Android smartphones all have the same operating system, but are very different from each other depending on the brand. A Samsung Galaxy mobile phone has a different interface and pre-installed applications than those of a Xiaomi, Samsung or Huawei smartphone that uses all proprietary applications. Depending on the smartphone purchased, therefore, it is difficult to recommend installing some applications over others. For example, in some phones the app to send SMS is perfect while in others it is poor and needs to be changed.
In this article, therefore, let's first install these 20 Android apps from the Google Play Store on each Smartphone, if you are not satisfied with the app already installed or if its equivalent is completely missing.
I recommend everyone to take a look at this small list, both those who have a new mobile phone and who have had one for some time but have changed little compared to what they had found at the beginning.
The article assumes that applications such as Google Maps, Gmail, Google Chrome, Youtube, Google are already installed, as is the case with most Android phones.
1) The apps of social networks
Facebook is an app to be installed first on all or almost all smartphones, unless you have an account. As I see it though, those who have a smartphone cannot fail to be registered on Facebook because they would renounce very advantageous free services, including that of chat and free calls.
In particular, therefore, Facebook Messenger must be installed on every Android smartphone.
If the phone was one of the low-cost ones with little memory, you can install instead of Facebook, the small and light Facebook Lite app.
In addition to Facebook, other social network apps may be useful depending on the interests:
Twitter to follow the discussions on the day's events
Instagram to share photos
2) A Cloud Storage app
The Google Drive app is already installed on many Android smartphones.
If not, first install Google Drive from the App Store, not only to get a free space to save files, but also to open PDF files (so you don't need another one like Adobe Acrobat) and to have Office applications to create Word, Powerpoint and Excel files on Android.
Depending on the use, Dropbox or Onedrive can then be installed.
3) App for SMS
On some smartphones the SMS application is absolutely poor. Much better instead is one of the alternative apps to send SMS from an Android smartphone.
Among these, the simplest one that is also completely free and without advertising (unlike the others) is Google Messages .
4) Whatsapp
Those who buy a new smartphone must immediately install Whatsapp and, if they have never done it before, sign up by registering their phone number with the most used chat in the world. You will immediately discover that all or almost all friends are using it. The Android app is free for the first year.
In another article, the main functions of Whatsapp
5) File manager
Although at first it may not seem the simplest to use app, it is the most minimal and most functional one to manage phone files and transfer files from PC to phone and vice versa. In the end, to connect the phone to a PC, it may not serve anything else so it must be installed before any other.
6) Google Photos
Google Photos, in addition to being a great application for managing and viewing photos on an Android phone, also provides a free and unlimited online backup service for photos on every Android smartphone. In practice, the photos of the mobile phone are copied to the unlimited personal and private space made available by Google to each Android user. This allows you to always have memory to take new photos and to find photos on your PC without having to make manual transfers.
All you need to know about this app is in the article on Google Photos with unlimited backup from Android, iPhne and PC .
This app is to be installed even if you liked the default app for the Gallery and for viewing photos.
7) Google Camera (where available) is not the most sophisticated app, but it is the most reliable for taking photos and videos from every Android smartphone and also having advanced lens and panoramic photo blur functions.
8) GBoard is the app to change the keyboard with a smarter one to fill in words without having to touch the keys exactly. You will hardly have a better pre-installed app than this.
9) Google Translate is always an app that I install immediately on every smartphone, because you never know, at any moment a translation could be needed on the fly.
10) Nova Launcher
Each smartphone has its own different default interface depending on the brand. On the launcher, i.e. the app of the application launcher, the various production houses Samsung, Asus, HTC, LG, Xiaomi and others are more different. Nova Launcher is the best app to be installed immediately first by those who want a fast and extremely customizable phone. Since the full version is paid, we have dedicated an article to answer the question of whether it is worth buying Nova Lancher Prime .
Alternatively, the Microsoft Launcher.
In addition to these, you cannot underestimate other important apps to download before others on every Android phone such as:
11) Nokia Here Maps, the offline browser
12) Gogole Keep to keep notes synchronized with the PC
13) VLC or MXPlayer to view videos of all kinds
14) Google News to have the news of the day at your fingertips
15) Google Remote Desktop to connect to the home PC
16) PushBullet to share files and notes with the PC
17) YouTube Music to listen to streaming music for free
18) Google Authenticator for two-step verification of web accounts
19) Barcode Scanner to scan barcodes and QR codes.
20) Your Microsoft phone app to connect Android to Windows 10
TOP) Navigaweb Tech, to be downloaded before any other, to follow this blog from any phone
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