Android Units Converter - Convert Currency, Temperature, Time, Angle, Area and Many More Unit Categories

This is one of the best Android unit conversion apps which can convert from currency to cooking units. You name the unit category and most probably you would find it in this app. This app works in offline mode and needs connection only when you want to sync currency rates. It allows you to define your own units and you can extend the app to suit your need.

Android Unit Converter - ConverPad : With this app on your Android phone, you don't need to look for separate app for currency conversion and you don't need to use calculator for converting units with effort. Just tap the ConvertPad and within seconds you would be able to do the unit conversions, be it Temperature, Time, Angle, Area, Length, Distance or any other unit you may need. Being a Android app you can do these conversions anywhere and anytime you need it.

Android Unit Converter - Introduction : When you launch the ConvertPad, you would be taken to the unit conversion screen with the last category and unit you had selected.

Android Temperature Converter

As you can see in screenshot above, it is very simple and intuitive. This screen is displaying the temperature conversions. You can tap the value to change it to any temperature value for which you want the conversion. Currently the source unit is degree Celsius. Tap the unit to change it to any other temperature unit you want.

You can see in screenshot that given 18 degrees Celsius temperature is converted to Fahrenheit, Rankine, Kelvin or Reaumur. You must have understood now, how handy and useful this app is.

Android Unit Converter - Unit Categories : You can tap the category displayed under "Category Selection" title to select any other category for units. This would display the popup with the list of categories to choose from.

Android Unit Conversion Categories

This is a big list. You can select from Acceleration, Acceleration - Angular, Angle, Area, Astronomical, Charge, Concentration - Molar, Concentration - Solution, Cooking, Currency Exchange Rate, Current, Data Storage, Density, Efficiency - HVAC, Electric Capacitance, Electric Conductance, Electric Conductivity, Electric Field Strength, Electric Potential, Electric Resistance, Electric Resistivity, Energy / Work, Energy Flux, Enthalpy, Entropy, Flow - Mass, Flow - Molar, Flow - Volume, Force, Frequency - Wavelength, Fuel Consumption, Fuel Efficiency - Mass, Fuel Efficiency - Volume, Gas Constant, Heat Capacity, Heat Density, Heat Flow Rate, Heat Flux Density, Heat Rate, Heat Transfer Coefficient, Henry's Law, Illumination, Image Resolution, Inductance, Length / Distance, Linear Charge Density, Lumber - Volume, Luminance, Luminous Intensity, Magnetic Field Strength, Magnetic Flux, Magnetic Flux Density, Magnetomative Force, Moment of Force, Moment of Inertia, Permeability, Power, Power Density, Prefixes, Pressure, Radiation, Radiation Absorbed Dose, Radiation Activity, Radiation Exposure, Sound, Specific Heat, Specific Power, Specific Volume, Surface Charge Density, Surface Current Density, Surface Tension, Temperature, Temperature Interval, Temperature Conductivity, Thermal Expansion, Thermal Resistance, Time, Torque, Typography, Velocity, Velocity - Angular, Viscosity - Dynamic, Viscosity - Kinematic, Volume - Dry, Volume / Capacity, Volume Charge Density and Weight / Mass.

Now you may have understood why I am saying that there is a big list of unit categories supported by this Android Unit Conversion app.

Android Unit Converter - Unit Selection : You can tap the unit displayed under "Unit Selection" title to select any other unit from list of available units. This would display the popup with the list of units to choose from.

Android Unit Converter - Unit Selection

As you can see in screenshot above, the popup displays the available units from the selected category. In above case, units for Angle Conversion are displayed. Here you can choose from different Angle measurement units namely degree, radian, grad, gon, minute, second, sign, mil, revolution, circle, turn, quadrant, right angle and sextant.

Tap the unit you want to select from, say "degree". This would select degree as source unit and it would convert entered value into other units in same unit category.

Android Angle Converter

You can modify the value by tapping the number displayed below "Value" title. In above case, 45 degree angle is converted into various other angle measurement units. You can quickly know that 45 degree is equal to .785 radian or 2700 minute or 162000 second.

Android Currency Converter : This unit conversion app comes with handy currency conversion feature as well. Tap the category to select "Currency Exchange Rate" and you can start using it for currency conversion.

Android Currency Conversion

Process for using it for currency conversion is very much the same. Tap the source currency below "Unit Selection" and select the currency from the list of available currencies namely, USD U.S. Dollar, Eur European Euro, AED UAE Dirham, AFN Afgan Afghani, ALL Albanian Lek, AMD Armenian Dram, ANG Neth Antillies G, AOA Angolan Kwanza, ARS Argentina Peso, AUD Australian Dollar, AWG Aruban Florin, AZN Azerbaijani Manat, BAM Bosnian Conv Mark, BBD Barbadian Dollar, BBT Bangladeshi Taka,  BGN Bulgarian Lev and many more. There are more than 160 currencies to choose from.

Android Currency Converter Settings : This Android Converter app allows you to customize many of its features to suit your need. Press the menu button on your Android phone to display the app menu and select settings menu. This would display the settings screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Unit Converter Settings

First section of the settings screen is related to Language settings. Here you can select primary and secondary language for the app.

Next section is related to Layout settings. Here you can select text size, color and alignment.

Nest section is related to Sequence settings. Here you can select if Categories and Units should be listed in alphabetical order or by Characteristic order.

Next section is for Currency Exchange Rate. Here you can decide which currency exchange service to use, whether to display the country flag image and how frequently to updated currency exchange rates.

Next section allows you to take the backup to SD Card and restore from SD Card.

You can download this app from Android Market or Android App Store of your choice. Install this app on your Android phone and all unit conversions would be at your finger tips.

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Android File Manager - Browse, Copy, Delete, Zip, View Files And Directories

Android phones come with default File Manager but for pro users it is not sufficient. If you are used to desktop computer's file manager then you would naturally look for something equally powerful. Here you would get to learn about one of the powerful and user friendly Android File Managers.

ASTRO - An Android File Manager : This is one of the best file managers around. You can try a free version of it by downloading it from Android Marker or App store of your choice right away. It is powerful and at the same time simple to use. It comes with many features which you would need or must to have. When you launch ASTRO first time it will ask you to accept the licence terms and once accepted you can start using it.

Android File Manager Home : When you start it first time and after accepting license terms you would see the home folder contents.

Android File Manager - Home

The default home folder / directory is "/sdcard" but you are free to change the home folder by going to preferences and setting it to folder of your choice.

Notice the small up-arrow at right hand top corner of the screen. You can tap this arrow to show or hide the main toolbar that is displayed at top. You can see that there are left and right arrows at side of the toolbar. This indicates that you can drag the toolbar to scroll it to see more toolbar buttons.

Just tap the "Home" button at any time to come back to home folder. "Up" button is to go one level up in the directory hierarchy. Tap any of the folders displayed below the toolbar to browse the contents of that folder. If you tap any of the files then this Android File Manager opens that file for viewing using the app associated with that file type.

Android File Manager - Multi Selection : If you tap the third button on the main toolbar, that is "Multi" then File Manager goes into multi-selection mode.

Android File Manager - Multi-Selection

You can notice that the toolbar changes in multi-selection mode. It provides the actions that you can perform with multiple selections of files or folders. For selecting the multiple folders for performing operations on, just tap those folders one by one. For example, in above screenshot "documents" and "download" are selected by tapping those folders one after another. You can perform batch operations on selected folders like copy, move, delete or zip. Tap "Cancel" button at left of the toolbar to exit from the "multi" mode.

Android File Manager - Search : When you tap the "Search" button on main toolbar then you would see the search screen of Android File Manager with wide range of search criteria.

Android File Manager - Search

As you can see in screenshot above, you can search the files by name and by text contained in files. You can select the directory name to search. You can define if directories should also be searched by checking ON "Include directory names'. You can also decide if sub directories should also be searched and search should be performed in case insensitive way.

If you scroll the search screen then you would find more search criteria like "Name does not contain", "size greater than" or "size less than" certain kilobytes, "Older than" and "Newer than" specified days. With these many powerful search options you can quickly search the file or folder that you are looking for.

Android File Manager - Sort : You can tap the "Sort" button on main toolbar to sort the folders and files as you want.

Android File Manager - Sort By

As shown in screenshot above, you can sort the files and folders by "Name", "Date", "Size" and "Type" by selecting the appropriate radio button. You can tap the "Ascending" or "Descending" button to decide the order of sorting.

Android File Manager - Grid or List View : When you tap the "View" button on main toolbar then it will display the popup screen with various choices as shown in screenshot below.

Android File Manager - Views

Here you can choose either "List" or "Icons" to display the folders in List or Grid view. You can additionally tap "Set Directory Options" button to select from options "Show Thumbnails", "Show File Details", "Hide File Extensions", "Show Hidden Files" and "List Directories First".

Android File Manager - Tools : This Android File Manager comes with additional useful and powerful tools. You can press the menu button of your Android phone to display the menus. Then tap "Tools" menu to display the following popup screen.

Android File Manager - Tools

As displayed in the popup menu, there are three tools which you can launch from here - "Application Manager/Backup", "SD Card Usage", "Process Manager".

With Application Manager/Backup tool you can manage the apps installed on your Android phone. You can uninstall unwanted apps or take the backup of apps so that you can install them again when required.

Using SD Card Usage tool you can quickly inspect how much storage space of your SD Card is consumed by which folder.

You can use the Process Manager to check which different types of processes are running on your Android phone. You can kill the running processes that you don't want using Process Manager.

So go to Android Market and get this powerful Android File Manager. After you install this file manager on your Android phone then you would find house keeping of your phone's storage space is very easy task.

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