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New users can use this guide to get a better understanding of what is out there in the Android universe (constantly updated with new apps). Plus all apps listed below you can find here !

Contents (Categories)

File Managers
Media Players
Internet Browsers
Photography
Keyboard Replacements
Messenger
SMS
Weather
Toggle / Control Widgets

Section 1 : File Managers

Root Explorer

is the ultimate file manager for root users. Access the whole of android's file system (including the elusive data folder!). SQLite database viewer, Text Editor, create/extract zip files, multi-select, execute scripts, search, remount, permissions, bookmarks, email, thumbnails, APK binary XML viewer.

ASTRO File Manager

sFeatures: File Manager, Backup, Image and text viewers, Networking, SMB, Bluetooth, SFTP, Zip Tar, downloader, thumbnails, search files, application manager, task manager, attachment

AndroZip Filie Manager

File manager, app backup, Task manager, search files, app installer, send files, app installer. Unpacks: ZIP, RAR, GZIP, TAR, BZIP2

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Section 2 : Media Players

RockPlayer Universal

is an optimized video player for android system. It supports almost all popular video formats and has a really fast rendering engine. RockPlayer uses FFmpeg as its video decoder under permission of LGPL.

mVideoPlayer

- Subtitle Support (srt,ssa,ass,sub,mpl,psb,smi,txt) + internal(.mkv)
- Remembers exit point.
- Nice UI

Meridian Media Player

Advanced Video/Music player. Search lyric, subtitle, gesture, ID3 edit, rating, extra info, flac/ape, and more

Zimly Media Player

Video/Music player with remastered design

yxplayer

Fastest Android video player that can play Mpeg1/2/4, DivX/Xvid, WMV.

Music PlayerPro

Advanced music player for Android 2.x devices.
- Browse by albums/artists/genres/songs/playlists/folders
- Download album artwork/artist pictures/genre illustrations
- 7 SKINS
- Grid/list views
- Album/artist infos
- Lyrics
- Home/LockScreen widgets
- Scrobbler
- Sleep timer

PowerAMP Music Player

New powerful music player for Android.
- plays mp3/mp4/m4a(including lossless alac)/flac/ogg/wav/tta/ wma/ape/wv
- optimized 10 band graphic equalizer for all supported formats, separate Bass and Treble controls
- folders and system library support
- tag editor/widgets/lock screen/skins/fast scan and more

Lithium Music Player

A music player that stands out by its uniquely simple user interface, style and usability. Avoid function overload and enjoy handy, yet stylish music playback on your Android device.

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Section 3: Internet Browsers

Dolphin Browser HD

*Powerful Add-ons support
*Bookmarks Folder support
*Multi-touch pinch zoom
*Multi Tabs browsing
*Powerful Gestures
*Smart RSS Detection
*Colorful Theme packs support
*14 Languages support
*Unexpected Closed Tab Recovery

Dolphin Browser™ Mini (Beta)

*Gesture
*Multi-tab
*Multi-touch
*RSS Detection
*Bookmarks/History/Most Visited
*Flash Support for 2.2

Skyfire Web Browser

First Mobile Browser for the Social Networking Generation
• Vibrant Video
• Popular Content
• FireplaceTM Feed Reader
• Facebook Portal Integration
• Facebook Like Button
• Skyfire Search

xScope

Fastest way to browse the web
*Clean, minimal overhead = best performance
*Instant Back/Fwd navigation
*Tabs
*Settings/Options
*Import google bookmarks
*Screenshot
*Share, Zip & File
*Theme

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Section 4: Photography

Vignette

All the features plus support for the full resolution of your camera (3.1MP, 5MP or 8MP).

Camera360 Ultimate

Turn your phone into professional camera. Provides LOMO, HDR, axis shift, draft, ghost, etc. and multiple styles.

Camera ZOOM FX

* 20+ FREE skins
* props+buddies
* stable shot
* clap to snap
* timer
* zoom
* geotag
* autosave
* silent
* pro burst
* customize btns
* grid
* w/bal

Camera Fun Pro

The most entertaining Android camera app! Guaranteed! The ONLY Android app to apply LIVE Photoshop lens to your Android camera. See effects BEFORE you click a picture.

Photaf 3D Panorama Pro

With Photaf you can create a 3D panorama easily by utilizing the camera and the orientation sensor to know the exact angle each picture was taken.

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Section 5: Keyboard Replacements

Swype

Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 40 words per minute.

Smart Keyboard

Smart Keyboard is a soft keyboard for Android phones, featuring multi-touch input (only works starting from Android 2.0), supporting several languages: danish, english, english international (with accents), english Dvorak, finnish, french, georgian, german, italian, norwegian, portuguese, russian, spanish, swedish.

DioPen™ Handwriting & Keyboard

An efficient Input Method Editor which supports Natural Handwriting styles with extreme accuracy.
* Half & Full qwerty Keyboard
* Supports: EN, DA, NL, FR, DE, IT, NO, PT, ES, SV, CA, FI, GA, IS, GL, KO

SlideIT Keyboard

SlideIT is a new and revolutionary way to enter text easily and fast, and in a way that is much more fun than existing methods.
From now on, just Slide along the letters with your finger or stylus,and words “magically” appear.

Better Keyboard

-Compact T9 keyboard
-bigger keys
-Skinnable keyboard/font changes
-Enhanced keyboard layout and accuracy
-Gesture controls

Crocodile Keyboard CK2

The Crocodile Keyboard uses a patent pending triangular key layout to help stop double hitting of keys and has a completely customisable choice of colours for the keyboard. The shared background also helps to target the required key by giving the user a visual colour guide. Please go to website for install and user help.

Recent changes:

CK2 can now give its user complete control of the colours for the keys, background and lettering.
The keyboard now has slide control of the three screens and colour wheel panel.
There is also a predictive text feature using a user defined library, and hepatic feedback.

iPhone Keyboard Emulator

Type faster and easier with an iPhone keyboard layout, while enjoying the cool features of the Android OS.
- Adjusted key alignment on symbols keyboard.
- Added launcher app that gives install instruction.

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Section 6 : Messenger

Nimbuzz

* Chat
* Send Files
* Chat behind firewalls
* Connect with all friends from:
Facebook, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo IM, ICQ / AIM / MobileMe, Google Talk and many more

Pure Messenger Widget

Overview: Show Gmail, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, emails (POP3 and IMAP) messages in a widget.

MSN Talk Pro

Overview: MSN Talk Pro is MSN Messenger for your android.
* Pro Features
- File transfer (beta)
- Proxy support (HTTP/SOCKS4/5)
- Full screen mode
- No ads

Mercury

MSN (Windows Live) Messenger client
File transfer
Voice clips
Group chat
Yahoo contacts
Invisible signin
Multiple account signin
Logging to sdcard
Offline messaging
Notifications: status bar, vibrate, audio, led
Multiple languages
Auto signing

WhatsApp Messenger

Overview: WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Nokia phones.
WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message with friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages at no cost. Free for the first year!

LCG Slick

Chat online trough your cell phone and send instant message to your friends or colleagues.
Connect to ICQ, Yahoo, Facebook chat, AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Jabber chat networks all at once.
Slick is available for Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android smart phones. Mobile Internet connection through GSM or Wifi is necessary.

What you get

• Supported protocols: ICQ, Yahoo, Facebook chat, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber
• Text messaging
• Emoticons
• Alerts - sound, backlight, vibration, notify window displaying the number of new messages
• Group and buddy management (add, delete, rename)
• Message history
• File transfer - send and receive files
• Sending / receiving offline messages
• Downloading files sent as links
• More features to be added

Kik Messenger

Overview: chat client that transcends the BlackBerry and the iPhone. So you can communicate with those who have installed this program, no matter what (except for windows mobile) from the OS on their devices.

LiveProfile Beta

Overview: LiveProfile is a FREE mobile messenger for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone. The BlackBerry Messenger / BBM alternative!
*BETA*
*Profiles, status updates, profile pics, more!
*100% FREE!
*Supports all devices
*Send messages w/ receipts (D/R)
*Optional SMS

Trillian for Android (freeware)

Overview: Trillian, the popular multi-protocal IM client
The features list of this app include:
Tabbed chat: Switch between many simultaneous chat sessions easily by tapping the tabs. View latest activities at a glance!
Landscape mode: We know you want it, so we included this in the first version of our Android port! Works perfectly with phones with a sliding keyboard.
Send emoticons, photos and buzz: Share a picture taken with your phone camera, have fun with a large variety of emoticons, and even buzz your friends to demand attention!
Trillian for Android offers access to AIM, Facebook Chat, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ and other IM accounts.
The software solution also comes with cloud syncing features, meaning that people would have their contacts and accounts ported to any new Android phones they use.

BeejiveIM

Overview: BeejiveIM is the most reliable and user-friendly instant messaging app for your Android. This award-winning all-in-one supports AIM®, MSN®/Windows Live®, Yahoo!®, Facebook Chat, MySpace, GoogleTalk®, ICQ®, & Jabber.

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Section 7 - SMS

MySmsScheduler

Never forget to send your important sms with MySmsScheduler.
Send sms to multiple contacts at scheduled time.
Support repeating sending.
Report ready, sent and expired sms.
Import phone contacts.
Easy to use and friendly.
Contains help online

SMSBomber

Overview: This app will allow you to send as many texts as you wish to a phone with a single click!

SMS2PC

Overview: Routes new SMS to your PC via WiFi. You can reply directly, and even compose new messages using the integrated address book, all from your PC!

Private Sms

Overview: PrivateSms can protect your SMS by password and auto-protect your future msgs by senders which you added to the private list.
Have you experienced that when someone play your phone and look at your private sms?
PrivateSms can protect your SMS by password and auto-protect your future msgs by senders which you added to the private list.
*group send function

RemoteSMS Full

Overview: Compose SMS remotely from your computer via WiFi,USB or Bluetooth.
Full access to your contact-book, sms-messages and conversations.
Bulk-messaging and long sms supported. Password and secure HTTPS connection supported!

BlackBaller Call / SMS Blocker

Overview: Simply the most Powerful & Feature Packed Call & SMS manager on the Market.
- Filter Calls & SMS
- Flexible Auto Replies via SMS
- Password Protection
- Logs of each event
- Filter contacts, groups, patterns, private #'s & More
- Spam DB feature
- Smart Reject Technology

Shady SMS

Overview: Shady SMS ONLY OPENS BY CALLING 123
Secret phonebook
SMS/MMS filter w/ built in hidden messager
Themes and Backgrounds
Screen off security!
Not compatible w/ Chomp or Handcent
NO support for Epic history tab, Hero, Ally, Eris, Moment, Vibrant, and other low-end Android models!!!!!!
Not affiliated with Blackbook

ChompSMS Donate

Overview: Love your Android phone as much as we do? Text all the time? Want more features? Then chompSMS is for you, with lots of extras like chat-style bubbles, contact pics, quick reply, signatures, passcode lock, WIDGET, heaps of customizations & more! Simply use chomp SMS as a souped up replacement to the built-in Messaging app!
- Added new feature to allow the user to hide the keyboard after sending a message (Settings, Misc, KB Hide after Send).
- Fixed issue when attaching certain media to MMS messages, it would not recognize the content type.
- Fixed bug where backing up preferences did not work on a small subset of phones running a specific firmware build.

AdvanceSMS SMS Manager

Overview: AdvanceSMS is an SMS Utilities Application designed for Android Smartphones that combines various powerful messaging features into one user friendly Killer Mobile App
AdvanceSMS allows you to set personalized SMS tones per contact just like you already can with your ring tones, Schedule, AutoReply, Forward & Export SMS's, view the entire incoming SMS on the screen for quick reading and more!

GO SMS

Overview: GO SMS is an amazing SMS replacement app for Android, providing cool UI, fast, convenient SMS/MMS experience.
-Chat style
-Multi themes
-Popup,quick reply
-Full MMS/SMS support
-Batch mode
-Faster and slimmer than handcent SMS or chompSMS

Handcent SMS

Overview: Handcent fully unleashes the messaging power for Android phone
Full SMS/MMS Support
Group Sending Options
SMS Popup w/Quick Text
Customize Look w/Theme Support
Individual Contact Notification/Look settings
Security Lock Options
Backup/Restore SMS /MMS
My Handcent online services
Bulit with Spell check

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Section 8 : Weather

Beautiful Widgets

- Nice looking clock with 12/24 hours support
- Multiple layouts and skins support
- Weather with realistic icons
- Celcius and fahrenheit temperature
- Automatic language detection
- Geolocation for the weather city, or the ability to enter the city name
- Automatic sunset/sunrise calculation
- High res graphics for WVGA Devices (such as the Motorola Droid or Nexus One)
- 1x1 beautiful Wifi/Bluetooth/Plane mode/Silent/Vibrate widgets to easily enable or disable them
- 1x1 GPS widget that act as shortcut to enable or disable location in the settings.

GO Weather

GO Weather (GO天气) get the most accurate weather information from anywhere at any time. With access to the largest network of professional weather stations in the US and tens of thousands of locations around the world.

WeatherPro

Weather Pro features high-quality seven-day forecasts and weather reports for over two million locations worldwide. Highlights include global satellite plus radar for the USA and much of Europe. Images can be animated with interactive elements bringing the weather to life!

WeatherBug Elite

Check current conditions and forecasts, view animated Doppler radar images and get the latest local weather information and severe weather alerts for your city and thousands of locations around the world. Plus, you get lightning strike and alert polygon vectors map layers, 3-day home screen forecast widgets…and much more!
Recent changes:
- Support for 1.5 devices
- New high resolution graphics
- Support for Galaxy Tab
- Easier to use interface
- Widget text can be in any desired color
- Notification text can be set to white, black or blue
- Bug fixes and enhancements

Barometer and Weather Clock

10-day forecast with widget, Barometer and Weather Clock has the most innovative design.
The most interesting thing is a Barometer. Barometer is a diagram showing the pressure changes during the past 24 hours. Now you always know the cause of headache if it is linked with changes in the air pressure. When Barometer detects pressure changes then it signals with a red color.
10 day weather forecast shows phase of the Moon, moonrise, moonset, sunrise, sunset, temperature for day and night, wind speed and direction, humidity, ultraviolet (the sun’s ultraviolet intensity) level, chance of precipitation.
67,000 cities available from cities list, by GPS or USA ZIP code.
Very low traffic usage: 5 KBytes per city.
Supports English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Romanian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch.

Fancy Widget Pro

Clock and Weather Widget:
- Clock with 12/24 hour format
- Weather forecast
- Celsius/fahrenheit temperature
- Geolocation for weather or search city by name/zipcode
- Configurable refresh interval
- Automatic sunset/sunrise time calculation
- Skin support
- Weather animations

Animated Weather Widget&Clock Pro

Digital Clock widget 4x2 with Weather forecast application. The exquisitely realistic video effects of cloudiness, rain and snow provide the vivid sensation of current or future weather conditions for more than 50000 locations over the world.

Palmary Weather Pro

Features:
AppWidgets
68000 locations all over the world
Current conditions
12-hour Hour-by-Hour forecast
48-hour Hour-by-Hour forecast
48-hours detailed forecast
7-day Expanded Forecast
15-days forecast
Forecast Charts: temperature, probability of precipitation, precipitation, wind, humidity
Airport delays
Weather alerts
Doppler radar map
Satellite map
Precipitation map
Visibility map
Min temperature map
Max temperature map
Temperature notification on status bar
Weather Alerts notification on status bar
Determining location by GPS
Automatically tracking current location using GPS

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Section 9 : Toggle/Control Widgets

Extended Controls

Control bar Widget with different colors and dimensions.
Custom backgrounds (you can choose from your gallery or download a set of backgrounds from the web);
Change Widgets transparency;
A lot of different icons;
Edit exists widgets;
Customizable colors;
Customizable labels;
Enable/Disable dividers;
Label colors;
Different widgets size (over 10 toggle for any single widget);
Different indicator type (standard or circular)
Advanced features:
Widgets in notification bar;
Possibility to remove widgets size from android menu;
Disable static indicator;
Show wallpaper in widget configuration;
Widget preview of your widget on configuration activity

SwitchPro Widget

7-button switch/toggle widget. You can select the features to be displayed and the style/theme/position.
You can switch/toggle:
Wi-Fi
Mount/Unmount
Wi-Fi HotspotData Connection
Bluetooth
Brightness
GPS
Auto-sync
Auto-Rotate
Screen Always On
Airplane Mode
Reload SD Card
Vibration/Silent Mode
3G-2G (shortcut)
Battery Indicator
Flashlight
Unlock Pattern
Reboot(rooted)
Speaker Mode
Auto-Screen Lock
4G Toggle

Power Control Plus

Widget that lets you turn on / off almost any setting on your phone, right from your home screen.
- 7 different widget sizes, including vertical widgets
- 9 different indicator light colors
- Over 30 settings available to toggle (list below)
- Power Control Plus doesn't run in the background, to save battery life
- Edit your widget right from the home screen
- Change background transparency
- Add labels to buttons on the widget
- Add a shortcut to any app on the widget
Full list of settings you can change / toggle:
- Wi-Fi
- Airplane mode
- Flashlight (Android 2.2+)
- 4G (WiMAX, EVO 4G only)
- GPS
- Cellular data connection (APN switch)
- Silent mode
- Auto-rotate screen
- Vibrate mode
- Vibrate and silent mode
- Bluetooth scan for devices
- Brightness
- Brightness (triple)
- Screen timeout
- Auto-sync
- Wi-Fi sleep policy
- Sound effects
- Haptic feedback
- Bluetooth discoverable
- Keep screen on while plugged in
- Open shortcut
- Input method
- 2G - 3G (only a shortcut to the settings screen)
- Battery (meter, and a shortcut to Battery Use)
- Scan SD card
- Quick Boot / reboot / power off
- Cellular data connection (Only works on some phones!)
- Silent mode (and mute media)
- Lock screen
- Wi-Fi tethering (Android 2.2+)
- USB tethering (Android 2.2+)

Smart Taskbar Pro

Launch any application instantly. Slide your finger or click icon anytime to bring up a mini sidebar for super fast app launching also works as app organizer and task switcher and task killer.
* Super fast launcher
* 5 quick launch spots
* Task switch
* Task killer
* App organizer
* Widget
* Power switch

System Info Widget

View system info right on your home screen
* 4G (EVO only)
* 3G/2G (Shortcut)
* Airplane mode, Autosync
* Battery life/Status indicator
* Bluetooth & WiFi On/Off
* Phone profiles
* Battery Temp. in °C and °F
* RAM, ROM & SD storage
* 4 widget sizes, 6 themes
* 15 widget items
* Custom update interval
* Custom font color

MySettings

Beautiful tool that allows you quickly enable or disable different settings.
The best toggle settings tool.
Recent changes:
1) Volume Control was added (using long touch on Ringer Mode)
2) French language was added

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