Someone at Google got a little artistic in the Gingerbread SDK. Google adds advanced Voice Actions feature to Android – Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology News & Updates. Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps. SExpand The Android Market isn't always an easy place to get around.
Our first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Android rounds up essential Android apps—our personal favorites for productivity, multimedia, internet life, and just plain usefulness.P Lots of people are picking up new Android phones these days—nearly 200,000 per day, at last count. Google's default apps are pretty handy, but the Market has many great apps, most of them free. Here's a look at our favorite free and cheap Android apps.P We're using the great app search and sync service AppBrain to create a Lifehacker Pack for Android.
Like our iPhone Pack, this list is no short grocery checklist. ProductivityP Astrid: Astrid is a simple to-do manager into which you simply start typing, add context if you want to, then save. Evernote: Evernote's universal note app on Android is not as elegant, fast, or intuitive as Evernote on iPhone. Internet/CommunicationP PDANet: Data tethering is built into the latest builds of Android. Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search. Regardless of what you think about the Android platform, there’s no denying that the Market experience for finding apps is pretty poor.
And that’s putting it nicely. Google has evolved the experience over the years, and the web-based Market helps a lot. But on the phone, even with Gingerbread, it’s far from great. Today, Chomp, the app search engine, launches an experience for Android that is great. If you’ve heard of Chomp before, it was likely from their iPhone app, which focused on not only search but also personalized recommendations. “We found out that while early on, people enjoy the social stuff, it wasn’t very sticky and people weren’t returning to the service,” Keighran tells us. Keighran gave me a demo last week of just how poor this experience currently is on Android’s Market.
“We’ve developed the algorithm that really stands out on Android since search is so bad,” Keighran says. And when you do find the one you want, installing it is as simple as it is in the Market. NeuAer Proximity Platform. An updated Appsfire for Android includes video previews before purchase. 27 December '10, 11:03pm Follow People like to learn through video.
That’s why YouTube is insanely popular with more than 35 hours of video uploaded each minute and more than 700 billion playbacks during 2010. And that’s why I think Qwiki will be a huge success. So it’s smart that Appsfire, the company behind the powerful app recommendation service of the same name, has just announced an updated version of their Android app that integrates previews of the official videos from the marketplace. We’ve reviewed Appsfire for Android in the past but we’ve never before seen video previews before purchase like the ones in the new Appsfire app. As soon as Android made this metadata available through its API, Appsfire pounced. The screenshot above is from the latest version of their app, released just minutes ago.