Android SMS App - With SMS Backup, Search, Quick Text, Widget, Scheduler and Batch Operations

This is one of the best and free Android-SMS app in market which has many wonderful features to serve your each need. You name it and most probably you would find that feature in this app. With this Android SMS app, you can send exciting SMS with smileys, pictures, quick texts, videos and much more. It allows you to quickly take the SMS backup on your SD card and you can restore the backup when required. You can schedule when to send SMS. You can search SMS with specific text. Best part is, it comes with nice widget.

A fastest SMS app - Pansi SMS : As the name suggest, it is really one of the fastest Android SMS app I have seen. There are many useful features in this Android SMS manager which we are going to explore soon. One of the interesting and useful features of this Android app is SMS popup. With this app installed on your Android phone, receiving and sending SMS would be fun. When you launch this app first time, it guides you with very simple and easy to use setup wizard.

Android-SMS - Setup Wizard

There are four steps in this setup wizard and it is very easy to follow. But I want to mention here one important point from fourth step, notification settings. Here you can disable other message notifications in message bar. This will ensure that you do not see multiple notifications in message bar for received SMS. After completing the setup wizard you would see the SMS conversations list.

Android-SMS - Message Conversations List

You can see the SMS message list given in screenshot above. When you swipe this view horizontally then this view changes to message box view. Swiping message box view horizontally takes you back to message conversation view. When you tap the icon at top right hand corner of this screen then it opens up a search box. You can type the required search text in that box and search for a SMS you are looking for. When you tap the icon at top left corner of the screen then it launches a screen for composing a new SMS.

Android-SMS - Quick Text

Above screenshot shows the compose new SMS screen. You can tap the icon at top right corner to select the contacts to whom you want to send SMS from your Android phone. When you tap the icon at left of the message box then it shows / hide tab view with various wonderful features shown above. One of the important  features to note here is "Insert quick text". Using this feature you can send predefined SMS messages quickly.

Android-SMS - General Menus

From SMS message list screen, when you press menu button of your Android phone then it displays the General Menus. Using the features available in general menus you can send scheduled SMS. You can quickly see unread, undelivered and draft SMS. You can switch to batch mode to delete multiple SMS quickly. "Message box" menu change the view from list to message box. Tap the "Settings" tab to see other interesting menus.

Android-SMS - Settings Menus

When you tap the "Settings" menu from above shown tab then it launches settings screen with lots of choices to fine tune the behaviors and look & feel of your Android-SMS app. "Notification" menu allows to change settings related to SMS notification. There is one more notification settings screen which you can launch from  advanced settings option. You can change the android sms notification sound using this settings. If you want to download android sms tones then read the post : Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers.  "Theme" menu allows to change the theme of Android-SMS app. "Quick text" menu helps to manage the quick text that you want to add in your SMS messages quickly. Tap "Tools" tab to see the tools menus as shown in screenshot below.

Android-SMS - Tools Menus

Here you can take the SMS backup by tapping "SMS backup and recovery" menu. Android SMS backup feature of this app is one of the fastest. You can use the same menu to restore SMS from previously taken backup.

This app comes with very elegant Android SMS widget which you can put on home screen of your phone. The screenshot of the widget is shown in screenshot below.

Android-SMS - Android SMS Widget

Tap left most icon on toolbar at the bottom of the widget to start composing new SMS message. Tap left or right arrow icon to see previous or next message. Tap the right most icon to change the settings of this Android SMS widget.

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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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