Perhaps its just me because I haven't found many posts relating to this but I have had a hard time finding apps in many cases because it seems like many places don't give advance search options anymore? Things like specifying license, ratings, popularity, language availability, last updated when, not to mention search by say permission (ie least invasive though i suspect that is a bit of a pipe-dream) searching by or sorting by these parameters etc etc etc. Amazon, Quixey, and Appbrain and perhaps to a tiny extent alternativeto help but none of them are killer (ironically [to me] I find play almost useless for searching at least, kind of counter productive as it just floods me with tons of stuff and little way to narrow it down that i am aware of). I am just hoping maybe there is some site that scrapes other sites or a way to run regexs on sites or something ? Any constructive thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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I work as a sales associate at T-Mobile. On a daily basis I have customers asking for a basic how to guide to use their newly purchased phones and what I recommend apps wise.
I remember there was some type of PDF doc floating around that had a basic guide of how to set up email, Doubletwist, importing/exporting media, ect. Then another doc that had a list of recommended apps. I just can't find these documents anymore.
Any help would be appreciated.
You could always write one yourself? There's no specific list of apps that are useful for everyone, so throwing a guide like that at someone wont always be very helpful...
I'm with you Doom but stuff like: A launcher does _______ here are some examples of commonly used launchers; ________, ________, and _________. One is better for _______________ the other two are great for ______________.
It amazes me how many android users complain about interface, default SMS, contacts, dialer ect. but don't realize that they can change all of that **** in about 7 minutes.
Not that anyone here should write a guide but I think it'd be great if Android phones came with a guide to android as well as a guide to the hardware. Many people who buy android phones are technology retarded.
Hi I just installed yet another app that just about wanted my life story (listed every permission that pdroid2.0 has access to). It made me wonder, are there some android app sites that have just (relatively) privacy friendly apps? Asides from the virus scanning etc just a bunch of apps that don't ask for a myriad of unneeded information. I do feel a twinge of guilt for (blocking) those apps who are devs livelihoods as opposed to hobbies so I was thinking that maybe there is a site that has apps from those kind of devs. Anyway, if such sites exist links to them would really be appreciated!
Cheers,
-Gaiko
I'm looking for an app that allows users to send a request for help/assistance with built in location, short message and some pictures.
Other users detecting a request within a preset range would be notified of the event and be able to respond.
I've found a couple of apps that do this sort of thing, however they are centralised/restricted to specific areas. For example Australia has only two cities covered, each by a different app.
My desire implement it for off-road driving recovery requests. I'm a member of a Facebook group for such requests of people whom are bogged or otherwise challenged. The most common issue I see it people asking where the stuck vehicle is located and where is "such and such" track located.
A few times when a request has been nearby to me, I've not seen it until too late because Facebook felt it wasn't important enough to show it to me.
I've search everywhere I can think of but an unable to find anything close to suitable. I'm hoping someone here might know of something (or even be willing to start a new project).
Many thanks in advance for any assistance.
Hi there,
First off I don't have an Android phone, I only have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, so my knowledge of Android is entirely based on what I was able to test with this so far.
I am in debate on what to get for a new phone, and I have been leaning on an Android based phone, but the more I read the more I get this feeling that Androids are still are inferior to an Iphone when it is Jailbroken (even when Rooted). Take for example Firefox and Chrome. While they are two different browsers, MOST OF THE TIME I can find extensions for both browsers that has the same functions, with some minor exceptions. And the two can generally perform the same tasks with some pros and cons between them.
Now with an Android and Iphone, that doesn't seem to be the case. The app selection seems much smaller on Androids, and ROMs don't seem to do anything useful from my point of view (all they seem to do is mess around with the UI of the OS). And what strikes me more is how there isn't much "equivalency" between the two. What lead me to come to this assumption, was that there is no real way method to achieve "true multitasking". What I mean, is the ability to switch between apps without them having to "pause itself in the background" as many times as you want so long as you have RAM available to do so before it force stops an app. Right now I use an iPhone 4s and I am using a Cydia app (or tweak?) that allows me to do this, but since I have had this for well over two years, it most likely is out of date (plus I haven't updated my iOS since I've had this tweak as well). However, in my quick google search, I've found that tweaks with the same features, which were Dissident, and Watchdog Pro. In contrast, I've spent two weeks trying to find something similar in Android, and the closest thing I've come across is the concept of "Multi Window". While it allows multiple apps to be run at the same time, from what I have tested you cannot really "minimize" applications while windowed, or have this be compatible with EVERY APP. Unless you use a thing called XMultiWindow, for Xposed Framework. Unfortunately, it seems like this method seems to be extremely buggy, and the development for the XMultiWindow has been halted for a while.
I feel that this "true multitasking" thing is very much achievable in Androids, but it feels like its not available because not enough people are R&D'ing it to make it a reality. Its not a new concept or anything.
Which begs the question: How does the Android homebrew community's size compare to the iOS Jailbroken/Cydia community? Is there a reason why there is so much of a lack of apps/tweaks that allows you to do things with an Android device?
I've heard so many times that people switch to the Android because it's so customizeable. But the way I see it, the thousands of tweaks on Cydia makes it seem like iOS's are much much more customizeable with what it can do. So why do people prefer the Android over iOS? Or am I misinterpreting this? Was the term "customizeability" simply referring to the look of the UI, or did it mean that "people with heavy programming knowledge could easily alter an Androids functions while non tech savvy people cannot"?
Can someone please clear this up for me? Thank you so much in advance.
PS: I tried to add links to what I am referring to for clarification, but since I'm a new user I apparently am not allowed to do that. My apologies.
Hi. Does anyone know if there exists anywhere any sort of guide or list that details which press-installed apps and APKs are (usually) safe to remove from Android devices, for debloating purposes?
Searching around, I see a lot of threads in device-specific forums, but I haven't found anything more generic.
It seems like there is a lot of duplicated effort going on, with owners of different devices researching from scratch what each of the built-in apps does. It would be great if there was some pooling of resources. Maybe there already is. Anyone know?