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Favorite Apps
Any.do -- Great task reminder
Chase
Dropbox
Evolve Money
Feedly -- great rss reader
Greader- alternate rss reader
Glide
Google Drive
Google Keep
Google Maps (incorporating Waze functions)
Google Photos
Mint Bills (Check (Pageonce))
Parcels
Power Toggles
Pushbullet
Tapatalk
Timely -- great alarm app
TripIt
Vonage - free WiFi calling using your normal number
Waze
Whatsapp
Pdanet

Jewish Apps
AndDaaven
Betamidrash (crazy amount of sefarim wt trans.)
Brochos
CRC Kosher Guide
Find a Minyan
Jewish Music - 1. JewishMusic Stream 2. Jstream 3. Jewishmusic.fm
OK Vegetable Checking Guide
Mezuzah Guide
Shabbos Alarm
Smart Siddur by Karri Apps free version has ads :(
ZmanMinder widget
Hebrewbooks.org
Chavruta (Talmud with Hebrew translation and footnotes)
HebDate (Great Jewish calendar with deep Google Calendar integration)
Orayta
Zmanim
(search in hebrew) שולחן ערוך אור החיים עם משנה ברורה searchable, clickable, split screen with שער הציון
(search in hebrew) הלוח העברי great calendar for searching hebrew dates in the past and future, including yom tov

Keyboards
Swype (for one handed typing)
Swiftkey (for key by key inputting & "swyping" )

Games
Lollipop "flappy bird" (Easter Egg)

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #220 on: March 09, 2012, 01:54:51 PM »
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Re: Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #221 on: March 09, 2012, 03:23:27 PM »
oops  :-[
yep, box doesn't have it yet, they will probably soon, as they always tend to imitate dropbox.

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #222 on: March 09, 2012, 03:29:39 PM »
yep, box doesn't have it yet, they will probably soon, as they always tend to imitate dropbox.
so how much memory do you have with dropbox?  I guess if you run out of memory with these things you can always just make a new account for free with a different email address...

Edit- I looked it up myself and dropbox only give you 3 gig hence seems sugar sync is better...
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Re: Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #223 on: March 09, 2012, 04:09:59 PM »
so how much memory do you have with dropbox?  I guess if you run out of memory with these things you can always just make a new account for free with a different email address...

Edit- I looked it up myself and dropbox only give you 3 gig hence seems sugar sync is better...
I have 4GB already earned thru the invites I sent to my friends.

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Re: Re: Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #224 on: March 09, 2012, 05:06:29 PM »
I have 4GB already earned thru the invites I sent to my friends.
+1, I'm at 8.5gb :)

Btw if you have an edu address dropbox will give you 500mb per referral instead of the 250mb, even retroactively... See here.


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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #225 on: March 11, 2012, 11:41:47 AM »
favorite jewish app....Orayta Jewish books V7 its a pocket library.

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Re: Jewish iPhone Apps gone free
« Reply #226 on: March 12, 2012, 04:11:23 AM »
Very sad that there are so few Jewish apps for Droid..
I used to have Palm ...years ago, and there was a ton of Seforim etc..

But with the moderne'  android.. Embarrassing!
 
All i can find that is useful (Yiddishe zach'n): Siddur, Tehilim, a daily Chita's/Rambam (divided into 3 separate apps) with a horrible UI and format -sorta' backwards.., a Kitzur Shu"a, and one more App which has a ton in it but is soooo slllloooowwww...
Its called "Orayta -Jewish books" and its amazingly got on it: Tanach with a loads of meforshim, mishna with ra'av and Tos"y, Shas w. Rashi and Tosfos, Rambam, part of Shulchan aruch, Shu"a HaRav, Mishna Berura, part of Aruch Hashulchan, lots of Mussar seforim and much more... it's just very very slow..

I know, we're all so spoiled, but for some weird reason I expect better..
For Iphone there's so many more hot apps -well done, why not Android?!! :-[

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Re: Re: Jewish iPhone Apps gone free
« Reply #227 on: March 12, 2012, 04:13:19 AM »
For those who have Iphones, there's an app called uvlecthecha vaderech which has Shas and much much more..

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Re: Re: Jewish iPhone Apps gone free
« Reply #228 on: March 12, 2012, 04:16:37 AM »
Anyone know of a good Android Hebrew/Jewish calendar app?

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Re: Re: Jewish iPhone Apps gone free
« Reply #229 on: March 12, 2012, 09:57:52 AM »
Very sad that there are so few Jewish apps for Droid..
I used to have Palm ...years ago, and there was a ton of Seforim etc..

But with the moderne'  android.. Embarrassing!
 
All i can find that is useful (Yiddishe zach'n): Siddur, Tehilim, a daily Chita's/Rambam (divided into 3 separate apps) with a horrible UI and format -sorta' backwards.., a Kitzur Shu"a, and one more App which has a ton in it but is soooo slllloooowwww...
Its called "Orayta -Jewish books" and its amazingly got on it: Tanach with a loads of meforshim, mishna with ra'av and Tos"y, Shas w. Rashi and Tosfos, Rambam, part of Shulchan aruch, Shu"a HaRav, Mishna Berura, part of Aruch Hashulchan, lots of Mussar seforim and much more... it's just very very slow..

I know, we're all so spoiled, but for some weird reason I expect better..
For Iphone there's so many more hot apps -well done, why not Android?!! :-[
Android has very little support for the Hebrew encoding, compared to the iPhone, which makes it more difficult for developers out there to create good apps. So the very little Hebrew in the apps they can put out there, the apps always end up buggy or slow, or LTR instead of RTL. It becomes very discouraging. Even if the ICS has incredible support, many Android phones can't upgrade at the same time when a release comes out, unlike the iOS. Take me, for example. I have a Motorola Triumph on Virgin Mobile (thanks Dan), and it's still stuck on 2.2 Froyo, and there's no official release yet for any kind of upgrade (unless you are a bit advanced, and rooted your phone, and used a custom firmware). This idea turns a lot of people off, and some people feel it's worth paying the extra buck for more support (and to be jailed), and switch to the Apple.

Anyone know of a good Android Hebrew/Jewish calendar app?
Keep searching, but just letting you know, this thread is reserved for mostly iOS apps.

For those who have Iphones, there's an app called uvlecthecha vaderech which has Shas and much much more..
I mentioned this one before (I think near the beginning of the thread).

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #230 on: March 12, 2012, 11:59:51 AM »
Anyone know of a good Android Hebrew/Jewish calendar app?

So BAHayman pointed me to this nice Zmanim app that can calculate zmanim with a zip code or coordinates even when offline.
And he helped me add hebrew dates and yom tovs to the built in google calendar.
All in all a decent makeshift solution to the lack of the Palm Luach app.
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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #231 on: March 13, 2012, 03:58:41 AM »


Wow, Dan, thank you so so much.  You are amazing!

As a side note:
Just want to let you know, every time I see a post of yours and I see that photo of your cutest cutest baby, you bring me so much joy.  You really don't know what an effect you can have on another person seeing such a Tayereh neshoma, how you can lighten up someone's day...

All I can say is that I wish he give you only much nachas and he be (as kind as you are,) even kinder than you, with  many many long, happy, healthy years and (at least) successful as you physicallly and spiritually!

Whatever you do, don't take that adorable picture away!
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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #232 on: March 13, 2012, 11:07:23 AM »
As a side note:
Just want to let you know, every time I see a post of yours and I see that photo of your cutest cutest baby, you bring me so much joy.  You really don't know what an effect you can have on another person seeing such a Tayereh neshoma, how you can lighten up someone's day...

All I can say is that I wish he give you only much nachas and he be (as kind as you are,) even kinder than you, with  many many long, happy, healthy years and (at least) successful as you physicallly and spiritually!

Whatever you do, don't take that adorable picture away!
Amen :D
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Re: Re: Re: Jewish iPhone Apps gone free
« Reply #233 on: March 13, 2012, 09:00:48 PM »

Keep searching, but just letting you know, this thread is reserved for mostly iOS apps.
is it?
Can you reread the thread topic?

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #234 on: March 14, 2012, 12:49:22 AM »
is it?
Can you reread the thread topic?
That post was merged from a topic about iPhone Apps. Take a look at the post title and it will show the original thread title.

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #235 on: April 05, 2012, 10:43:43 PM »
FoxFi works great on my GNex for wifi modem with no rooting required, and it's free!
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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #236 on: April 06, 2012, 03:59:51 AM »
FoxFi works great on my GNex for wifi modem with no rooting required, and it's free!
+1
I posted about it elsewhere on DDF. It's really a gem as it's so simple to use.

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #237 on: April 12, 2012, 02:12:18 PM »
+1
I posted about it elsewhere on DDF. It's really a gem as it's so simple to use.
Between foxfi and svtp, whats the difference?

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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #238 on: April 12, 2012, 02:17:58 PM »
foxfi is free.
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Re: Favorite Android Apps
« Reply #239 on: April 12, 2012, 02:39:18 PM »
the problem with foxfi is that on my evo3d the wifi doesnt work and for the bluetooth i would have to jailbreak my ipad and i dont really want to do that