Be sure to let us know your experiences with these apps on your Xoom and let the world know your favorite Xoom apps. Apps By Derek Scott. Best Xoom Apps Touchdown for Tablets.
Hovering over your house and browsing different places around the world is a treat on the Xoom with Google Earth. The app works beautifully on tablets as to be expected by the Google development team. The Scrabble-like game, which is free, is much better suited to the tablet form factor than on any smartphone. Battle other wordsmiths in the living room or match your skills against a random stranger in another part of the globe.
Browsing the reviews, you can see tablet users giving positive experiences with app. One of the most popular Android apps, Pulse news reader is honeycomb tablet ready. Unlike the iPad, the Xoom, along with all other Android devices, takes a wide-open approach to apps.
There are apps for tracking expenses, chatting with people, playing games, using social networks like Twitter, finding new friends, tuning your guitar, viewing maps of the night sky—even making your Xoom work better.
Some Android apps cost money, but many more are free. So whenever you find a for-pay app, search around to see whether you can find a free one that does the same thing. Unfortunately, no app has yet been developed that will get your local Department of Public Works to actually fix the pothole. Your Xoom is great at multitasking—running more than one app at a time. For example, you can browse the Web while you listen to music, receive email, and have Facebook updates delivered to you, all without breaking a sweat.
Tap any item to switch to it. Your Xoom offers you not just one, not just two, not just three, but four different ways to download and install apps:. Android Market on your Xoom. Tap the Market button right on your Home screen. From here you can search for apps, read about them, and buy them. Android Market on the Web. When you do it this way, you can also have that same app downloaded to any other Android devices you have, and manage apps for all of your Android devices from a central location.
The Web. You can download and install apps from websites. Visit the site on your Xoom, and download from there. Using a bar code scanner. Of all the amazing tricks your Xoom can do, this is one of the coolest. A free app gives the Xoom the power to scan bar codes and QR codes. QR codes are a special kind of bar code used by smartphones, cameras, and other devices.
The Xoom grabs and installs the software from the website. QR codes were designed to be scanned at high speeds. They were initially created by a subsidiary of Toyota as a way to track the auto manufacturing process, but are now used for many other purposes, especially in Japan.
Tap the Market icon, and you get sent to the Android Market, which has tens of thousands of apps you can download, with more added every month. Flick to see them all. Featured, top-selling, and other popular apps are listed to the right of the categories. A featured list is near the top. For more information about downloading books, see Finding, Downloading, and Paying for Books.
Tap any category, and you come to a screen showing the most popular apps in that category, typically sorted by Featured Tablet Apps that is, paid for status, Top Free Apps, and Best Selling Apps.
You can tap that text to go straight to apps of that description. You also see subcategories listed on the right. Tap any subcategory, and you come to a list of all the apps in that subcategory, typically sorted by top free and best-selling. A tablet app , on the other hand, is one specifically written for a tablet like the Xoom—like a 3D game. In that case, you want to search.
You can search by the type of app, the name of the program, the name of the software company that created it, and by keyword. For example, the word car would be a keyword for searching out a racing game. Tap Search, and a keyboard and a search box appear.
If that annoys you, tap the Menu key, and then select Clear Search History. If the developer has made other apps, then you see those as well, along with their star ratings and number of reviews. You also often see More buttons that reveal more information, such as a longer description. A share button also appears, which lets you share the app via email or Bluetooth. Be careful when using the star ratings as a guide to download and pay for an app. In some instances that star rating may be based on just a rating or two the info screen shows you how many.
If there are a dozen or more user ratings, the results are more trustworthy. So read the reviews, and note how man ratings each app has gotten. Depending on whether you have to pay for the app, you do things a bit differently.
Tap Open to run the app, or Manage to change its options, such as whether to allow auto-updating, or to uninstall it. Tap it. Next, click OK. The app immediately starts downloading in the background. Meanwhile, you can use your Xoom any way you want. Soon a checkbox appears, indicating that the download is complete. If the app is a for-pay one, you need a free Google Checkout account.
With that done, you can buy the app. Tap the Buy button. I am not addressing widgets in these lists, nor tablet apps in the Android Market those should work well, right? These are simply the apps that work well on the Tab.
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