Contacts App For Android - With Themes, Backup & Recovery, Sync And Contact Management Features

This is one of the best and free Contacts Apps for your Android mobile phone. It comes with very cool user interface and plenty of useful features that you may be looking for in Android Contacts App. You can change the default theme of this app and alter the the look & feel so as to match with your persona. It comes with fancy 3D transition effects for swiping screens from one to another.

This is second Android Contacts App that is presented here. If you have not read about the first one then you can read it at : Android Contacts App - With Manage, Search, Sort, Sync, Groups, Speed Dial, Ringtone, Events and More Features

Android Contacts App - Go Contacts Ex : This cool android app comes with many contact management features including contacts backup and recovery.  It comes with very cool Dialpad for dialing numbers form your contact list and your call history. Once you try this app then you may not go back to older contacts app you were using on your Android mobile phone.

Android Contacts App - Contacts List : When you install this app on your Android phone and launch it first time them you would see the contacts list screen. On this screen, pressing the menu button of your Android phone would display the menus of this app as shown in screenshot below.

Android Contacts App - Menu

As shown in above screenshot there are menu useful features which can be accessed through these menus. Apart from these menus you can also long press the item from contacts list to display context menu with quick and handy features like "Call", "Edit before call", "Send SMS", "Send contact by SMS", "Add to favorites", "View Contact", "Edit Contact" and "Delete Contact".

Notice the search box at the top of the screen just below the title bar. You can type here the contact name that you want to search. It starts showing you the matching contacts as soon as you start typing in this search box.

Android Contacts App - Creating New Contact : You can either tap the "+" button at top right hand corner of the screen shown above or tap the "New Contact" menu shown in screenshot above. This would first prompt you to select from the list of accounts including "Phone". Select "Phone" to create phone contact and it would display the new contact screen.

Android Contacts App - New Contact

You can enter all contact information for your new contact using this screen. Tap the photo icon to take a snap or select the photo from android Gallery.

Tap the down arrow button at the right of "Given name" text box to see and make other contact entries related to name.

Tap "+" and "-" icons at the right hand side to add or remove additional phone entries.

Tap the drop down button at the left of phone or email text box  to select the type of phone number or email id.

Other information that you can enter here for the contact being created is "Postal address", "Organisation", "Groups" and "Ringtones". Once all the required information of the contact is entered then tap "Done" to create that contact.

Android Contacts App - Themes : Tap "Themes" menu and it displays the themes screen as shown below.

Android Contacts App - Themes

There are two tabs on this screen. "My Themes" tab displays the themes which are already downloaded and available. "More Themes" tab displays additional themes which can be downloaded.

Tap the theme you want to apply from the list of themes from  "My Themes" tab. This would apply the new theme to change the look & feel accordingly.

Android Contacts App - Contacts Backup & Recovery, Export & Import :   This app comes with a very handy and useful feature where you can take the backup of your contacts. You can restore contacts from backup when required. Especially when contacts get deleted for some reason or when phone is lost. Tap the "Im - Export" menu to launch the "Import - Export" dialog box as shown in screenshot below.

Android Contacts App - Import/Export contacts

Select "Export to SD card" for taking the backup of the contacts and it would prompt you for confirmation with the name of the backup file. On confirmation, contacts are backed up to the SD card.

For restoring the contacts from backup file tap "Import from SD card" option and select the backup file from your SD card. This would restore the contacts from that backup file.

Android Contacts App - Contact Accounts and Sync : Tap "Contact Acc..." menu to display the "Contact Account" screen as shown below.

Android Contacts App - Contacts Account

Using this screen you can choose accounts from which contacts should be displayed in this app. You can choose to display and sync the contacts from "Phone", "Google", "SIM", "Facebook" and "Twitter". Mark the check box "Show contacts with phone numbers only" to hide the contacts which do not have phone number.

Android Contacts App - Dialpad : This app has a toolbar at the bottom of the screen. The left button on this toolbar is "Dialpad". Tap this button to display the Dialpad screen of this app.

Android Contacts App - Dialpad

You can see the call history on this screen. Typing the number directly starts filtering the contacts and matching numbers are displayed. Once the number is entered then tap "Call" button to dial that number.

This app comes with cool 3D transition effects. Swipe the app screen horizontally and you would be able to switch from once screen to another with 3D cube transition effect.

Download this app and it's themes from Android market or app store of your choice and start enjoying this cool app from today.

As mentioned earlier in this post, this is second Android Contacts App that is presented. Read about the first app at : Android Contacts App - With Manage, Search, Sort, Sync, Groups, Speed Dial, Ringtone, Events and More Features

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Android Messenger - For Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, Skype, AOL And More

This Android live messenger is one stop instant messaging app for Skype, MSN (Live Messenger), Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL / AIM, VKontakte, Yandex IM, Jabber and Myspace. With this app installed on your Android phone, you can quickly connect to all your different messenger accounts in one go. You can see all your online and offline contacts in one single screen and chat with all live contacts using common interface.

IM+ : This is one of the best messenger apps for Android. It has all the wonderful features which you would like to have in messenger app. It has very useful features like custom message templates, emoticons and custom messenger status. It connects to various messenger accounts very fast and you can experience the instant messaging at lightening speed.

Android Messenger Accounts : When you launch this Android IM+ app for the first time then go to Accounts tab to set your messenger accounts.

Android Messenger - Accounts

As shown in screenshot above, you can see all the accounts here that you have added to your messenger app.    It displays your account id and small icons at right of each account id to indicate what type of messenger account it is. Above screenshot is displaying three accounts, MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk. You can tap the individual account id to connect to that account or simply tap "Connect All" button to connect all the accounts you have added. Similarly you can tap the already connected account name to disconnect it or you can simply tap "Disconnect All" button to disconnect all the accounts you have connected.

Add Messenger Account : You can either tap the button with "+" (plus) sign shown in screenshot above or can press the menu button of your phone and tap "Add Account" menu, to add new messenger account to this app.

Android Messenger - Add Account

You will see the list of messenger services that are supported by this instant messenger app. Tap one of the messenger service and follow the instructions on the screen to add your account for that service. As you can see in screenshot above, it supports Skype, MSN or Windows Live Messenger (WLM) , Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL / AIM, VKontakte, Yandex IM, Jabber and Myspace messenger services. Add as many accounts as you have. You have to do this only first time and once you perform account configuration then connecting to those services is just one button tap.

Android Messenger Contacts : Once you connect to your configured messenger services then you are automatically switched to contacts screen. You can also tap "Contacts" tab from accounts screen whenever you would like to see the contacts screen.

Android Messenger - Contacts

Here you can see all your contacts from different messenger services at one single screen. You can see the name of the contacts, their status and icon at the right indicating their messenger service. You can see that just below the tab bar is a messenger status bar. Status bar in screenshot above has a text "On Android with IM+". This is your current messenger status. You can tap the status bar to change your messenger status to predefined status from "Online", "Away", "Do Not Disturb", "I am here", "Invisible", "Offline" or "On Android with IM+". You can edit the predefined status messages or add new one to suit your need.

Android Messenger Live Chat : You can tap any of the contacts from your contact list to start chatting with them.

Android Messenger - Live Chat

You can start instant messaging by typing the message you want and tapping the small enter key button at right hand side of the message text box. If you tap the smiley icon at left hand side of the message text box then it displays a dialog with different emoticons which you can use in chatting to express your emotions. Your current conversation is displayed in this screen with time stamp at right of each message.

Instant Message Templates : When you are at live chatting screen then you can press the menu button of your Android phone to display the menu. From this menu tap the "Templates" menu to display the list of message templates.

Android Messenger - Message Templates

There are many predefined messages templates in the list which are suitable for different occasions. These message templates can be really time savers. You can also create your custom message templates by tapping "Create New Template" button. This would allow you to add new message templates which you use very frequently with your friends and relatives.

You can install this wonderful and cool Android live messenger on your phone from Android market or app store of your choice. If you enjoyed reading about this app then you may would like to check out few more apps from popular posts section. Keep coming back to read about more such exciting and best apps for Android.

Ten Best Apps For Android : App 4 - Facebook for Android

In last three posts I have covered three of the best apps for Android from series of tens and those were Google Maps for Android , Angry Birds for Android.and GMail for Android If you have not read those post and would like to read it now then you can read those from quick links provided in last line. In this post I am going to cover the forth of the best apps for Android and it is Facebook for Android as mentioned in title. 

Facebook for Android : This is official Facebook app for Android. Facebook for Android makes it easy to stay connected with friends and share day to day information with them, no mater where we are and what we are doing.

Facebook Login Screen

It starts with end user license agreement and once agreed you reach to login screen. Enter your email and password if you already have a Facebook account or you can Sign up for a account tapping green Sign up button shown in screen shot above.

Once you logged into your Facebook for Android then all you Facebook activities are at your finger tips. Share status updates from your home screen, chat with your friends, check out your News Feed, review your upcoming Events, look at your friends’ walls and user info, check in to Places to get Deals, upload Photos, share links, check your Messages, and watch videos.

So that was the fourth of best apps for Android I was talking in this series of ten. Like any other app you can download Facebook app also from Android Market and start using it. Next time I am coming with fifth of the  ten best apps for Android, so keep tuned in and take care.