Life with a tablet or a list of applications for Android

Hello!

Today I want to talk about my life with a tablet, or rather share a list of applications that help me in my life and work.

The post is written for devices based on the Android operating system, but I think there are analogues in other systems.

Introduction

My life with a tablet began in December 2012. I bought it to become a bit more productive. Since I work as a manager in the web area, the main task for the tablet was to help me in everyday affairs.
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It so happened that not always inspiration comes to me at the workplace, and it became inconvenient to write down some thoughts, draw graphs and structures on a smartphone. This is where my tablet came to the rescue. I chose a model based on the Android operating system, with a diagonal of 10.1 inches.

Making a list of applications for the manager would not be interesting, and this venture would not have described my whole life. The article includes applications that help me in programming and my hobbies.

I am a manager

In December, I had to speak at the conference, and therefore prepare a presentation. The draft was prepared in the Polaris Office application, which turned out to be pre-installed on my tablet. The presentation was finished on the computer, since I could not arrange the repeating elements in the same places.


I admit, I did not write the text of my speech on the tablet, because I believe that when writing by hand, the information is remembered better.

Let's go back to my daily tasks.

You will not surprise anyone with corporate mail on gmail, so I use the entire set of applications from Google that have been pre-installed. The only thing I didn’t find from Google is work with tasks. Then the GTask application came to the rescue, which copes with its functions 100%.



Managers also have to develop new sections, for this it is useful to outline the structure. For the PC, there are many programs for the compilation of various kinds of structures, but good thoughts can overtake me at any time, I must be ready. I put myself a Mindjet application and did not lose at all with it. I recommend this application not only to managers, but also to all those involved in the development of applications, websites and software.



Of course, I think not only structures, sometimes I want to draw a lot of lines and think looking at them. For such purposes, the SketchBook application was the best for me. This is such a simple picture editor that I really liked. It saves to png, has the settings tool is simple and straightforward. It works, however, it is only in the vertical screen mode, but I'm used to it.



The costs of specialists, the timing of the project, planning, all this is the work of the manager, to monitor everything, to control everything. The Project Schedule and the table in Google Drive help me in this. Project Schedule supports importing MPP and MSPDI-XML, as well as building Gantt charts, filtering tasks, and more. In fact, he is not completely satisfied with me, but I haven’t yet found anything better, and sometimes I use cloud solutions.

I am a developer

The title is too loud for me, but it seems to me that the applications are well suited to developers.

Since I work in the field of web, then my main hobby is writing code in PHP and JavaScript, of course, it can’t do without HTML and CSS.

For starters, I needed a server. He always stood on my favorite Ubuntu operating system, but on long journeys I still have a tablet with me. The only application I found for the server was KSWEB . It turned out to be simple and clear, after the first start it was necessary to create a table through PHPMyAdmin, and then everything is as usual. A huge advantage was the external access to the server, that is, from another device. Then I cheated a little and used to launch an application on a smartphone, using it as a server.



Not a single server we live. For quick access to my hosting via SSH, I use ConnectBot .



To access the file system of the tablet, I use Total Commander . I started the story with him a long time ago, I started with Norton Commander , and then I came to Total on the evolutionary path. It seems to me very logical to use.



Many text / code editors exist in the marketplace, but I opted for WebMaster's HTML . It has a view of the result in the browser, the quick addition of attributes and much more useful. It was possible to consider other options, find a good IDE, but I was so used to it that I didn’t feel like changing.



I also do Java programming. Well, as I do, I'm learning. Having relieved C ++ at the institute (I don’t have anything against C ++, I just somehow didn’t interest me at the institute), I decided to cast my eyes on this language, perhaps in the future, I’ll write an Android application, but for now AIDE helps me in viewing the results of executing the code from the examples. I cannot yet describe some of its features, except to say that it compiles the code in apk, and it needs to be installed every time.



It would not be superfluous to add a WordPress application to this list, although it does not apply to development. With it, I blog and help my friends publish blog articles. I include WordPress here only because having made changes to the code of my blog, I test the content through it.



You can't do without a computer, its computing power is superior to the tablet, so I use the remote desktop Splashtop 2 . It only works when devices are on the same local network.



Well, the last thing I use when developing this is a very convenient Hacker's Keyboard keyboard. I use it only in those applications where the code or commands are written (terminal).

I am human

As a person, I have different hobbies. I could not break them into categories, so I will give in one list.

I love to write music, learn beautiful sketches or difficult guitar parts. For all this, I use the Guitar Pro app.



It’s good to sit around the campfire in the summer and play early Letov’s friends, but I don’t remember by heart the chords, and AmDm Lite helps me



I also love movies, TV shows and educational videos. I think VLC is the best player in the Play Market



Perfect Keyboard - for typing, including this article. Since when I’m typing on mobile devices I’m used to the big-finger-type dialing, it’s just convenient to use a keyboard that is divorced at the edges of the screen.

Conclusion

Of course, this is not the whole list of what I have on the tablet. I, like most users, like to relax and play. I have a lot of games, but I decided not to list them here.

From my experience I can say that the tablet does not replace a laptop or desktop computer. This device is for other purposes. I am often told that I am trying to do too much with a device that is not intended for this. But it seems to me that I have not yet squeezed the maximum out of the tablet. :)

Many thanks to all application developers for all existing platforms. You make our lives easier and more interesting.

PS Thanks for reading. Of course you all know about Easter eggs Android, but I could not resist.