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 .

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

If you like this post then you may want to read few more interesting posts about best and exciting Android apps in popular posts section at right. Keep checking back for more best apps for Android.

Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Best Wallpapers app

In last post I talked about how you can quickly replace the default android home screen and theme with fancy iPhone look alike theme. But you must have noticed that free themes comes with limited wallpapers and you may not like the ones which are there in the theme. This can be taken care by downloading cool and free wallpapers for your android using wallpaper apps. These free wallpapers can be used with your HTC, Samsung, Motorola or any other Android phone.

There are two kinds of wallpapers for Android, Image Background Wallpapers and Live Wallpapers. Image backgrounds are the traditional wallpapers which we know and "live wallpapers" are the new type of wallpapers which comes with animation effect and are interactive. I am going to cover traditional wallpapers in this post and I may talk about live wallpapers in some future posts but you can find and download cool live wallpapers from Android market today.

I am covering three of the coolest apps for free Android wallpapers in this series of posts. In this post I am talking about the first coolest wallpapers app and remaining two apps in coming posts.

Best Wallpapers : This is the first coolest app for Android which I am covering in this series of three. Best Wallpapers app is simple and provides collection of beautiful and cool wallpapers. It provides all the necessary basic features which you may need when it comes to searching, downloading and setting wallpaper for your Android. For searching this cool app in Android market use keywords "best wallpapers" and you should be able to find it. When you tap the app from the list then you would see its information as given in screenshot below.

Best Wallpapers in Android Market

As you can see the title of the application displayed in Android market info is "Best Wallpapers & Backgrounds". Install this app on your phone and you are ready to go. Once installed, tap its icon to launch it and you would see its first screen as shown below.

Best Wallpapers - Main Screen

On its main screen it displays the recently popular wallpapers. You can see more wallpapers of this category by tapping "Next" button. You can always come back to see previous wallpapers by tapping "Prev" button. This is just one of the categories of wallpapers and you can tap "Categories" button to see the list of Categories as shown in screenshot below.

Best Wallpapers - Categories

As you can see there are many different categories of wallpapers like Cars, Nature, Babes, Winter, Space, Drops, Animals, Flowers, Mountains etc. These category menus allow you to find the wallpapers in those category. For example, the screenshot below displays the cool wallpapers of beautiful flowers.

Best Wallpapers - Flowers

You can see how beautiful these wallpapers are. You can see more flowers by tapping "Next" button at bottom right of the app. Tap the wallpaper you like and it would we enlarged as shown in screenshot below.

Best Wallpapers - Enlarged

Here you have two buttons. "Set Wallpaper" button as it's name indicates allows you to set the selected image as your Android phone's wallpaper. But in case if you do not like to set the wallpaper right away even if you liked it because you still want to explore more then you can put it in your favorite list by tapping "Favorite" button. You can see your favorite wallpapers by tapping "Favorites" button from main screen of the app. This would display the list of favorite wallpapers as shown below.

Best Wallpapers - Favorite List

From main screen you can tap a search icon to find wallpapers which are not listed in predefined categories menu of the app. For example, you can search for "iPhone" to find the wallpapers of iPhone. This can be very useful if you have already applied iPhone theme using "Adw Launcher" as I explained in my previous post and looking for more cool iPhone wallpapers. If you have not read that post then you can read it here - How-to apply iPhone theme to Google Android mobile phone using ADW Launcher. Following screenshots shows the the search result of iPhone wallpapers.

Best Wallpapers - iPhone Wallpapers

You can see some cool iPhone wallpaper in this search result and you can see more by tapping "Next" button. You can use these iPhone wallpapers along with iPhone ADW theme and can achieve more close iPhone lookalike theme for your Android phone.

Best Wallpapers app provides few settings to fine tune its behavior. Press the menu button of your phone and tap the "Preferences" menu to see the settings as given below.

Best Wallpapers - Settings

"Filter Adult" is specially useful setting and when checked, it filters the adult images and displays the other non -adult wallpapers. "Add to favorites" setting when checked, keeps adding the wallpapers to your favorite when you set those on your phone.

So this brings us to end of this post about first of the coolest three wallpaper apps for your Google Android phone be it HTC, Samsung, Motorola or any other Android phone in market. Don't download app .apk file from untrusted sources. Instead you can download Best Wallpapers app from android market or any of your trusted source and then download cool android wallpapers using the app. In coming posts I would be covering two more such cool apps and you would enjoy those as much as you enjoyed this one. Keep checking back for more coolest Android apps.

Android Home Screen Replacement - Using Free ADW Launcher and iPhone Themes

You can quickly replace the default android home screen and theme with fancy theme like iPhone look alike theme. You can do this Android home replacement with a free app called ADW.Launcher. But doing Android home replacement using ADW.Launcher is bit tricky for normal phone users and I am going to teach you how-to get up and running with ADW.Launcher in no time.

Download And Install ADW Launcher From Android Market : You can download the ADW Launcher .apk file from many sources on net but I would suggest you to download app apk from your trusted sources only. Similarly you may find many ADW Themes for free download on internet and I would again suggest that download themes from your trusted sources only.

One of the trusted sources is Google Android market. Launch the Android market app on your mobile phone and search for ADW Launcher. You could find free version of ADW Launcher as well as Pro and Ex versions which are paid. Tap ADW Launcher which is free and you would see it's description as shown in screenshot below.

ADW Launcher on Android Market

Tap the "FREE" button to proceed for installation to your phone. Once you initiate the installation of ADW Launcher then go back to search of Android Market and search for "ADW theme free".

Download And Install ADW Launcher Themes : This would show you list of ADW themes available for your phone. Some of the free themes on Android market are displayed in screenshot below.

Free ADW Themes

You can install the themes you like but if you are interested in iPhone kind of look & feel then install ADW IPhroid IPhone Free theme. You can also try out ADWTheme MiPhone Free theme. Once you have installed  ADW Launcher and one of the ADW themes then you are ready to try out Android home replacement.

Get Started With Android Home Screen Replacement : The tricky part of adw launcher and these installed adw themes is none of these appear as applications in app drawer. To start using installed ADW Launcher press the home button of your Android mobile phone. This would display a menu shown in  following screenshot.

Home Screen Launcher Menu

If you notice there is a checkbox "Use by default for this action". If you check this ON then next time this menu would not be displayed and selected Launcher would be launched instead. I suggest to keep it OFF till you carry out all your trials and get comfortable with new ADW Launcher and themes. After applying any theme if it get force closed then the only easy option to recover is press the home button and tap "TwLauncher" option. This would bring you back to good old default home screen of your Android phone. To start using ADW Launcher, tap "ADW.Launcher" option.

ADW Launcher Settings For Android Home Screen Replacement : You can see the new look of the ADW Launcher's default theme in screenshot below. This does not replace your wallpaper which you have already set.

ADW Launcher in Action

Notice the three icons at the bottom bar. The left icon with gray star icon is where you can drop any shortcut from your desktop to make it your favorite. Center icon with four boxes is for opening or closing app drawer. App drawer is where you find all your installed apps. Rightmost icon is your mobile browser shortcut. Now press the menu button of your phone to see the menus of ADW Launcher.

ADW Launcher Menu

Add menu is to add items to your desktop, wallpaper is to set the wallpaper you like, Search is to launch Google search bar, Edit is to edit the desktops and Settings is our good old settings menu.  If you tap the more menu then you can see two more menus as shown in screenshot below.

ADW Launcher More Menus

Lock desktop menu locks your desktop icons and settings from accidentally being modified. You should do this ideally when all your desktop settings are done. You can unlock using the same menu if you want to do any changes. Tap the ADWSettings menu to launch the ADW Settings screen.

ADW Settings 

There are many choices here and you can explore those and try out in leisure. One of the interesting menus and in which we are interested now is "Themes Preferences".

Applying iPhone Theme To Android Phone : Tap this menu to proceed for trying out new iPhone theme for your Android phone.

Themes Preferences

Now tap "Select your theme" option to launch the dialog which displays the available themes you have on your phone. This include those which you have recently installed and default one from ADW Launcher.

ADW Launcher - Select your theme

The content of this dialog would differ depending on which themes you have installed on your Android phone. For iPhone like look & feel select the theme "ADWTheme_Blazing_IP" option. This is nothing but the "ADW IPhroid IPhone Free" theme which we installed earlier.

ADWTheme IPHROID Preview

You would need to scrolldown to see the preview of the theme and available buttons for actions to take. You can see the button like iPhone in the preview.

ADWTheme IPHROID Preview Scrolled

"Get themes!" button take you to the Android market store. You can start using this new iPhone like theme by tapping "Apply theme!" button.

iPhone look a like Theme for Android 

Voila, you can see now your selected Android theme in action. You can see how shortcuts are looking like those on iPhone. Next you can go ahead and change the wallpaper with the one you like and start putting required widgets on your desktops.

Resizing Widgets With ADW Launcher Home Screen Replacement : There are many interesting features and settings in ADW Launcher. One of those which worth mentioning here is you can resize the widgets on Android home screen or desktop. Let me show you how.

Gadget Context Menu

When you long press any widget on your desktop like a clock shown in screenshot above, it displays the context menu with choices "Remove", "Edit", "Uninstall". Remove just takes away the widget from your desktop and Uninstall removes it from your mobile phone. If you tap Edit then it would allow you to resize the widget as shown in screenshot below.

ADW Launcher - Edit Gadget

You can see that it display four double arrows using which you can resize the widget as you like. This is very handy when you want the large or small clock widget on your Android home screen. You can simply resize the clock to match your taste. If you are looking for cool, beautiful and best Android widgets then you can read about it at : Best Android Widgets - Clock, Weather, Calendar, Power Control, Music, Dictionary And SMS Widgets To Personalize And Beautify Your Google Android Home Screen

Here is one youtube video which you may find useful to understand ADW.Launcher well

There are many other settings and features available with ADW Launcher and you can explore those further. There are many free and paid ADW themes available for Android which you can use with ADW.Launcher and you should try those. One suggestion which I would like to repeat is, download free ADW.Launcher app apk and free ADW theme apks from your trusted sources only.

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