Ask HN: What Android apps do you use?

- Hacker News Reader by Corey Trager. Currently the only client that works for me.

- DrioidWall, sort of like LittleSnitch for the Mac, you can block apps from accessing the internet.

- JuiceDefender. Some say that it doesn't work, but after customizing the settings, I find extends my battery pretty well.

- Douban.fm. Good online radio app for those of us outside US without access to Pandora et al. Chinese startup so speeds can be slower at times.

- For my todo list, I use Flick Note as a widget extended to cover an entire homescreen (with TouchWiz 4.5), synced to Simple Note. I also use Flick Note for all other note-taking needs, and have frozen/disabled a few default apps with similar features. On my Macs I use Notational Velocity to edit the list and GeekTools to display on my dekstop.

  - NewsRob (for Google Reader)
  - Twitter, sometimes Seesmic (Seesmic is a bit more powerful)
  - GoDroid, for playing Go
  - Glympse, great app for sharing your geoposition with friends for a set period
  - Connectbot, for SSH
  - FlickFolio, for uploading to Flickr

  - Amazon Kindle, for reading books on the bus
  - DI Radio
  - OI Notepad
  - OI File manager
  - Aix Weather widget, has a temperature/precipitation graph

- Shazam (For detecting random radio songs)

- Amazon mp3 (For buying/playing those detected songs)

- Pandora (Listening to online radio)

- Evernote (Writing ideas that hit me down quickly and keeping them organized)

  - Flickr [new]
  - Songbird—Favourite music player so far
  - Aldiko Book Reader—Excellent interface + easy importing of PDFs and other files
  - Dictionary.com—Recently updated with a new interface and is also much faster
  - Dropbox, ConnectBot—SSH on the go
  - Pingdom—Notifications of website downtime
  - Opera Mobile—Favourite browser
  - Prey
  - JuiceDefender Plus—Has noticeably improved battery life
  - CardioTrainer—For running

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Öffi (awesome public transport app for free) https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.oeffi

Plume (Twitter Client) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.levelup.touiteur

Feedr (RSS/Google Reader) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.feedr

Cardiotrainer & Addons https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wsl.CardioTrainer

imdb https://market.android.com/details?id=com.imdb.mobile

all kinds of Google Apps, most recently Google+ https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...

Flighttrack (track your flights and notify of changing flight times) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobiata.flighttrac...

Kayak (flight search) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kayak.android

SMS Backup (automatically push SMSs to a GMail folder = never lose SMS) https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.studer.smssync

Documents to go (Word, Excel, GDocs Client) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dataviz.docstogo

ROM Manager (manage custom ROMs and kernels) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.romma...

Chrome to Phone (send links from Chrome to your mobile) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...

Cab4me (shows cabs, stations, numbers of cab companies in every city) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cab4me.android

Trillian (messaging, duh) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ceruleanstudios.tr...

MySettings (longpress search button = Settings popup ) https://market.android.com/details?id=jqsoft.apps.mysettings

Make your Clock Widget (awesome custom clock widget) https://market.android.com/details?id=net.hubalek.android.ma...

Beautiful Widgets (same as above) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.levelup.beautifulw...

Jorte (awesome calendar widget, far better then the Android Stock Widget) https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.johospace.jorte

ReadItLater (well.. read it later client) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ideashower.readitl...

every game from Hexage is high quality and fun, most recently Robotek! https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Hexage+Ltd

Here's the stuff I use:

  - DrumSound app for those times you need a quick drumsound! http://trommelyd.no/ 
  - JuiceDefender (free at the moment), seems to help a lot. 
  - Twitter/Facebook/Google+, hoping the average person will move to Google+ as I find it much nicer.
  - Connectbot IRSSI for SSH (and irssi)
  - AlarmDroid, for much better alarms/countdowns/timers.
  - Spotify for genious easy music playing (requires premium)
  - 3G Watchdog to keep track of my BW usage. I have a 600MB quota I'm never close to.
  - RealCalc for a better calculator on the go.
  - Dropbox to easily access things
  - Notifo for awesome irssi highlight notifications as well as pushing the current page I'm visiting from chrome to the phone (say I'm looking at a recipe and I'm going to the store)
  - SSHdroid (not used often) to ssh into the phone.
  - ElectroDroid for amazingly useful calculators, resources and pinout info.
  - Hacker News and Reddit is fun
  - Google Docs
  - Various games (Angry Birds, Dragon Fly!, Fruit Ninja, X Construct and the FPse emulator)
  - Hacker's Keyboard, full-sized keyboard which is nice for SSH
  - SoundHound for recognizing songs
  - EverNote (not used much) for keeping notes
  - Astrid Tasks for keeping tasklists
  - A flashlight app for turning the lights on/off.
  - Epicurious for food 
  - DuckDuckGo app for super easy access to information

Wow, I really use a ton of apps.

    LauncherPro, for a more configurable launcher
    Google Reader and NewsRob, when online and offline respectively
    Kindle
    ES File Explorer, probably the best file explorer
    AK Notepad, smaller than catch.com stuff
    Battery Left, uses history of usage to estimate remaining time
    Arity, decent calculator implemented as expression evaluator
    DoggCatcher, works far better than Google Listen for me
    Wifi Analyzer, great for e.g. surveying hotel wifi reception
    Compass, to guess what direction to walk in without needing GPS fix
        Very handy when e.g. emerging out of the tube in London
    Act 1 video player, nicer interface for playback
    3G Watchdog, fantastic to monitor b/w usage if you have a quota
    APNdroid, to disable mobile data usage for certain when roaming
    Extended Controls, to make settings handier to acccess
    Fuel Log Pro, to monitor gas prices and usage
    IP Cam Viewer, to check my home cams when I'm away
    Maps+, for cached (i.e. offline) maps access when roaming
    Micro Second, for monitoring clock drift. With root it can fix it, but I don't
        run root. My network time is about 5 minutes out, and my phone loses about 
        2 minutes a week.
    MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, far more flexible wallpaper
    OpenTable, Yelp and Google Places, to find somewhere to eat when abroad

-Hacker News Reader (HN client, I have a few installed as they regularly start/stop working)

-Reddit is fun (reddit client)

-Hanging with friends free (hangman game)

-Google listen (podcasts)

-Amazon Kindle (books)

-Google Authenticator (two factor auth for google services)

-Alarm Clock Plus (alarm clock app, has a feature that makes you do math before you can turn alarm clock off - only way I can get up after late night coding )

-Google Reader

-Pulse Reader

-ESPNCricinfo (cricket scores)

-Beautiful Widgets (weather widget, changes background based on weather)

-Robo defense (tower defense game)

  Google apps (Docs, Gmail, Maps, Talk, + etc)
  Polaris Office
  Local banking apps 
  Local public transportation and taxi apps
  Whatsapp
  Facebook
  Dropbox
  Linkedin
  Skype
  IMDb
  RealCalc
  ConnectBot (SSH client)
  XE Currency (exchange rates)
  ES File Explorer (for access to SAMBA shares)
  ChromeMarks (for sync of bookmarks to Chrome bookmarks)
  Shazam (finding artist/songname of playing song)
  Barcode Scanner (for work)

  -Mint.com
  -Audiobooks

And games? GOD I love games.:

  -Game Dev Story (Or any Kairosoft game with a flavor that floats your boat,
   but I think most agree GDS is a good place to start.)
  -Pirates and Traders
  -Plants vs Zombies
  -Archipelago

-advanced task killer, to manage running processes

-all recipes, to find dinner options

-amazone kindle

-amazon app store, they give away one paid app every day

-barcode scanner

-daily dilbert

-google reader, hn droid

-gtasks, to manage gmail task list

-movies, to see upcoming movie releases, trailers

-netflix

-games (crossword, spaghetti & marshmellos)

-shazam

-spotify

-touchdown, corporate email

-verizon dvr, remote control dvr access

-wifi analyzer

To quickly preview t.co and bit.ly links without slowing down to a crawl I built and published a minimalist app called FairyPreview https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fairyteller.linkpr... that I can only recommend :-)

Otherwise, advanced task killer, ACV for comic book reading, AndroZip and Astro for file browsing. And Spotify.

Pubtran - if you're in London, is fantastic for trains and tubes.

Vignette - Absolutely beautiful and beautifully made camera app (lots of filters and whatnot).

gStrings - Brilliant guitar tuner.

Also worth noting: Pure calendar, Tweetdeck, Google Goggles.

  AdFree        - Blocks advertising domains in /etc/hosts
  AutoGuard     - Video/audio records my car journeys in case I get in an accident
  BackTrack     - Tells you the direction and distance to a location you previously
                  saved, without using Internet access.
  K-9 Mail      - Superb IMAP client. Much better than the stock app
  APG           - PGP app, which integrates with K-9 Mail
  Kik Messenger - Like Blackberrys BBM, but works on Android/iPhone/Windows phone
  TextSecure    - Adds public key crypto to SMS storage, and also to transmission
                  if both ends are using it.
  Prey          - Will allow me to track my phone if it gets nicked.
  RedPhone      - Encrypted phone calls

  * twicca, a twitter client
  * Tasker, program your phone
  * AnkiDroid, flashcards
  * Aix Weather Widget
  * FlickFolio, sync your flickr photos while you charge

* Bankdroid for widgets to show my bank/credit balance

* mNote for SimpleNote syncing

* Aedict for japanese dictionary

* Google Listen for podcasts, but I'm looking for something better

* Raziko for japanese radio streaming

* BatteryView to keep track of how fast I'm draining

Other great apps, gaming focused: the Marbians, Alchemy.

   - Hacker News Droid - HN Reader
   - Hooopla - to find out fun activities going on nearby
   - Todo.txt Touch - can be synced and edited on all my computers, and used the cl
   - Opera Mobile

stuff i use:

* dropbox (for accessing keepass)

* keepass

* beyondpod (for podcasts, it's meets my stream/download needs but there's probably better written apps out there. for those looking, just pay for a good one instead of wasting your time getting frustrated with the free ones)

* rhapsody (music)

* gcalwidget (might have mispelled this)

* yelp

* google voice

* renderFX widgets at night. I'm a f.lux fan.

stuff i formerly used:

* gtasks (I've moved to trello, which has a mobile webapp, hope they make an offline mobile app)

One big thing to note is that I use far less apps than i used to, but this maybe because I can easily tether my phone and quickly open up my macbook to do things. I even preferred checking yelp via my laptop in the car during my last roadtrip. That said, I'm burning to get either an ipad or a thinkpad tablet soon as a book-reader/travel-laptop-second-screen/drawing tablet.

I've also never liked typing on a small keyboard.