Android Video Player - Best and Free App to Play AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4, FLV and Many Codecs with Subtitles

In this post I am presenting to you an Android Video Player which can play lot many codec formats like avi, mp3, rmvb, rm, 3gp, wmv, mp4, mov, mkv, flv, 3gpp, mpg, mlv, mpeg, m2v, vob, tp, ts, asf, ra, ram, hlv, ogg, f4v and m4v. Once you install this video player on your Android phone then you don't have to look for android video converter. This is one stop Android media player which would play for you the codec formats you want.

In one of the previous posts I have talked about Android Music Player and if you are looking for a Music Player then you can read : Best Android Music Player - App with Themes, Equalizer, Album Art and Lyrics

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 

This is first Video Player App discussed here and if you want to read about second Android Video Player app then you can read it at : Video Player For Android - Best And Free App For Playing Movies, Music And Other Videos 

MoboPlayer : This is one of the best Android Video Player apps you can find in Google Android market or Android store of your choice. It is simple to use and feature packed. Best part is, it is absolutely free. It comes with it's own codec format package and can play a very big list of formats for you. It's user interface is so friendly that after using it once you may not look for any other video player again.

When you launch this Android video player first time then it asks you to download and install codec formats as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Install Codec Formats

You have three different choices here, either you can download and install codec format package from Android market or you can do it from Mobo site or you can do it using offline instructions provided for installation. When you tap DownloadFromMarket it launches Android market app and takes you to the codec download page. Just tap to install the package from there. Once installation is completed then you need to launch again the MoboPlayer by tapping it's icon. If the codec formats are installed properly then it would not display the previous screen above and take you to instructions screen as shown below.

Android Video Player - Instructions

This screen informs about the various user friendly interfaces provided with this Android media player. Double tapping anywhere on the screen pause or resume the video playing. When you slide at left hand side of the screen in verticle direction as shown in screenshot above then brightness of the video is adjusted. When you slide at right hand side of the screen in verticle direction as shown in screenshot above then volume of the video is adjusted. When you slide at top side of the screen in horizontal direction as shown in screenshot above then you can decide the play time to jump into video. You would find these features with example screenshots given below in a while.

When you go ahead from instruction screen to main screen of this Android video player then you would find  empty screen because no media directory is selected yet.

Android Video Player - Main Screen 

There are two ways to go for selecting media directory here. Either you can tap the small folder icon at left hand bottom corner of the screen or you can tap the text message "There's no media directory, click here to set". This would open a Media Directory selection screen as shown below.

Android Video Player - Media Directory

When you tap check box at any of the directories then it is checked ON or OFF. It would also display the menu shown in above screenshot. Pressing your Android phone's menu button would also display the above menu. When you tap Confirm menu then Video Player starts scanning media files as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Scanning Media Files

Android video player app displays the progress of the scanning and how many media files are found. Once the scanning is completed then "Cancel" button changes to "Close" and you can tap it to return back to main screen of video player.

Android Video Player - Main Screen

Screenshot above displays the main screen with grid view of the videos. You can tap the icon at right hand top corner of the screen to change the view between grid and list. Tap the thumbnail of the video to start playing it and it would launch the player screen in landscape mode as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Controls

You can change the zoom ratio by tapping the icon at left hand bottom corner of the screen. You can drag the progress bar to the location of your choice to fast forward or backward the video playing. You can tap the Pause icon displayed at bottom center of the screen to pause the video playing. Same icon changes to Play icon on pausing the video and you can tap it to resume the video playing.

Android Video Player - Volume Control

As explained earlier there are user friendly gesture controls provided with this Android video player. Sliding your finger up or down vertically at right hand side of the screen displays the volume overlay on the screen and changes the volume. Play with it for some time to experience how convenient this feature is.

Android Video Player - Brightness Control

Like volume you can control the brightness of the video by sliding your finger vertically at left hand side of the screen. This would display the volume level as you slide. I have already explained earlier that you can tap twice anywhere on the video to pause or resume the playing.

Android Video Player - Jump to Location

Many times we want to jump to a specific location in the video and start playing video from that point. This Android video player makes it very convenient to precisely jump to specific location. Slide your finger horizontally at top side of the screen and it would display the "Jump to"  button at right hand top of the screen. Keep sliding your finger toward left or right to change the displayed location as you need. Once the required location is displayed then tap the "Jump to" button at top right hand corner of screen to execute it. This would start playing the video from that point onward.

Android Video Player - Coverflow View

When you are at main screen of the video player app where you are looking at all the available videos in grid view then you can rotate the phone and you can see the videos as shown in screenshot above. This view is called Coverflow or Pictureflow. Here you can see the Album Arts or Thumbnails of the videos as shown above. You can swipe the pictures by your finger to see the available videos. Tap the picture in front to start playing that video. Play with this to understand how user friendly this interface is.

Android Video Player - Context Menu

You can long press the picture in front to display the menu as shown in above screenshot. One of the important menus here is "Add to play list". You can tap this menu to add the given video into playlist. By creating playlist you can group the videos by a particular theme and can play all the videos in playlist by just single tap.

Android Video Player - More Menu

On main screen of this Android video player app you can tap "..." (more) menu item at the right hand bottom of the screen to display the more menu as shown in above screenshot. Here you can change the Background of the app and can also goto the PlayList screen to start playing playlists. Settings menu launches the settings screen shown below.

Android Video Player - Settings

Here you would find lot of settings to fine tune the behavior of this Android video player app. One of the options is "Choose the media directory". This feature we saw earlier in this post where you can select the media directories to scan the media files. One of the sections of settings are related to Subtitles. Where you can choose to show Subtitles by automatically loading subtitle file. You can also choose text size, color and character set for subtitles.

As mentioned at start of the post, this is first Video Player App discussed here and if you want to read about second Video Player app then you can read it at : Video Player For Android - Best And Free App For Playing Movies, Music And Other Videos 

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Android Music Player - With Equalizer, Lyrics, Album Art and Themes

This is one of the best Android Music Players which has those required features which Android lovers would love to have. It has all exciting funtionalities which you may be looking for namely equalizer ( eq ), themes, album art, lyrics and more.

In last post I talked about one of the best apps for downloading Wallpapers and Ringtones. If you have not yet read about it then you can find it at : Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers

This is first post on Android Music Player. If you have not read about the second Android Music Player here then you can read about it at Android Music Player 2.

If you are looking for an internet radio for listening hours of streaming music then you can checkout one at : Radio App For Android - Listen Music You Love Anywhere And Anytime

PowerAMP : There are few great Android music players in market namely PowerAMP, PlayerPro and Audiogalaxy. PowerAMP is one of the best Android music apps that you can find in Android market. It has wonderful features like themes, equalizer, album art, lyrics and much more. It's user interface is amazing and cool. Just take a look at it once and you would fall in love with it. It is bit difficult to understand for first time users but if you read this article then you would get up to speed quickly and would be able to make most out of it in no time.

Android Music Player With Album Art : When you first time launch PowerAMP Music Player you would see following screen.

Android Music Player - PowerAMP

As shown in above screenshot, it displays the Album Art of the song if it is available. Immediately below the album art are buttons to play / pause the song and to navigate to next/previous song. Below the play buttons, at left, you can find Repeat button which you can tap to play the same song again and again. At right side, below the play buttons, you can see Shuffle button which you can tap to shuffle the songs in your playlist.

Android Music Player With Equalizer And Lyrics : At bottom left of the screen is EQU (Equalizer) button and you can tap it to switch it ON or Off. At bottom right corner of the screen is volume knob. This Music Player app also displays the Lyrics if those are available as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - With Lyrics

You can read the lyrics of the song as it is being played. Above the EQU (Equalizer) button is progress bar of the player which you can drag to fast forward / backward the song to specific location that you want. Above it you can see the brief information of the song being played. Below the scroll bar and immediately to the left of the volume knob is the small display which shows you current Equalizer settings.

Android Music Player With Equalizer Presets : You can tap the PRE (Presets) button to set one of the predefined Equalizer settings. Tapping PRE button displays pop up shown in screen shot below.

Android Music Player - Equalizer Presets

There are plenty of preset equalizer settings which you can select, namely Classical, Dance, Rock, Pop and more. One of the presets called Phone Speaker (Loud) is especially useful. You can set this to play the songs with full volume with phone speakers. You can long press any of the preset to display context menu with buttons as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Preset Menu

The button at right, Delete button should be used with caution. It deletes the preset from the list. Tapping the Edit button launch the Preset Edit pop up as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Edit Preset

As shown in screenshot above you can edit the name of the preset using this screen. You can also assign the given preset to Speaker, Folder, Wired Headset, Current song or Bluetooth.

There were two buttons in  previous to above screenshot, Assign and Unassign which I have not explained yet. The Assign button provides you same Assign to functionality that we saw in Edit Preset screen above. Unasssign button allows you to remove all the assignments done for selected preset.

Android Music Player Playlist : On the first screen of the of the PowerAMP player, when you press menu button of your Android phone you can see the menus as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Menu

Add To FL menu allows you to add a given song to playlist. Ringtone menu allows you to set the given song as your phone ringtone. Info menu displays a pop up as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Song Information

Apart from the song information displayed on this pop up, three more very useful functions are available here. Tapping Search button launches the internet browser and displays the Google search result for given song. Lyrics button would be enabled if Lyrics for the given song are available and tapping the Lyrics button displays the lyrics of the song.

Android Music Player As Music Manager : Edit Tags button is very handy feature and tapping this button displays the pop up as shown below.

Android Music Player - Edit Tags

You must have guessed how useful this feature can be for editing tags as you want and managing your songs in better way. This is one of the features which makes this app the best Android music manager as well.

Lets go back to app menus which we saw in one of the previous screenshots. I have to explain yet the remaining menus namely Delete, Folders/Lib, Equalizer, Settings and Help. Delete menu should be used with care as it can delete the song from your SD card. Folders/Lib menu displays Android Music Folder screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Music Folders

Folders displayed in this screen could be different on your phone. You can select which folders should be displayed here by using settings menu and we would see how to do it in a short while. Notice the two buttons Folders button and Library button at the bottom of the screen. You can tap these buttons to switch from Folders and Library screen. Tapping Library button displays the screen as shown below.

Android Music Player - System Library

As you can see in screenshot above it displays the Android system library where all the Android music categories are displayed. You can quickly browse and select the songs using these various categories.

Android Music Player Equalizer : Lets go back to remaining app menus which I have not explained yet, Equalizer, Settings and Help. Help menu displays help of the PowerAMP Music Player app. I am going to explain Settings menu in a short while.   Before that lets see Equalizer menu. When you tap Equalizer menu or tap volume knob or tap equalizer display on main player screen then it launches a Equalizer screen as shown below.

Android Music Player - Equalizer

You can drag Vol, Treble and Bass knobs on this screen to modify those settings of equalizer. You can tap Tone button to switch it ON or OFF. Similarly you can tap EQU (Equalizer) button to switch it ON or OFF. PRE button launches Preset screen which we saw earlier. Save button allows you to save your Equalizer settings. Reset would reset all changes. Above these buttons Equalizer wave form is displayed. If you notice, there are two small arrows on this wave form. That part of the wave form is sliding window and you can drag it to display remaining wave form. It also scrolls the sliders in top area of the screen. You can drag the various slider knobs as you want for creating your equalizer setting.

Android Music Player App Settings : Now lets see last and remaining settings menu. When you tap the settings menu it displays the settings screen as shown below.

Android Music Player - PowerAMP Settings

There are lot many useful and powerful settings provided by PowerAMP app and you can see those all in leisure. I want to talk about two of the settings which are useful and interesting. First is Theme settings option. You can tap Theme settings option to change the theme of your PowerAMP Android Music Player app to Matte Metal, Aluminium, White Plastic or Black Neon. Second interesting and useful option is Music Folders which is not displayed in above screenshot and can be seen by scrolling down. You can tap Music Folders option to launch the pop up as shown below.

Android Music Player - Music Folders

You can mark the check boxes ON for the folders that contains MP3 files or other music files and you want  those to be shown in Music folders screen. We saw the Music screen earlier when I talked about Folders/Lib menu.

You can download PowerAMP Music Player app from Android market or Android store of your choice and start playing Android MP3 songs.

If you find this app interesting then you may like to read a post on second such wonderful Android Music Player app at Android Music Player 2.

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Three Best Alarm Clock Apps For Android : App 3 - AlarmDroid

In my last two posts I have covered two of the three best Alarm Clock apps for Android. If you have read about those in my previous posts then you must have downloaded those and tried out. With these Alarm Clock apps for your Android phone you must be waking up on time now. In case you are visiting this post directly and have missed my earlier two posts about Alarm Clocks then you may read those at Alarm Clock++ and Alarm Clock Extreme Free or you can read those from blog archive.

AlarmDroid : This is third app from best three Alarm Clock apps series I am covering here. This one too is feature packed and I leave up to you to try and decide which one you think is best of these three. This app has many wonderful features like Alarm by date and time, provision to control the snooze and stop by flip, shake and power button. When you run the app you see it's first screen as shown below.

AlarmDroid - Alarm List

This screen displays the list of alarms you have added so far. On this screen you can press the menu button of your phone to display all the available menus of this app. The menus of the app are displayed in the screenshot given below.

AlarmDroid - App Menus

I am going to describe in detail about the menus "Add Alarm" and "General preferences" shortly.

"Speaking clock" is very nice feature where you can select how frequently you would like the app to voice the time. Once set you would see a icon in notification bar indicating that "Speaking clock" feature is enabled and it would speak a time at specified intervals.

"Sort" menu allows you to select from "Sort manually" or "Sort by status" options.

"Backup" menu allows you to take the backup of the AlarmDroid app database and also allows you to restore the information from backup file.

"AlarmDroid Pro" menu is for you if you want to switch to Pro version of this app.

"Add Alarm" menu adds new alarm entry in the list of alarms and launch the Alarm Settings screen where you can select various parameters for your newly added alarm.

AlarmDroid - Alarm Settings

Here you can enable or disable alarm, set title for your alarm, set the time when it should fire, select time duration between snooze and decide if you want your alarm to repeat on days of week or it is one time event. You would find more settings when you scroll down this screen.

AlarmDroid - More Alarm Settings

Interesting thing about AlarmDroid app is, not only it allows you to select the days of week for repeating alarms but you can also select from between odd or even weeks when alarm should be in effect.

"Soft alarm" setting can be used to set the time span during which alarm increases. When you tap "Ring tone" settings it launch a new screen where you can select either ring tone, music, playlist or online stream as the sound of your alarm.

Here you can enable or disable speaking clock feature which I have briefly described earlier. Power nap is again a wonderful feature which allows you to select the duration of your power nap up to seconds. What I liked that Alarms defined as Power Nap are also displayed in list of Alarms and you can alter the settings if required or utilize the same again when required.

"Arithmetic problem" setting allows you to decide if you would like to solve arithmetic problem before you are allowed to click snooze or stop.

If these settings are not enough and if you are looking for more options then you can go for "Advanced settings' where you can select ringer duration, how long to continue in snooze mode, whether to allow snoozing and maximum snooze count.

"General preferences" menu of the AlarmDroid app provides lot many options than you can imagine ever.

AlarmDroid - General preference

General preferences screen is shown in above screenshot. Here you can select Display, Sound, Control, Weather and Advanced settings. Every option launches yet another screen with more choices. When you tap Display settings following screen is launched.

AlarmDroid - Display settings

Theme option allows you to select the theme for items displayed on alarm list screen. Background option allows you to select from Transparent, System wallpaper, Image of your choice or just plain color. Status bar symbol  option allows you to decide whether you want to display alarm icon in notification bar of your phone. You can find more options on this screen when you scroll down.

AlarmDroid - More display settings

Here you can choose to hide Stop or Snooze button. Similar to display settings there are quite a few "Sound settings" which are shown in screenshot below.

AlarmDroid - Sound settings

With sound settings screen you can choose to lock volume button, allow volume adjustment by volume button or play random track from playlist as your alarm sound. You would find more such controls if you scroll down the screen.

AlarmDroid - More sound settings

With more sound settings you can decide whether you would like to use default music volume for your alarm or want to set specific volume level. Similar to display and sound settings there are plenty of Control settings and are shown in screenshot below.

AlarmDroid - Control settings

You can see in screenshot above there are many wonderful settings here to customize the app behavior the way you like. You can choose what can happen on phone flip, shake, on pressing power button or on proximity to device. These are great features which many Android lovers would enjoy. Sensor sensitivity is again a great feature to fine tune the sensitivity of AlarmDroid app with Flip, Shake and Proximity. You would find more control settings if you scroll down this screen.

AlarmDroid - More control settings

Similar to control settings, Advanced settings also has quite a few options to choose from and it is shown in screenshot below.

AlarmDroid - Advanced settings

With advanced settings you have the option to control the behavior of AlarmDroid app with respect to Airplane mode, Wifi, Language, Crash report and Audio Stream.

Apart from all these menus and option described so far there are few more which can be of your interest. When you long press the alarm entries in alarm list screen it invokes a context menu for more actions.

AlarmDroid - Context Menu

Here you can change the settings of the already created alarms, you can delete unwanted alarms and skip the alarm event. One interesting feature you can see here is ability to create alarms with date and time. This could be very useful when you want to set alarms for future dates or want to set alarm as reminder.

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This brings us to end of the third of best three Alarm Clock apps for Android. You can download AlarmDroid from Android Market for free and start waking up on time from tomorrow. I would be writing about more such exciting and wonderful best apps for Android phone. Keep checking back here for reading about more exciting and wonderful Android apps.

Three Best Alarm Clock Apps For Android : App 2 - Alarm Clock Xtreme Free

In last post I talked about Alarm Clock++, a wonderful and simple to use Alarm Clock app for Android. You must have downloaded it and waking up on time now. In case you are visiting this post directly and have missed earlier posts then you may like to read those from blog archive or you can read last post here: Alarm Clock++. Today I am presenting the second of the best Alarm Clock apps for Android from this series of  three best Alarm Clock apps for Android.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free : This is second Alarm Clock app for Android from this series of three. This one is feature packed and if you are looking for any specific feature in Alarm Clock app then probably you would find it in this app. It has very nifty features like snoozing on phone shake, snoozing after predefined time, decreasing snooze duration after every snooze and so on.  It is well designed to wake you up without fail and with as gently or harshly as you like. As name suggests it is absolutely free.

When you start the Alarm Clock Xtreme Free it starts with screen which displays the important messages and change logs informing the improvements done in the app.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free

You have choice to not launch this screen when you run this app again. For achieving that select the "Don't show on start" check box which is shown in screenshot above. When you close this screen, you can see the next screen of the app.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Alarm List

As shown in screenshot above you can see the current time and already added alarms. The check box at right of each alarm tells you if it is active or disable at the moment. In above case all are disabled. You can see there are three buttons at the bottom of the screen, using which you can perform all the operations you are interested in, with this app. Tap the "Add alarm" button and you would be presented with "Set Alarm" screen.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Set alarm

"Set alarm" screen provides all the settings you would need to decide how your alarm should function. You can set time, repeat the alarm on week days, name the alarm using labeling it and choose if your phone should vibrate. "Sound type" setting of "Alarm Clock Xtreme Free" allows you to choose from various options like Silent, Ringtone, Music, Random Songs by Artist and Random Songs by Playlist. You can listen to different music when you wakeup every morning by using random feature of this app.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - More Set alarm

You can scroll down to "Set alarm" screen and see more options as shown in above screenshot. Snooze method setting provides you options from "Press on screen button", "Press side buttons", "Shake phone", "Solve math problems", "No snooze". Similarly dismiss setting provides choices from "Press on screen button", "Shake phone", "Solve math problems", "Travel at minimum speed (uses GPS)" and "Place in car dock".

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Advanced settings

If you are looking for more ways to control the behavior of your alarms then go and tap the Advanced settings and you would find more ways to do that. Advanced settings are displayed in above screenshot. If you scroll down on this screen then would find more settings as displayed in screenshot below.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - More advanced settings

Advanced settings screen provides wonderful features like Auto Snooze, Auto Dismiss, Decrease snooze duration and Increase share duration.

One of the interesting features of Alarm Clock Xtreme Free is "Nap timer". You can set up a Nap timer from the second most screen from top which is shown in this post. This could be very useful when you want to take a quick nap and want your Android phone to wake you up on time.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Nap timer

If you notice the "Settings" button in the Nap timer screen above, you can use it to define the settings of the alarm for Nap timer. Most of the settings for Nap timer are similar to those for normal alarm except one setting, "Keep screen on". Using this setting you could keep the screen ON during count down of Nap timer.

So that was second Alarm Clock for Android phone from the series of three best alarm clocks for Android.  You can download Alarm Clock Xtreme Free from Android Market for free and start waking up on time and as gently or harshly as you like. In case you are from the people who prefer to use tangible products instead of software for Alarm Clock then check out this Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone.

Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone

Next time I would bring to you the third of the best alarm clock apps for Android phone. Keep checking frequently or subscribe to RSS feed so that you do not miss the posts you like to read. Bye for now, keep visiting us.