Map based Android Applications
A location-based application that’s developed to let users search for properties and places to live near their current location.Hausbarn follows collaborative format where it allows users to add and edit information regarding homes they see for sale or rent.The more information contribution comes from the users,the more useful this application becomes.
This is a very useful app,specially for those who hate reaching their workplaces late.Jamdroid is an Android application that provides Real-time,collaborative road traffic information.It is based on the concept that anybody driving a GPS enabled conveyance can have his device estimate the traffic he just went through.
Jamdroid assumes that each user owns an Android-capable device, with a GPS receiver, that has a permanent connection to the Internet. The devices will connect to a main Internet server, that receives their information, and sends other users report as a reply.
Lost Android is an Android app that allows you to track, backup, lock and set an alarm on your lost or stolen Android device.
GeoMata is an android app where users go to bookmark real places in the real world.The GeoMata application lets users map locations to a particular web content such as a webpage,video or image.The service currently contains over 150k of such mappings(they call it ‘blips’).New blips can be easily added from the app itself and shared around the world in a wikipedia like system. Users have the privileges to share the blips to a particular set of users.
The Android LMS app allows Android users to send and receive their physical locations,request locations from other users and locate their phones via SMS messages.The information is sent as part of the SMS message body.
Geocast enables users to see files posted by others based on location and proximity. All data that goes up on http://android-geocast.com is reviewed. The review system currently consists of Geocast project members looking at any data that goes up on the server.Users are able to view text,image and url files, video and audio will be added soon.
Commandro uses GPS location information to accurately keep you up-to-date on your friends’ wherabout and activities.
The application also enables you to setup various activity-specific and person-specific alerts via the Androids notification service.These alerts can be used to notify you off your friends’ location, time and activity descriptions.
Enkin is a new concept for handheld navigation.Displaying location-based content in it’s own unique way,Enkin aims to bridge the gap between reality and classic map-like displays.
Combining GPS, orientation, 3D graphics, live video and web services, Enkin provides a useful and intuitive user interface and light navigation system for mobile devices.
Android Location is a social mapping service that enables users to keep in touch with their friends in a new revolutionary way.
Using the location-based technology,’Android Location’ will automatically update you with friends and family locations via updating maps on your handset.You will also have the ability to send messages to friends automatically as they come closer to your physical location.
Ceenoo’s aim is to build a network of location-based information and guides available via the mobile internet.It’s main goal is to make the information available to the user in just a few simple clicks.
Apart from pulling up location-based information like travel spots, restaurants guides, Ceenoo also offers the ability for users to add their own travel information, such as photo’s and videos of their trip.
GCab
The GCab application allows the user to quickly hail a cab from their existing location.Upon request initiated by the user,GCab sends all the relevant location information which is used by the local cab company to dispatch a cab to the user’s location,thereby making this an helpful application for the person on the go.
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Social Networking Android Applications
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This is an app that reminds us of Ning.Ning is a web service that empowers each user to create his/her own social network.Shout’Em does the same for android powered mobile phone users.This app is an easy-to-use service that allows you to create your own micro-blogging social networking service.The idea behind the service is to provide tools to allow users to create services that require little investment or risk.
It also helps customer to stay focused on branding, promoting and building up a community and not to worry about technical details, scalability and reliability.
This mobile based rating system connects your friends,contacts and favourite locations and allows you to rate them using a KudoScore either positively or negatively.People and places accumulate positive and negative Kudostars (KudoScore), with relevant sound, images, and video while keeping the user interface intuitive and simple to use.Kudostar then uses your KudoScore points to tie in with not only other Android devices but also web based platforms such as Google’s opensocial platforms and Facebook’s F8.
The Betaun application is a mobile social network service built around user generated geographical content.Users update the service with location information from any part of the world while travelling various places.With the information shared across the user network,other users can then benefit from the travel information such as hotel locations,amusement places shared by travelling users.
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Messaging Android Applications
Based on ‘geonetworking’,Spoxt is a service that allows you to take the best from forums,blogs and SMS/MMS. The creators of Spoxt aim to renew local communication, enabling people to discover and interact with their local environment by sharing events, news, pictures etc.
It’s an Android based Twitter app that allows users to Tweet their geo-location along with the ability to read and display the locations of their Twitter pals.The information is displayed using street maps,satellite view or both.
XLive is an androi based chat and messaging client.Alongside supporting many of the most popular IM services(ICQ, GTalk),XLive also allows the user to send/receive E-mail and access RSS feeds.XLive has support for SSL,IMAP,POP3 and SMTP protocol.
AndroidChat is a location aware chat client for the Android Platform.With its latest update,it’s fully functional on version 1.0
Twitli Twitter Client
Twitli allows you to route your Twitter Tweets to the status field in your LinkedIn account. Just register with your LinkedIn account info and your Twitter Nick name and Twitli will post your latest Tweet to your LinkedIn status every 15 minutes.
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Gaming Android Applications
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A network manager would love to stay addicted to this game.This Android game is a basic port of the KDE game ‘knetwalk’.Each player is given a network diagram with certain parts of the network randomly altered and rotated. The aim of the game is to rotate them back to their original positions connecting all the terminals to the server.They released version 2 of the app on December 2,2008
This gaming app may remind you of the famous virtual world ‘Second life’.'Parallel Kingdom’ is an online mobile-based role playing game (RPG).
The medieval themed game uses GPS to place a virtual world layer over the real world surroundings.In this virtual game,players have the ability to mine resources,construct buildings,craft items,trade goods, meet other people(using android powered handheld device only),find kingdoms,lead wars and explore the world.
MemoGame is an Android based memory challenging game.Just like the card matching games,MemoGame is a similar system in which players must match up pairs of numbers,by flipping over their selective titles one at a time.
If two selected tiles have the same value,that is a matching pair.The game is won when all matching tiles are discovered.The lesser steps you take in identifying the matching pairs,the more you score.
MemoGame 1.0: Currently under the tiles hide numbers.
MemoGame 2.0: Currently under the tiles hide images. The user is able to select a theme from the following: car brands, Disney-figures, fruits and flowers.
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Utility Android Applications
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Moseycode is an experimental new barcode system for Android powered handheld devices.It provides an interactive bridge between the physical and digital worlds.
Moseycode has been designed to be flawlessly operable on mobile devices,should provide realtime interaction for users,must be influenced by the facilities and architecture by the Android platform,should be flexible and allow anyone to publish their own mosey coded content and should hold enough capability to put to practical uses including authentication and labelling.The fifth release of Moseycode is now available.
CallFreq is an Android based phone dialer. The application intelligently recognises and analyses your calling patterns and provides you only with the contacts that you are currently use the most.Future releases of CallFreq will also allow to use predictive contact analysis and use advanced calling functions.
The Caltroid application is a simple Caltrain schedule app for Android.Two buttons determine the day of the week and direction of travel, with spinners allowing the user to select specific departure and destination stations.Latest version of Caltroid has the ability to locate the nearest Caltrain station using GPS.
TooDo is the next generation smart daily task management application for Android devices.It basically allows the user to manage and smartly remind himself of the various day-to-day tasks he needs to complete.
The unique part about this reminder app is that TooDo has many different options and settings to set reminders,including time based reminders, location based and contextually based.
Amarok is the music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. This program allows you to control Amarok from your Android device.
SplashPlay offers the next generation in music tuition and learning to play the guitar just got a whole lot easier. Simply attach the pod and light panel to your guitar and start strumming to your favorite songs in minutes.
FBReaderJ is an e-book reader for the Android platform. It is a clone of the FBReader book reader written in Java.
An Android client for controlling iTunes.
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WordMate is an universal dictionary application running on Google Android platform. It itself doesn’t contain any data, instead, you can download different databases on the Internet, or even make your own dictionary(and share it if you want) with the generator that comes with WordMate.
Opera Mini Internet Browser version that will run on Google’s Android open mobile development platform.
Manage
Manage is a simple file manager for the Android Mobile OS.It allows for basic file operations such as move,copy,delete etc.