10 tips you might not know your Android could do - The Free Android

When it comes to Android we always have in mind the same things. Take pictures, call, connect to social networks … but many times we do not realize how we can leverage the capabilities of our mobile Android to make all kinds of fancy stuff.

Today we bring you ten small uses and tricks to do with Android. Ten functions most of the time but will not use that come in handy to surprise the capabilities of our operating system. Here we go with these uses, many of them would never have thought we could do it but here they are.

Measure distances and compass or function as microscope

One of the devices with the rise smartphones has passed away is the compass. It is clear that professionals and experts continue using them, but for us out of trouble and know where north can always use our Android is. The 3D compass works perfectly by using the accelerometer makes our phone.

Another use can do is measure all distances , perfect to replace tapes metrics. We leave you a list of 15 essential apps DIY wherein either pair measure holes, or other speeds can do with Android. Versatility at its best.

A series of applications that even taking the camera can have your smartphone thanks to a snap, a small portable microscope . Who wants to analyze things

determine our heart rate

The Galaxy S5 has become fashionable pulse readers on mobile. But for those who like to exercise can use any smartphone to do so. We leave a number of applications through our tremors may set more or less accurately, our pace .

Readers heartbeat in time sport has partnered with smartphone s in a manner as intimate, are becoming more common. What do you use to measure your pulse after exercise

Measure the temperature and spectrophotometry

We get scientists. Our phones are a real Swiss Army Knife , but sometimes they need small accessories. Through several applications we can use our phones to measure very small, perfect when driving a nail or so distances. But not only distance, also heat and temperature .

Thermodo On Kickstarter, a small device that is attached introduced his application allows determining the temperature of the area . A solution to the pending Nest, is the closest thing we have in Android and energy. And finally we have the project spectrophotometry for biochemical analysis as described in his day.

recognize images and objects

Google Googles is the Android application that takes almost since its inception. But for one reason and another, the search never been given the weight it deserves maybe yes.

We just have to open the app, with our camera focus any logo or object and through Search and compare with your database, give us the result . Whether a bottle of wine, a classical monument, a brand, a work of art or a movie, focus and recognize our Android which is what we face and give us all the information we need.

Run a web server

Android is based on Linux, so it should not surprise us to be able to run a full Web server. With your mySQL database, PHP and FTP programs . Maybe mobile devices are not the best for its size, but your operating system itself is able to provide all the computing tools needed to create and upload a website. Nobody can say that our website is 100% Android (although we use EAL itself also other systems).

Automate your tasks

Android may be the heart of all our activities. Not only that, but thanks to powerful applications like Tasker, we have a range of options to make scheduled all day. We leave the list of ideas and tricks that can be achieved with Tasker, but from connecting to WiFi automatically set an alarm when we are in certain places.

Tasker is surely applications more difficult to configure, but also the most powerful. One of those apps that is worth its weight in gold.

Use keyboard and mouse

Thanks to the USB on the Go have the ability to connect all kinds of accessories for our Android. From mice, keyboards and hard drives, a number of accessories that turn your mobile in the center of a possible computer . We’ve checked with a Nexus 7 and the truth is that the result has nothing to envy to a netbook.

The cost of a USB cable on the go is less than three euros and he can enjoy Android in a very different way than usual. What is the maximum you can put accessories

Watch like a security camera

You have a camera does not mean that’s just to make selfies. You can also record video. And how. Thanks to the large battery of the latest smartphones and the quality of their sensors, have created apps like AtHome Camera to turn your smartphone into a security suite to monitor our house .

We need internet connection to make it work. But hey, nothing better than to watch us use Android. If Google does already, why not us?

Object Tracking Remote

Home automation is very popular these days, and the technology that gets also find on Android. Check objects around to distanci by our smartphone applications is possible by remote control.

Block doors of our car, turn the thermostat and control virtually any electronic device Smart is possible thanks to the remote control, use today continues to be very punctual but with the rise of multi-device systems will begin to see a lot more usually.

Schedule an Android app in Android

Finally, if we consider that there is the application you want. We will always have the option to create from our own operating system.

Android it allows the creation and compilation of applications for Android, either HTML, PHP or Javascript. We recommend DroidEdit though we have multiple code editors on Android. The experience of writing may not be the same, but be careful, because we have discussed the possibility of incorporating keyboards. Definitely a nice detail that exemplifies the potential of Android to create and do all sorts of things.

These are our ten different Android applications we consider have gone unnoticed by most users. What is your special application for Android that believe that 99% of users do not use