A Thread where you can find useful Apps for your HTC Sensation
If this is useful, I always appreciate a thanks (button on the bottom of post)
And don't forget to post your favorite apps, it can be more than 3 if you have them, with quick description
S-OFF Root your phone
S-OFF - Thread on how to S-Off or Root your phone
Browsers
Dolphin Browser - Powerful, Fast & Elegant web browser for Android 2.0+.Browsing made wonderful.
Firefox - If you just have to have a different browser from Opera
Maxthon - Fast Browser
Opera Mobile Web Browser - Great Web Browser.
Skyfire – browser that does flash
Communication
ChompSMS - Has lots of extra SMS features like chat-style bubbles, contact pictures, quick reply, signatures, templates, blacklisting, heaps of customizations, themes, FREE texting using the **TextFreek Service** and much much more!
Craigslist Notification - Get notifications when stuff is posted to craigslist.
CSipSimple - High quality OpenSource SIP OpenSource (GPL) project for SIP on Android.
Dialer One - Smart multilingual T9 like dialer application. *Speed dial *Call log grouped by contact *Send contact *Customizable *Swipe between screens
Facebook for Android - Facebook on your phone, I like it better than the widgets, but that is just me.
Fring - Group video calls and chat.
Go SMS Pro - GO SMS PRO brings you cool UI, fast and convenient SMS/MMS experience. GO SMS Pro(yet FREE) is a huge enhancement for stock messaging app, much faster, more functions.
Handcent SMS - A powerful free sms/mms tools for your android phone. Handcent fully unleashes the messaging power for android phones, fully customizable and more features than the stock android messaging app.
KakaoTalk - Enjoy free group or one-to-one chats anywhere in the world. (both iPhone and Android)
Rocket Dialer - The most powerful and comprehensive dialer in android. Makes 3 way calling and picking up call waiting easier.
Skype – Skype for your phone
SMS Popup - Quickly read and reply to SMS messages from a convenient popup window. SMS Popup provides a convenient popup dialog when a message is received that allows you to quickly read and reply to messages. It also provides in-depth customization of message notifications including contact specific sound, vibrate and LED settings.
Taptu – Clever social news feed reader. Get the latest on your interests in one place.
Viber - Viber is an Android and iPhone application that lets you make free phone calls and send free text messages to other users that have Viber installed.
Voice Dialer - although you can dial on your phone with voice search, if you want an explicit voice dialer it is here in this thread.
Qik – Video chat
WordPress - Write new posts, edit content, and manage comments on your WordPress blog.
Media / Entertainment
Audiogalaxy - Superb music streaming app. Install the server software on your PC or NAS and have all of YOUR music all the time. AG > Google Music for me, don't want to know what Google would charge me to host my 320g in the 'cloud'.
Camera360 - add effects to photos.
DI.Radio - Digitally Imported streams the world’s most addictive electronic music. If you like digital music, this is the app for you.
Dice Player - Hardware Accelerated Media Player
Double Twist - Itunes for Android.
Gmote 2.0 - Control your computer's media player from your phone.
Google Books – read over 3 million books on your phone. Some of them free.
Google Listen - Podcasts. Great settings to download new ones only while on WiFi and charging.
Hi-Q - Record audio in high quality directly into MP3 files! Voice dictation, songs, sermons, music, and concerts can be recorded in 44 kHz, much better than the default sound recorder application. You can manage and send recordings by email and Bluetooth (depends on phone model) or by copying files directly from the SD Card.
MixZing - MixZing is simply the most advanced media player around! A lot of cool features, way more advanced than stock music player.
Netflix - Reported to work with HTC Sensation. Another Link Here
Pandora – Internet radio station. Listen to your favorite music.
Photoshop Express - Edit and share photos virtually anywhere. Touch to crop, rotate, adjust color, and add artistic effects.
Picasa Tool - Picasa Tool Pro helps you to manage your Picasa web albums with simple yet powerful user interface designed specifically for Android powered smartphone.
Plex for Android - Plex for Android allows you to browse and play your video, photos, and music right on your Android device, streamed from Plex Media Server on your Mac or your PC
Pulse News - Pulse is a beautiful app that takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story.
QuickPic - Smaller! Faster! Clearer! The best picture viewer/browser/gallery!
RingDroid – Make and edit ringtones
Ringtone Maker – Make and edit ringtones
Robotic Guitarist – play the guitar on your phone
Scanner Radio - Listen to police and fire departments from around the world on your phone.
Shazam - Can identify songs by hearing them. Hold your phone up to the song to identify the track, buy it, check out the videos, get the lyrics, share it with friends – and more!
Slacker – Free Internet radio stations. Listen to your favorite style of music
StreamFurious - Simple streaming audio for your Android, browser link support. Free with no ads. Plays shoutcast/icecast mp3 streams.
TuneIn Radio - Browse and listen to radio -- live, local and global. Listen live to your favorite radio stations, DJs and programs and find new ones on local, global and Internet radio.
TuneWiki - The Music Player with Lyrics and a Social Network for Music Discovery
Unified Remote - Easily the most feature-filled Android-PC remote. Turns your Android device into a WiFi or Bluetooth remote control for your Windows PC. Control your favorite programs, mouse, and keyboard.
Voice Recorder - Voice recording app for your phone.
XDA Premium - This is the official XDA-Developers Premium Android App! By popular request, we present to you the Premium version of the official XDA-Developers Android app! This app lets you access the world-famous XDA forums, plus reply to threads, add new ones, manage your PMs, and more!
Zedge - Personalize your Android phone with the #1 wallpaper & ringtone app. Millions of free, unique and rare ringtones, notification sounds & wallpapers.
Office / Productivity
Andie Graph – A TI calculator emulator. You need the TI rom’s to use it.
CamScanner – turn your phone camera into a scanner. Generates .pdf’s.
Catch Notes - Catch Notes is a feature-packed app that allows you to capture your ideas and experiences in text, voice, images, and locations, all with free sync & backups to Catch.com. Passcode-protect your personal activity stream, set reminders, share content, and keep organized with easy #tags and a homescreen widget!
Documents to Go 3.0 - View Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint Files - All in 1 App FREE! View native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files & attachments with Documents To Go Main App. Supported file formats include .doc,. docx,. xls,. xlsx,. ppt,. pptx. (to edit files you have to get paid version)
Epistle - A simple and clean text editor that can sync all your notes with Dropbox. It also supports the Markdown language, with a live preview of your notes.
Evernote - Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
Freenote - FreeNote is the most convenient note app for android. Feature list: Unique hybrid model for combined handwriting and keyboard; Text,paint,voice,photo,video...Note everything; Calender,alarm,todo...Getting things done.
Google Docs - You need to be online to do it, but you can edit office docs with Google Docs, and it is free.
Grapher - Plot functions and trace their graphs with ease! This is a simple graphing calculator with graphing capabilities similar to TI-83 or TI-89 calculators.
Jorte - an app with the look and feel of real paper personal organizer with an appealing appearance and easy practical use. Jorte has a scheduler function and you can customize its style as you choose.
PocketCloud - Access your computer and virtual desktops from your mobile device. PocketCloud enables remote access to Windows or Mac desktops over WiFi and 3G/4G networks
Polaris Office – Open, read, and edit Microsoft word, excel and powerpoint (No Android Market link anymore. Not sure why)
Quick Office – Open, read and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and .Pdf’s
RealCalc – Scientific Calculator. More powerful than the standard one.
SimpleNote Notepad - SimpleNote Notepad is just a simple notepad app supporting editing, viewing notes, searching, exporting, importing, backing up, and restoring notes. No ads.
Springpad - Makes it easy to save notes, products and places you want to remember
Team Viewer - Remotely control your computer from your phone.
Thinking Space - A Mind-Mapping application. Create visual thought maps that help organize and plan your activities and ideas.
WakeVoice - Much more than a simple alarm clock, WakeVoice lets you interact with your phone using your voice: - Talk to it with custom commands to stop the alarm or activate the snooze option - Listen to your phone telling you about the weather, news of your choice or a personalized message while staying warm in your bed
Utilities
Advanced Task Manager - Best task killer for android system, speed up phone, free up Ram, save battery.
Alarm Clock Plus - Ensure you always wake up with Alarm Clock Plus! ALARM CLOCK PLUS IS HANDS DOWN THE MOST FULL FEATURED ALARM CLOCK APP ON ANDROID!
Anycut - Any Cut allows you to create Home shortcuts to anything! Popular shortcuts like directly calling a phone number or sending an SMS are supported.
AppSaver - Easy install apps from your SDcard, Quick save apps to SDCard, Quick uninstall apps you dislike.
Assited GPS Injector - Improve GPS fix time for ANY GPS-enabled application. Automatically request Assisted GPS data download (Internet connection required) before starting any application to ensure shortest time to acquire proper GPS fix.
AudioManager/AudioManager Pro - Customizable audio control app. Set different levels for everything - ringtones, media, alerts, etc... then save profiles. Makes switching them up super simple with shortcuts on the home screen.
Battery Monitor Widget - monitors Battery Use in every possible way you can imagine and more.
Blade Buddy - Blade Buddy Free (Ad-supported version) allows you go edit various system settings on your Android Device. Some functions don’t work if you haven’t rooted your phone.
Brightness Level - This is widget/app, which allows you easily change screen brightness.
Call Confirm - Stop making accidental calls. App confirms you want to make a call before placing it.
Car Home - The stock android car home - A car mode for your phone, makes it easier to use as you drive. Make sure you also download Car Mode Control. More details HTC Car Panel HERE (thanks GorillaPimp) Download HERE also
Car Mode Control - On HTC Sensation, you need this to launch Car Home.
Chainfire 3D - Chainfire3D is an intermediary OpenGL driver. What does that mean? It means that Chainfire3D sits between your apps and the graphics drivers, and can intercept and/or change commands between the two.
Custom Android Font Switcher - Custom Android Font Switcher is an easy to use font-switching app. It provides you switch over 150 custom fonts that, with the click of a button, you can apply to your phone.
EasyProfiles - EasyProfiles is an intuitive, flexible, battery saving tool which allows you to automatically or manually switch between profiles that you have defined. A profile is a collection of system settings you select to make your device behave as you would like for each situation (quiet, loud, GPS on, etc).
Easy Reminder - Remind You missed call and unread sms/mms, easy to use and highly configurable! You can easily set an alert that will be repeated periodically. You can also decide a time slot during which You will not be disturbed.
Elixer - Do you want to know everything about your device? Try Elixir and its widgets! Elixir is a system information application with highly configurable widgets. Displays information about battery, cpu usage, memory usage, internal and external storage (sd-card), display, wifi, mobile network, location services (gps), bluetooth, sync, airplane mode, sensors, etc.
Extended Controls – Great way to have a widget that controls and toggles many settings (wifi on/off, vibrate/sound/silent, gps on/off, etc.) Too many options to list, great tool!
Go Launcher EX - GO Launcher EX is the extended version of GO Launcher, one of the most popular home apps in Android Market. It’s a highly customizable home replacement application, which will run when you press your android phone’s HOME key.
Gravity Home - Gravity Home = Live wallpaper + Launcher + Physics. Transform your home screen in a funny alternative launcher. Turn the phone upside down and watch your favorite app icons respond to gravity, hanging aroung the screen, being completelly funcional. Thread on it HERE.
Intelligent Key Unlocker - The intelligent enhancement for your lockscreen! If enabled, the Intelligent Keylock Unlocker unlocks your lock screen automatically if the proximity sensor does not register any object closer than a few centimeters to it.
Irssi ConnectBot - Irssi ConnectBot is modified version of the popular ConnectBot SSH client. Has features which helps users to use Irssi.
Juice Defender Beta - Battery Saving Utility. Some find it useful.
Lightening Bug - Alarm Clock and Sleep noise generator. A simple but powerful ambience and white noise mixer for Android powered devices.
Linda Application Manager - If you want File/Application/Task Manager in one APK, download Linda File Manager -quick install/uninstall -Sort By and Group By Name/Date/Type/Size -Collapse All/Expand All -Backup/Backup All -Search at Market -Category your backup -Launch Application
Linda File Manager - The Best File Manager, do anything(File/App/Task/Zip etc.) , just 500k
Llama - Location Aware Profile Utility. You can change sounds, power settings, etc. based on where you are.
Lookout - Lookout offers top rated Android security to stop malware, spyware, data loss and device loss.
Network Info II - All the network information you'll need. WiFi/Bluetooth/Cell/IPv6
Overlook Fing - the ultimate tool for network management: network discovery, service scan (TCP port scan), ping, traceroute, DNS lookup.
PhoneLocator Pro - Complete control over your lost or stolen droid! Find your lost or stolen phone, auto enable GPS(rooted phones), make it ring, remotely lock, remotely wipe, hide the app, know with whom the thief is speaking!
Quick System Info Pro - Explore your system state better. Quick access of the basic system information for your Android platform, including information for CPU, memory, SD Card, running processes, network states and installed applications.
Smartbar - Manage Apps/Tasks. Batch Install/Uninstall/Backup apps. Customize things.
Spare Parts - allows you to enable some settings that are not found in the default setting menu
Speech Synthesis Data Installer - Installs the data files needed by the Android TTS for synthesizing in the following languages: English (US), English (UK), French, German, Italian, Spanish. (Need it for voice in Navigation)
Speed Test - speedtest.net for your phone. See how fast your data connection is.
Swiftkey X Beta – A nice replacement AI keyboard for you sensation. Not compatible with some hardware keyboards (works on HTC Sensation)
SwiFTP - An open-source FTP server that allows you to connect to your phone over wifi or cellular/3g to upload and download files. Any FTP client can be used.
Swipe Beta - Swipe keyboard beta.
Tap Tap App - Lock and unlock the screen with a double tap the proximity sensor. Also a widget that locks your phone with one click.
Tricorder – Mostly just fun. See what your sensors register on your phone. Supposed to be a star trek tricorder.
Visidon Applock - Fast, convenient and cool way to protect your mobile with face recognition. Protect any application (i.e. SMS, Gallery, E-Mail, Facebook, etc.) on your phone using face recognition. Convenient and cool way to increase safety of your private apps and content.
Volume+ - Volume Booster, FEATURES INCLUDE: On/Off toggle, Volume Boost, EQ pre-sets, Bass Enhancer, Stereo Widener (only for Headset/Bluetooth Headset), Virtual Room Effect (VRE - Echo). ALL FEATURES AVAILABLE FOR: Phone Speaker, Headset, Bluetooth Headset
Wave Launcher - A quick gesture-enabled quick launch bar always accessible with a simple gesture. With a single swipe you can launch up to 120(!) of your favorite apps, shortcuts and recently-used apps regardless of which app is currently running. Wave Launcher is accessible anytime, anywhere!
Wallpaper Wizardrii - WW will take any size image and set it as your wallpaper; which means you are no longer forced to Crop a large image to set it as wallpaper.
Widgetlocker - Powerful lockscreen customizing app. A lock screen replacement that puts you in control of the look, feel and layout of your lock screen.
Wifi Analyzer – see what wifi’s are around you, the strength of their signal, and what channel they are on, all in a great graphics interface. I love it!
WiFi Explorer - Browse, download, upload, delete, copy, ZIP, stream and manage files via WiFi!!
Wifi Manager – Control your wifi access, and switch between networks easily
Backup / Sync
Box.net - online storage (up to 5 gb free)
Dropbox - Lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
Funambol Sync - Delivers over-the-air synchronization of your personal data. Makes it easy to secure your Android pictures, videos, files, contacts and calendar in an online account and keep them in sync across your other mobile phones, tablets, and computers. Platforms supported include Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Symbian mobile phones, iPad and Android tablets, and Windows and Mac computers.
MyBackup Pro - The #1 backup application for Android. Secure your data with MyBackup Pro.
Titanium Backup *ROOT* - Extremely powerful backup tool, you must have root.
File Sharing / Organizing
Andftp – A usefull FTP browser and file browser.
ASTRO file manager – The file browser that did not come with your phone.
ASTRO Bluetooth add on – share files via Bluetooth.
ES File Explorer - An alternative to andftp. File copier/explorer, windows/samba networking support
File Expert - Powerful File Manager/WIFI File Transfer Web & FTP/App Manager - ALL in ONE
Folder Organizer - Group items according to labels and create customizable folders and widgets.
FTP Server - Simple & free FTP Server to transfer files to/from your android device with a FTP client. For more information visit this site
Koala File Encrypter - Helps you to encrypt private files with password. Encrypted files have extension ".spf", you can decrypt it or open it directly within this appli
*Root* Explorer (File Manager) - Root Explorer is the ultimate file manager for root users. Access the whole of android's file system (including the elusive data folder!). MUST HAVE ROOT ACCESS
Simi Folder - a Folder Widget with a horizontal/vertical scrollable Launcher.
Reference / Information
Antennas – Find where the cell towers are in your area. Kind of cool.
Barcode Scanner – Check if the prices are good at the store.
BASSWAR – check if your bass is in tune. Just a tone generator.
CoPilot Live Premium - Offline voice-guided GPS navigation
ConvertMe - Utility for converting over 100 various units of measurement (distance, area, volume, mass, temperature, and many others)
CrossConnect Bible – Free open-source Android Bible. Many different versions.
FlightBoard - Turn your Android phone into the Arrivals and Departures board for any airport in the world! FlightBoard lets you check out the boards of your favorite airports and view all the flight information in real-time.
FlightTrack - Get real-time flight status and map tracking for airline flights worldwide. The best flight tracking app out there! Track flights with beautiful, zoomable maps or get real-time departure info, delays and gate numbers at a glance.
Gas Buddy – I like finding cheap gas. This helps.
Google Earth - Google Earth for you phone
Google Goggles – Use pictures to search the web.
Google Sky Map - Point your phone at the sky, and Google Sky Map will show the stars, planets, constellations, and more to help you identify the celestial objects in view.
GSpeedo – GPS speedometer. Tracks speed and distance travelled, also G-forces.
Gstrings - a chromatic tuner app for android phones.
Guitar Scales – a list of guitar scales.
JamBox Guitar Chords & Scales - Advanced guitar chord- and scale-finder for right- and left-handed players. It shows and plays chords in different variations and can also be toggled for left-handed players.
My Tracks - My Tracks allows you to record and share your GPS tracks, including statistics. Use My Tracks while you run, bike, hike, or do anything else outdoors, and it will use the GPS sensor in your phone to record the path you took. It will also gather useful statistics such as time, speed, distance, and elevation.
Pocket Auction - Bid, search and check My eBay using the award-winning Pocket Auctions for eBay!
Rail Planner Live - UK Journey Plans, Departure Boards, Return Fares, Platforms, SMS Alerts, Widget etc Plan your train journey using actual real-time train times, platform, delay and cancellation information from National Rail Enquiries.
Run Keeper - Track your fitness activities (time, distance, etc.)
ShopSavvy – Barcode reader, price comparison app
SnowStorm – For some, htc’s sense weather app is not enough. For those people there is Snowstorm.
Sygic Navigation - Premium turn-by-turn GPS navigation app.
Talk to me Cloud – voice input translator. Capable of speaking the translation. Useful and fun!
Ulysse Gizmos - The best set of tools to help you in a travel with your Android™ phone: Compass; Speedometer; GPS status; Bubble level; Clinometer; Magnetometer; Map view; Location/waypoint address; Location/waypoint exchange;
White & YellowPages - Phone book. Cool & simple navigation.
I love all these.
simi folder - customizable Folder Widget
taptu - extensive news feed reader
Snowstorm - weather forecast app/widget
SwiftKey - keyboard replacement with excellent word prediction
if you're going to make this post please keep it updated & most important of all: LINK TO THE APP IN THE MARKET!
Hi,
Juice Defender is kinda usefull (to me at least...!)
xnifex said:
if you're going to make this post please keep it updated & most important of all: LINK TO THE APP IN THE MARKET!
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And include a QR code please
I'm a noob and can't post links yet, sorry!
xnifex said:
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I'll try to do that. For now all the apps come up in the android market if you input their names in search.
ES File Explorer - Built in windows/samba networking support
Car Home - The stock android car home - available in the Sensation forums
Car Mode - A launcher for the stock android car home - you need a launcher to use car home
So anyway, I've updated my list with links. If you have useful apps, also include the link in the android market, and if I feel your app is something to add to my list, I will.
Added Battery Monitor, Dice Media Player and Netflix.
Hi,
Could you please add CSipSimple (I can't add links for the moment). For me the best SIP/VOIP client...
Regards.
director_mr said:
So anyway, I've updated my list with links. If you have useful apps, also include the link in the android market, and if I feel your app is something to add to my list, I will.
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Can you add this link to Car Home apk since the Sensation isn't going to be able to see it in the Market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14841694&postcount=3
don't forget the Swype beta
http://beta.swype.com
DI Radio - a must have if you dig electronic music
Box.net - 5GB of free space for sharing your files between your devices (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux/OSX)
Dropbox - 2GB of free space for sharing your files between your devices (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux/OSX)
doubleTwist - "iTunes for Android"
Fring - put the front-facing camera of your Sensation to good use!
Handcent SMS
Layar - a virtual reality app
NetCounter - keep track of your data usage
Photoshop
RunKeeper - for tracking your workouts (running, walking, cycling, etc.)
Sky.fm radio
Speed Test
TuneIn Radio
All free and available from the Market
Circular Battery Indicator
laegunum said:
DI Radio - a must have if you dig electronic music
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got a link for that?
GorillaPimp said:
Can you add this link to Car Home apk since the Sensation isn't going to be able to see it in the Market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14841694&postcount=3
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I have a link to the car home launcher. Its called Car Mobile, and it is in the Android market now.
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got a link for that?
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Sure, here you go:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audioaddict.di
I added a bunch of apps listed here in the thread, but I left a few out that I felt were duplicated, or didn't offer as much to people in general. Lot of cool ideas, thanks!
laegunum said:
Sure, here you go:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audioaddict.di
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that's what I was hoping you were gonna link to. My buddy thanks you for letting us know that DI.FM has an app
Update: 7/13 - added free version (ad supported) to market.
I've always wanted a very simple app to let me have lists on my phone - shopping lists, to-do lists, etc, but it seems like the ones on the market have too many features that get in the way of easily creating lists, adding items, marking items as complete, and that's about it. So, I went ahead and wrote my own.
As of now, I'm happy with the app, and I've been using it for a couple of months now with no problems. But, being my first Android app (I am a professional programmer, but work in the web & desktop worlds), I'm sure there are opportunities to add features/functionality that would enhance the pure list-making experience. I had though about drag-and-drop reordering of the lists, but that seems to be more difficult to implement than I anticipated. Aside from that, I'm all ears about how to make the app better, prettier, more efficient, and more useful.
See attached for screenshots:
1) Main Screen - add/delete/backup/restore lists here
2) Back up is a simple SQLite DB file copy to the SDCard
3) Here are items in one list. Notice that some are gray - these have been "cleared" or "marked" as being complete by the user, via a simple click/toggle. An item's "cleared" status persists in the database
4) Once you're done clearing items, you can remove them from the list and database. Or, alternatively, you can unmark all of them.
See attached for APK file...
As I said, any suggestions or criticisms would be welcomed - but keep in mind that this app has a narrow focus, and I want it be very good with regard to that focus.
EDIT: Forgot also that now the app has a minimum SDK version of 8, so this app will run on Froyo (2.2) and above
I've done quite a bit more work, and now this app is available in the Google Play store. Since I don't have 10 posts yet, it won't let me include a hyperlink but here's the URL:
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kozzer.lists&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5rb3p6ZXIubGlzdHMiXQ..
You can also find it easily by searching on my Google Play developer name: WebKozzer.
The additions include:
* drag and drop reordering
* 2 themes (light and dark)
* Optional numbering of list items
* Edit list name, or item text
* Delete contents of list without deleting list itself
* Configurable backup path
and more!
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!
Added free, ad supported version to the market. Any feedback or feature requests would be welcomed. I was contemplating attempting to integrate voice commands. Like, once the app is open, you can use voice commands to do everything the app lets you do via touchscreen. It appears that this would require a fairly significant coding effort, and I'm not sure how useful that'd be either.
Both the pay and free versions have been updated. Some UI changes, undo functionality, and ability to add items using voice.
Play links:
Pay version
Free (ad) version
Update: 12/12 - Removed ads from Lists! Free.
Also/including:
More general cleanup
Removed network state / access permissions (since they were used for ads only)
APK size reduced by about 100kB (removed AdMob library)
Improved error handling
nice job keep working on it
imputazz said:
nice job keep working on it
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Thanks! I'm always open to criticism and feature requests! And giving a rating and/or review on the Play Store would be much appreciated.
PrefEdit, which started off as an app to help you view and edit Shared Preferences of other apps, has now slowly evolved into a full fledged application info and management app. With the additional capabilities of Shared Preference viewing and editing, it is now one of the most powerful app of its kind.
Features
1. Search - Helps you in searching the app you are looking, and also helps you in searching the preference key that you want to edit.
2. App details - Shows detailed information of an application.
3. Powerful shared preference editor - Lets you view and edit Shared Preferences of other apps.
4. Backup/restore - Local backups of the preference files are made before you save changes, which can later be restored in case something goes wrong.
5. Great UI - Makes use of Google's material design to provide a great user interface and most importantly, a great experience!
OK, so what is this Shared Preference actually?
Shared Preference is an Android framework, that many apps use to persist app specific settings/toggles/data. This data is stored in /data/data/<app package name>/shared_prefs folder in an XML file, which is why root access is needed to access them. Being able to explore them can give a decent idea of what data an app stores, and being able to change them can often enable the users to tweak various features of app (which may not be possible from within the app), and also often let users unlock features that are in testing. Have fun tinkering!
Companion app
Starting Android 11, a companion app is necessary to do the Shared Preference related functions, as in this version, there is a platform restriction that prevents apps from accessing /data/dara/<app package name> of other apps. Which is why the companion app is present to help workaround this restriction. Since the companion app has to target Android 10, it will not be available via Play Store, but it will be available for download from here. PrefEdit app will also prompt you to install it if necessary, but will never install it automatically.
Requirements
1. Root access - Root access is necessary to read and edit preference files. Without root access the app cannot work.
Link - Play Store (Screenshots can be found there)
Official site - PrefEdit
User manual - Link
Finally, an app that does this with good UI. Good job!
Not working, the application is not requist super user permissions
Qutayba Khader said:
Not working, the application is not requist super user permissions
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It should ask when you tap an app for the first time.
It may be possible that it asked but you missed out for some reason. Could you check your superuser/Magisk app and see if root is granted for PrefEdit?
corphish said:
It should ask when you tap an app for the first time.
It may be possible that it asked but you missed out for some reason. Could you check your superuser/Magisk app and see if root is granted for PrefEdit?
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No, it's not in the list
Update: it works after uninstall the app and reboot and installing it again.
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PrefEdit v1.0 is here!
PrefEdit 1.0 brings a brand new UI, cool new features and critical bug fixes.
Detailed changelog
New UI - UI of PrefEdit has been re-designed from scratch, keeping a high quality user experience in mind.
Default layout is updated, which will now present useful actions in the form of cards instead of showing all applications by default.
Accessing apps is now only possible through searching. This is done to greatly improve speed of operations as listing all applications took a lot of time.
Since the search functionality is going to be used more than ever, it has been moved to the bottom of the screen for easier access.
To speed things up even more, the app keeps track of recently searched apps and presents them to you in subsequent uses of the app.
In-app update functionality also gets its own card and is much more responsive.
Updated the UI of showing preference keys and values. Preference keys and their corresponding values are now grouped by their types and displayed.
Updated alert dialog button styles.
Preference key searching in all shared preference files of an app - It is now possible to search preference keys across all the preference files of an app, and the search is fast! Simply search the key you want in the section which lists all the preference files of the app, and it will show preference key results as well.
Improved performance in loading preference keys of a file of an app.
Pro features - Introducing pro features, which can be unlocked by an in-app purchase.
Shapes - This unique UI customization lets you choose the shape of various UI elements of the app. Choose from 4 different shapes to suit your taste.
Colorful icons - Lets you choose whether or not to use colorful icons.
Bug fixes -
Fixed searching of newly added preference keys.
Fixed a critical bug which would save only preference keys and values which would be present in search results.
Fixed a crash which would occur after “Remove Ads” was purchased.
Fixed a bug which would show ads even when “Remove Ads” was purchased.
Library updates.
Update is rolling out in stable channels of XDA Labs and Play store.
Thanks!But what this app actually does?
PrefEdit v2.0 changelogPrefEdit began as an app that lets users view and edit shared preferences of other apps, but slowly it has evolved into a full fledged “Application information” app. With the v2 update, the evolution is complete, and with the original ability of shared preferences viewing/editing, it has now become one of the most powerful apps of its kind.
Changelog
Detailed info of applications is shown - PrefEdit now shows detailed info about an application (example - information about Minimum SDK, Target SDK, version and more). It also lets you perform the following additional actions.
Visit the system settings page of an application.
Visit the Play Store page of an app (if applicable).
Launch the app (if at all it can be launched).
Launch one of the app's activities directly (needs root access).
Next generation Shared Preference editor - The shared preference editor has been re-written from scratch, which now makes it much easier to visualise the changes and view them.
Shared Preferences are now grouped and shown in different tabs with count.
Bigger view for editing a shared preference entry.
Ability to delete a shared preference entry (both user created and existing ones).
New visual clues for various operations - New entries that are not saved are now marked in green, updated entries are marked in blue, while the deleted entries are marked in red. Once the user saves the changes, these visual clues go away, as they only indicate changes that are not saved.
New revert option that cancels all the unsaved changes and reverts back to the original state.
Multiple methods of restoring backups.
Review option lets the user review the changes that would be brought by the backup. All the visual clues are highlighted for the changes that would be brought by the backup. Once the review is done, users can save the changes to complete the restore.
Direct copy method directly copies the backup file to the app’s shared preference file location. Use this method if you think that there are issues caused when saving preference files with the app.
Restoring backups will automatically revert all the current changes in the session and then proceed with the restore.
For devices running Android 11 and up, a companion app is needed to perform the SharedPreference related operations. PrefEdit will automatically prompt you to download the companion app if you are eligible.
A dedicated user manual has been created which can be accessed at https://avinabadalal.com/products/prefedit/manual.
Brand new user interface - The user interface has also been re-designed from ground up, which is now tile based and more colorful than ever, and is partially inline with the upcoming “Material You” design guidelines (pure coincidence).
Updated about section - About section is updated which now provides the following links.
Data usage which lets the user understand what data is used by the app and how it uses it.
Privacy policy.
User manual.
Option to contact our support handle.
Translations - PrefEdit is now available in Indoesian language.
Performance improvements - Various performance improvements were made to ensure smooth operations.
Long running operations like finding apps and parsing preference files are guaranteed to be running in background, which ensures that the main thread is not blocked and hence no ANRs.
Progress indicators are now placed wherever applicable to indicate a long running background operation.
Improved list rendering performance.
Improved list scrolling performance.
Improved animations for list manipulations. Changes to the list are now shown in a much smoother way with animations.
Improved stability - MVVM architecture which is the recommended approach as per Google is now adopted completely. End result should be much fewer crashes.
Bug fixes - As always, we have fixed some bugs.
Fixed crashes that would be caused when preference entry values would contain illegal characters (from XML point of view). We are now escaping those values as much as possible.
Privacy updates - In this release, we have made changes with regards to privacy to comply with the recommended privacy friendly practices that are recommended by Google.
Storage permission is no longer required to store and read backup files, as they are now stored in app specific directory in shared storage, which is as per best practices for Android.
As a result, we have also removed the “requestLegacyExternalStorage” flag which was earlier necessary to target SDK 29.
Library updates -
Updated AGP to 6.7.
Targets SDK 30 (Android 11). Is clear to target SDK 31 (Android 12) as soon as it is released to the public in Fall 2021.
Uses the latest Kotlin 1.5.0 release.
Uses the newer magisk libsu library for root operations.
Removed from the Play Store?