Hi, I recently took an Android Development at my school where I made this Flashcards Study App.
There's still a lot of work I want to complete before I call it finished, but it's a good start I think. I still want to add more quizlet functionality to it (since quizlet.com doesn't seem to have an android app yet.)
Download the App!
Some features:
* Offline Mode to study on the go without an internet connection.
* Adjust card flip speeds in the settings menu
* Long press on a deck to view options
* Shuffle your flashcards
* Search Quizlet to access millions of flashcard sets.
* Edit, Delete, and Create new flashcards with a breeze
* Text-to-speech integration
* Multi-language support
* Identify your strengths and weaknesses by keeping track of how well you know a card.
* Reverse Question and Answer sides on cards
* Improved UI
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I attached an apk that you guys can use since I can't seem to post a link to the play store.
Or alternatively, You can search for "CardCloud FlashCards" in the play store to get the official app.
I'd recommend it since I'm planning on pushing a lot of new features in the upcoming weeks.
Thanks!
Playstore link
merhans said:
A link for the apk or to the pkaystore would be nice^^ wana try it
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Hey. Sorry. It doesn't seem to let me post links since I'm a new member.
Here's an uploaded APK file you can use in the meantime
Or you can search for "CardCloud Flashcards" in the play store if you want the official version.
Thanks for trying it out!
Definitely let me know if you run into any problems.
So far nice ui
Works good. Is it possible to share own decks with friends? It would be amazing, also an option for read only and read write permissions for shared decks.
merhans said:
So far nice ui
Works good. Is it possible to share own decks with friends? It would be amazing, also an option for read only and read write permissions for shared decks.
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Thanks for the compliments!
Sharing is definitely a feature i'm going to be adding in the feature. Right now i'm torn between integrating some sort of facebook social network to allow for easier sharing. I've been busy trying to learn Ruby on Rails Development and Android Dev at the same time, so the cardcloud website is a bit lacking at the moment. But Sharing is definitely a big feature I want to implement.
Currently I'm in the middle of adding an ability for users to mark each card as easy/hard and then creating an infinite shuffle that will have a smart algorithm to show difficult cards more often.
That should be about two weeks out, and then I'll start working on the Deck sharing.
Great suggestion on the Read/Write permissions too! I think that would be an awesome feature, I've written it down on my notepad, so definitely stay tuned to this thread for any updates I make!
Thanks for trying out my app!
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Hey buddy I think this app is great for studying and for group activities. Love what you have done. I also like the UI I made this icon for you just cuz i like messing around with Photoshop haha hope you like it
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Byxlw5J4qbOvTWhEWnlrbFBna2M
Full icon without background or text: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Byxlw5J4qbOvOEV2U1FEWkVfWXM
Hi. Great app. Is it possible to manually edit or create a set on a PC and transfer / open / import into the application?
A quick way of implementing this might be to add CSV or XML export and import?
Perhaps a link up to Google docs for cloud storage and on line editing?
Also, would you consider the addition of images on the flip cards? Perhaps a HTML format would make this easy to implement? A picture paints a thousand words and all...
Keep up the good work and I hope its a great success.
Steve.
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Opening a quizlet with images renders nothing visible on the card
Steps to reproduce...
1. Search 2010 Honda Cars
2. Select any of the results
3. See the text (e.g. "2010 Honda civic") but on clicking the card to see the flip side - there is nothing.
Here is what is should look like... http://quizlet.com/1935486/2010-honda-cars-flash-cards/
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CardCloud - Flash Cards
CardCloud,
Great effort thus far ... you've added the ability to create card sets! This is HUGE.
Some tips I hope you're able to fix in the coming updates, please.
1. Settings - there should really only be on 'settings' button for the app (the vertical elipses button; top right/bottom right corners).
2. Logon - should be a little more clear "what" service the logon pertains to.
- I thought the ability to logon to Quizlet would work with this ?? I'm an Android newb and I've already realized things are "assumed/presumed" to be known to new users, which its not clear on many applications or the OS itself.
3. KEEP the "skip logon" this is critical and I've come across many notes type apps that I cannot even create a note when in the subway because they require a persistent internet connection = total pain in the ass and useless! You've got a good thing going with this "skip logon" ability please KEEP IT Much appreciated.
sd00 said:
Hi. Great app. Is it possible to manually edit or create a set on a PC and transfer / open / import into the application?
A quick way of implementing this might be to add CSV or XML export and import?
Perhaps a link up to Google docs for cloud storage and on line editing?
Also, would you consider the addition of images on the flip cards? Perhaps a HTML format would make this easy to implement? A picture paints a thousand words and all...
Keep up the good work and I hope its a great success.
Steve.
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Opening a quizlet with images renders nothing visible on the card
Steps to reproduce...
1. Search 2010 Honda Cars
2. Select any of the results
3. See the text (e.g. "2010 Honda civic") but on clicking the card to see the flip side - there is nothing.
Here is what is should look like... http://quizlet.com/1935486/2010-honda-cars-flash-cards/
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Thanks! I'm planning on adding that feature pretty soon. Right now I'm on the verge of adding support for marking cards as either correct or incorrect. Also I'm adding in an in-app purchase to remove ads. I've also been working on the website portion of my app (cardcloud.net) which will allow you to upload your local decks onto a website (once you create an account) once it's uploaded, you'll be able to export from the site.
That's still a work in progress, hopefully in a week or two, I'll have that ready for you.
In the meantime, you can expect an update for marking the correctness of each card in the next day or two!
Thanks for the compliments, and thanks for trying out my app!
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CardCloud,
Great effort thus far ... you've added the ability to create card sets! This is HUGE.
Some tips I hope you're able to fix in the coming updates, please.
1. Settings - there should really only be on 'settings' button for the app (the vertical elipses button; top right/bottom right corners).
2. Logon - should be a little more clear "what" service the logon pertains to.
- I thought the ability to logon to Quizlet would work with this ?? I'm an Android newb and I've already realized things are "assumed/presumed" to be known to new users, which its not clear on many applications or the OS itself.
3. KEEP the "skip logon" this is critical and I've come across many notes type apps that I cannot even create a note when in the subway because they require a persistent internet connection = total pain in the ass and useless! You've got a good thing going with this "skip logon" ability please KEEP IT Much appreciated.
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Hey! Supa_Fly, thanks for the kind words.
I really like the idea of the skip button for logins. The reason the login is there is to allow users to sync their decks with the website portion of the app. (CardCloud.net) But I've been busy working on the app and haven't had a chance to get the webapplication completed yet. Hopefully in the next week or two You'll be able to backup your local decks/cards onto a website, where you can save them on a computer.
The settings functionality is a bit confusing, so I've done a bit of tinkering with it to make it more intuitive to use. Thanks for the suggestions though! I really appreciate the feedback.
In the meantime, I'm working on a v1.2 release which will allow users to mark cards as either correct/incorrect/half-correct/etc, to help with remembering your learning progression. Keep an eye out for that. Hopefully I'll be able to push that up to the google store by tomorrow. I'll also update this thread once that's complete!
Thanks again for trying my app!
Hey. Just uploaded an update to the current App on the Appstore.
Some New features:
* Identify your strengths and weaknesses by keeping track of how well you know a card. Mark a card as Correct/Incorrect/etc
* Reverse Question and Answer sides on cards
* Improved UI
* Settings AutoSave when changed, rather than having to hit a save button
* When Viewing a Deck from Quizlet, download the deck directly from the cardview for your convenience.
* Change your settings (flipspeed and question/answer reversal) from the cardview.
cardcloud said:
Hey. Just uploaded an update to the current App on the Appstore.
Some New features:
* Identify your strengths and weaknesses by keeping track of how well you know a card. Mark a card as Correct/Incorrect/etc
* Reverse Question and Answer sides on cards
* Improved UI
* Settings AutoSave when changed, rather than having to hit a save button
* When Viewing a Deck from Quizlet, download the deck directly from the cardview for your convenience.
* Change your settings (flipspeed and question/answer reversal) from the cardview.
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Hi, my girlfriend wrote out 20 sets as study for her exam on Wednesday. Her phone updated your app and it seems her card sets have been deleted (or lost). :crying:
Is your new updated version deleting user inputted card sets?
I'd greatly appreciate a quick response if you have a way to retrieve them.
PS, where are the card sets saved? In files (what location in phone)? Perhaps we can retrieve them manually?
Thanks, Steve.
Hey sd00, I'm really really really sorry that happened.
I found a bug in my code that was clearing the sqlite DB on updates.
I fixed the bug, but unfortunately it looks like her cards have been wiped.
This is embarrassing, I'm a noob and didn't realize that would happen.
There's nothing I can do, but promise it won't happen again.
For what it's worth, If I sent you guys an ad free version of that app, would that help?
Again, I'm really sorry, let me know what I can do to try to make it better.
I'm working on the ability to create decks online and then sync them to your phone, so hopefully that'll make it easier in the future to recreate the decks.
(If you'd like, you can even send me the questions/answers and I'll type them back up for her myself.
if you pm me an email address, I can send you an apk for the free version too.
Again, I apologize for my noobness.
For such a new app - this was an unforeseen mistake by the developer. The fact that he's VERY apologetic and this app does offer some great features over the competition I'll still support this app!
As experience is gained and more testing directly by the developer we'll this app continually excel and grow in feature sets and less bugs. Not many people appreciate developers' hard work and even less developers are as humble as this one.
Supa_Fly said:
For such a new app - this was an unforeseen mistake by the developer. The fact that he's VERY apologetic and this app does offer some great features over the competition I'll still support this app!
As experience is gained and more testing directly by the developer we'll this app continually excel and grow in feature sets and less bugs. Not many people appreciate developers' hard work and even less developers are as humble as this one.
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Hey Supa_Fly, thanks for the kind words and support! It's been a lot of fun working on this app and I've learned a lot from the experience. Hopefully as I improve, so will the app. Sorry again to sd00 for the bug. I spent a few days testing and retesting to make sure it wouldn't happen again before I pushed up the newest update this afternoon.
I've been working on the syncing functionality the last week or so and I got it finally working the way I wanted. Not 100% yet, but allowing users to create their decks online I think is a necessary feature, since writing out individual cards on a phone is a pain. I'd like to tweak it a bit to make syncs work faster/better, but I'm slightly limited by my web server since it's a bit slow. Hopefully if I can generate any revenue through the app, I'll be able to put it towards faster servers. I'll keep an eye on the bug log to make sure nothing goes awry though.
I've pushed the new features up onto CardCloud.net allowing users to login to their accounts and create their cards online. Also, I uploaded the app updates to the google play store so users should be able to get the updated app with fixed functionality. Hopefully I didn't mess anything up this time .
In the meantime, I have a couple new features in the pipes that I'm working on that I think should improve the app. Hopefully I'll be able to get these pushed out in the upcoming weeks:
- Image support for flashcards. Definitely a top priority feature, should have an update for this within the next few weeks.
- Rich Text Editing. Another top level feature I want for the app.
- Better Quizlet integration. Search for usernames, and returning public decks, recently studied, etc
Anyways, sorry for the wall of text. When I get new features implemented for this app, I will post them here.
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Hi guys..
This kinda thread not new for XDA, and i bring here one as well.. This list is all the must-have apps for this awesome device.. Will keep the OP updated regularly..
1.Sygic: GPS Navigation - High quality maps stored on your Android (no internet connection needed!) together with a robust set of navigation features help you drive with confidence.
2.Power Toggles - This is simply the best toggle app around. Able to toggle lots of main features.
3.Picsay Pro - This is a brilliant photo editor
4.Desktop Visualizer - Makes shortcuts or widgets using a custom image and can be used to make custom icons.
5.AirDroid - For moving files between your PC and phone using WIFI
6.MXPlayer - MXPlayer is one of the best apps for viewing movies.
7.Home Switcher - Switches between any Home Launchers you have on your device.
8.PicSpeed Wallpapers - Over 170,000 HD wallpapers of all different genres, for our device.
[9.URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dropbox.android"]Dropbox[/URL] - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
10.Aldiko Book Reader - Read and download thousands of eBooks right on your Android phone or tablet. Download one of the best Android eBook Readers now!
11.ES File Explorer- ES File Explorer is a free, featured all-in-one file manager & application manager & task killer & cloud storage client & ftp client & samba client which explores the pictures, music, video, document & other files on your phone and your computer.
12.TeamViewer for Remote Control - Remotely control your computer with TeamViewer Free while you are on the road! Mobile and flexible: remotely access computers from your android device!
13.Whatsapp Messenger - WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages.
14.Pocket - When you find something on the web that you want to view later, put it in Pocket. It automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or computer so you can view it any time, even without an internet connection.
15.Appy Geek - Appy Geek brings you all the leading tech news sources from the industry in a cleverly laid-out user interface, including TechRadar, Gizmodo, T3 Magazine, The Next Web and more... Staying at the cutting edge of innovation has never been so easy!
16.Tapatalk Forum App - The only and the best fully functional forum app in the Market, endorsed by over 35,000 of forums worldwide.
17.SmartTools - Measure length, angle, distance, height, direction and sound with your phone. Smart Tools is a complete package of 5 app sets. It includes 5 Pro sets for a total of 15 tools. In a word, All-in-One.
18.CPU Spy - This is a simple app to display the time the CPU spends in each frequency state. This can be a useful tool in diagnosing battery problems or tweaking your over-clock settings.
19.DroidWall - Allows you to restrict which apps can access the network. This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery lasting longer. For advanced users, it also allows you to manually define custom iptables rules.
20.GO SMS Pro - GO SMS PRO brings you cool UI, fast and convenient SMS/MMS experience. GO SMS Pro is the most popular messaging app; Very powerful, Cool, Funny, Safe, Fully customizable; Well support SMS/MMS + GO Chat(free message) + Walkie Talkie(free voice).
21.K-9 Mail - K-9 Mail is an open-source e-mail client with search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, bcc-self, PGP, mail on SD & more!
22.Android Lost Free - Lost your android? We will help you find it. See http://www.androidlost.com. Remotely control your Android phone from the internet or by SMS.
23.Poweramp - Poweramp is a powerful music player for Android.
24.Google Googles - Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, a storefront, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information. Goggles also works as a barcode / QR code scanner.
25.Buzz Launcher Beta - Buzz Launcher is a new concept launcher which enables you to apply others’ Homescreens to your own smartphone. Download Homescreens best suited for your taste and preferences via Homepack Buzz Service. Homescreens will be applied instantly.
26.Chrome - No need for any introduction here
27.Screen Filter : Overcome the brightness limits of stock !! One of my fav..
28.SwiftKey Keyboard : The BEST keyboard out there !! Worth the money
29.PHOTO WARP - Want to tease your friend or sibling? Wanna have some fun? This is simple free app which will make everyone giggle and you'll love it on your handset.
30.Light Flow Lite - Take control of your notifications. LEDs, vibration, repeating sounds and more.
31.Sidebar Pro - A brilliant new way of multitasking on Android. It's fast, functional, fluid, and customizable to your liking. Populate the sidebar with your favorite apps, and simply swipe in from the edge of the screen to gain instant access to the apps you use most. You can also get the free version but feel free to use this one to support the dev..
32.Eye in Sky Weather - Eye In Sky Weather is for those who like their weather clean, simple and beautiful. The app includes 12 of the best weather icon sets available, with the ability to add your own icon sets.
33.XDA App ICS Blue Colours/Themed - Our favourite forum app but with a complete red or blue colour theme thanks to our own Whiskey103.
34.Solid Explorer - Solid Explorer is a file manager which with two independent panels is the most attractive, eye catching and intuitive file manager for the Android.
35.QuickPic - An alternate photo gallery app, incase you don't like the default.
36.Unified Remote - Easily the most feature-filled Android-PC remote. Turns your Android device into a WiFi or Bluetooth universal remote control for your Windows PC. Control your favorite programs, mouse, and keyboard.
37.AireTalk - Aire is a new communication app loaded with features that lets you talk to your friends and family in more ways than ever! Use Aire to make calls to any Aire user with voice or video for free!
38.SketchBook Mobile - Autodesk SketchBook® Mobile is a professional-grade paint and drawing application offering a full set of sketching tools and a streamlined and intuitive user interface.
39.AfterFocus - Bring DSLR-like Photography to Your Smartphone
40.VLC for Android Beta - VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols. This is a BETA version of the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. It is intended for power users and hackers. This version is not perfectly stable and is slower than the final version.
41.Plume for Twitter - Plume is a beautiful and completely customizable Twitter app that will revolutionize the way you use Twitter! Brought to you by the authors of the popular Beautiful Widgets, Plume is one of the best Twitter clients for Android! (Plume was formerly known as Touiteur)
42. MD5Checker - This application allows the user to compare the MD5 checksum between two files or alternatively between a file and a value entered manually. When loading a .md5, it will read its content and put it in the field instead of calculating the hash.
43. Headset Button Controller - Headset Button Controller is very configurable, allowing you to play music, change tracks, adjust volume, answer phone calls, start Voice Command and many other things, just by clicking the button on your headset. Worth the money.
44. Google Keep : Best note/reminder app out there..
45. Amazon Mobile for Android - The Amazon Mobile app allows customers to browse and shop by department, search, compare prices, find deals, read reviews and make a purchase right from their mobile device.
46. Jorte Calendar - For personal use or for business, Jorte will assist you to manage your daily schedule thoroughly.
47. Wave Control : Control Your Music With a Wave of Your Hand!
Uses the proximity sensor on your phone to allow control of your music playback by waving your hand over your phone. No need to turn on your screen or even touch your phone at all!
48. External Keyboard Helper :A non visible soft keyboard (Input Method) intended to be used with hardware Bluetooth and USB keyboards. It automatically brings up the Input Method dialog when Bluetooth keyboard connects or disconnects (on some devices this can also be made to work with USB keyboards).
It supports a lot of different keylayouts for non-US external keyboards and also provides a lot of configuration options.
This app does NOT require a rooted device and there is a DEMO version available if you want to try it out before buying
49. Puzzle Alarm Clock : We know you have a problem with getting up in the morning, and we want to change it! Puzzle Alarm Clock will check if you're awake enough before you're allowed to turn alarms off.
50. Speedy Uploader for Facebook - Uploads pics in an instant, after compressing them. Great stuff.
51. Screen Off and Lock : One tap to turn off screen with animation and sounds..
52. Auto 3G Battery Saver - This is a simply tool that allows the user to save battery enabling the mobile connection only when it's needed!
When the user unlocks the phone, data will be enabled.
When user locks the phone, data will be disabled.
53. gReader - gReader is an unofficial Google Reader client for Android. Read all your RSS/Feed news in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
54. ArkMC DLNA UPnP Media Centre : The most advanced UPnP/DLNA app available to play movies, videos, music or photos on your HD TV. Stream wireless any video, with a single tap. Use us and you immediately will find out why this is a high-end solution! Have fun with your friends and family and enjoy your media on any screen.
55. Speedtest.net : Use Speedtest.net for easy, one-tap connection testing in under 30 seconds—accurate anywhere.
56. iSyncr for iTunes - PC : Want to stop carrying both your phone and your iPod? Keep your music fresh with smart playlists? iSyncr enables you to quickly sync your Android device with the music you have in iTunes using a simple to use interface. No need to move your music into a new music management software. iSyncr works directly with iTunes so you can sync hassle-free.
57. VEVO - Watch Free Music Videos : With the VEVO app you can watch music videos, stream live concerts, and discover new artists on your Android device for free! Access VEVO's entire catalog of 75,000 music videos from more than 21,000 artists.
58. Shortyz - Save space on your phone and challenge your brain instead of flinging birds. Gives you access to dozens of crossword puzzles daily.
59. YPmobile - Yellow Pages app. Sometimes it's just a lot faster than Google at finding local information.
60. gTasks - GTasks is a simple and efficient task management app with both local and google account mode. You can customize your to do list, set reminder, share tasks with your friends, family members or colleagues and sync with your google tasks perfectly.
61. DigiCal Calendar & Widgets - Experience the most stylish Android calendar with Holo light and dark themes with 6 powerful calendar views and 5 beautifully designed widgets!
62. Flip Silent - regardless the phone screen up or down, just flip it, the phone will become silent. Do not worry about missing calls. Automatic recovery: After the call ends, the phone ring will get back to the original settings.
APPS THAT REQUIRE ROOT :
1.ROM Toolbox Pro - ROM Toolbox combines apps like Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, ROM Manager and others. A must-have root app *ROOT*
2.Android Tuner - The most complete system tuner and manager for all your phones and tablets!
3.BetterBatteryStats - With BetterBatteryStats you can analyse the behavior of your phone, find applications causing the phone to drain battery while it is supposed to be asleep and measure the effect of corrective actions. Guys you can also find this app if you search on XDA..
4.Titanium Backup - EXTREMELY powerful tool. Needs no introduction.. Backup ALL apps, Market links, remove bloatware & MORE! ☆Needs ROOT, Android 1.5-4.1+ Go for PRO.. Worth every single penny.
5.Appextractor - AppExtractor is a tool which will allow you to restore individual applications, data, SMS, and MMS messages from your ROM Manager backups.
6.Greenify *ROOT(my fav)* - Greenify help you identify and put the bad behaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, stop them from lagging and battery leeching, in an unique way! They could do nothing without your explicit launch, while still have full functionality when running in foreground, like what iOS apps act!
7.AutoStart Manager : Great app and very helpful to get rid of many app's autostart and makes systems more Smooth and better..
8.Tasker - The best app of its kind. It does almost anything.
9. Kernel Tuner - Name says it all.
10. Incredicontrol - Time tested app for voltage/frequency control.
11. Autostarts - Keep control over your phone: See what applications do behind your back.
Shows you what apps run on phone startup, and what other events trigger in the background. Root users can disable unwanted autostarts and speed up their phone boot.
12. Spare Parts Plus! - Spare Parts Plus! PRO allows you to enable and change some hidden settings of your Android device. This app is based on the open code provided by Google
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Hi guys..
This kinda thread not new for XDA, and i bring here one as well.. This list is all the must-have apps for this awesome device.. Will keep the OP updated regularly..
Sygic: GPS Navigation - High quality maps stored on your Android (no internet connection needed!) together with a robust set of navigation features help you drive with confidence.
Power Toggles - This is simply the best toggle app around. Able to toggle lots of main features.
Picsay Pro - This is a brilliant photo editor
Desktop Visualizer - Makes shortcuts or widgets using a custom image and can be used to make custom icons.
AirDroid - For moving files between your PC and phone using WIFI
MXPlayer - MXPlayer is one of the best apps for viewing movies.
Home Switcher - Switches between any Home Launchers you have on your device.
PicSpeed Wallpapers - Over 170,000 HD wallpapers of all different genres, for our device.
Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
Aldiko Book Reader - Read and download thousands of eBooks right on your Android phone or tablet. Download one of the best Android eBook Readers now!
ES File Explorer- ES File Explorer is a free, featured all-in-one file manager & application manager & task killer & cloud storage client & ftp client & samba client which explores the pictures, music, video, document & other files on your phone and your computer.
TeamViewer for Remote Control - Remotely control your computer with TeamViewer Free while you are on the road! Mobile and flexible: remotely access computers from your android device!
Whatsapp Messenger - WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages.
Pocket - When you find something on the web that you want to view later, put it in Pocket. It automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or computer so you can view it any time, even without an internet connection.
Appy Geek - Appy Geek brings you all the leading tech news sources from the industry in a cleverly laid-out user interface, including TechRadar, Gizmodo, T3 Magazine, The Next Web and more... Staying at the cutting edge of innovation has never been so easy!
Tapatalk Forum App - The only and the best fully functional forum app in the Market, endorsed by over 35,000 of forums worldwide.
SmartTools - Measure length, angle, distance, height, direction and sound with your phone. Smart Tools is a complete package of 5 app sets. It includes 5 Pro sets for a total of 15 tools. In a word, All-in-One.
CPU Spy - This is a simple app to display the time the CPU spends in each frequency state. This can be a useful tool in diagnosing battery problems or tweaking your over-clock settings.
DroidWall - Allows you to restrict which apps can access the network. This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery lasting longer. For advanced users, it also allows you to manually define custom iptables rules.
GO SMS Pro - GO SMS PRO brings you cool UI, fast and convenient SMS/MMS experience. GO SMS Pro is the most popular messaging app; Very powerful, Cool, Funny, Safe, Fully customizable; Well support SMS/MMS + GO Chat(free message) + Walkie Talkie(free voice).
K-9 Mail - K-9 Mail is an open-source e-mail client with search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, bcc-self, PGP, mail on SD & more!
Android Lost Free - Lost your android? We will help you find it. See http://www.androidlost.com. Remotely control your Android phone from the internet or by SMS.
Poweramp - Poweramp is a powerful music player for Android.
Google Googles - Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, a storefront, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information. Goggles also works as a barcode / QR code scanner.
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power toggles isn't needed, dropbar toggles are highly customizable.
picsay pro is awesome, might also want to consider this new kickstartr called Photoshop, its made by Adobe and is in the market for about the same price.
Desktop Visualizer is built into NOVA
really don't know what's special about MX video player, its less featured than stock, doesn't support. MKV files, and takes sooo much more out of the battery, not to mention uglier interface, no features, and loads super slow. if you want a dinosaur 3rd party video player use QQ, its chinese made so doesn't bother with things like licensing, and it'll play everything, even proprietary formats cause.. china ftw
home switcher is used so rarely, you might as well use the built in home switcher, under settings>apps
dropbox only if you already have it, otherwise use the 1tb dropbox destroyer Samsung included with the s4.
ES File manager .... let me share with you a proper file manager, Solid Explorer. every other file manager is the same except this one, multi pannels, drag and dropping, whole system indexing for instant search results, even includes your cloud drives (dropbox, gdrive, etc) and can drag and drop between them too.. most sophisticated file manager, competes even with windows desktop file manager.
too add to this list let me suggest a great pair;
BetterBatteryStats paired with AutoStart Manager. these two together can customly remove ads, remove battery drainers, mod features, remove trial limitations in apps, stop apps from starting up whenever tthey feel like it which is the reason you're losing 40% instead of 3% to standby throughout the day.
SMS Popup - if samsung doesn't offer option to keep screen off while getting notification, i suggest this. turn off notifications in messenger, and enable SMS Popup, i don't use the popup feature, but rather use it identically as stock, it brings up stock messenger, it only uses SMS Popup to notify (just without waking screen).
Titanium Backup, swiss army knife of android apps.
Thumb Keyboard. if you're not using Swiftkey to text like a maniac without needing to even look at your keyboard, then i suggest Thumb Keyboard. its an extremely comfortable hiiigghhlllly customizable keyboard, with a large split layout, or 13 other custom layouts, that you can tweak, has oh so necessary arrow keys, and test subsidies. to name a few of mine, i subsidize 'tue' for 'the' as built in dictionary will autocorrect it to Tue (short for Tuesday). i also changed 'khz' to '㎑' 'ghz' to '㎓', 'ducking' to '****ing' (lol..), as well as 'f3, f4, f5, and f6 to ( ￣ з￣), ( ´ ⌒`) (༯ ͡ ヮ ͡ ) (╥__ ╥╬)..
..anyways you get the idea.. you can replace any letter or longpress letters, and a zillion other features. just check it out.
QuickPic offers more photoviewing features, but ill admit integration with stock, and it's pretty ui are pretty awesome, so its your call.
same as above goes for poweramp, offers some better features, but ui is hideous compared to stock.
lastly i suggest you actually give the stock apps a chance before tossing them aside for 3rd party.. galaxy has come a long way since s1, at least give it a chance.
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soraxd said:
power toggles isn't needed, dropbar toggles are highly customizable.
picsay pro is awesome, might also want to consider this new kickstartr called Photoshop, its made by Adobe and is in the market for about the same price.
Desktop Visualizer is built into NOVA
really don't know what's special about MX video player, its less featured than stock, doesn't support. MKV files, and takes sooo much more out of the battery, not to mention uglier interface, no features, and loads super slow. if you want a dinosaur 3rd party video player use QQ, its chinese made so doesn't bother with things like licensing, and it'll play everything, even proprietary formats cause.. china ftw
home switcher is used so rarely, you might as well use the built in home switcher, under settings>apps
dropbox only if you already have it, otherwise use the 1tb dropbox destroyer Samsung included with the s4.
ES File manager .... let me share with you a proper file manager, Solid Explorer. every other file manager is the same except this one, multi pannels, drag and dropping, whole system indexing for instant search results, even includes your cloud drives (dropbox, gdrive, etc) and can drag and drop between them too.. most sophisticated file manager, competes even with windows desktop file manager.
too add to this list let me suggest a great pair;
BetterBatteryStats paired with AutoStart Manager. these two together can customly remove ads, remove battery drainers, mod features, remove trial limitations in apps, stop apps from starting up whenever tthey feel like it which is the reason you're losing 40% instead of 3% to standby throughout the day.
SMS Popup - if samsung doesn't offer option to keep screen off while getting notification, i suggest this. turn off notifications in messenger, and enable SMS Popup, i don't use the popup feature, but rather use it identically as stock, it brings up stock messenger, it only uses SMS Popup to notify (just without waking screen).
Titanium Backup, swiss army knife of android apps.
Thumb Keyboard. if you're not using Swiftkey to text like a maniac without needing to even look at your keyboard, then i suggest Thumb Keyboard. its an extremely comfortable hiiigghhlllly customizable keyboard, with a large split layout, or 13 other custom layouts, that you can tweak, has oh so necessary arrow keys, and test subsidies. to name a few of mine, i subsidize 'tue' for 'the' as built in dictionary will autocorrect it to Tue (short for Tuesday). i also changed 'khz' to '㎑' 'ghz' to '㎓', 'ducking' to '****ing' (lol..), as well as 'f3, f4, f5, and f6 to ( ￣ з￣), ( ´ ⌒`) (༯ ͡ ヮ ͡ ) (╥__ ╥╬)..
..anyways you get the idea.. you can replace any letter or longpress letters, and a zillion other features. just check it out.
QuickPic offers more photoviewing features, but ill admit integration with stock, and it's pretty ui are pretty awesome, so its your call.
same as above goes for poweramp, offers some better features, but ui is hideous compared to stock.
lastly i suggest you actually give the stock apps a chance before tossing them aside for 3rd party.. galaxy has come a long way since s1, at least give it a chance.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
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Yea dude adding them.. ANd yet to taste Samsung.. This is my first galaxy !!
Desktop Visualizer , AirDroid and powertoggles are not needed i Think...I think there would be a yet another easy way to transfer files via wifi..Who knows the default filemanager of s4 may support wifi file transfer to devices and pc....As of power toggles they are not really needed the same in the case of desktop visualizer too...
Optimus
optimusinc said:
Desktop Visualizer , AirDroid and powertoggles are not needed i Think...I think there would be a yet another easy way to transfer files via wifi..Who knows the default filemanager of s4 may support wifi file transfer to devices and pc....As of power toggles they are not really needed the same in the case of desktop visualizer too...
Optimus
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Yup use wi-fi explorer pro.. Best out there !!!
Not spamming thread.
KNTXTremE said:
Not spamming thread.
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Who said you're ??
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few more apps have been added to the OP
Better battery stats does not require root
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phositadc said:
Better battery stats does not require root
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It does if you want some stats like kernel wakelocks..
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I would recommend F Droid, especially for adblocking software.
mimart7 said:
I would recommend F Droid, especially for adblocking software.
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Thanks would add it to OP..
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I would recommend a free app - "My Emoticons". It is not a very complicated or powerful software, it is just a collection of more than a lots of nice and cute text emoticons which meets our needs in expressing emotions when SMS, Email, Facebook, Blogging, and any text typing activities.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Here is the download link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.potatotree.myemoticons
OP updated..
GoSMSPro. Forget Popup Quick Reply. Samsung's SMS client is pretty bad.
As for the rest of the list you provided....well....I would only recommend about 5 of them.
Added some more apps !!
You forgot gmail
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Snapseed! I love photography and snapseed is a quicky if there's no Photoshop atm
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-Harsh- said:
Hi guys..
This kinda thread not new for XDA, and i bring here one as well.. This list is all the must-have apps for this awesome device.. Will keep the OP updated regularly..
1.Sygic: GPS Navigation - High quality maps stored on your Android (no internet connection needed!) together with a robust set of navigation features help you drive with confidence.
2.Power Toggles - This is simply the best toggle app around. Able to toggle lots of main features.
6.MXPlayer - MXPlayer is one of the best apps for viewing movies.
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i think u should add that it will run better when the required codec patch for gpu/cpu? architecture is designed