Android
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Links
App stores
- Android Market and alternatives:
User manuals
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 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.