Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel James Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Must Have Apps Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:09:01 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e16147c885e59d133f2ef7d44168f0c1"; logging-data="17719"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX192tJs/fQTEw8rlYaLZYdGx" X-Newsreader: Virtual Access Open Source http://www.virtual-access.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:dvZEfpY3pcaUylkfkNByiEmmUSU= Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:33680 In article , Roger Mills wrote: > ES File Explorer: Useful for seeing what's where, and it also has a > built-in FTP server which I use a lot for copying files (e.g. > photographs) back and forth to my PC ES is still useful, but it has become so bloated in recent releases, with tools that don't really belong in a file manager, that I hesitate to recommend it. I'm not sure what to recommend in its place, though. > K-9 Mail: Enables me to monitor multiple email accounts when on the > move Definitely. The stock Android EMail app has many shortcomings, and K9 is much more functional. [FWIW the one that annoys me most is that the stock Android app doesn't create an "In-Reply-To" header when sending a reply, so desktop clients like Thunderbird do not see the message as part of the existing mail thread.] I'll also put in a plug for RealCalc, which is an excellent and well-featured calculator app with scientific functions and base conversion features. I'm also quite fond of the Google Docs family of apps, especially Google Keep as a note-taker (but then I'm not paranoid enough to worry that the boys and girls in Mountain View are nosy enough or sad enough to be interested in what I keep in their cloud -- were I so, I shouldn't be using Android at all -- YMMV). -- Cheers, Daniel.