Android Apps That Work

Here are a few Android apps that work well on my Galaxy S3 (I am resisting the word awesome).

ES File Explorer
The file browser you need. This is not only a browser to copy, move, delete files from your phone's SD but is a simple as pie network server. Just search for the IP address of the Windows machine and enter it along with that computer's log in name and password. Now you can stream or copy files over to your phone. Or maybe you want to stream them. That works too.

AirDroid
Maybe you want to do all this wirelessly. Start AirDroid and enter the IP that AirDroid shows into your computer's browser, then enter the code that AirDroid gave. It is magical. GoodReader for iPad does this.

Moon+ Reader
This one handles mobi. Forget the other readers unless you want Kindle and Google also for text trapped inside their ecosystems.

MxPlayer
This plays the video streams over LAN through the ES server.

The list could go on for more standard apps ...