Top 10 must have apps that make your daily life easier!

Overview:

        Android platform has been developing at a meteoric rate and is providing a market for the app developers. Most of the smartphones are powered by android due to which Google play store is gaining significant popularity as compared to its counter part: Apple's App store. I'll be concentrating on the Google Play Store apps which aid you in day to day life to ease your efforts. Jumping straight in to the topic, lets look at top 10 android apps one by one:

1] Google Keep:

• This is the most useful Memo app from the Google line up. Basic functionality is to store memos, pics(bills, important snaps, etc) and TO-DO lists.
• Google provides its google Drive facility to back up all your memos to the cloud so that you never lose any data.
• Based on my personal experience, Keep is one of the most easiest apps to use and has an user friendly interface.
• The show stealing feature in the google keep is that it allows you to make a TO-DO list with the functionality to tick it out when completed.

2] Cam Scanner:

• Cam Scanner is by far the best utility app for scanning documents easily without any hassle.
• It uses your mobile/mail id to register to the cloud storage of cam scanner, allowing you a limited cloud space.
•  It has built in templates such as docs, ID cards, QR code, greeting card, etc. for scanning.
• It also provides option for a bulk/individual scanning under docs category; bulk scan option allows you to scan multiple pages at a time (which proved very useful to me).
• You are also provided with options for setting the quality of the scan and the direction(horizontal/vertical) of the scan.

• Post scan, you can use the temporary gallery to crop the contents of the scanned page which proves to be handy since the auto crop may fail at times.
• When the scanning is done, it generates a pdf file with options to still edit each page; when saved, the pdf file can be downloaded to the phone/google drive/shared to others.

3] Amazon music:

        Coming to multimedia streaming sector, for all those with Amazon prime membership, it has been a treat because, Amazon has launched prime music where we can enjoy unlimited ads free music and even options to download for offline. I have been using Amazon music for more than a couple of months; the experience has been simply sublime.

       The interface is easy to handle and perfect for night use as it comprises a dark theme and is not too bright for eyes. High quality authentic music can be downloaded for offline streaming and there is no limit on the download. The frequency of addition of new songs is also neither bad nor very good; new songs are added at a regular rate.

4] Google Drive: 

       Google Drive is the one cloud platform solution for all your storage problems. As the name suggests, the Drive is used to store your important documents, memories, details to be used on the go. As a part of being a google user, it allocates you with 15GB of free space post which you would need to pay for a storage upgrade.

• All most any file can be stored, updated and accessed from anywhere on the Google drive.
• Personally, being a professional and a student; it has been very helpful to store important documents, share pics with friends, organize my cloud content with ease.
• Its best feature is that, the stored content can be shared with your fellowmen by just granting them access to a particular folder.
• It also provides you with direct options to create new word/excel/slide documents which is handy when you are needed to cook up some article or presentation. 

• All in all, the google drive proves to be very efficient for personal use despite being a free app.

5] Google "Office": Docs, Sheets and Slides

        Google LLC provides free apps for creating word, excel and power point slides both for computers and on the go.

• It comes with a set of fonts and limited options but is really helpful in tight situations. 
• The paramount feature is that the documents get uploaded automatically to the drive so that it is accessible on all your devices.
• Being a blogger, I have used docs many a times to draft a post on the go and the experience was pretty good.
• On the other hand, these apps can also be used to open up downloaded documents which is how I started using them.

6] Team Viewer App:

       It is a worthwhile app for professionals who work on the go and need to connect with their co-workers. It allows you to connect remotely from mobile-mobile and mobile-computers and also gives you control over the partners device.

      I have been using team viewer as a part of my app development job to connect with my colleagues from different places. All you need is a high speed internet connection and you're all set for remote connection. In fact it works better that paid apps like skype for business.

• Provides remote connection and control over partners' device.
• Option to chat, voice call and a video call.
• Allows to connect multiple users over remote connection.
• Starting up a connection is made easy via quick support app that is a recommended download with the team viewer.

7] Paytm:

      This app has gone viral ever since the note ban took place in India. It has become one of the primary payment apps which is available in almost all sorts of shopping entities. Basically it has changed the way we transact money.

• Paytm allows you to transfer money to others: shopkeepers, vendors, private paytm accounts, etc.
• It also provides its trademark option for recharging your mobile network providers along with the newly incorporated Paytm bank facility.

• The Paytm bank acts as your normal bank with a savings account and interest is added to it.
• The most cool feature of Paytm is that, any sort of bills (payable online) can be paid via Paytm.
• It also has a Paytm mall providing a place for online shopping, there by becoming a one stop solution for most of your daily needs.

8] Snapseed:

       This is a simple yet options packed photo editing app for you if, you are a beginner in the field of photography. It provides preset filters for layman's usage along with which, are the full blown photo editing tools necessary to render a photoshop level of detailing.

• App has been designed for both beginners and pros for quick editing.
• Provides all of the basic editing tools for tweaking brightness, colour, contrast etc.
• Provides advanced filters to convert to grey scale and other RGB schemes.
• Advanced options such as vignette, blur, portrait mode and lens blur.
• One feature that I liked using the app is, it has even the double exposure editing option.

 

9] Google Assistant:

      With Artificial Intelligence slowly replacing machine learning, Google assistant is being upgraded to empower its users. As per the latest google IO 2018 info, Google assistant can and will be able to:

• Manage your daily schedules and automate a smart home with the help of google home. 
• Can make calls, reply to sms, secure your phone; all based on your voice commands.
• In the upcoming updates, assistant will be able to reply automatically to calls when you are busy! Book appointments and reservations for you at major landmarks and places.
• It will also be able to have a break free conversation with you just like AIs in movies!

10] Adobe Spark Post:

      This is a brilliant app mainly for social networking page admins to create a quick post and make an upload. Spark is an app for creating accurately sized posts for various social networking platforms.

It offers a wide range of preset templates for layouts of the post, royalty free pics to chose for image background and an online text editor in-case of adding texts to the post.

Being a blogger, the free Adobe Spark app has played a key role in designing logos to many other posts for my facebook page.