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andrew authority what's going on my name is Kevin the tech ninja and today we are fulfilling a video request now wish I could say who requested this video but this is one of those videos that is gets requested by a lot of people no matter what video were actually working on there's always a guy in the comment that says hey what's on your phone what's your favorite app so today here at Android Authority we are going to go over our favorite applications with Android authority what's on our phones for me when it comes to my Android I really like to keep it simple my launcher is KK launcher which to me emulates the Google now launcher the best I usually have a static wallpaper but right now I'm using minimal wallpaper which is gorgeous it's a huge set of wallpapers that are animated and doesn't tax the system or battery at all you can also customize your own I'm using Belle UI I can't pack my favorite app I use is t9 app dialer this brings up an app launcher so you can dial in your applications it makes launching whatever application I want to breeze it's the app I install as soon as I get a new phone or a flash in Iran on my home screen I like to keep the Google now widget also keep played music widget for a random song the next screen I have just a big calendar so I can stay on top of my test throughout the day and just a few additional apps that I like to use check that me which is now renamed to MIT bills it keeps track of your bills that lets you play them via the application bacon reader reddit application tap path and link bubble they both change the way I use Android and if you need more information on those two apps Joe Hindi did a bang-up job on those and the link is down below this is Kevin the tech ninja and that is what's on my phone alright so here is my daily driver this is the Moto X 2014 and the reason why this is my daily driver is because this is the phone that I always go back to when I'm not reviewing another phone which is pretty rare but during the off chance that I am not reviewing one like if I'm reviewing a tablet or a SmartWatch or something this is the phone that I will normally use now as far as the apps go you can see I keep my home screens pretty simple I only have two of them so I have four folders down here and then I have seven icons in ladakh including the app drawer and up top is dashclock which is a pretty pretty popular widget so I really like that widget it's nice and clean and then on my second home screen here this is simple calendar widget and below it is high in the sky that is my weather app of choice just because I'm used to it I like the way that it looks and I like the customization behind it so I really like that app so let's go ahead and just go into these folders here these are my most commonly used apps obviously which is why I have them folders but the first folder is pretty self-explanatory this is just the Google folder with button with with just a bunch of Google apps that I use on a daily basis second folder is the social folder so Facebook Twitter Instagram snapchat which I actually don't really use all that often XDA for browsing XDA forums and feedly for catching up on my tech news and folder number three is my tools folder so I have the calculator the Android wear app moto Connect which is for the Moto 360 PayPal and this is the default Motorola app for the Moto X for controlling motive display moto voice and all that stuff asana which is a task app that we use here at Android authority to keep track of all our different tasks that we have to do lone assist this is for paying off my student loans slack this is how we communicate with each other here at Android authority is through this app here and these two apps down at the bottom are Android wear apps so watch maker and wear face collection I think it's called and the last folder I call it the favorites folder but it's basically just any games that I'm currently playing and also any photo related apps so I have xej and the gallery obviously and Zedd used to say is just a wallpaper app and this is the app that I use whenever I want to download any wallpapers for my phone and all the wallpapers are really high-quality but that is pretty much it that is all the apps I use on a daily basis but I'll go ahead and swipe through my app drawer just so you can see some of the other apps that I have in here not all of these apps I actually some of these apps I actually don't really even use I just still have them so but you can see everything that I have in here I try to keep my apps to a minimum I don't like to install way too many things and just kind of get carried away with a bunch of stuff that I'll probably never use so but that's pretty much it as far as my apps go and but yeah hopefully you guys found something in here that might interest you and but yeah that's it the Moto X 2014 is my daily driver and those have been the apps that I use on a daily basis ok hey guys a Joe handy here and this is my Galaxy Note 3 this has been my daily driver since late 2013 I haven't upgraded it in a long time because you know as you can see you know it doesn't really like very much and I really don't have a need to upgrade it at all so I've been keeping it around and you know I know it's supposed to get lollipop here very soon and that's always really exciting on my home screen I have you know basic stuff email a visual voicemail placed or my messages and all that stuff so you know nothing really special nothing really unique I do have the flashlight there just in case I need it over here I keep all of my social media stuff all the utility stuff that I use because you know I like having that all in one spot I always know where to go to get it so it's like oh yeah you know just wave to the left if I need to get to something like you know my bank or you know shopping or social media or any of that stuff as you can see you know it's a big huge device and even I have trouble wielding it sometimes all the way on the right are my video games I just finished testing like 35 40 50 video games so I cleaned out my my stock a little bit so I don't have too much on my device right now I've been getting in the Skyforce a whole lot and obviously Monument Valley and clash of clans has been on my phone for ages um I do play fantasy hockey I'm not very good at it unfortunately but me know my team has been doing pretty well as of late so that's always good you know it's we're he's like I'm the app guy so I'm supposed to have like more stuff than everybody but I actually keep my devices pretty clean because I do review so many applications that I don't want all that stuff just hanging around there so you know I keep the bare minimum on my phone and when I'm done reviewing an application unless I'm deciding to keep it forever I generally uninstall it so you know my devices are pretty clean and I do believe Gary is up next hello everybody Gary's Sims here from an authority what have I got on my Android smartphone well as you can see I'm using the Google now launcher and basically I like to keep all my screens fairly cluttered I don't like having to delve down into the app drawer to find things I really do like just to keep things that I use a lot here on the front pages I do use folders occasionally for example here I've gotten and my news folder where I've got my BBC news app and the Yahoo new digest but in general I keep things upfront ready to get them let's go through the apps pretty quickly never got the Amazon Kindle in your book reader app I do a lot of reading ever no actually fantastic app for keeping all the notes and things that I need inside of it let's really go to tool for me everyday on the desktop and on mobile I use Twitter quite a lot and cause down here at the bottom we've got the phone icon Gmail up at the essential Google Chrome again absolutely essential and the camera I've got I really into widgets here at the top we've got the Alexia widgets it allows me to create a user define set of power tools which allows me to see how much space I've got left on the device a calendar you can choose whatever you like I really like that and this one is power toggles I like the have quick access to the flashlights and they'll turn the screen on and off just by touching the button there on the second screen put some more tools I used the Amazon Appstore a lot I love the free app of the day thing they have going there that was one down from yesterday cut the rope time travel slack is a tool we use an Android or thority always in there talking to the rest of my colleagues and teammates there and here are the games that they play most of time they're mainly just time wasters I've got two minutes to spare and eat this to distract myself Tower - Magnus absolutely love solitaire and I really like the the - a series of games hotel - dinner - and so on down here I've got co-pilot and Nokia Maps for navigation I use coz we've got working and authority from members all around the world I've got a couple of time tool time buddy and world time to tell me what time it is in different parts of the world so I'm not trying to send people emails at 3 o'clock in the morning and wondering while they're not responding to me total commander I use that on Windows well absolutely fantastic tool for doing stuff or for file manager stuff and they're called feed feedly which is the RSS reader that I swapped to after Google shut down their RSS reader there are some games from my youngest boy he's only three so that's just useful for them for me to keep him distracted for a little while and rocket player for playing some the mp3s that I've put onto the SD card and there it is pretty simple productivity games stuff for the kids big mixture all up there on the front page a home page just useful ready for me to grab whenever I need it hope you enjoyed looking at this my name is Gary Sims thank you hi guys Jace here from the Android authority team and as some of you may know I am all about audio books and audio podcasts and to that I'm a big fan of audible you can see there audible widget right on my home screen but you know four or five books a month is not enough so I have a subscription to audiobooks calm and have their widget right below there this is my home screen it simply uses the Google launcher and these are the apps that I used most frequently I'm also a big fan of double twist double twist as a media player and at all so is used to convert my very large iTunes library to my Android devices so that is a really great way that you can automatically wirelessly sync I've talked about that before but I hadn't of it very much and this is slack slack is the online collaboration tool that we use on the Android authority team and I thought when we initially started on slack a few months ago that that would just be another tool that you kind of have to be burdened with but slack is actually really good it's engaging I like it we all use it it's a fantastic thing I've also talked about any do that I use every day any do as a task manager kind of reminder that for some reason is able to keep me on track consistently without being pestering and I really really like that now as you guys know I'm a pretty hardcore calendar geek of spending crazy amounts of money on the best calendars but I still keep coming back to Google Calendar I had lots of hopes for it after the lollipop update in the material design but unfortunately they've taken out a proper month view I mean they have a preview month view but it's just not the the same it's not what I want so I'm on the hunt again for better calendar apps that does everything that I wanted to do when I use Google keep quite often just to take notes and pictures and store them in the cloud and all that good stuff on my second page is the you know I have prayer books and games you know I'm big Angry Birds and quizup guy you guys know I love daddy longlegs I played that for quite a while with other Android authority hosts a sauna is our task manager that we use as a team and and I use Flipboard quite a bit too for my news a little bit of snapchat but that is really about it I try and keep it clean and minimal so that it's fast I don't I don't root at least I haven't wounded this phone because I haven't really needed to does everything I wanted to do it's super snappy never lags and yeah obviously these are all my cards I used those cards quite a bit if you guys have any other questions please put in the comments below I'll be sure to read them and answer as many as I can hey guys ash here and I'm just quickly going to show you what's on my home screen and what sort of apps I use on an everyday basis so my phone is rooted and I use the Google now launcher in conjunction with exposed the module I use is the exposed GTL settings let me just quickly find that so I can show you now this allows me to have everything that Google now offers but with the functionality of something like Nova I tend to keep things quite simple so you'll never really see too much on my home screen I like to let the wallpaper shine through I have the Appy gamer widget which aggregates gaming news and underneath that I have the Google calendar widget which I love over to the right we have the Appy geek widget which like before aggregates tech news and also general news underneath that we have the Google keep widget which I use in conjunction with Evernote it's great for taking and inputting quick notes they've made a quick selection for you to show you the apps that I use on an everyday basis first up we have endomondo which is a fitness app that I used to track all my runs and cycle rides it offers a really nice interface with good functionality for tracking the various stats secondly we've got f1 reader now I'm into Formula One and this is a great app for keeping up with all the news that may happen moving on there's thing which is a great network analysis tool there's blacklist which gives the ability to block any calls that don't meet a certain set of parameters so for example you could set it to block any numbers that are private or any numbers that aren't part of your contacts other than listening I normally use two wraps and they're quite simple the first is the simple last.fm scrubber and it does just that squabbling it's awesome secondly there's Songkick which tracks the artists that I follow viola FM and inputs them into Google Calendar finally for the last bunch of apps there's pin out I am often making cables and this app is a great reference for any form of soldering to find out what terminals are to be paired with what the last two I think you will know the first is ES File Explorer which in my opinion is one of the best file explorers out there it has great functionality and then there's pocket for those who don't know it allows you to save articles for offline reading and there you go guys that was my home screen and also what sort of apps I tend to use on a day to day basis thanks for listening and back to you Kevin thanks ash and this was Android authority what's on my device and how before you leave make sure you press that like button and also go ahead and leave down what's on your device in the comments below as always guys my name is Kevin a tech ninja and this is Android authority your source for all things Android take care guys