Best Android Movie App - With Player, Trailers, Showtimes, Tickets, Synopsis and News

There are very few Android Movie apps in Android market which list and play good quality videos of movies. There are plenty of apps which are just redirecting to web sites. Finding a good Android movie app is really a challenge and this is one of the best which is found after trying many available apps. It comes with many features like Synopsis, Showtimes, Tickets, News, Trailers and more.

Moviefone : This is one of the best movie app you can find in Android market. Some people call it Android film app. Using this App you can see the list of old and upcoming movies, search for a specific movie you are looking for, can read the synopsis of the story, can find the cinema halls around you to buy the tickets, can play the good quality movie trailers with it's Android movie player, can read news about movies and much more. This one app has many features which you may be looking for in good Android movie app. When you start this app you see the list of movies (films) which are available.

Android Movies - List of Movies

As you can see in screenshot above, Cars 2, Gone with the wind, Zookeeper, Mr Popper's Penguins and Buck,  movies are listed. You swipe the list vertically to scroll the list and see more available movies to watch. When you tap the movie name it takes you to the synopsis screen.

Android Movies - Synopsis of Story

The above screenshot is showing the Synopsis screen with information of "Kung Fu Panda 2". You can read the brief story of the movie on this page. You can use the Facebook and Share buttons on this screen to tell about this movie to your social network. Tapping the "Showtimes & Tickets" button would take you to the screen where you can find nearby cinema halls where you can book the tickets to watch this movie. You can tap "Play Trailer" button to start playing trailer of this movie with it's Android movie player.

Android Movies - Bad Teacher Trailer

In screenshot above, you can see that quality of the video is very good with this app. This is medium video quality and still the sharpness of picture is too good. You can change the quality using player's user controls. Tap the screen any time to see the user controls of this Android movie player.

Android Movies - Player Controls

You can tap play / pause button to stop playing / resuming the movie video at any point of time. At right hand side of the user control bar the button with word "Medium" is displaying the current video quality selected. You can tap this button to choose the video quality from "Low', "Medium" and "High". Choose the appropriate video quality to suit your network speed.

Android Movies - List of Trailers

You can tap the "Trailers" tab as shown in screenshot above when you want to just see the list of trailers available to view.

Android Movies - News

Similarly you can tap the "News" tab as shown in screenshot above and can see the list of latest news related to movies. Tap the news which you want to read in detail and to check out related pictures and videos.

Android Movies - Settings

When you press the menu button on your Android phone then you can see the settings menus of this app. You can tap "Sort Movie" menu to sort the movie list "By Release Date", "By MPAA Ratings" or "Alphabetically". Tapping the "Search" menu provides a search box where you can type the words to search a movies quickly. Edit location menu allows you to select your location either by typing postal code or using GPS. This location is used to show the list of movies and theaters near by. Settings menu allows you to setup your facebook login credentials.

You can download this best Android film app from Android market of your choice and start enjoying great movies from today. If you like this app then you may would like to check few more wonderful apps from popular sections at the right. Subscribe to RSS feed and keep coming back for more best apps for Android.

You may would like to check few more movies or films apps for Android from Amazon which are listed below : Free Movie Rentals , Movies You Demand and Fandango Movies - Times & Tickets .

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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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Best Android Radio App - With Over 50000 Free Online Internet Radio Stations

In last post I talked about wonderful app for playing and enjoying Android music. If you have not read it yet then you can find it at : Best Android Music Player - App with Themes, Equalizer, Album Art and Lyrics

In this post I am going to talk about another music and Android streaming audio source app, one of the best Android Radio which you can download and enjoy for free. This first of the radio apps I posted here about. You can read about second radio app at : Radio App For Android - Listen Music You Love Anywhere And Anytime

TuneIn Radio App : This is one of the popular and cool Android Radio apps. It has list of over 50000 free FM, AM, ham radio and online internet radio stations from different countries and in different languages. User interface of the app is simple and effective. Being a internet radio app what it needs is only internet connectivity. Unlike default Android radio, it does not need head phone to be plugged in to act as antenna. Another best part is you can listen to your favorite radio station from any part of the world. When you start the TuneIn radio it displays the categories of radio stations as shown in image below.

Android Radio - TuneIn

As you see in android radio image shown above, radio stations are categorized in very useful categories namely Local Radio, Music, Talk, Sports, By Location, By Language and Podcasts. If you tap one of the categories say Music then app would display the next screen with sub categories as shown below.

Android Radio - Music Stations

As shown in image above radio stations are further categorized by type of music namely Adult Contemp, Alt.Rock, Best Bets, Children's, Classic Rock, Classical, Country and so on. Tapping any of these sub categories displays the list of radio stations in that category. For example if you tap Classical then it would display screen with following radio stations list.

Android Radio - Classical Music Stations

Above image of android radio app is displaying all the classical music stations available with TuneIn online internet radio. You can tap any of the radio station from the list to display following screen and start playing it.

Android Radio - WETA station

Screenshot above is showing the WETA radio station being played with TuneIn Android radio app. Immediately below the title bar of the app is displayed the name of the radio station, WETA in above case. Below the station name is displayed the remaining duration of current streaming audio content from this radio station. Progress bar shows the same information visually. Below the progress bar is "Add to Presets" button. You can tap this button to add the given radio station to presets list. Presets is equivalent to favorite option that we see in other apps. At bottom of the screen is buffering status of the radio stream and at right is a button which you can tap to stop playing this station.

The Radio stations list displayed in previous to previous screenshot can be scrolled down to find more stations. At the end of the list a "More Stations" item is displayed as shown in image below.

Android Radio - More Stations

This "More Stations" item is very useful feature. App displays only small list of stations from huge list and provides this option to tap for showing more entries. This improves the response time of the app drastically. App also displays the Shows just below the "More Stations" option entry. Scrolling down further on this screens provides few more useful choices as shown in image below.

Android Radio - Most Popular Stations

As shown in above image, Explore Classical section is displayed at the end of the screen. This would vary depending on type of sub category you select. Here there are two useful choices, "Most Popular" and "By Location". You can further filter the Classical Music Radio stations by tapping "By Location" option to display the screen as shown below.

Android Radio - Stations By Locations

As you can see it allows you to filter the selected radio station category by locations like Africa, Asia,Australasia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Europe, North America, South America and so on. Tap one of the areas to go on filtering the stations for specific region and you can find the stations of your interests as shown in example below.

Android Radio - Classical Music Stations in US

Above screenshot shows the classical music radio stations filtered to display only from US. This way you can find the radio station of your interest. Once found add it to presets so that you can find it quickly next time. All the stations you add to presets can be seen quickly by tapping "My Presets" tab at just below the title and top of the screen. This displays the presets screen as shown below.

Android Radio - My Presets

Stations displayed at My Presets tab can vary depending on which stations you have already added to presets. This list can be empty if you have not yet added any radio station to presets. It is possible to store all your presets stations at TuneIn server so that you can access it from any other device. For this you need to register for TuneIn account and use the account credentials with radio app. For entering the account credentials press the menu button of your Android phone and tap the settings menu. It would display the TuneIn settings screen as shown below.

Android Radio - TuneIn Settings

The first option in settings screens above if tapped allows you to enter the TuneIn account credentials. One more important and useful feature of this app is search. You can find a magnifying glass icon at top right corner of the screen. You can tap this icon to start searching for a Radio station you are looking for. You can perform the search by Artist, Album and Song also to find the radio station that is playing it. Isn't it wonderful?

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You can download apk of this app from your favorite Android market or store. Like other apps you can get update of the latest version of this Android radio app for free. Download and start using this free and wonderful Android radio app today.

As mentioned earlier, this first of the radio apps I posted here and you can read about second radio app at : Radio App For Android - Listen Music You Love Anywhere And Anytime

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