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20 Essential Android Apps for Designers and Developers

Posted on 11. Oct, 2010 by bmackler in Resources

As the popularity and power of Android grows at a staggering rate, more and more productivity apps are being developed to rival those of Apple’s iPhone.

In today’s world designers and developers have to be prepared for every eventuality. Whether you are a fan of Android or iOS, in today’s world it is becoming more important to stay connected with the ability to function even when you are away from your computer.

Today, lets take a look at 20 great applications for Android phones that will make it easier for designers and developers to turn their phones into productivity tools when they are away from the office.

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AndFTP – FTP, FTPS and SFTP Android Client

AndFTP allows you to manage several FTP servers simultaneously, it provides you with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser, it also provides download and upload features with support for easy download resuming. You can use the device menu to rename, delete, copy, set permissions and it can also create folders.

Cost – Free

Magic Color Picker

The Magic Color Picker make you able to browse different colors through color-wheel. This application provides you the value of colors in different formats like RGB, HSV, YUV, HSL and hexadecimal. This also provide different choices for the display of web palette, you can use palette or sliders.

Cost – Free

Photoshop Express

Perfect your pictures with Photoshop Express on your Android phone. Simply drag your finger to crop, adjust color, apply effects — you name it.  Includes the essential basic image processing functions such as crop, rotate, filters, and image saturation adjustments. It also allows you to share your work on Photoshop.com.

Cost – Free

Typography Junkies

Every designer should have a good typography source of inspiration; web typography is an important part of design. With Typography Junkies for Android, you can keep up-to-date with the very latest in font news by way of videos, images, social media and much more.

Cost – Free

ActionScript Reference

This application indexes the Adobe AS3 helpdocs for Flash and Flex developers. If you know what it’s like to work with Flash and Flex you’ll appreciate this application because it saves your time, your efforts and is always handy.

Cost – Free

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk is one of the fastest and easiest to use task lists on mobile devices. The Pro Account for Remember the Milk is only $25.00 and if it saves you even a few hours in time you’d otherwise not have organized it has already done its job.

Cost – $25/Year For Pro Account

Color Palette

Colors are everywhere and web designers know how important it is to pick a right one. Color Palette will help you to do that right. This is an effective color adjusting tool for your mobile phone that supports RGB, HSB(HSV), HSL(HLS) color models.

Cost – Free

Flubble

Flubble will be interesting primarily for Flash developers because it’s aim is creating shell classes or outlines while working in your flash applications. The file can be saved and emailed as an ActionScript file or in an XML format.

WordPress Mobile

If you maintain a WordPress site, WordPress for Android is an open source app that allows you to write new posts, edit content and manage comments, all through the lovely WordPress UI.

Cost – Free

CSS Cheat Sheet

CSS Cheat Sheet is a quick course refresher of CSS properties and values for every CSS developers. By using this application you can revise or learn many aspects of CSS language.

Costs – 0.99$

Google Analytics

Mobile GA for Android is a secure, fast and lightweight application for accessing your Google Analytics data. The app is intended to help you keep an eye on your key summary statistics while you’re on the move.

Cost-Free

Pantone Color Chart 1.0

Who says you can’t take it with you? Not Pantone. With the Pantone Color Chart Android app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® Color Libraries. Pantone Color Chart Android app offers graphic, Web, fashion and apparel designers a way to take PANTONE Colors with you wherever you go.

Cost-Free

Merchant for Android

If you are working online then you have to rely on unverified and slow sources of payment. But using Merchant for Android application you can get instant credit card authorization without credit card terminal or cash register. You can enter customer card information and get immediate authorization and credit card information is not stored on the device you are using.

PRO Zoom Camera 5X

PRO Zoom Camera 5X replaces the default camera with 5X ZOOM, 8 filters and sharing. This has editing functions such as draw, paint, brightness, contrast. It also contains 18 fonts, 18 photo effects and 53 clip-arts

Cost – $2.99

Evernote

Evernote is not just for the iPhone. This handy app lets you keep track of nearly anything — and in many ways. You can keep track of things with notes, photos, recordings, and more. And with an Evernote account, you can keep everything in sync online and on your PC. If you’re looking for a one-stop productivity shop app, this is it.

Cost – Free

Dropbox

A popular app for web designers and other creatives, Dropbox–the ubiquitous cloud-based file backup tool–allows you to access a remote folder with documents you have stored on the server. Simply save files on one computer and you’ll be able to access the saved files from any computer or mobile device. The free Android app gives you mobile access to your Dropbox account.

Cost – Free

Photo Workshop

Photo Workshop is a very easy-to-use and powerful photo editing application for Android which offers many features of photo manipulation like Crop, Rotate, Drawing Pad, Stamp, Text Overlay, Effects, Frames, Edges, Re-size and Tuning.

Cost – $2.99

Looking for more smart phone apps? check out the Top 30 iPhone Apps for Designers and Developers