Best Android apps of 2016: 27 apps you must try
Best weather app for Android
There are plenty of weather apps available that are more accurate and better looking than the ones that come pre-installed on your Android device.
MORECAST is our current favorite weather app here at AndroidPIT because it has one of the best-looking interfaces, with a clear and sensible layout. Its also one of the most advanced apps of its kind, featuring such options as side-by-side weather comparisons for two cities, and accurate weather information for a particular route or journey. MORECAST is the right way to make a smartphone weather app, and best of all, its free.
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Best launcher app for Android
Launchers offer a simple way to customize the look and feel of your Android phone. They often combine new icons, a new app drawer layout, a new homescreen and new wallpaper to make your device fit a certain style or theme.
You have to try them out to appreciate how fun they can be and the one we recommend right now is Action Launcher 3. This is an excellent introduction to launchers because it provides clear and intuitive interface changes without adding so many that it becomes off-putting.
With Action Launcher 3 you can perform simple tweaks such as changing the app drawer layout, changing app icons, and even altering the way you use your homescreen folders. It offers genuinely useful interface improvements and its free; download it from the link below.
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Best fitness and lifestyle app for Android
Whether you want to lose a few extra pounds or just improve your energy levels, the 7 Minute Workout app is a great entry point into Android-assisted health and fitness.
The 7 Minute Workout focuses on a short, high-intensity routine, which is scientifically proven to aid weight loss and improve cardiovascular function. For people who find the idea of picking up a gym membership or going cross-country running intimidating, this app provides the perfect jumping off point, thanks to the brevity of its workouts.
Unlike many Android fitness apps, the 7 Minute workout doesnt ask for your height and weight or track your overall progress, but what it lacks in features, it makes up for in simplicity. You just look over the exercises, hit the start button and away you go. Begin your healthier lifestyle today with the free 7 Minute Workout app.
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Best security/antivirus app
Android security is a contentious subject and arguments about the safety of the system crop up frequently. If you are in the market for an antivirus app, our current favorite is Mobile Security & Antivirus from Avast.
Mobile Security & Antivirus keeps you safe from malware threats with its excellent virus detection software, which can search through your browser history, microSD card, and internal storage space. Whats more, it employs anti-theft features such as location tracking and remote data wipe, which work even if your device is not currently in your possession.
As far as free mobile security is concerned, Avasts app is about as comprehensive as it gets.
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Best Android browser app
As a Google product, Chrome is the perfect browser for Android and, since it comes pre-installed on most phones, it’s something that most people are familiar with. Chrome Beta is our current best Android browser app because it’s just the, ahem, better version of the browser we already love.
Chrome beta is Chrome of the future, it’s what the standard Chrome app will become once Google applies the latest changes, fixes and improvements it is working on. Chrome beta users get to experience these things before the masses.
The price paid for quicker access to new features is that, of course, sometimes there are bugs or issues that need to be ironed out. None of these will cause any damage to your phone or its software however, and these browser crashes and stutters very rare.
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Best Android podcast app
Podcast Addict is a beautiful app because it piles an excellent free service on top of free service — that is, listening to awesome podcasts. Podcast Addict itself is a free download and it lets you search for, download and listen to podcasts (with its integrated audio player), as well as create playlists of the upcoming shows you want to tune in to.
Whats more, it houses a neat "trending" search feature so you can see what else is currently popular in the podcast world, providing a simple entry point for newcomers. While its not always the easiest to navigate, it does everything a good Podcast app should do and it does it well.
Best Android keyboard app
This keyboard is one of the best for fast, accurate typing and it’s our new company favorite. Many of us have adopted Fleksy because it’s big, it’s clever and once you use it for a couple of hours, you realize how useful some of the smaller details are.
For example, most keyboards use a "press and hold delete key" gesture to delete words, Fleksy uses a super-quick backward swipe. Be sure check out some of the extensions like invisible keyboard too — it works surprisingly well. Download it from the Play Store for free now.
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5 must have productivity PC tools for writers
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Gone are the days only Journalist and book publishers are the only people in the business of writing, things have changed a lot more these days and many people are now involved in several activities that involves writing, like writing for business and individual blogs, web copy writing, i-reporting, HARO ( Help A Reporter Out), etc.
Writing can be time consuming and boring as it requires focus and research. However, writers can enhance their writing experience by making use of these 5 must-have productivity tools for writers.
5 must-have productivity PC tools for writers
Note-taking tools
EverNote, OneNote, Dropbox, Google Keep, Google Doc
Evernote is a great tool especially for writers, it will help you achieve the most important part of your writing career by helping you to archive your ideas and research on the go.
Most copywriters are known to have more ideas than they can write with time, with this note-taking app writers can easily take notes of all their great ideas in one place.
All of this note taking apps will creatively help you keep all of your research in one place thats easily accessible in the cloud.
2. Visual and Infographics tools
You want to stylishly present your content to make it look attractive and fun to read and digest, youll need these tool to carefully come up with great pictorial ideas, graphical and image illustrations in lesser time.
Canva is a drag and drop image creation tool with amazing features. You cant believe how easier your writing will be using this tool. Befunky is a lot similar to canva with less but creative features like cartooning, picture editing etc.
Skitch is the sister tool to Evernote, it makes it easy to add arrows and other graphical illustration to you content, and you can easily sync with you evernote account. Other great resources are photo pin, infogr.am, Gimp, visua.ly, screengrab, memegenerator.net, fotoflexer etc.
3. Save multiple web pages for research
OneTab and Pockets.
Both of these tools are available as add-on on FireFox. oneTab will help you to save multiple webpages in a list to avoid your browser too clumsy as you research your copy.
Pocket is a simple tool that will help you to save unlimited webpages online so that you can read later for your copy-writing.
4. Correct grammatical presentation - Grammarly
Grammarly is a great tool that helps you to fish out typographical errors and as well monitor your use of English. The tool is available as a chrome extension only and its in free and premium versions, the free version has only limited functions like correcting basic errors, suggesting you few replacement synonyms etc.
The tool follows about 250 grammar rules to correct you copies, its a must have tool for heavy copywriters.
5. Copy-drafting and copy-writing
Draft and writer
Both of these tools are promising to give you a distraction free writing environment both online and offline.
These tool keep your work private even online to avoid plagiarism and as well give you a lot of other features like word counts, option to export your documents, writing milestones, formatting and ability to save unlimited documents.
Draft is another feature-rich tool like writer. With draft you rarely need someone else to edit your copies. Its known as a copy-editing engine in that it offers tons of features for adept copy-writing.
Over to you now. What tools do you use to enhance your writing experience? Use the comment section to share them and their features.
