Android Game/App Thread

[Nikias]

So here's a thread for all the Android users on here to talk about their favorite and least favorite games and apps. A few ground rules, please specify what phone you're using, especially if posting about an issue with an app. Include a brief description of what the app does or what the game is like and how you use it/why you like it. A thread of people just posting things like "I like ShopSavvy." would get pretty boring pretty fast. Finally, if you can remember say the price, if not at least say whether or not it was free.

I'll start us off with a few I really like.

Phone: Motorola Droid X

Apps:

• Advanced Task Killer (free) - This is a simple task manager that you can keep running in the status bar for easy access. Use it to kill apps that won't get the hint after you've stopped using them. It really can improve your battery life and free up memory.
• Google Goggles (free) - This is basically a photo-search for google. It opens your camera, you take a picture of something like say a land mark, a barcode, a wine label, and it attempts to find similar products or tell you what that land mark is via google search.
• Meebo IM (free) - Perhaps you're familiar with Meebo.com, this android app is a lightweight multi-client instant messaging app by the same people. It gets the job done without getting weighed down with instability and unnecessary features
• QuickPedia (free) - Touted by many to be the best wikipedia app, this allows you to quickly and easily search and browse Wikipedia.
• ShopSavvy (free) - This one is pretty useful. You open the app and it opens the camera, which you use to scan in a barcode. It then searches for the product and finds the best prices online and in stores near your present location.
• Where's My Droid (free) - Perfect for anyone who's ever lost their phone while it's on silent. Where's My Droid allows you to set up a special phrase that you send to your phone via text message. When the phone receives that specific phrase Where's My Droid turns your ringer all the way up and rings for a set amount of time so you can find it.
• V CAST Song ID (free) - This one is Verizon only but I use it because the alternative is Shazam which is not free and tends not to work as well as Verizon's app. Basically what this lets you do is run the app and have it listen to a few seconds of a song and it will try (and usually succeed) in identifying the name and artist for the song.

Games:

• ArtfulBits aiMinesweeper (free) - Pretty simple, just minesweeper for your android. It has nice graphics if you care for that sort of thing and a simple and intuitive interface.
• Bonsai Blast (free) - If you've played the pop-cap game, Zuma, you've played Bonsai Blast. Marbles come down a track and you tap to fire matching marbles at them to make groups of 3 or more and destroy them all. One of the best free arcade style games out there.
• Memory Trainer (free) - Several simple memory games with different workout sets of varying difficulty to help you train your brain every day and improve your memory.
• OpenSudoku (free) - The best Sudoku game I've found for Android. It has three input methods, allows for cell notes, and comes with 90 puzzles (30 each of easy, medium, and hard) with the ability to download more. In addition, there's an app called Sudoku Camera (free 3-use trial, $1.50 unlimited) that allows you to take a picture of any sudoku puzzle and load it directly into open-sudoku. Perfect if you want to do the daily sudoku in your newspaper on the go.
• Abudction! (free version available, full version is $2.00) - This is a simple but addicting game that you control by tilting your phone left and right to control a character endlessly jumping up platforms. It's tricky and gradually gets more difficult, definitely a great game for if you have a few minutes to kill.

Ok well, there's a bunch I've enjoyed, lets hear some of yours!

[SaveTheManatees]

I downloaded the Android equivalent to the iTunes T-Pain Autotune app thing, and apparently it's common knowledge that it doesn't work at all on Samsung Galaxy phones. WTF?

[Nikias]

That sounds pretty awesome, what's it called? That's strange though, I mean I'd think other than the mic which every phone has something like that would be all software.

[Circa21]

Abduction!

Ftw.

[PontifexMinimus]

Air Attack is a cool game, enjoyable.

I have a free version of Shazam on my phone, it must not be the full version or something?

[SaveTheManatees]

That sounds pretty awesome, what's it called? That's strange though, I mean I'd think other than the mic which every phone has something like that would be all software.

MicDroid. I know, but I even looked it up in the app's help section and it said that it doesn't work on Galaxy phones.

[Nikias]

Air Attack is a cool game, enjoyable.

I have a free version of Shazam on my phone, it must not be the full version or something?

The free version only allows you to ID so many songs in a day. I think it's like 3. For the average user this probably isn't really much of an issue but I'm sure it'd be quite annoying to just be without that feature after you use up the 3 ID's.

MicDroid. I know, but I even looked it up in the app's help section and it said that it doesn't work on Galaxy phones.

I believe you just commenting on how remarkably strange that is.

Edit: Actually just now I'm in the App store about to install it and there's a note in the description that says "Galaxy S now supported!" so maybe you should try again.

[X-viper182-X]

im not an Android fan or user, but on my girlfriends Advanced Task Killer is a must

[SaveTheManatees]

The free version only allows you to ID so many songs in a day. I think it's like 3. For the average user this probably isn't really much of an issue but I'm sure it'd be quite annoying to just be without that feature after you use up the 3 ID's.



I believe you just commenting on how remarkably strange that is.

Edit: Actually just now I'm in the App store about to install it and there's a note in the description that says "Galaxy S now supported!" so maybe you should try again.

Will do, thanks!

[smasher181]

The free version only allows you to ID so many songs in a day. I think it's like 3. For the average user this probably isn't really much of an issue but I'm sure it'd be quite annoying to just be without that feature after you use up the 3 ID's.

Well actually, if you downloaded the free Shazam before a certain date (that I can't remember off the top of my head) it's actually the full version, which has no track ID restrictions, and as long as you don't uninstall it and reinstall the free one again, it should stay that way, even if you update it.

[Nikias]

Well actually, if you downloaded the free Shazam before a certain date (that I can't remember off the top of my head) it's actually the full version, which has no track ID restrictions, and as long as you don't uninstall it and reinstall the free one again, it should stay that way, even if you update it.

I never heard about that. Still, the Verizon one is truly free with no limitations at all, so if you're on Verizon I'd recommend it over Shazam.

[smasher181]

I never heard about that. Still, the Verizon one is truly free with no limitations at all, so if you're on Verizon I'd recommend it over Shazam.

Well there only used to be a free version, so they didn't want to punish people who'd already downloaded it by having to pay for the full version.

As for my favorite/needed apps and games:
Astro (file manager) - great free file manager, pretty much essential if you want to be able to manage stuff on your SD card
Chrome to Phone - brilliant if you use Google Chrome/Chromium, basically lets you send webpages/planned routes in Google Maps/contact information from your web browser to phone in one click, is also free.
Nes/Snesoid - (free/paid) great NES/SNES emulator for Android, gives me hours of entertainment. Paid version allows for save games.
Google Voice would probably also be on this list if I was in the US

Phone: Google Nexus One with Froyo

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