14 useful Android apps

The Android Market may not have as many apps as the iPhone App Store but, nevertheless there are however more than enough to be overwhelmed, and it continues to grow at a breakneck pace. To help you sort through them all, here is our latest list of the 20 most useful Android apps.

Snapshot as time goes by

Remember that this is a snapshot as time goes by. The Android platform is developing so quickly that this list would look very different a month from now.

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS is that you have to manage your apps so that they don't hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer is our favourite on Android. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps, and you can as well set up ATK to kill all apps at periodic intervals. Some people will argue that task managers are irrelevant and unneeded in Android, nevertheless we nevertheless prefer to use ATK.

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers. This app extends Dropbox to Android, and interacts with other apps to open the files. It allows you to access PDFs, image files and business documents by simply dragging them to a folder on your computer, and at the time you right away have access to them from your mobile phone, once you have this app installed.

There are plenty of to-do list apps to choose from on Android, however we prefer Taskos, because of the clean, easy, Android-friendly user experience. It as well has a few extras that give it an advantage over apps. The biggest one is voice recognition, which lets you speak a task that the app turns into a to-do item.

For some reason, Google doesn't have an official app for Google Analytics. The best one we've found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

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