The 15 Android apps that every user should download


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Android is one of the most used mobile operating systems worldwide, and the recent changes to Google, its developer, has included versions as Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean brand new can only contribute to its popularity even more, in a battle with Apple and iOS that seems to last quite.

With about 500,000 apps in Google Play, its biggest source of content, and also many alternative places like Amazon App Store or the website of any developer, finding Android applications easy task as query we get virtually any applications that help us get what we want.

However, not all of these applications are the best of the best , something we have tried to compile a list of only 15 applications, of course ordered by categories. All of them are a must not only for power users , but for anyone who wants to start taking full advantage of the system.

  • Chrome

Although still not the default Android browser, many bet you soon will be. And is that Chrome offers everything offered its desktop brother, and even connect to it. Share bookmarks , browsing history or even the tabs you have open is a fact, in addition to being an excellent tool to surf the net. One must only available for Android 4 and above.

  • Flipboard

Your social magazine . The best way to consume content via your Android phone or tablet. Flipboard is an attractive application you access a range of interests and which is delightful gestures to turn the page. The easiest way to describe it is to compare it with a magazine where we spent pages to discover each of the sections, except that here the sections and contents are chosen us.

  • Instagram

Also we could have gotten into social networking section because Instagram is not only a very good program for photo lovers who enjoy all kinds of effects, but a community where sharing and discovering our snapshot images. One of the strongest applications on Android have never broken, and a place to interact with millions of people around the world about one of our passions: photography.

  • Photo Grid

The ideal complinche Instagram. Photo Grid allows us to create picture frames composed of several images and also assign a frame. The predefined templates will help us prepare our frotografías before publishing them on Instagram, or indeed in any other service through the sharing option.

  • QuickPic

Maybe the latest versions and the Android gallery have improved a lot, but it is undeniable that it was thanks to apps like QuickPic, which offer an attractive and intuitive way possible to display our photographs in a very swift. If not just convince the gallery, QuickPic is an application that you must try, and it definitely deserves to be on this list.

  • Spotify

The Best Music Service on streaming by far. To enjoy the mobile application users will need to let Premium, which I highly recommend because once we do, we enjoy millions of tracks from a host of artists with the best quality, under a fancy interface and advanced features as scrobbling or the ability to create custom lists.

  • TuneIn Radio

The best radio available in the Android ecosystem. Over 60,000 different channels with the ability to create our own favorite lists or choosing the musical quality that interests us: Alta, to enjoy the best music for the best fidelity, or low, to avoid a high intake of data but still enjoying what was previously known as the pleasure of the waves .

  • Super Video

One of the new Samsung Galaxy S3, one of the most powerful terminal time was the possibility out popups in order to play video while writing a message or did anything else. It is now possible on any Android phone because of Super Video, one of the best applications of the year, and also a utility that will delight music lovers of YouTube.

  • Boid

Is the best Twitter client for Android? Can. I must admit that I was excited when I discovered Boid its minimalism and how well it takes advantage of new visual options of Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, and after a few hard months of development in which the application is returned even unstable, this product, which is still in beta, returns to work perfectly customers is one of the most comfortable available. In a few days will be ready when the Push, the icing is missing for that we need not ask the initial question.

  • FriendCaster for Facebook

Let's be honest. The Facebook app for Android sucks . Fortunately, there are alternatives like FriendCaster, a client that offers access to the largest social network in an intuitive and attractive. The dark themes choice in order to save battery, enjoy chatting all the features of the desktop version, or synchronize our contacts are some of their weapons. Oh, and two words I forgot to mention: Push Notifications.

  • Jolicloud

Jolicloud is a very good idea for lovers of social networking. Surely throughout the day ye like in endless links and photos, and to publish your own content to contribute to the great library of entertainment that is the Internet. Well, this service meets all these contents for us connecting to our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and showing one stream with our social activity where you can also create collections, or follow other users Jolicloud.

  • Swype

Swype is in all probability the best Android keyboard available, and a tool that will make our levels of productivity soar with its proposal: To write so we'll just slide our fingers, making a trail to complete words. Swype does the rest, including spaces and providing us our lives.

  • Light Flow

The final application to take full advantage of LED notifications or press. With it you will be able to tell your Android device in which color, frequency or how alarm notifies you when they post, when you receive a like on Instagram or when someone leaves a message on the voicemail. An indispensable application ecosystem, and an acquisition of Google should do, and make something native Android service. I recommend the full version , which is worth only € 1.75.

  • AppBrain Ad Detector

This small utility is responsible for notifying us of potential hazards that are installed applications. Adware, hidden notifications or sending data to third parties are some of those dangers, which now will not have to worry because every time we do an installation AppBrain Ad Detector does it for us.

  • Lookout

Utility that serves not only to analyze each of the applications you install (or have installed) in search of malware , but to keep our device located. Lookout is able to activate the GPS in the same order that, in case of loss or theft, we know where to within a few meters. In addition, the paid version comes with options to delete all your data in case the worst happens. Without a Paddle .