
It is difficult to say how effective such applications are in reality. We have already seen the uselessness of some of them when we considered the possibilities... If you nevertheless decide to use one of these applications on your device, we advise you to pay attention only to those that have collected enough positive reviews.
Among programs for optimizing the operation of tablets and other mobile devices, Super Booster - RAM Optimizer App has a good rating. This simple utility is designed to shut down the “unnecessary” ones running in background programs, due to which additional memory resources are supposed to be released.
Organizers
Almost everything mobile devices They have a built-in organizer, but often their capabilities are limited. Therefore, you will need a good, high-quality organizer. Such on this moment is Evernote.
Evernote is more than just an organizer, it's also Notebook, and task planner, and business manager. The program supports data synchronization, creating to-do lists and tasks, sending notes to Facebook and Twitter, searching for text in images and many others useful functions.
Bottom line
List necessary programs we could continue, but the further we moved, the more specific the applications themselves would become.
If you are into books, then most likely you would need something like GO Book or Nomad Reader; if you are a regular social networks, it would be worth paying attention to FriendCaster or a similar application.
The same can be said for office suites, file managers and other software products.
As for multimedia players, then in theory they also needed to be added to the main list, but, as it seems to us, this topic requires separate consideration.
Have you bought a new Android gadget? This is great, but now it needs to be equipped with some useful software. In the shop Google applications Play has about 700,000 apps, but not all of them are suitable for tablets. Therefore, we are going to tell you about those applications that you simply must have on your tablet/smartphone/smartphone or anything else. This will be especially useful if you have a good knowledge of English, since some applications still do not have Russian localization.
If you love racing or water skiing, then Riptide 2 GP2 is one of the best games in this regard. It was presented at Google I/O, and now this toy is called one of best Android apps for tablet, thanks to stunning graphics and addictive gameplay.
Prepare to be out of play for just half an hour. Once you get into Riptide GP2, you'll be racing for hours.
If you like to follow the most latest events V Android world, That Android app Authority will help with this. You will find in it various videos O various Android smartphones, tablets, etc. Android news will always be with you as soon as something appears, and this official application our partners.
One of the best Android apps for tablets is Amazon Kindle, which makes reading books unobtrusive and comfortable. You will have access to an endless number of books in convenient form.
At the same time, the Amazon Kindle application allows you not only to read books, but also view documents, newspapers, etc. But it's not just the functionality that's impressive. this application, and a huge library from Amazon to turn reading a book into a real pleasure.
Flipboard is not your run-of-the-mill news service, but a beautiful magazine that organizes its content based on your preferences. The app also allows you to share your photos with friends, as well as access the news that your friends are viewing.
If you've ever played Call of Duty, then you won't have any difficulties mastering Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour. The essence of the toy is the same - terrorists are going to take over the whole world, and you, in turn, must eliminate the threat.
The only annoying thing about this game is the awkward controls.
Adobe Flash Player Some time ago it stopped working with Android, and now they use HTLM5 instead. The problem is that many videos still require Adobe Flash Player. Luckily, there is a way to activate Adobe Flash Player using Boat Browser in just a few steps.
Chrome browser is one of the best mobile browsers. It has features that allow you to sync your history between two devices, browse the web in incognito mode, and also offline mode. You will also have easy access to creating tabs.
Chrome comes pre-installed on Nexus devices, so Nexus 10 or Nexus 7 owners won't have to worry about installation of this browser. Other users will have to manually install Chrome via Google Play.
Agree that it’s nice to lie in bed and watch your favorite movie. The Netflix app is great for exactly this. It has an extensive movie library.
One of the most important benefits of having the Netflix app on your tablet is that all the latest movies and TV series are available on it.
This is another application for watching movies, even those that came out 20 years ago. Of course, here you will find all the modern and latest films, and watching them will be especially comfortable.
This toy is no longer free, unlike all the above applications, its cost is 6.99 USD.
Minecraft is one of the most popular toys nowadays. Compared to its PC counterpart, this toy certainly does not have the same quality, but it certainly serves as an excellent application for Android tablets.
The controls are almost the same as in most games, but they are much more convenient.
If you've ever heard of music recognition through Shazam, then the SoundHound app is considered even more advanced. He can recognize any song by listening to any excerpt from it.
SoundHound also offers options to search for a song on YouTube.
OfficeSuite Pro 7 allows you to create and edit documents from Micosoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. It also has a built-in file browser and integration with popular cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. OfficeSuite Pro 7 has a beautiful design optimized specifically for tablets and easy editing. Due to the fact that this application contains the most full package office applications, this makes OfficeSuite Pro 7 one of the best Android apps for tablets.
Looking for good app for notes, then we advise you to try Papyrus, which allows you to take digital handwritten notes using a regular stylus, finger, or even the S-Pen. In addition, Papyrus allows you to save the file in formats such as JPG or PDF. You can also easily upload notes to cloud service on Dropbox.
Every Android user needs ES File Explorer. The app supports over 30 languages and is compatible with many services such as Amazon S3, Dropbox and Google Drive. However, it works like FTP client, application manager, etc.
When choosing programs for your Android device, many, especially beginners, get lost in the choice. Below is a list of applications that can be used on similar devices. Naturally, everyone has their own view on the set of applications.
Office, Calculators, Converters
Office Suite Pro- viewer for DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX and PDF files and investments.
Smart Office+- office suite for Android, a very good application: user-friendly interface, multilingual. View and Edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel all versions: 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010. View PDF, view images in JPEG formats, PNG, GIF, BMP, WMF, EMF.
ezPDF Reader- convenient and functional reading PDF files with excellent interface. You can add bookmarks, highlight text and copy it to the clipboard. The language is English, but easy to learn.
Notepad+- notepad with auto-detection of encoding.
RealCalc Scientific Calculator- one of the best calculators for Android, not too fancy, but functional.
Scan2PDF Mobile- the program allows you to convert a photo to a PDF file (for example, you took a photo of a document and converted it to PDF). The result may not always be excellent, but you can read it.
QR Droid Private- an application with the ability to create QR codes, as well as scanning QR codes with a camera and then going to the browser.
Finance, electronic clients
QIWI Client- convenient, simple and fast for a mobile wallet if there are terminals around the city. Interest-free account replenishment, payment mobile communications, and much more can be done with . If you have a wallet on the QIWI website, a QIWI Viza Virtual card is issued in 5 minutes, then you need to link it to Google Checkout and you can make purchases in almost all online stores.
PayPal- client for PayPal allows you to make purchases in different countries peace. You can view recent transactions for your PayPal account, including money requests sent from your device.
WebMoney Keeper Mobile - a client for a mobile wallet, a universal tool for making payments on the Internet.
Planners, Alarms, Notes
Birthdays- widget for birthdays and reminders. A small transparent widget displays a contact photo from phone book. Has a number of settings for date reminders, playing melodies, etc.
Go shopping - The application allows you to create a list of necessary purchases indicating weight and quantity. You can cross out what you bought. Convenient for going to large supermarkets.
Control optimization
Root Explorer - necessary root rights-user. Allows you to view system partitions, hidden folders and files, edit them, copy, move, etc.
A few more similar applications:
ASTRO File Manager
does not require Root rights
EStrongs File Explorer is a complete alternative to Root Explorer when Root available You're right, the manager is free.
Total Commander - well known file manager for PC and now on Android.
SPB Shell 3D- in the recent past, a paid desktop and Yandex.Shell, currently free. A beautiful desktop with 3D graphics and a luxurious set of full-screen widgets.
Go Launcher EX- a fast desktop launcher with a lot of settings.
Apex Launcher Powerful - fast new launcher for ICS, the undisputed leader with many settings. Root rights are required to select widgets from the application menu.
CircleLauncher- a small widget that allows you to group applications and contacts, very convenient on a small screen.
Dock4Droid- a pop-up dock bar with icons of applications added to it and the most recently opened ones. The application works on the RocketDock principle.
SystemPanel- task manager/task killer. The application monitors a high-consuming resource for its destruction, provides data, graphs and information about loading, battery power consumption, shared memory, network traffic (on this moment). One of best apps of a similar plan, but it itself consumes a lot. It is recommended to use it to detect "guzzling" applications with high battery consumption.
System applications
GreenPower- fully automatic application for economical battery operation, after configuration it works and saves charging consumption in the background by turning off and mobile transmission data if they are not needed.
Autostarts(root user rights are required) - the application allows you to remove from autorun Not required applications and widgets at system startup, which can always be launched from the desktop. This way, resource savings are achieved at startup and their complete absence in background processes.
Titanium Backup(root user rights required) - the application allows you to backup applications and user data (sms/mss/contacts).
LuckyPatcher by ChelpuS(root user rights required) is a patcher for most programs and games.
AnTuTu Benchmark- ability to test memory, processor, 3D graphics performance, SD card read/write speed.
SCleaner- an application for cleaning the device from garbage, has programmable settings for monitoring and cleaning processes, creating backup copies of deleted data, etc.
ShootMe(root user rights are required) - the program allows you to take screenshots by shaking the phone, the pictures are saved to /sdcard/ShootMe.
Internet, communication
In Contact Amberfog- client for VKontakte.
Jasmine I.M.- short message client, supports ICQ, Mail.ru, Jabber, VK, Ya.Online, QIP, GTalk. IN latest versions there is the ability to transfer data, a rich selection of settings, themes, including transparent ones, are now supported by the widget.
Palringo Group Messenger Multi-protocol IM client. Facebook Chat, windows live Messenger, aol, yahoo messenger, gtalk, icq, jabber, iChat, gadu-gadu. The most interesting thing, of course, is voice and photo messages; you can create groups based on interests or communicate in existing ones.
2.0. - the new official application Odnoklassniki 2.0 allows you to constantly stay connected to the social network of the same name.
Internet, communication
Kaiten Mail - client emails, supports IMAP Push, POP3, Exchange 2003/2007 (with WebDAV), and also supports multi-user folder synchronization, search, custom notifications and more.
K-9 Mail- one of many mail clients POP and IMAP for Android.
w3bsit3-dns.com- an unofficial client for viewing the website 4pda.ru. View topics, read-send personal messages(LS), QMS, catalog of applications and games, always at hand.
3G Watchdog- the application allows you to track traffic consumption, has a small transparent widget on your desktop. The program not only tracks traffic consumption, but also sets up a cycle with the volume of your tariff plan with notification of its excess.
SwiFTP - FTP server with the ability to receive and transmit data via Wi-Fi. Works great in conjunction with Totall Commander on PC.
AirDroid - control the device from your computer's web browser using Wi-Fi.
Server for storing data on the network. For SGS3 users the volume has been increased free space up to 50 gigs.
Yandex Disk- cloud service with 20 GB.
HD Widgets- clock and weather widget, customizable colors, transparency, has a large number of widgets displayed on the screen, both clock and weather separately, and together.
Multimedia
DicePlayer- player with hardware acceleration for 720p video. Supports formats: AVI,MOV,MKV,FLV,AVI,3GP,3G2,ASF,WMV,MP4,M4V,TP,TS,MTP,M2T.
Supports video codecs: HW: MPEG-4,H.264,H.263
SW: MPEG-4,H.264,RMVB,XVID,MS MPEG-4,VP6,H.263,MPEG-1,MPEG-2
Supports audio codecs: DTS,AC3,AAC,Vorbis,FLAC,MP3,MP2,WMA
Supports subtitles: SSA,SMI,SRT
Poweramp - audio player with a huge number of possibilities, plays MP3, MP4/M4A (including loseless ALAC), FLAC, OGG, WAV, TTA, WMA, APE/WV. Optimized 10-band graphic equalizer for all supported formats, separate tone control, equalizer presets, ability to edit and add presets, assignment for songs/audio outputs. Supports skins, automatically downloads covers for songs, tag viewer and editor, supports .cue files, reads flac images, etc.
Shazam- the application determines the composition and artist. To determine the melody, you need to bring the phone to the speaker and after 15 seconds you will know what the composition is and who the artist is.
TuneIn Radio- Internet radio with recording function.
QuickPic- fast and easy image viewer with multi-touch. Can be used instead of the standard gallery.
Camera360- camera with many effects. It has a lot of effects applied to the frame after shooting, and the ability to save both the original and processed frame.
HDR Camera+ - good camera for shooting static elements such as backgrounds, landscapes, macro photography. To achieve the HDR effect, the application creates three images with different exposures and combines them into one, preserving detail in the dark and light areas of the photo. After shooting, you can choose the saturation of the frame.
Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers - program for viewing, downloading and installing wallpapers High Quality, as well as ringtones. More than 380,000 ringtones, about 6,000 wallpapers.
Navigation (GPS)
2GIS / 2GIS Mobile: 2GIS - free electronic organizations with a city map.
More than 11,110,000 PC users in 140 cities in Russia and Ukraine regularly use 2GIS for search necessary information. Convenient application: you can search, you can plot a route. The application will also be convenient for walking searches around the city. By specifying a destination, you get detailed information on the map indicating travel by public transport and route numbers.
Navitel- navigator for Android presents a navigation program with offline maps, routing and traffic jam support. The program is paid.
PROTOWN- GPS/GLONASS navigation with current maps Russia.
Phone, SMS
Handcent SMS- a utility for SMS with a large selection of various appearance settings.
GO SMS Pro -
Convenient SMS communication. The program is designed in iPhone style.
cluBalance- widget for monitoring funds on an account with detailed statistics. Does not support Beeline and Tele2.
Programs for reading books
Cool Reader - ported version of the famous reading program e-books Cool reader.
Supports formats: .fb2, .fb2.zip, .txt, .rtf, .doc, .epub, .chm, .pdb, .prc, .mobi.
Moon+ Reader- support for fb2.zip, TXT, HTML, Epub, UMD and chm files.
FBReader- program for reading electronic books, supports formats: epub, fb2, fb2.zip, rtf, html, mobi, txt. It also supports working directly with .zip archives.
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In today's review we will look at the highest quality and useful applications for Android.
Have you ever wondered whether you are using all the capabilities of your smartphone? There are many programs for phones, which are not easy to navigate. It's even harder to know which one is really good. After all, decent applications will help make your phone more elegant and easier to use. They will also open up many useful functions for any situation.
HD Widgets (Download)
HD Widget is a useful weather application adapted for modern high-resolution screens. It includes clock, date, city switches, button quick settings and weather forecast. With this application you can easily track weather, precipitation and wind information around the world. An impressive range of preset settings will allow you to choose the appropriate style for your interface. Screen scaling is available in several sizes: from 1x1 to 4x4, for tablets they are slightly different: 8x2 or 4x7.
Photo: HD Widgets for Android Live wallpaper My weather (Download)
Colorful live wallpaper, imitate weather on the street. You can choose an arbitrary picture or photograph as your screensaver. Configure the widget for any season and time of day yourself or link it to the desired city. “My Nature” will enliven your wallpaper and surprise you with the unique effects of rain and lightning. Fans of abstraction and futurism will also be pleased - dynamic color changes, filters, parameter correction will add new ones bright colors any abstract picture. IN Play Market are presented free of charge, as well as paid version.
Photo: Live wallpaper My weather Relax Melodies ()
A pleasant, melodic application will create an atmosphere for relaxation or preparation for work. Contains sounds of nature, rain and city noises, as well as several binaural beats and isochronic tones. Promotes good sleep and relieves stress, with the help of sounds it is easy to touch nature. Create your own melody by collecting sounds that are pleasant to you (using a kind of constructor) and choosing the volume of each individually. There is a free and paid version of the application.
Photo: Relax Melodies 
MX Player (Download)
The most modern player from free options. Supports many video formats, works with dozens of types of subtitles (the settings of which are available in the menu), supports hardware and multi-core decoding. The player is simple and intuitive to use. Video scaling occurs with a simple pinch, rewinding with a simple swipe of a finger across the screen, and moving subtitles with a simple swipe. Considering great amount appearance settings and subtitle synchronization - MX Player is a leader among others.
Photo: MX Player 
Moon+ Reader (Download)
Free Moon app+ Reader is a simple but special reader. It contains many features, beautiful design and user-friendly interface. Three-dimensional animation when turning pages, clear and simple controls, fine-tuning the display of books, support for any formats, a beautiful bookshelf, many settings - all this will appeal to both fans of individualization and those who want to get a ready-to-use program. Special attention you should pay attention to the convenience when working with educational material. Moon+ Reader allows you to highlight and underline with different markers right while reading. And, of course, your own bookmarks and notes.
Photo: Moon Reader 
FbReader (Download)
Moon+ Reader's FbReader app is a little behind due to fewer features and lack of bells and whistles, but it is a leader in ease of use. This program is installed not only in smartphones, but also on personal computers and E-ink readers. The interface is not crammed with unnecessary options, and control has remained the simplest and most convenient for years. You can additionally install dictionaries to the program, configure text display, or connect to your personal library.
Photo: Facebook Reader 
Shopping Listick (Download)
Photo: Listick Shopping 
Text fairy (Download)
Text fairy is another achievement modern technologies. Despite the fact that smartphone cameras are still far from the capabilities of a full-fledged scanner, a lot can be achieved with their help. The Text fairy app scans, recognizes and converts photographed text into printed text. The program is free, has a convenient and simple interface, and also includes about seventy languages and recognizes photographs.
Battery Doctor (Download)
An application for monitoring and saving your device's battery charge. It accurately estimates the operating time before shutting down and helps to identify and stop processes that consume a lot of electricity. An additional benefit from the program was three-stage charging of the gadget. This allows you to fully charge the battery and extend its service life.
Photo: Battery Doctor 
Endomondo (Download)
Endomondo is one of the most popular and useful Android applications in the sports category. This is a great assistant for running, cycling, race walking and other sports. It will help you track duration, mileage, speed and calories. With an additional device, it can measure heart rate. Unlike similar programs, it is a social network for all people interested in sports. This program free.
Photo: Endomondo 
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Here is a newly purchased device. It doesn't matter if you switch from another operating system or just trying out the world of smartphones, you will definitely need a certain set necessary applications for the first time. Below we will tell you about several of them.
ES File Explorer
Perhaps the most powerful, but nevertheless intuitive file manager. Everything is here. A bunch of settings, tools, viewing files on your computer, FTP access, Wi-Fi Direct for file sharing, root directory management and much more. You can also connect several cloud storages to ES File Explorer at once.
Messengers have become an integral part of our lives, and WhatsApp is their most prominent representative. Just having the Internet is enough to start chatting with friends, making calls, participating in group chats, send images, voice recordings etc. Basically, it doesn’t matter what you install: WhatsApp, Viber or Telegram. The main thing is to have at least something, since your friends are probably already using some messenger from this list.
AirDroid lets you "link" your computer (regardless of OS) and smartphone in such a way that all notifications will be transferred to the desktop. In addition, you can remotely launch applications and access files. Interestingly, AirDroid does not require availability separate program on the computer, but works directly in the browser.
If for some reason you are not satisfied with the standard contact manager, then you can install one of the best third party solutions in the form of Contacts +. The program automatically synchronizes the list with friends on Facebook, Google Plus and other social networks, thus adding more detailed information and avatars to existing contacts.
Truecaller will help you not to get confused during incoming call With unknown number. The application can automatically filter out spam and block numbers.
With WPS Office +PDF you can easily open any office document or file in PDF format. However, the application is universal solution for storing files of various formats and allows you to connect many popular cloud storage. The program is also rich in all kinds of settings for reading and editing documents.
In principle, this includes all social networking clients that you use. Of course, most of them have specially designed mobile web versions, but clients allow you to access information more conveniently and quickly. It’s not for nothing that they are constantly in the top of the Play Store.
By the way, for devices with not the most powerful hardware -
Chrome doesn't need much introduction. Perhaps this is the best browser for Android with the ability fast sync and a traffic saving option. Often it is already installed on most gadgets, but if your device is not included in this list, we recommend that you at least try it. You will definitely like it.
Google's new solution for organizing a mailbox looks a little unusual at first glance, but after using it, many people no longer return to standard Gmail. In Inbox, you can set reminders, create shortcuts to organize incoming mail, snooze emails for later, and much more. Not long ago, Google canceled invites, which means that anyone can try Inbox in action.
This was our list of useful applications that are worth installing on a newly purchased device. Do you have anything to add?