Saturday, June 18, 2011

Android TV App 1 - Watch Live Shows, News, Sport, Business And Entertainment TV Channels

This is one of the best and free Android TV apps. It comes with largest collection of channels and you can see wide range of TV shows from news, sports, business, entertainment and more. The clarity of video is very good and  is smooth. Once you start watching live streaming TV with this app then wherever you may be but would never miss your TV and shows any more. This is the first post on Android TV App. You can read about two more wonderful and free Android TV Apps at - Android TV App 2 and Android TV App 3

If you are looking for a good Movie App for Android then check this out : Best Android Movie App - With Player, Trailers, Showtimes, Tickets, Synopsis and News 

Best_Apps_For_Android_SPB_TV
SPB TV - A Mobile TV : There are many Android TV apps in market but many of them are just launching browser with web site and others are just Video streaming apps. There are very few free and good Android TV apps in market. SPB TV is one of the free and best Android live TV apps. When you launch this app first time you would see following screen asking for some information.

Android TV App - SPB TV
Android TV App - SPB TV
Here you can enter your email id, gender and year of birth. You can check the privacy policy of this Android TV app by tapping "Privacy policy" option from above screen.

Live News On Android TV App : If you are in hurry to try out this TV app then you can tap the Skip button and proceed to next screen where you can see the list of channels. One of channels would be active and you can see the television shows available for streaming from that TV channel.

Android TV App - AFP News
Android TV App - AFP News
Screenshot above is showing the list of news from AFP News channel. The buttons at the bottom of the screen are different TV channels to choose from. Just to name a few, you would find Bloomberg, Euronews, France 24, NHK World, CCTV 9, Arirang TV, CBN News, Channel 12, WJXT, WCTV 48, WPT, WSPF, Denver 8, Daystar, NASA, Comedy Time, SportsLocker, Extreme, DW-TV, various FOX television channels and many more. Tap any of the buttons below to see what is being aired on that channel.

Current TV Shows On Android TV App : You can see in screenshot below that this Android TV app displays the current happening at selected TV channel.

Android TV App - Bloomberg TV
Android TV App - Bloomberg TV
With this mobile TV app you can see what is being played now within a small frame, a short description of the TV show being played and the shows following after current show. You can scroll down program description list to see what is coming up later.

Live TV Shows On Android TV App : Tap the green colored play button to start playing the current show on selected channel.

Android TV App - Live TV Show
Android TV App - Live TV Show
You could watch live streaming of TV show in full screen landscape mode with a very good viewing perspective. You can see that it is as good as your TV in your living room. The video quality is quite good and smooth. With this screen you can either press menu button of your Android phone or tap the screen, to display the various controls that you can use to fine tune the behavior of this Android TV app.

Android TV Controls : As mentioned above when you tap the screen while watching the TV show, you would see user controls as shown in above screenshot.

Android TV App - User Controls
Android TV App - User Controls
The second button from the left can be tapped to increase the speed of the video streaming. Third button from the left is used to toggle the video playing in full screen mode. The default mode is full screen as shown in screenshot above. The rightmost button is to exit from the live TV show and go back to TV channel list.

Picture In Picture With Android TV App : The left button allows you to switch to picture in picture mode as shown in screenshot below.

Android TV App - Picture In Picture Mode
Android TV App - Picture In Picture Mode
This is very good feature of this Android TV app where you can keep surfing other channels while watching the show. While watching the show, tap one of the channel buttons at the bottom of the screen and it would change the preview window picture and description with the show being played on that channel. If you would like to start watching TV show being displayed in the preview window then just tap preview window. This will switch to another show that you want to watch.

Android TV Volume Control : Apart from user controls described so far there is one more user control, forth from left, is volume control. Tapping this button displays the volume level as shown in screenshot below.

Android TV App - Volume Control
Android TV App - Volume Control
You can see how finished volume control display is in above screenshot. You can tap the volume bars to set the volume level of Android TV app. Once you are satisfied with the volume level then tap anywhere on the screen to dismiss the volume level control.

How To See Live TV On Android Mobile Phone : If you would like to see this Android TV app in action then you can see that in video given below. Watch this video to learn how to see live TV on Android mobile phone.




Live TV ON Android Mobile Phone

You can download this Android TV app from market and start enjoying live TV shows. If you have liked this post then you may like to check out about other exciting Android apps from popular post section at the right. Keep coming back for such wonderful, cool and best apps for Android.

As mentioned earlier, this is the first post on Android TV App. You can read about two more wonderful and free Android TV Apps at - Android TV App 2 and Android TV App 3

Other Android TV apps at Amazon which you may would like to check out are TV.comTV Listings for Android and TV Guide Mobile, but purpose of these apps is different from SPB TV app.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Android Calendar - Best App and Widgets with Google Sync

This is one of the best Android calendar which comes in the form of app and widgets of different sizes to suit your need. This Android calendar app allows you to access your local calendar as well as Google Android calendar from the same app. It comes with Android Google calendar sync feature and allows you to sync up your calendar content with Google calendar.

Android Business Calendar
Business Calendar : This app comes with free as well as paid version. We are going to look at it's free version now. App is feature packed and is very user friendly. On every screen of the app you can tap the help  icon at top right corner to know what all you can do with that screen. When you launch the app first time it displays help screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Calendar Help Screen
Android Calendar Help Screen
Help screen gives all possible ways to access the help and more information of this Android calendar. Tap "Lets go" button to proceed using calendar app. Next you will see "Select Calendars" screen as shown below.

Android Calendar - Select Calendars
Android Calendar - Select Calendars
This screen displays the list of calendars to choose from. You can see your local calendar as well as Google calendars here. Mark the check box against the calendar to select it. You can tap green arrow near check box to move the calendar item from "Favorites:" to "Other Calendar:" section and vice versa. Once you complete your selection then tap "Save" button to proceed with app.

Android Calendar - Month View
Android Calendar - Month View
Above screenshot displays the month view of Android calendar. The two buttons at the bottom of the screen allows you to select or deselect available calendars quickly. If you tap one of these buttons then that particular calendar gets either selected or deselected. If selected then events of that calendar can be seen in month view above. De-selecting hides the events from that calendar. Swipe with finger the month view vertically to change the month. Small icon at top left hand corner of the screen allows you to change the view to display events as text or bar. Above screenshot shows bar mode and screenshot given below if showing text mode.

Android Calendar - Landscape Monthly View
Android Calendar - Landscape Monthly View
You can see that events are displayed as text instead of bar in above screenshot. One more thing you may have noticed that it is in landscape orientation. When you rotate Android phone then calendar view automatically change to adapt the orientation. Long press any of the date in calendar view to launch add event screen.

Android Calendar - Add New Event
Android Calendar - Add New Event
Here you can select the calendar from the list of available calendars to decide where new event would be added. Type the title of the event to identify it. Select the from date and time. At the right you can see a blue box with text "New!" inside it. This is showing the duration of the event over a time line going from top to bottom. You can tap here to quickly select duration of the event. There are more choices on this screen and you can see those by scrolling down as shown in screenshot below.

Android Calendar - Add Event More Choices
Android Calendar - Add Event More Choices
You can select check box "All Day" to quickly set the duration of the event for whole day. Set the reminder from the long list of choices like, None, On time, various durations from 5 Minutes to 4 Weeks. Here it is possible to set multiple reminders for the same event by tapping green + (plus) icon. Reminder can be deleted by tapping red X ( cross ) icon. Scroll down further to see remaining choices which are shown in screenshot below.

Android Calendar - More Add Event Choices
Android Calendar - More Add Event Choices
Privacy drop down allows you to choose from Default, Confidential, Private or Public. It allows you to choose who can see your events. Repetition drop down allows to select from One-time event, Daily, Every weekday (Mon-Fri), Weekly, Monthly and Yearly. This is very handy feature to set repetitive events.

Android Calendar - Event Info
Android Calendar - Event Info
As shown in above screenshot when you tap the event text or bar in month view it displays pop up with all the events for that day. Tap the pop up to see the list of events in separate screen. Further tap the individual event to display the event details screen shown below.

Android Calendar - Event Details
Android Calendar - Event Details
The two icons at the bottom of the Event Details screen are Edit and Delete. You can tap the left icon to edit the event and it displays the screen same as add event screen you seen earlier. The right icon can be tapped to delete the given event.

Android Calendar - Weekly View
Android Calendar - Weekly View
The above screenshot displays the multi-day or weekly view of the Android calendar app. For launching this view you move finger over multiple days in monthly view. Selecting multiple days this way launches screen shown above where you can see the events for selected days. The green bar at the bottom allows you to change the number of days displayed in the multi-day view. The current day in this view is highlighted by light cream color and small horizontal red line indicates current time.

Android Calendar - More Menu
Android Calendar - More Menu
There are many useful menus provided by this Android calendar app and clicking the more option displays above menus. One of the important menus is "Sync now" and it provides android google calendar sync feature. Tapping this menu syncs the events with Google calendar.

This app comes with very useful android calendar widgets of various sizes. You can add these widgets to the desktop of your phone. Long press desktop screen and select Android Widgets menu to see available android calendar widgets as shown in screenshot below.

Android Calendar Widgets
Android Calendar Widgets
Tap one of the Android calendar widgets you want from the list and it would display the widget configuration screen. Select the settings that you want for the widget from configuration screen and tap save button.This would display the given android calendar widget on your phone's desktop.

Android Calendar Widget
Android Calendar Widget
You can see Android calendar widget placed on desktop on the phone. Once placed on desktop you can start using widget to quickly access calendar information and perform operations which you perform using Android calendar app.

If you like this post then you may read about other exciting apps given in the popular posts displayed at the right. Keep checking back for more wonderful and best apps for Android.