The Android app thread

Hi all

I just got my first android phone and has found tonnes of brilliant and clever little apps doing stuff like: ftp, ssh, vnc, remote control and all sorts of other stuff.

I am realizing even more than before I got the device that it is way more than a phone and can do a lot of clever things.

I of course have fingerplay and touchosc but I am wondering which other apps that sits really well around vvvv there are?

any suggestions?

I suggest this could be “the android app thread” filled with good suggestions and advice.

-sunep

PS. and then of course if some of the developers could shed a bit more light on the meaning of the little android bots flying around in the infamous keynode video it would be highly appreciated

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hiya sune,
there are indeed huge amounts of cool apps like Goggles. in connection with v4, i think robot view could be cool for making sphere textures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbZzLkz4gc
i haven’t tried it yet, and as you can see from the demo, some photoshopping is needed to get nice sphere maps… attempting this is on my todo list ;)

for making stuff happen on the phone, there’s processing for android, android scripting environment and even some version of pure data that i also have not really gotten into so i don’t know much about it.

of course i don’t know anything about the thinking behind the keynote video and i won’t speculate, but it would be really, really cool to have something like v4 that works in a browser… then, we’d truly be “above the platform wars” or how did it go… i think it’s already true that v4 is on such a high level of abstraction that the underlying platform does not really matter, but this would make it so on a practical level as well.

Let’s see what I got:
AlarmDroid - a nicer and fully featured alarm clock
Bubble - a spirit level, can be practical sometimes
Business Calendar Beta - good calendar app
GTasks - to sync Todo lists to my gmail account
Handcent - nicer sms sending app
RealCalc - a “proper” scientific calculator
Shazam - song recognition
Wikidroid - for easy and quick wikipedia lookups

Hey,
check out our TUIOdroid, sending TUIO data via wifi…
Any suggestions for a new Android app are welcome :-).

Cheers,
Tobi

kontrolleur

the only app i buyed so far is: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dynamicg.timerecording

an excellent work time recorder.

Hey, there are many many apps for android, i realy like TED app , imdb, engadget , ftp server, remote mouse, andosc , ( touch osc on ios is much bettet btw )

i made this a long time ago for that app, AndOSC

Touch osc patch to work with AndOSC, decode touchscreen compass and acc (21.1 kB)

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