Top tips and essential games for your new Android

funkyflychicken | 00:25 - 26 December 2012

Music Player - "DoubleTwist". This one has been my favorite music player on the market. Can do mp3's, internet radio, podcasts, you name it. Also has an Alarm Clock add-on you can purchase separately.

funkyflychicken | 00:23 - 26 December 2012

I would recommend a few other apps:

WIDGETS - HD Widgets (and the icon pack for tablets). It's a great, cheap widget pack with clock and weather. Probably the best clock/weather widget I have used.

KEYBOARD - Tablet Keyboard. I've also used Thumb Keyboard, but prefer "Tablet Keyboard" over all of the offerings. It's great for typing on any tablet.

GAMES:

Elder Sign: Omens - great board game conversion that goes above and beyond what the original board game provided. The physical board game itself collects dust now!

Bard's Tale: Hands down, the best RPG currently available on the Android/Google Play market.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted - My favorite racer on Android. Damage modeling, ability to make your opponents and cops wreck (kind of like burnout), incredible graphics.

Minecraft: Pocket Edition: great "portable" version of Minecraft, updated fairly frequently with more than you would expect, feature-wise.

Granny Smith - Great "auto-runner" platformer game. Not as good as Rayman, but good bit of charm and timing challenge on the later levels.

Expendable: Rearmed - great port of older Dreamcast title. Basically a top down dual-stick shooter, but it runs smooth and is actually really fun.

Sword and Sworcery - Interesting pixel-art adventure game.

Hey! That's My Fish! - Another great board game conversion that also exceeds the original/physical game. Entire family loves this one. Fantasy Flight Games does it again (they also made the Elder Sign: Omens).

Great Little War Game - awesome turn based strategy title, one of my favorites.

Jelly Defense - cute but somewhat difficult tower defense. Really liked this one!

Sprinkle - Another puzzle game from Mediocre games, interesting mechanic, takes a bit though to get used to controls (but is worth it).