Gadgetory

hello again ladies and gentlemen i'm joe hindi the android authority app guy did you just get a brand new tablet and you don't know where to start with the applications if that's the case you're in the right place the first up is the Amazon Kindle app one of the main reasons people buy tablets is so they can read books on it and Amazon Kindle is about as good as it gets when it comes to literary selection pricing and maintaining a solid experience books do cost money obviously but you can get some free open domain books so you can test out the platform first the app itself is free people will always at least think about putting some device left protection on their phones but barely on their tablets don't be like those people Android device manager is a light anti-theft app developed and maintained by Google you can ring your device find it lock it and wipe it if need be just because your tablet is big doesn't mean it can't get lost or stolen if you have this installed that won't be such a huge problem the tablet is a great place to keep your notes on and there are a few better apps to do it than Evernote it's great for homework and school use and has a rich set of features that are available on multiple platforms like PC Mac Linux and iOS the free version is very good but if you spring for the premium version there are a bunch of extra features that you may like as well the Google Play Music is a great application for tablets it can play music that's on your device or you can upload up to 20 thousand of your own songs to the cloud and stream it to your tablet which is handy because tablets are notorious for not having enough internal storage if you spring for the all-access pass you can listen to pretty much any song on google play music and have access to a number of curated playlists it's definitely worth checking out google hangouts is Google's all-encompassing messaging platform and it's great for tablet owners you can message call and video chat with other hangouts users free of charge and it remains one of the precious few ways to make a call on a tablet since you already have a Google account because it's required to use the Google Play Store that means you already have a hangouts account so all you have to do is sign in and go HD widgets is one of the most popular clock and weather widgets of all time it's been around since the good old days and continues to be relevant and enjoyable even today they have a range of widgets and toggles that help fill out those large home screens that you have on your new tablet you can also pick up color form and Kiro theme packs to give your widgets more theme options they look nice and they work really well my script calculator lets you draw out your problem on the screen using your finger or a stylus and then solves the problem for you it can do basic stuff like arithmetic and some more complex stuff like trigonometry functions and logarithms it should do for most students although more advanced students may need something a little bit more complex it's also totally free one of the best uses for a tablet is watching videos on the go and one of the best ways to do that is with Netflix it's a cheap service that costs less than $10 per month and has a seemingly insurmountable amount of content for you to enjoy you can get multiple profiles so multiple people in your household can use it and maintain their own settings Plus house of cards and orange is the new black are both really awesome SwiftKey keyboard is one of the premier third-party keyboards on Android it comes with some themes and you can buy more if you want and the predictive text and auto correction are far above average however the big winner here is that it comes with not one but two keyboard layouts specifically for tablet owners it's free to use so it won't cost you anything to try it out edge is one of the most popular wallpaper and ringtone applications available on Android with it you can get ringtones notification tones alarm tones live wallpapers and of course regular wallpapers there are a lot of options including seasonal offerings for those of you who like to decorate for the holidays it's free with advertising and truly a must-have application on any Android device once again I'm Joe Hindy from Android 30.com while you're here why not subscribe to the Android Authority YouTube channel if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of awesome videos for you to watch right over there and they're also linked in the video description below for you folks on mobile finally don't forget to check out the written companion which is in the video description below as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day