Moved from iOS to Android, so...apps?

[Hicks12]

File explorer - Solid Explorer, very good and reliable with lots of features

BBC - news and weather apps .

Pulse - Very good news type application, provides feeds in a easy smartphone format lots of content to setup, I use it as my main news reader and have things like Hexus news hooked up to it.
netflix (if you have it ).

Google hangout - this is being upgraded to have SMS functionality and stuff so its definitely worth using its brilliant as an IM.

Google Music, great player if you have your music on a play account (can upload 20k tracks to library for free or pay £9 or £10 per month for unlimited access)

tTorrent - Great if you have unlimited data and need to torrent, very quick and reliable (IME)

Viral - Like youtube but better, can have videos in "popups" so you can have a video overlay something and another major plus is the fact you can choose youtube video streaming settings i.e stream 720p or 1080p streams where as Googles youtube app seems a bit nasty for mobile connections and will just go "HQ or HD" which is really like 480p , worth a try if you watch youtube alot .

VLC - Good media player if you need it, cant fault it.

TV Guide - Got virgin media? use this to get a tv guide and set your tiVo to record remotely

Swiftkey - Very good keyboard if you dont get on with yours its certainly worth a try, takes a few days for it to start learning your typing but it gets good in the end.

Office Calculator - Like this calculator simply because you can do nice stuff with it and all the workings are saved so you can do many things at once, better than stock

Kingson office - Good free office application if you need it, Google drive covers alot of it now though

Only things that pop in mind at the moment, definitely recommend 99% of the Google Applications as they're generally solid .
Enjoy!

[Rob_B]

Anyone used Swiftkey and can compare it with Xperia keyboard, with Xperia KB I tend to find I spend more time correcting mistakes than it saves me.

[mrcyco]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ingtoast&hl=en

Bringing it back!
Had it on every device since the Sony x10...

[mrcyco]

Are you correcting auto corrected mistakes or finding the keyboard to small?

[jim]

I loved Swiftkey on my HTC Sensation, but the difference between it and the stock one on my Nexus 4 is negligible. I've paid for it, but haven't bothered to install it. I probably will in the end though, just because its word prediction was so impressive. Sometimes I could type entire texts just by hitting one of the anticipated next words.

As for the thread, my main apps are:

Chrome
BBC News
Financial Times
Google Drive
Kindle
Tapatalk
VLC Player (for video)
Google Music (for my MP3s), Winamp is also nice but Google has similar functionality
WiFi Analyser (because it's cool)
Fancy Widgets (I like the clock/weather combo on my home page)
Plants vs Zombies

That covers most bases

[mrcyco]

Ohhh power widgets good.

[Rob_B]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ingtoast&hl=en

Bringing it back!
Had it on every device since the Sony x10...

I saw it on the Play store after you're first post, and still had to seriously consider your sanity!

Are you correcting auto corrected mistakes or finding the keyboard to small?

Correcting the keyboards' mis-guesses, it's suprisingly bad sometimes!

I've got Giant Boulder of Death for my gaming fix.
Got BBM/podcast addict/Dualingo/whatsapp/few banking and social apps but nothing special.

Tried firefox but it kept crashing, that said audio from music/podcasts still cuts out sometimes if I load up Chrome :/

[Rob_B]

Also...any suggestions for an NFC reader? Xperia Smart tags app only works with genuine Sony tags (or with a bit of hacking) but I fancy having a play around with some cheap tags from eBay.

[mrcyco]

Settings > Language & input > Keyboard & input methods you customize the way it auto corrects, the look and the layout.

Are you using NFC easy connect by Sony? If not try it if it is try trigger, can't remember if that's the one installed on the sp.
Also Major Mayhem is fun.

[bytejunkie]

dropbox > use it for auto upload of pictures taken with the camera, which is a handy backup.

zombies smash by zynga. cant belive this one passed me by last year.

[GoodZE]

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