Must Have Android Apps For Your Smartphone - Part II

[nitink 279]

Photoshop Touch for phone v1.0.0


Requirements: Android 4.0+ Overview: Bring the fun and creative possibilities of Adobe® Photoshop® software to your phone with Adobe Photoshop Touch for phone. Transform your images with core Photoshop features. Combine images, apply professional effects, and share results with friends and family through Facebook and Twitter all from the convenience of your phone. Enjoy most of the same features as the tablet version

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.adobe.pstouchphone

[rajanmehta 4,056]

@Rajan, what is the status of snapdragon you had installed? Mine(e4gt) is still in learning mode..

Learning mode was complete after 2 days. Now in battery saver mode. Though it can take different time frame for different users to finish learning mode.

BTW Snapdragon BatteryGuru is now enabled for India region & can be downloaded directly from Google Play Store >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS54aWFtLnNuYXBkcmFnb24uYXBwIl0.

Google Releases Hindi Keyboard App with Transliteration Support

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Want to type in Hindi on your Android phone, Google has a solution for you. The search giant has finally released a dedicated Hindi keyboard app in the form on Google Hindi Input in Google Play. The app is compatible with any Android smartphone or tablet running on FroYo or above, which includes almost everyone.

Apart from the Hindi language keyboard, the Google Hindi Input also adds English to Hindi transliteration mode in the stock keyboard. So, if you don’t want to actually spend lots of time in figuring out the Hindi keyboard and typing on it, you can simply switch on the transliteration mode and start typing Hindi as you would type English. Transliteration mode basically converts the Hindi words written in English (Roman/Latin) script to actual words in Devnagari script.

How to use Google Hindi Input

• Toggle the button “a->?” on English keyboard to turn on/off transliteration mode.
• In the transliteration mode, you can type Hindi word in English characters and the app will convert them to Hindi.
• By turning off the transliteration mode on English keyboard, you can type in English.
• Toggle the globe button to switch between English and Hindi keyboard
• Consonants are alphabetically ordered into 2 pages. Press the paging button “1/2” “2/2” to navigate between pages. Long press the character key to select various forms in the popup.

Google Hindi Input for Android VIDEO

http://youtu.be/UB3-JWI7Raw

Edited March 1, 2013 by rajanmehta

[n_iceman 97]

Makes typing in Hindi extremely easy. Here is the Google Play store LINK. (for android)

BTW it is available for Window PCs also. I have installed it on my dad's laptop and typing in Hindi across different apps is a breeze. Now he makes excel sheets in Hindi and also types Hindi documents and letters super fast. Its really incredible. (also available for easy typing in Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Gujrati, Malayalam, etc.) .

Here is the link for typing on Windows PC.

Thanks Google, take a bow.

Google Releases Hindi Keyboard App with Transliteration Support

[sadanand.sapkal 52]

I am not able to download this app, play store showing following error--- <br />"Your device isn't compatible with this version." <br /><br />Any solution on this...<br /><br />Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2

[dkaile 1,051]

^

Excellent application. Transliteration has made Hindi so easy. Doesn't work with Swiftkey though... on Note 2

Doesn't work on Motorola Photon 4G totally.

Works on Nexus S 4G

3 phones tested.

Edited March 1, 2013 by dkaile

[sougatadc 358]

(also available for easy typing in Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Gujrati, Malayalam, etc.) .

Tried it. Thanks.

However, it fails to install Bengali even after repeated try. Hindi works fine.

Can anybody help me to install Bengali? I think there is some problem in Bengali IME.

[doc_anurag 46]

We all know how painful it can be to transfer those big HD videos and high resolution photos from phone to phone over bluetooth. And if one phone is an iphone not possible.

Fast file transfer : solves all that. Claimed max speed is 1gb in 5 min.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.floriandraschbacher.fastfiletransfer&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5mbG9yaWFuZHJhc2NoYmFjaGVyLmZhc3RmaWxldHJhbnNmZXIiXQ..

Finally even older devices can send files at speeds like Wi-Fi Direct!

Fast File Transfer is an alternative for Bluetooth file sending.
The app uses Wi-Fi Tethering for establishing a connection between the devices but does not need the Internet.

Features:
• Up to 20x speed of bluetooth
• Easy to setup
• The receiver is device-independent
• No need for a common Wi-Fi connection
• No data usage for file transfer (Just for advertisements)
• The receiver does not have to have the app installed
• Send single or multiple files
• Displays QR codes for faster receiving
Just tap the instruction image

Using this app, you can easily send a file to an iPhone or any other phone that does not have Bluetooth but Wi-Fi.

[sadanand.sapkal 52]

"AirPush Detector" is a good app for detecting the apps due to which we receives irritating adv notifications.<br /><br />Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2

[::: VA ::: 531]

Do you love jet ski? Then this is the best app for your high definition, large screen, smartphone, fablet, tablet.
Has amazing graphics and visuals, feel and experience. Apparently guys at cnet use this game often to test gpu quality on android.
It's called Riptide GP.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vectorunit.blue&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Ddownload+riptide+gp+apk

Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

[kk999 25]

OPERA ANDROID UPDATE WebKit

OPERA BETA LINK ADD

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser.beta&feature=more_from_developer

What's New

What's in this version:

A completely redesigned browser made just for Android, Opera’s WebKit-based rendering engine offers a whole new level of site compatibility. The native UI also delivers a superior user experience on your smartphone. Be the first of your friends to share a better alternative to the browser that came with your phone.

ENJOY.......

[nitink 279]

LagFix (fstrim) Premium v1.5.1

Requirements: Android 2.2+
Overview: ★ THIS APP REQUIRES ROOT! ★

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkeydonate.lagfix

[nitink 279]

File Manager (Donate) v1.15.6
Requirements: Android v2.2+

Note: all premium features available.

What's in this version:
Version 1.15.6
* Improve transfer speed for FTP connections.
* Smoother scrolling in files list view.
* Fix cursor problem of text editor on dark theme.
* Fix some bugs when extract RAR files.
* Fix some ANR bugs.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.fm

[nitink 279]

2G,3G,4G Network Monitor Full v2013.03.02

Requirements: 2.2 - 4.2
Overview: 2G,3G,4G,CDMA Network MonitorWidget (1x1) for:
- fast network mode change
- enable/disable mobile data
- showing current status with statistics
- network monitor/counter traffic for mobile data and Wi-Fi
- notification when signal is lost
- no advertisement

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=msd.n2g.n3g.sell

[rajanmehta 4,056]

Latest Chrome Beta For Android Saves Nearly 50% Data Usage

Google Developers Blog

Play Store Link >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta

Faster, safer, and cheaper mobile web browsing with data compression in Chrome for Android

The latest Chrome Beta for Android includes an experimental feature to reduce cellular data usage and speed up mobile web browsing, using proxy servers hosted at Google to optimize website content.

In our internal testing, this feature has been shown to reduce data usage by 50% and speed up page load times on cellular networks! To enable it, visit chrome://flags in your browser and select “Enable Data Compression Proxy” – easy as that.

Features and implementation

The core optimizations, which allow us to reduce overall data usage and speed up the page load times, are performed by Google servers. When the Data Compression Proxy feature is enabled, Chrome mobile opens a dedicated SPDY connection between your phone and one of the optimization servers running in Google’s datacenters and relays all HTTP requests over this connection.

The proxy server receives the request initiated on the mobile device, initiates a request for the required resource on your behalf, and then optimizes each asset before delivering it back to the client. The content optimization is performed by our open-source PageSpeed libraries, which are specifically tuned for the Chrome for Android browser. The rendering of the page, and all JavaScript execution, is performed by the client’s browser.

Also, note that secure connections (HTTPS) are routed directly from your mobile device to the destination, bypassing the optimization proxy – only HTTP requests are routed through and optimized by the proxy. Further, the use of the service does not require a Google account; navigation in incognito tabs bypasses the proxy; original IP address of your device is forwarded to the destination via the X-Forwarded-For header – the data compression service is a transparent proxy.

Curious to see the bandwidth savings provided by the proxy? Easy, open a new tab on your device, head to chrome://net-internals, and click on Bandwidth. There, as the screenshot below illustrates, you will find a breakdown of the original data size vs. the optimized version that your browser received. The bandwidth savings add up quickly!

Let’s take a closer look at some of the specific optimizations enabled by the data compression proxy.

SPDY for speed

The connection from the mobile device to the proxy runs over SPDY, an optimized protocol for the Web that is supported by Chrome, Firefox and Opera, and is also the basis for the forthcoming HTTP/2.0 standard being developed in the IETF.

By using SPDY, the proxy is able to multiplex multiple request and response streams in parallel over a single TCP connection, which has numerous performance benefits: it amortizes TCP handshake overhead for multiple requests, enables higher throughput by removing the TCP slow-start phase incurred by each new connection, and enables intelligent request and response prioritization between the streams. In fact, our studies show that just the use of SPDY alone can reduce page load times by 23% on cellular networks, and this is before we have even talked about optimizing any of the content!

Further, there are many secondary benefits to using SPDY:

• DNS late-binding: DNS lookups are performed by the proxy, instead of on the phone, which means that the resolutions can be done much, much quicker.


• Less network activity and faster load times also mean that the mobile radio has to be active for shorter periods of time, which translates into longer battery life!


• The SPDY connection runs over SSL, which enables safer and more secure browsing.

Content optimization

Unfortunately, many web-sites are not optimized for the mobile web, which results in inefficient content delivery and slow rendering times. However, our experience with PageSpeed shows that many content optimizations can, in fact, be automated, which is precisely what the data compression proxy does on your behalf!

Transcoding images: Over 60% of the transferred bytes, for an average page, are images. Hence, the proxy takes great care to optimize and transcode all images to the WebP format, which requires fewer bytes than other popular formats, such as JPEG and PNG. The proxy supports the new WebP lossless format for certain images, and also optimizes the perceptual quality of each image based on device screen resolution and pixel density of your device. By combining all these features the resulting images are up to 80% smaller!

Content-aware compression: The proxy performs intelligent compression and minification of HTML, JavaScript and CSS resources, which removes unnecessary whitespace, comments, and other metadata which is not essential to the rendering of the page. These optimizations, combined with mandatory gzip compression for all resources, can yield substantial bandwidth savings for the client.

Safer, more secure browsing: The browser-to-proxy connection runs over SSL, meaning that your browsing session is encrypted between your device and Google’s servers. The proxy also implements Safe Browsing for Chrome for Android, by informing the browser when you attempt to visit a known malware or phishing site. This causes a warning interstitial page to be displayed, which you can click through if you wish to visit the site. This allows the list of harmful sites to be continuously updated on the proxy, without incurring the overhead of updating it over the air.

Building a faster mobile web

This is just the beginning of what a powerful proxy service can provide to make the mobile web experience a faster and a more enjoyable one, regardless of whether you are on a latest 4G connection, or using an older generation mobile network. We are continuously improving the service and experimenting with new optimizations — stay tuned for more.

In the meantime, please give it a try, and report your experience to us! Most importantly, if you run into any problems, please report a bug by visiting the Settings menu in Chrome Beta for Android and tapping Report an Issue.

[KanagaDeepan 1,084]

More the merrier... Competition is good for we users..

Sent from my PantechP9070 using Tapatalk 2

[basant.motlani 49]

Google must start an application for all rimweb members at playstore.<br />It requires no special permission.<br />Benefits are known to all very well and have 5 star rating.<br />Application name-PARINSTORE.<br /> WOULD you like to install it or already having it.<br /> Its just my way to submit feedback for Parin.<br /> <br /><br /><br />Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2<br /><br />

[pradeep564 8]

i installed different versions of tapatalk.apk on my s3 & epic but could not locate and add rimweb forum. Can someone try and confirm.

[djain1989 16]

Truecaller - A global crowd-sourced phonebook that builds its database with the help of its users, for its users.

Whenever there's a call from an unknown number, this will let you know the caller's name. Amazing isn't it? If you are still not impressed, give this app a shot.

Or may be search for your number on their website and you'll know how accurately it works

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

[bhav_47 5]

True caller risks your privacy.

There was article in Times of India, which restrains from using True caller as your personal details as well as your contacts including your loved ones become public.

[phonegeek 588]

^ True, its a real threat to your privacy and moreover, even if you have not installed it, your number would be available on the directory!

How? Anyone who has your number in their phonebook and has installed truecaller, it will make your number public!

And we still wonder how telemarketers are getting your name and mobile number!

Edited March 9, 2013 by phonegeek

[djain1989 16]

@Bhav & Phonegeek-

I would like to clarify couple of things:

- Uploading phonebook data to their server is completely optional. Only when you enable "enhanced search" option after installing, it'll upload the contact to their database. And they also claim, they NEVER share their database with anyone.

- It's just a reverse phone number search tool. So you cannot find the number against a name until the owner of the number approves and wants to share his number with you. (this is a new feature added on latest version).

As far as your number being made available on their database, it is because one of your friend chose to enable 'enhanced search' to help TC build their database. If you wish to, you can easily unlist your number from their database from their website.

[phonegeek 588]

SuperBeam - NFC File Sharing

Embrace the future and bring that shining new NFC technology to use! SuperBeam allows you to share big files between devices easily and quickly, without the hassle of setting up manual connections or waiting for slow bluetooth transfers. SuperBeam utilizes NFC to initiate the connection, then transfers your files using WiFi.

No more worries about sharing big files and videos. With SuperBeam you can share multiple files (or an entire photo album) at once, with a single touch.

Simply, connect both devices (sender and receiver) to the same WiFi network, choose your files from gallery (or file manager), share using SuperBeam and hold devices back to back. Touch to SuperBeam and that's it!

No WiFi network nearby? Not a problem! SuperBeam can setup a WiFi hotspot connection to transfer files (If your device supports it). This will make your sharing experience seamless wherever you are!

You can always change the color themes from settings and choose between dark or light. All app screens will use the corresponding theme.

All transmitted files are stored under "/sdcard/SuperBeam" directory. Don't worry about duplicate files, SuperBeam will automatically add unique numbers to duplicate file names.

Quick guide:

• Enable NFC and Android Beam in sender and receiver.

• Install SuperBeam on both devices (you'll be redirected to Play Store automatically if SuperBeam is not installed on the receiver).

• Connect both devices to the same WiFi network. Or enable direct mode from options menu.

• Browse your files using file manager (or from your gallery), select files/images/videos, tap share and choose SuperBeam.

• Make sure that the receiving device is unlocked, bring devices closer (back to back) to communicate using NFC.

• Once you see "Touch to beam" quickly tap on the screen.

• SuperBeam will automatically start in the background. You may check the progress in the notification bar.

• After SuperBeam starts, feel free to separate the devices and use them without worrying about file transfer. Just make sure that you keep them within WiFi range.

• You can view detailed progress by tapping on notification. You may also cancel the transfer from this screen.

• After completion, tap on the notification on the receiving device to display a list of received files. You may tap on file name to open.

• SuperBeam will notify you if an error occurs. Tap on the error notification to display guidelines that will help resolve the issue.

FAQ:

Hotspot mode is not working for me, what should I do?

Hotspot mode is experimental. It is not supported by all devices (for example, Nexus 7). Please consider using any available WiFi network instead.

The transfer rate is very slow, what should I do?

The transfer rate is only limited by your WiFi router's bandwidth. Try bringing your devices closer to the WiFi router, consider connecting to another router or use hotspot mode.

What about WiFi-direct?

WiFi direct is planned to be included in the next release, however, it still suffers from buggy implementation and requires user approval for each connection, which is not a smooth user experience.

How can I support the development of SuperBeam?

If you get any errors or crashes, please submit the error report or email me with details of the error, and the type of devices you use.

If you find SuperBeam useful and like to support future development, please follow the donate link in SuperBeam settings screen. You may donate whatever amount you see fit. Your kind support is highly appreciated.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.majedev.superbeam&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5tYWplZGV2LnN1cGVyYmVhbSJd

[mgdelhi 192]

Anyone used Noozy app for listening to music? It was removed from the Google Play store may be because it resembled another official player.

I am sure you will like the interface,

[cityofgod69 1]

this is the best topic for me (newbie to android)

[phonegeek 588]

Google Keep—Save what’s on your mind

Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Unfortunately, if you’re like me you probably often discover that the desk, fridge or magazine wasn’t such a clever place to leave the note after all...it’s rarely where you need it when you need it.

To solve this problem we’ve created Google Keep. With Keep you can quickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are safely stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices so you can always have them at hand.

If it’s more convenient to speak than to type that’s fine—Keep transcribes voice memos for you automatically. There’s super-fast search to find what you’re looking for and when you’re finished with a note you can archive or delete it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep

http://drive.google.com/keep

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2013/03/google-keepsave-whats-on-your-mind.html

Edited March 21, 2013 by phonegeek