# Friends, dopers, give me your Android apps **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179 "2010-07-10T02:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/21 "2010-07-13T16:54:58Z")
**Advanced Task Killer** - shuts down the battery power-eating stuff you don’t need running all the time. **DailyDilbert** - each day’s comic, in color. **Naruto Ringtones** - I’ve found some pretty obscure stuff on here. Edit to add - I just saw Advanced Task Killer was in the OP. But it merits a second mention. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/22 "2010-07-13T18:46:17Z")
> [@ElectricZ](#): > > **Zombie Run!** A creative way to take walks… You enter your destination on Google Maps, and it randomly populates the map with zombies who, if you get close enough, converge on your location. Your goal is to avoid them. That’s seriously awesome! Dammit, Rogers Wireless better start ponying up some decent Android phones soon… ---
**Author:** ![ElectricZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/23 "2010-07-14T19:10:46Z")
Side note to any android users out there… The Opera Mini Browser 5.1 is out of beta. Pinch to zoom now functional among other things. Worth checking out! ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/24 "2010-07-14T19:22:37Z")
> [@ElectricZ](#): > > Pinch to zoom now functional among other things. The current Android OS has had that for a couple of months. ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/25 "2010-07-15T19:24:14Z")
Not an app per se , but it’s really handy to generate QRcodes on the fly on my computer so I can use barcode to get it on the Android. > **[Free QR Code Generator, Coupon, Contact & Design QR Codes & Tracking](https://qrcode.kaywa.com/)** > > Create URL, Coupon, Facebook, Contact QR Codes. Scan them with the Kaywa Reader. Kaywa's professional QR Management offers Custom Design Codes, Analytics and much more ---
**Author:** ![ElectricZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/26 "2010-07-16T13:36:02Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > The current Android OS has had that for a couple of months. True, but for some odd reason Opera Mini didn’t support it. It was pretty much the only thing that kept it from being a great app, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/27 "2010-07-16T14:24:05Z")
Ringdroid - app that lets you create ringtones from any MP3 on your phone. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179/28 "2010-07-16T14:56:02Z")
> [@Hanna](#): > > Ringdroid - app that lets you create ringtones from any MP3 on your phone. Oh yeah, I like this one too. Don’t use it all that much, but I did create all my own ringtones with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-give-me-your-android-apps/546179.md?page=1)