28 Essential Apps For Your Android Phone - Must Have

The ever-growing Android Market is flooded with apps that never cease to push the boundaries for better user experience. These apps number by the hundreds of thousands.

We run down a list of the ten best and most popular Android apps for you to download in 2015.

Security :

1) AVG Antivirus : AVG Antivirus is a free antivirus app for Android. It is free and gives you many features to secure your Android phone from viruses, malwares and threats.

Download : AVG Antivirus Android App

2) 360 Mobile Safe : 360 Mobile Safe - a permanent free mobile security and management software, providing the most professional, impeccable, effective security services like Phone Checkup, Anti-virus, Phone Cleaner, Calls & SMS blocker, Data monitor, Contacts backup, Anti-theft more.

Download: 360 Mobile Safe android App

Backups

3) Go Backup & restore Pro: Go Backup is an all-in-one app that backs up your data. It can backup your phone contacts, messages, call log, and also the applications installed with app data to your SD Card. You can restore full backup or select what to restore manually.

Download: Go Backup & restore Pro android App

4) Super Backup : SMS & Contacts : The fastest data backup tool on android!
You can backup apps & contacts & SMS & Call logs & Bookmarks & Calendars to the SD card/Google Drive/Gmail. You will never lose your data again!

Download: Super Backup : SMS & Contacts android App

Communication

5) Facebook: which allows you to communicate with your friends, family and clients right from your Phone. With the Facebook Android App, you can send messages to anybody on your friends’ list anytime, and you can do real-time chat too.
The app also gives you the option to update your status and photos. It also syncs your Phone contacts with Facebook friends and shows Facebook data in your Contact.

Download: Facebook android App

6) Twitter: weet right from your Android Phone and update your status instantly. You can follow your friends to see what’s going on with them.

Other features of this app include Tweets, Retweets, the Follow option, photo and link sharing, and direct messages to your Followers.

Download: Twitter android App

7) XDA: XDA is an Android application meant for developers and Android lovers. XDA is basically a forum where Android developers develop ROMs and share tweaks for the Android platform. XDA for Android is way of communicating for developers. You can ask questions and share answers, or talk about your favorite apps.

Download: XDA android App

8) Viber: Viber is another free Android application which lets you send free messages and make free calls from your Android phone to other people who are also using Viber on their phone.

As long as both phones are Viber-enabled and have a data or Wi-Fi connection, then you can make free calls and send messages for free. You can also share photos and videos to your Viber Contacts for free.

Download: Viber android App

Browsers

9) Opera Mini: Opera Mini is one of the fastest, widely used browsers for Android phones. It has got a simple-to-use Interface which gives you the option to see either Phone View or Desktop View.

It also helps you to save your data bandwidth using Unique Compression Technology. Like Firefox and Chrome, it has the tab functionality to open multiple tabs at the same time.

Download: Opera Mini android App

10) UC Browser: UC Browser is another fast browser. Additionally, it supports multi-touch and also can recognize and navigate through voice commands. You need to Install Google Voice to make Voice Control work.

UC Browser uses Cloud Acceleration technique to load webpages immediately. You can download files through UC Browser at high speeds.

Download: UC Browser android App

11) Dolphin Browser HD: Dolphin Browser HD is a rich full-feature browser for Android. It gives you most advanced features and plugin integration that no other Android browser gives. Its range of features include Voice Navigation, Gesture Control, Add-Ons, Speed Dial, Tabbed Browsing and Sidebars.

Download: Dolphin Browser HD android App

Tools

12) ROM Toolbox: ROM Toolbox is a must-have Android App for rooted users, it gives you many options to tweak your phone. In Personalization, you can change your system font, download boot animations, and download ThemeChooser themes. In Performance Pane, you can tweak your system’s CPU sliders, edit and tweak build.prop, boost your SD card browsing and get memory management.
There are also options like downloading and installing ROMs, make ROM’s backup and wipe Dtat / Cache / Dalvik Cache Partition directly from the ROM Toolbox Interface.

Download: ROM Toolbox android App

13) Battery Defender – Battery Saver: Battery Defender is the most effective app to extend your battery life. It is not as complex as other apps in the same category, apps like Juice Defender and Easy Battery Saver. It just gives you the option to enable or disable Battery saving, and it works really well on my phone.

It disables unnecessary processes and apps running in the background and stops Wi-Fi Connectivity when not in use or when the screen is off.

Download: Battery Defender - 1 Tap Saver android App

14) Google Reader: Google Reader for android allows you to read all the news and feeds in one place. You can read all the latest news and posts from the popular blogs like Dealdimer.com by adding their RSS Feeds to your Google Reader. It also syncs the feeds, so you can read these feeds on other devices too.

Download: Google Reader Clone | News+ android App

15) Olive Office Premium: Olive Office Premium is a free Android App that lets you view and edit documents like Word, PPT, XLS files and you can also read PDF files on it. Most other apps of this category are premium apps even though they offer generally the same features.

Download: Olive Office Premium android App

16) Portable Wi-Fi hotspot: Simple application to Turn on Portable Wi-Fi hotspot and share Mobile Data Internet to Other Wi-Fi Devices like other mobiles, Laptops, Tablets through Wi-Fi, Improve your mobile computing experience. Before running the application configuration is required.
SETTING: Settings->More..->Tethering & portable hotspot->Set up Wi-Fi hotspot

You can change the name of your phone's Wi-Fi network name (SSID) and secure its Wi-Fi network when it's acting as a portable hotspot.

Download: Portable Wi-Fi hotspot android App

Launchers

17) Go Launcher: Go Launcher is the most advanced launcher for Android giving you in-depth options to customize your phone. There are thousands of paid as well as free themes, plugins and widgets available for Go Launcher.

Download: Go Launcher android App

18) QQLauncher: QQ Launcher is another launcher which is made to look like MIUI Launcher. The recent update in QQ Launcher includes ThemeSupport, and other features like built-in locker and widgets. The launcher has a beautiful and attractive layout with many transition effects to choose from.

Download: QQLauncher android App

Entertainment

19) Music Paradise: Using Music Paradise, you can download free music right onto your Android device. All you have to do is Search for the Music or Album terms, then download the desired music.

It also has an built-in music player which lets you listen to downloaded music right from the same Interface. You can listen to music while downloading other music on the same Interface.

Download: Music Paradise android App

20) Zedge: Zedge is a popular site to download Phone stuff like Wallpapers, Ringtones, Notification sounds, Live Wallpapers etc for your android phone. There are 7.5 million free downloadable item to be downloaded in the app and you can preview wallpapers or listen to audio materials first before downloading.

If you are an app maker yourself, you can also sign in and upload your app right from the Zedge App.

Download: ZEDGE Ringtones & Wallpapers android App

21) Mobile9: Mobile9 is similar to Zedge but it offers more than Zedge. Along with ringtones and wallpapers, it also gives you the option of downloading apps, launchers and themes into your phone. You need to register and sign in first before using the app. It has huge database of downloads for almost every phone. It automatically detects your phone and shows the stuff which is compatible for your Phone.

Download: Mobile9 android App

Photography

22) Instagram: Instagram is available on Android! This app lets you apply a variety of photo filters and effects after capturing photos within the app before you share it with other Instagram users.

The most popular feature is the app which gives you the ability to create photos with the Tilt-Shift effect.

Download: Instagram android App

23) Little Photo: Little Photo adds film and effects to your photos. This is the most popular and filter-rich app you can use to customize your photos. With over 70 photo filters and effects, you can also create your own preset style by combining different filters.

Download: Little Photo android App

Games

24) Subway Surfers: Top Downloading android 3D Game to avoid getting bored, It FeaturesTravel to fantastical Hawaii with the Subway Surfers World Tour, Surf the Subway tracks surrounded by huge mountains and rivers of lava, Join the weekly Top Run race and compete for more shiny medals, Take Izzy, the happy hula boy, on exciting surfer adventures, Pick up mysterious Tiki masks in the Weekly Hunts to earn great prizes

Download: Subway Surfers android App

25) Temple Run: In every treasure hunting adventure movie there’s one scene in which the plucky hero finally gets his hands on the treasure but then has to navigate a maze of booby traps in order to get out alive. Temple Run is this scene and nothing else. There are few other versions available like Temple Run 2, Temple Run 3

Download: Temple Run android App

26) Candy Crush Saga: Candy Crush Saga, from the makers of Pet Rescue Saga & Farm Heroes Saga!. Join Tiffi and Mr. Toffee in their sweet adventure through the Candy Kingdom. Pass level 50 to unlock Dreamworld and escape reality alongside an owl named Odus. Switch and match your way through hundreds of levels in this delicious puzzle adventure. Isn't it the sweetest game around?

Download: Candy Crush Saga android App

Kids Fun :

27) Talking Tom: Tom is your pet cat, that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say with a funny voice.

You can pet him, poke him or grab his tail. Record your own videos of Tom, save them to your library, share them on YouTube & Facebook or send them by email.

Download: Talking Tom android App

28) Talking Ben: Ben is a retired chemistry professor who likes his quiet comfortable life of eating, drinking and reading newspapers. To make him responsive, you will have to bother him long enough that he will fold his newspaper. Then you can talk to him, poke or tickle him or even have a telephone conversation with him.

If you get Ben to his laboratory however, he becomes as happy as a puppy. There you can do chemistry experiments by mixing a combination of two test tubes together and see the hilarious reactions.