We bring to you the top 10 Android apps developed by Indians that have reported downloads in several thousands.
1] Flashlight
As the name goes, this app can be used as a flashlight, turning the screen into one, and lets you adjust the brightness with just a finger swipe. The Flashlight, which has been downloaded over 250,000 times, helps keep the screen on while in use and has received good reviews from users for being simple, handy and bright. It's a free app with its latest version running on all the Android platforms.
2] SMS Backup & Restore
The SMS Backup & Restore app helps to store the SMS messages in either a SD card or SMSBackupRestore folder. The messages are stored in XML format. However, MMS is not supported by the app yet. This app is helpful while doing a factory reset or installing custom ROMs. It allows the user to choose a scheduled time to automatically backup everyday and also choose the name of the file to backup to. Another good thing about the app is it's independent of the Android version so the messages can be easily moved from one phone to another, irrespective of which version of Android it has.
3] World Newspapers - Top News
It is a custom news app that brings several news resources like CNN, BBC news, MSN, Yahoo at your fingertips. You can also share them via email and SMS and get RSS feeds as well. You can sort the newspapers and news items based on U.S. top 7, country wise, web news and favorites. It is a free app which has been downloaded over 250,000 times.
4] Animal Sounds
An app for kids and toddlers, Animal Sounds incorporates 20 farm and wild animals, their photos and sounds to help the kids learn. It allows easy scrolling thumbnails of photos and you can touch the images to hear the sounds. To go to the next image slide across the current image. With over 250,000 downloads, the updated version of the app runs on all Android versions.
5] Zip Code Search
The free Zip Code Search app, with over 100,000 downloads lets you look for postal codes or zip codes of several places. Zip codes of over 60 countries including all North American countries and Western European countries can be found via this app. In its second version now, the app was created in July 2009 and has got a rating of 3.6 from the Android market.
6] Video Poker
Also known as poker slot, it is an entertainment app and has a simulated slot machine poker game. Here the player is given credits based on wins and his goal is to obtain a poker hand from cards displayed on the five wheels. Its latest version 1.8.2 runs on all Android platforms. The app is available for free and has been downloaded over 50,000 times.
7] Drudge Report
This app brings all the news from the news aggregation website Drudge Report on your Android platform. The columns have been separated into tabs and the linked pages are optimized for Android. The app also lets you tweet and share news stories via email.
8] Cherry Slot Machine
Another casino game app in the list shows how popular these apps are! The Cherry Slot has over 50,000 downloads and in its latest version, has added non English local languages support and fixed language translation issues. The freely available app has users hooked to the game and has got average ratings.
A very useful app for the students, Formulas Lite is a collection of important maths, physics and chemistry formulae. The app also packs in scientific calculator, interesting facts and a translator. It also has a help option and has been termed very helpful by users.
No comments:
Post a Comment