Few good Android Apps that will surprise you!!

Android is one of best mobile OS currently available for mass public.. Its scalable and best it has one of the largest App store offering thousands of free apps in mobile landscape.

To begin with following are few of the Apps that will really amaze you:

1.) Inbox - This is Google offering for managing your mail accounts, specifically designed to bring some intelligence in identifying which mails are the most important to us and accordingly as per our usage pattern improvize on the offerings.. One of the best mail client apps current available in market.

Description:

Inbox by Gmail requires an invite. Email inbox@google.com to request one.

Your email inbox should help you live and work better, but instead it often buries the important stuff and creates more stress than it relieves. Inbox, built by the Gmail team, keeps things organized and helps you get back to what matters.

• BUNDLES - Similar messages are bundled together so you can deal with them all at once. And get rid of them with one tap.

• HIGHLIGHTS - Get the most important information without even opening the message. Check-in for flights, see shipping information for purchases, and view photos from friends right up front.

• REMINDERS: More than mail, you can add Reminders so your inbox contains all the things you need to get back to.

• SNOOZE: Snooze emails and Reminders to come back when you are ready to deal with them: next week, when you get home, or whenever you choose.

• SEARCH: Inbox helps you find exactly what you’re looking for— from your upcoming flight to a friend's address— without having to dig through messages.

• WORKS WITH GMAIL: Inbox is built by the Gmail team, so all your messages from Gmail are here, along with the reliability and spam protection of Gmail. All of your messages are still in Gmail and always will be.

2.) IFTTT - This is truly genius app.. its a short form of IF THIS THEN THAT a cloud offering that is available for almost all mobile platforms. It automates tasks like Upload an image on Facebook or Flicker or Google Drive when a new image is clicked.. or say automatically changes your wallpaper daily with the best image of the day offering on Bing or National Geographic or NASA or Flicker.. It even allows switching off your mobile Wifi if there is no network available or could even automate smart lights like Philips or similar offerings.

Description:

Put the internet to work for you
by IFTTT

IF lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement — if this then that.

Activate and connect your Channels — services like Facebook, Dropbox, and Gmail as well as devices like Nest Thermostat, Fitbit, and Philips Hue — for limitless ways to automate and empower your life.

Popular Recipes include:

+ IF you post a photo on Instagram THEN share it on Twitter
+ IF it’s going to rain tomorrow THEN get a text message
+ IF you are near home THEN turn on your lights

Learn more about IF at https://ifttt.com.

3.)  MX Player - Well sometimes it makes us think why some apps are not there in stock android offerings.. MX Player is one of them.. This is the best video player that anyone can get on Android. Not just its intuitive interface for controlling the volume or brightness but it also has largest support for codecs available on Android.  

Description:

MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies.

a) HARDWARE ACCELERATION - Hardware acceleration can be applied to more videos with the help of new H/W decoder.

b) MULTI-CORE DECODING - MX Player is the first Android video player which supports multi-core decoding. Test result proved that dual-core device’s performance is up to 70% better than single-core devices.

c) PINCH TO ZOOM, ZOOM AND PAN - Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across the screen. Zoom and Pan is also available by option.

d) SUBTITLE GESTURES - Scroll forward/backward to move to next/previous text, Up/down to move text up and down, Zoom in/out to change text size.

e) KIDS LOCK - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry that they can make calls or touch other apps. (plugin required)

Subtitle formats:

- DVD, DVB, SSA/ASS Subtitle tracks.
- SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass) with full styling.
- SAMI(.smi) with ruby tag support.
- SubRip(.srt)
- MicroDVD(.sub)
- VobSub(.sub/.idx)
- SubViewer2.0(.sub)
- MPL2(.mpl)
- PowerDivX(.psb)
- TMPlayer(.txt)
- Teletext
- PJS(.pjs)
- WebVTT(.vtt)

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About "Draw over other apps" permission: This permission is required to block system buttons when input blocking is activated on the playback screen.
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If you are facing "package file is invalid" error, please install it again from product home page (https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/download)
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If you have any questions, please visit XDA MX Player forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player

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4.) WiFi Timer : This is one of best app to ensure you schedule using Wifi during a scheduled intervals everyday.. something that would allow us to save a lot of battery juice and yet not miss our important notifications.

Description:

Wifi Timer is a free to use android app, that ensures that the Wifi on your device starts and stops automatically, whenever you want it to.

If you're not using a Wifi connection all day, why keep it active and searching for a network all day?

Use this app to specify when you want your Wifi connection to start and stop automatically. This saves you some battery life and also, saves you from using your mobile data plan when you could use a Wifi connection instead.

Think of it as a Wifi scheduler for your device.
You can add multiple schedules, select multiple days, select when to switch on or switch off Wifi and it will all work seamlessly, without any problem! The UI is simple to use and pleasing to the eye.

If you don't want to use a schedule anymore, just deactivate it or simply delete it!

Of course, even with this app installed, you can always manually switch Wifi on and off. It will not affect any existing schedules.

There's more! The latest version features a beautiful Wifi Widget! Just tap this widget to toggle wifi whenever you want to!

Try it out. It is simple, ad free and free to use! It is also fully compatible with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean!

For feature requests, issues or any type of support, just e-mail us!

Here's a list of upcoming features of this app:
- A more advanced Wifi Toggle widget (toggle Wifi automatically after "X" hours)
- Support for landscape screen orientation
- Support for international languages (German, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese and many more)

NOTE: If you give this app a low rating, kindly write the reason as well. This will give us a chance to improve the app by finding out why you did not like it.

5.) SmartCover : A superb app to make flip cover automatically lock unlock your mobile screen even when the magnetic sensors are not available.. It cleverly uses proximity sensors to manage that plus lot other features to enjoy a premium feature on a basic handsets.

6.) Google Keep : Superb ToDo List manager with feature to share and work on same list by multiple users. As this is available even on desktop browsers its super easy to manage our lists at one place. Worth start using it in our day-to-day life.