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Andorid Application Approval

This is a post about the apps I use on my android phone. I use most of these apps regularly for tasks like downloading and discovering music, browsing and discovering the web, regulating and enhancing my daily life and finally addressing my responsibilities and finances.

For your information I use Samsung Galaxy S4 with the custom ROM Hyperdrive

I plan on doing post later on Custom ROMs and how they can improve the performance and utility of your phone.

Many of these apps require root access to function or be fully functional. And a couple require the Xposed Framework

Below is a series of links to either the apps Google Play Store location or a Google search of its' name if it is not available on the Play Store and a brief description.

 
  • 14px - simple challenging and addicting platform game where you work through increasingly difficult levels.
  • 920 Text Editor - a great text editor that even has color coded support for many programming languages. Installed from f-droid.
  • AdAway - a fantastic application that updates your phone's host file to block known ad servers and prevent ads from showing in applications and web sites. Installed from f-droid
  • Blockinger - a great Tetris clone that is simple and works very well. Installed from f-droid
  • Ex-Themer[ICS/JB] - an application for tweaking the appearance of your ICS/JB ROM
  • F-Droid - a fantastic third party application store that hosts mainly open source and free to use apps. Many of the apps on this list are downloaded from this store
  • Firefox - the best mobile browser that includes most of the feature the regular browser has
  • Flow - arguably the best Reddit reader application. Reddit is a social aggregation user submitted links and thoughts.
  • Flud - the far and away best torrent downloading application I have found. Interactions with the developer have been great too.
  • Google Play Newsstand - a good news source
  • Greenify - prolong your battery life with this app that hibernates other apps running in the background. Requires root and Xposed.
  • Hundreds - I fun little technical game where you must make all the balls grow to reach a total of 100 without touching each other. Hard to explain but endless time killing once you pick it up.
  • InfiniTracks - a great 8tracks app
  • List My Apps - an application that lists all the apps installed on your phone in creating a list. Was used in the creation of this very list.
  • Lucky Patcher - is a great Android tool to bypass premium applications license verification, remove ads, modify Permissions, and more.
  • MediaConverter - allows conversion of multimedia from one format to another. Supports nearly every media format but requires ffmpeg Codec listed later for conversion.
  • Mint - a fantastic online banking and financial management app that creates automatic budgets on past spending and has a very intuitive interface.
  • My Cloud Player - my preferred Soundcloud player. If you don't know what Soundcloud is I suggested you lose the next several hours roaming the fantastic music there. I prefer it over the Soundcloud produced default due to a fantastic interface and playlist ability.
  • My Verizon Mobile - only Verizon bloatware I kept to keep track of mobile data usage as Verizon sees it atleast.
  • PeerBlock for Android - a tool used to stop known trackers and companies with financial interest in Hollywood from tracking your dubious torrent activities
  • PenTest Tools - list of very helpful hacker tools. I wouldn't bother with these unless you like messing with your local network and certainly not on someone elses as they in some cases are felonies to use.
  • Performance Control - an application I use to underclock and overclock my CPU as well as set profiles based on activity to maximize performance and battery life.
  • Pirate Bay Browser - an app to browse thepiratebay torrents
  • Pixel Towers - a simple addictive little game where you try to stack the tower as high as you can. It sounds stupid but it has wasted a couple hours of my life quite successfully.
  • Remote for VLC - an app that lets you control VLC running on your computer so you don't have to get up to pause and what not.
  • RingyDingyDingy - an app that that will make your phone ring upon receiving the trigger text, it will even reset the volume to full. This is great for people that misplace there phone around the home all the time. Acquired from f-droid, requires root.
  • SD Maid - fantastic app for all thing memory. It has such a rundown of feature I couldn't give them justice here look at its page if your interested. Requires Root
  • Safestrap - the app that lets me install custom ROMs on my bootlocked Galaxy S4. i'll have more information about custom ROMs in a later post.
  • Samsung In-App purchase
  • Samsung Push Service
  • Seven - a fun drinking game to play with friends when you don't know what to do.
  • SigFig - a fantastic investment manager which handles pretty much every brokerage there is.
  • Skifta - want to stream media from your phone over the air to pretty much anything? Skifta is the perfect media sever app.
  • Snapchat - take selfies and send them to friends, question the meaning of life
  • Snapshare - allows you send photos taken outside of Snapchat through Snapchat instead of having to use Snapchats awful camera app. Requires root and Xposed
  • Songza - a great streaming radio service in which based on the time of day and the mood you enter it will stream songs to match.
  • TinyShark Downloader - an application that allows you to download any song from grooveshark
  • Titanium Backup - a great service to do all things root to your phone. If you aren't going to install a custom ROM this is invaluable and if you are is is still pretty great
  • Torrent Movies - download from a list of YIFY torrents
  • Viral - this a media player but what makes it great is it is a windowed media player meaning it just open on top of the app you opened the media link from. Very helpful for ease of use though screen sizing can be difficult.
  • Volume Control - a simple widget to control your phones volume from the home-screen
  • WiFiKill - take control of your wireless router! This also could be a felony to use on any router besides your own router.
  • ffmpeg Codec arm V7 neon - codecs needed for media conversion
  • oandbackup - back up and restore your apps to their current condition. Extremely helpful for those of use always messing with our phones. This requires root and I downloaded it from f-droid.
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