Remember that this is a snapshot in time. The Android platform is developing so quickly that this list would look very different a month from now.
1. Advanced Task KillerOne of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS is that you have to manage your apps so that they don't hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (ATK) is our favourite on Android. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps, and you can also set up ATK to kill all apps at periodic intervals. Some people will argue that task managers are irrelevant and unneeded in Android, but we still prefer to use ATK.
Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android, and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files. It allows you to access PDFs, image files and business documents by simply dragging them to a folder on your computer, and then you immediately have access to them from your mobile phone, once you have this app installed.
Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took us over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally, but syncs it across all of your machines and devices.
There are plenty of to-do list apps to choose from on Android, but we prefer Taskos, because of the clean, easy, Android-friendly user experience. It also has a few extras that give it an advantage over apps. The biggest one is voice recognition, which lets you speak a task that the app turns into a to-do item (you might have to correct a word or two).
For some reason, Google doesn't have an official app for Google Analytics (for either Android or iPhone). The best one we've found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.
The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Microsoft Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version if you want to be able to create and edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, we'd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.
If you mostly work with Google Docs (including uploading Microsoft Office files to your Google Docs repository), then the only app you'll really need is the Google Docs app. It's a nice mobile implementation of document management, although the one annoyance is that it always opens up files in a web browser, rather than within the app itself, which would be a little smoother.
We dig TripIt. It is by far the best app we've found for keeping track of all of our travel itineraries. It runs on some great back-end systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars and more to TripIt, and it automatically organises them into trips with all of your details and confirmation numbers. Or, if you use Gmail, you can even use a plug-in to automatically catch confirmation emails and turn them into TripIt trips.
This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app), and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone. It's also integrated into Google Maps.
Another one of the great things about Android (if you're a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system, which is mostly just interesting, but can also be handy once in a while.
Source is
http://www.zdnet.com.au/14-useful-android-apps-339322958.htm
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