twitli is a Twitter client for Android smartphones. twitli is aimed at providing a maximum number of features while keeping the user interface easy to use. The number of buttons is limited: rather than putting “follow” and “direct message” buttons on the screen, twitli gives acess to these features by clicking a user name. After clicking a user name you can

• send an @reply
• send a DM
• view that users messages
• view their website
• view their profile
• see their full name
• stop following them

Other features:

• make a picture, upload to Flickr, tweet the picture
• follow users with one click
• show your timeline
• show @replies you received
• show DMs
• switch on automatic refresh
• select number of tweets on your screen

Via the android menu, there is a function “follow” that shows all user names that currently appear in the timeline shown. By clicking a name, you follow that person. This makes it extremely easy to follow people. Following people is what makes Twitter interesting.

The screen of a smartphone is small. That’s why you want to use the space efficiently. twitli shows pictures in landscape view, but doesn’t in portrait view. Showing pictures takes space, so in portrait view you see more tweets on your screen.

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Upvise lets you sync your Mobile Contacts, Notebooks, Shopping Lists, Wikipedia, News Reader, and other information between your phone and web account.

Features:

Access and Sync Wikipedia on your mobile phone : Imagine having the entire knowledge of the largest collaborative encyclopedia in the world at your fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Just type in any word on your mobile and download instantly the entire Wikipedia article specially formatted for your mobile device. You can also bookmark any article to a create a list of favorites in your account.

RSS News : Sitting in another useless meeting? Just pick up your phone and start reading the latest news feeds on the spot. With the Upvise RSS News app, you can add your favorite RSS feeds from your web account and download them instantly on your mobile. You can also bookmark any interesting article to your list of favorites.

Mobile Contacts : Manage your contacts from your web browser and get them automatically on your phone. Type in some contact information in your mobile when you meet someone, and it is automatically uploaded to your web account. With the Contacts app, your contacts are always in sync between your mobile and your web account.

Notebooks : Send a quick note from your desktop to your mobile. Type in some information you want to remember in your mobile and retrieve the note later on from your web account. With the Notebooks app, you can store and classify your notes by creating personal notebooks, and access all your notes on-the-go.

Shopping Lists : Manage your shopping lists on your desktop and your mobile. You can maintain several lists, for different types of shops or items, i.e. one for groceries, for healthcare items, for household items,…

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BucketUpload is an application for Android Google phone (experimental). It allows uploading files to an Amazon S3 bucket. Files could be images, audios, videos or any documents available on your Android device. BucketUpload provides a file browser able to list folders from local file system, sd card and shared content providers.

Features:
BucketUpload is a Java application for Android compliant smart devices. It allows selecting and uploading files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. It provides the following features:

* File browser:
End-user could select one or many files to upload with a file browser. It allows to browse folders and subfolders. Files and folders could be selected from device file system, external SD card and shared folders such as images, audio and video.
* Progress bar:
BucketUpload front-end includes a progress bar with current file uploaded, files remaining and transfer rate.
* Cancel upload:
End-user can cancel upload at any time with the “Cancel” button.
* S3 settings:
End-user can setup S3 parameters (bucket name, key identifier and secret key). Permission for file to upload could also be setup thanks to ACL. End-user can select among “private”, “authenticated-read”, “public-read” and “public-read-write”. Default is “private”. All parameters are saved into a private store on the Android device.
* Others:
Even if BucketUpload is designed to run with Amazon S3, it could work with any web server because HTTP upload requests sent are standard. It means that you can use BucketUpload with your own web server too.

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Opera Mini is a well-known mobile Web browser. This is the first version of Opera browser that runs on Google’s Android open mobile development platform.

The Opera Mini browser renders web pages that have been transcoded to the binary OBML format, meaning much smaller downloads and a faster browsing experience on mobiles, than would be provided by other browsers. The Android WebKit-based browser component has a switch in the public API allowing the use of a transcoding proxy that transcodes web pages to a simpler form of HTML. Whether this is as small and fast as Opera Mini’s OBML remains to be seen.

Known issues:
* Small painting issues
* The Back command isn’t yet mapped to the device back button

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XLive is a 3-in-1 Internet tool. It has an integrated RSS reader, multi-protocol messenger as well as email client with SSL support. XLive has a launcher where you can select one of three featured modules.

XLive features:
* Chating withs friend using different protocols (ICQ, GTalk).
* Reading news via RSS feeds.
* Sending and reading e-mails via IMAP, POP3, SMTP and SSL protocols.

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TwitterDroid 0.1.2 lets you read and publish to your Twitter, it’s a kind of port of Twitterific, the excellent application for MacOS X. TwitterDroid 0.1.2 is an early alpha stage software but it’s already functional — you can read the latest 20 tweets from your friends and publish a post to your own timeline. The app still lacks configuration, robustness and notifications. Anyway. it’s worth trying.

Features
* Log into any Twitter account and save preferences
* Display expanded tweets of your friends timeline
* Post a tweet to your timeline
* Display a waiting spinner when sending and fetching tweets
* Refresh the tweet list
* Catch connection errors and display an alert
* Use the black theme of Android

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Android jChat is an agent based chat application with GPS support for Android, based on the JADE agent framework.

It allows the user to communicate with any other contact having the same software running and connected to the same JADE platform. Users can send text IM in a chat like way, call a contact by phone or even send an SMS to a contact. Location of each contact can be seen on the map at any time and it is continuously updated.

Features of jChat:
* Contacts management: contacts are read from the phone contacts database.
* Persistence: you can see the status of all contacts connected to your own JADE platform.
* Real time localization: you can see the position of the contacts on the map and the distance from your current position. Localization uses the Android mocked GPS provider for tracking contacts position. You are able to import new custom tracks if you wish.
* Multiple chat sessions handling: you can open multiple chat sessions with different contacts and switch between them.
* Support for chat with many contacts in a single session.
* Mocked SMS sending and phone call to contacts.

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GoogHelper lets you quickly access Google web search, image search, Gmail, Google Maps, send a SMS query and many other Google services. All you need to do is to type in you query and hit the corresponding button. Reduces thee number of clicks need to interact with various google services.

Features:
* Google web search
* image search
* map search
* news search
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Twitter Client allows you to send a new tweets and view incoming tweets from friends. It is the first publicly released Android application, which was not developed by Google.

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