Android apps recommended

NOTE HXA7241 2018-02-04T11:16Z

A selection of Android apps that have been tried and found creditable, and that are: free, mostly adless (except where marked with [A]), some open-source (where marked with [OS]), tending to be small.

Basics

Hacker's Keyboard [OS] – (keyboard replacement)
- https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard
Automate – (app scripting by GUI)
- http://llamalab.com/automate/

Files

Quoda – (text editor)
- http://www.getquoda.com/
Jota – (text editor)
- https://sites.google.com/site/aquamarinepandora/home/jota-text-editor
Turbo Editor [OS] – (text editor)
- http://vmihalachi.github.io/turbo-editor/
- https://github.com/vmihalachi/turbo-editor/
OI file manager [OS] – (file manager)
- http://www.openintents.org/filemanager/
- https://github.com/openintents/filemanager
ZArchiver – (archiver)

Command-line

Termux [OS] – (terminal + packages)
- https://termux.com/
- https://github.com/termux/
ConnectBot [OS] – (SSH client)
- https://connectbot.org/
- https://github.com/connectbot/connectbot/
AndFTP [A] – (FTP client)
- http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/

EBook

PocketBook – (ebook/doc reader)
- http://reader.pocketbook.digital/eng
Document Viewer [OS] – (ebook/doc reader)
- https://www.schuermann.eu/android/
- https://github.com/PrivacyApps/document-viewer
WordWeb – (dictionary/thesaurus)
- http://www.wordwebsoftware.com/android/WordWeb.html

Music

PitchLab Guitar Tuner (lite) [A] – (chromatic tuner)
Simple Metronome – (metronome)
- https://wheresthegig.com/

Net

Firefox – (www browser)
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/mobile
Opera Mini [A] – (www browser)
- http://www.opera.com/mobile/android-os
Opera Free VPN [A] – (VPN client)
- https://www.operavpn.com/
Skype [A] – (VOIP client)
- https://www.skype.com/en/
Dropbox – (storage and sync)
- https://www.dropbox.com/

Sensor

Open Camera [OS] – (camera)
- http://opencamera.org.uk/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/
Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite – (sensor display/log)
- http://www.vieyrasoftware.net/
GPS Logger for Android [OS] – (GPS logger)
- http://code.mendhak.com/gpslogger/
- https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger
GPX Viewer – (GPS log viewer)
- https://vecturagames.com/gpxviewer/
Easy Sound Recorder [OS] – (audio recorder)
- https://github.com/dkim0419/SoundRecorder

Games

Andor's Trail [OS] – (graphical rogue-like-ish)
- http://andorstrail.com/
- https://github.com/Zukero/andors-trail/