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What is your favourite smart phone (android) app?

pacmanpacman Posts: 327
edited 2013-04-08 08:11 in General Discussion
I've finally got a smart phone (I know, it's been a long slow journey).

So I've been doing some investigation into USEFUL applications to have on it.

I've discovered ElectroDroid and Electronica, but perhaps there as other gems I'm missing.

So I'm asking...

(free would be good, but is not a deal breaker)

and I just cant seem to find the "propeller app...."

Comments

  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    edited 2012-03-17 17:54
    Ok, I'll bite. The apps I like not in any particular order...

    FTPserver ... so I can connect to my phone wireless without the USB

    Skype ... just handy

    IP Webcam ... interesting app for live video and sound from your Phone to a PC .. or another Phone ... careful though, This app runs in the background, and when you put your Phone to sleep (closing the screen), it still transmits video and audio. The Phone 'looks' completely off.

    A decent Calculator ... I use RealCalc

    FrequenSee ... is cool for real time audio analysis

    QR Droid ... for reading QR codes.

    Seismos ... A visual of the X,Y, and Z accelerometers on your Phone.

    Wifi Analyzer ... a visual WiFi sniffer

    androidVNC ... VNC for your Phone
  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,703
    edited 2012-03-17 19:01
    Electrodroid... wanna make a Prop version? Doesn't seem too hard. Later we could get it talking to a prop using the ADB code

    PICmicro database (possibly came with it)

    Findchips - find which suppliers have stock of chips.

    Sensor Insider lite - plots graphs of *all* the available onboard sensors

    OSH Park - latest status for Laen's pcb orders

    Pinout - common connector pinouts AV/Computer/Network etc

    UltraChron Lite (stopwatch), Tape a talk (voice recorder), Gstrings guitar tuner, etc
    Dropbox, Evernote, Skype (cloud utils)

    and "snap" on Beau's Wifi Analyzer which is very useful
  • Don MDon M Posts: 1,652
    edited 2012-03-18 07:45
    I think a neat one that I use is "Get Blue". You can feed it data via bluetooth and it will forward the data to a Google Docs spreadsheet.
  • JonnyMacJonnyMac Posts: 9,108
    edited 2012-03-18 10:21
    I find ElectroDroid useful.
  • Spiral_72Spiral_72 Posts: 791
    edited 2012-03-19 07:46
    I don't have one but my wife does. I loaded and frequently use the sky map application on her phone. It's really, really cool. You point it toward the night sky and the it's a star chart showing a million or so different objects.

    It kinda takes some of the guess work out of star hopping :)
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-03-19 14:34
    Sky map, ultrachron, guitar tuner, and realcalc are handy, thanks for pointing those out.

    panecal - includes the "tape" of previous calculations
    luna term - nice telnet session to the spinneret
    spirit level - kind of cool. except the phone itself is not exactly flat and level
    Flash light- jump turns screen white - very handy when its completely dark
    X-device test - checks every peripheral in the phone
  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2012-03-19 15:45
    Probably one of the OSM apps like OSMand, makes google maps look pretty amateur I think (quality of the data and the map presentation)
  • ZootZoot Posts: 2,227
    edited 2012-03-19 16:05
    There are a number of robot controller apps that I really like, plus Microscrope and QR reader. ServStream is my goto app for mp3 streams. And of course, RadioTuner.
  • max72max72 Posts: 1,155
    edited 2012-03-21 15:02
    Realcalc, can be configured in RPN mode.
    Alternative traditional keyboards. Hacker keyboard is very nice.
    In the massive terminal ide there is another nice keyboard, besides vim, and development tools.
    Dropbox
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2012-03-21 18:40
    Angry Birds
  • john_sjohn_s Posts: 369
    edited 2012-04-18 09:32
    Something along this line...

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-04-19 07:56
    john_s wrote: »
    Something along this line...

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android

    Holy Smile! 5 million bucks overfunded and it still has over a month to go? I'm in the wrong racket...
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2012-04-19 09:39
    I somehow missed this thread originally, but interestingly enough posted the same question in my blog on Savage Circuits. I suppose it would have gotten more replies here. :innocent:

    My list includes:

    RealCalc
    Droid48
    Unit Converter
    ConvertPad
    ElectroDroid
    Omega Tools Lite
    Voice Recorder

    I also have the WiFi analyzer but I think my QR Code Reader is different, "Barcode Scanner V4.0" by ZXing, however Google Goggles can read any bar codes as well.
  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,703
    edited 2012-06-19 03:38
    After acquiring a bluetooth OBD2 adapter from Amazon...

    Torque - lets your phone display, graph, log what your car is doing in real time (providing it has an ODB port)
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-06-19 08:23
    Pleco Dictionary - Oxford Chinese-English-Chinese. They have Android, iPhone, etc. Mine has been in use for 10 years on a Palm Zire72

    Having a dictionary input in a shirt pocket is really handy and about the only way to travel while learning Chinese.

    http://www.pleco.com/
  • NWUpgradesNWUpgrades Posts: 292
    edited 2012-06-19 19:33
    Do any of these work with Windows Smart Phones? I have an older Windows 6 Motorola Q 90. It was top of the line when I bought it!!!! Any how, I seem to be missing out on all the cool apps as it seems there are not a bunch geared towards the Windows phones.
  • icepuckicepuck Posts: 466
    edited 2012-06-20 10:57
    NWUpgrades wrote: »
    Do any of these work with Windows Smart Phones?.
    Thats a whole different animal.

    Have a look at the xda forums, they have windows and android info.
    http://www.xda-developers.com/
    -dan
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-06-20 11:34
    Evernote: http://evernote.com/
  • Andrey DemenevAndrey Demenev Posts: 377
    edited 2013-04-06 19:38
    SMD decypher
    Find device type from SMD code marking

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tauruslabs.smddecypher
  • AndroidAndroid Posts: 82
    edited 2013-04-07 08:29
    My favorite app is soundhound it is amazing!!!
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2013-04-07 13:18
    AIrdroid ........ this is how a PDA Phone Shpuld be managed .....I have Yet to use my USB port on my phone for any thing but charging once I got this ..
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2013-04-08 08:11
    OK I am gonna have to bump this with a new app. PAW server . Its very much like airdroid but can also run as a web public server along with webcams and PHP! .
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