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App stores

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Applications

Here is a list of potentially useful applications

To be sorted

  • Apps Organizer : To group apps
  • Android Agenda Widget : See your agenda on your home screen
  • Bluetooth Switch : Activates BT when the phone is docked in the car
  • Bubble : Water level using the phone sensors
  • Buienalarm : (NL) rain alarm, tells you if precipitations are expected at your current location
  • Chrome to Phone : easy to send URL's or text from Google Chrome to the phone
  • Touch Calendar : calendar with easy scroll & zoom in/out
  • Notes (developer: Yuli) : simple application for notes
  • ColorNote Notepad (Notes)
  • Droid48 (shagrath; HP48 emulator)
  • My Tracks (My Tracks Team at Google; GPS tracking system)
  • Skype (Skype)
  • SMS Backup & Restore (Ritesh Sahu)
  • RealCalc Scientific Calculator (Brain Overspill)
  • Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevitch; Linux access through a terminal)
  • Hears (bytesequencing.com)
  • Text-To-Speech Extension (Eyes-Free Project)
  • SilentMode OnOff (CurveFish)
  • DailyStrip (FuseTree LLC)
  • Test de vitesse Speedtest (Ookla)
  • ASTRO Gestionnaire de fichiers (Metago)
  • Wifi Connecter Library (farproc)
  • Advanced Task Killer (ReChild)
  • APN Backup & Restore (Ritesh Sahu)

Google

  • Google Goggles (Google)
  • Google Earth (Google)
  • Google Maps (Google)
  • Google Search (Google)
  • Google Sky Map (Google)
  • Google Traduction (Google)
  • Gmail (Google)

Alternatives to default apps

  • Dialer One : Alternative dialer

Dictionaries

  • Dictionnaire Littré (Alexis Robert)
  • Van Dale French-Dutch (Paragon Software)
  • Van Dale English-Dutch (Paragon Software)
  • Van Dale Dutch Pocket (Paragon Software)
  • Van Dale German-Dutch (Paragon Software)
  • QuickDic German Dictionary (Thad Hughes)

Games

  • Reversi (Bluesky Studio)
  • Angry Birds : game, now full version for free
  • Move it! Free (AI Factory Limited; logical game of moving blocks)
  • National Flags Quiz (FractalGate; game)

Sensing

  • Boussole (Catch.com ; compass)
  • Shazam : Can identify music by listening to it for about 10s
  • Barcode Scanner (ZXing Team)
  • Wifi Analyzer (farproc)
  • GPS Status (EclipSim)

Open Source applications

GPS with offline maps

Commercial

  • Copilot Live (59€ for Europe)

Free

From this post:
Create your own maps with Mobile Atlas Creator (Java-based) & use them e.g. with RMaps, AndNav, Maverick, TrekBuddy,... (bitmaps so ok only for small areas such as cities)

  • Get e.g. RMaps from Android Market
  • Get latest release of Mobile Atlas Creator & unzip it
  • Get latest SqliteJDBC library and copy it inside th eMobile Atlas Creator directory
  • Run it (start.sh)
  • Choose your source, e.g. OpenStreetMaps, Google Maps,...
  • Select area: Right click to Drag, Scroll to zoom In/Out, Left click to select downloadable area
  • Select one or more zoom levels, e.g. from 12 to 18 for all levels of details of a city
  • Do “add selection” with a name of your choice
  • Select “BigPlanet SQLite” from “Atlas Settings” (for RMaps, otherwise Maverick Atlas Format for Maverick etc)
  • "Create Atlas"
  • Download the .sqlitedb map into the phone SDcard/rmaps/maps
  • Disconnect the phone
  • Open RMaps and Menu > More > Settings > User defined maps > BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb > Enabled Maps
  • Return to main maps screen and then Menu > Maps > BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb.