Social Networking Apps for Google Android makes posting online faster

Social networking is one of the main ways many people find, share, and post about their lives, news, and other content online where friends and followers can easily find and help promote content you posted online. Using an app would make it easier and faster for you to post content online from a phone or tablet.

The main advantage of using social networking apps to post online is it is faster then opening a web browser, typing in the address, or going into your bookmarks to go to a social network, and signing in.

With an app, all you need to do is launch it from your homescreen on Google Android, type your message, upload your photo or video, and hit the post button.

Social networking apps also notify you of new messages, and post from your friends when they post new posts.

The user interface on the app might also be better on the app then the mobile website if the site have one, so you don't have to zoom in to read text, and view photos in an app.

In my experience, social networking apps seem to crash, and slow down less then web browsers with a lot of windows and tabs open. Plus, there are fewer buttons, ads, tabs, address and tool bars on a social networking app then some web browser and website using up a lot of screen space when open. Some apps like Hootsuite, let you login to multiple social networking apps at once, so you can save time by not manually logging into a lot of sites to post, and stay updated and active on most or all your social networking profile accounts.

List of great social networking apps for Google Android


Facebook official app for Android let you keep up with friends, Pages, Groups, reply to posts, search for friends, update your status update, upload photos and videos, and like comments on Facebook. You can also play games and use apps on Facebook. The latest version of Facebook for Android is more smooth, and fast compared to older versions which seem slower. I also like the user interface in Facebook app because it is similar to the website.



I like using Friendcaster Facebook app because it is fast even on slower phones and tablets, and easy to use for keeping up with friends on Facebook. It is easy to navigate, and read on a mobile smartphone and tablet. It is easy to post messages, and upload photos to Facebook in Friendcaster with a few taps of the screen.

Hootsuite is a pretty good Twitter Client for Android. It is fast, and easy to use to follow people, and reply to people's tweet, and post tweets. You can also login to your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare accounts, and let you upload photos, receive notifications, view click stats, and schedule updates.

Pinterest is a new social network which let you upload images, post images from websites, search for images, search for pin boards related to a topic like sports, and search for people with similar interest. You can use the Pinterest app to comment on images, and videos which people posted on Pinterest.




Tumblr is a blog style social networking site which let you share photos, text links, articles, and video. It also let you save drafts to post latter, and schedule posts to posts at certain times on your Tumblr account. You can also find people to follow, and reply to people messages from within the app, and manage all your Tumblr blogs from the Tumblr app.

Flipboard also has built-in social networking sharing on popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo, and Renren which let you connect your social accounts to Flipboard to read posts, and reply to your posts with social accounts.

Flipboard is also a news reader app which let you read articles from blogs on a magazine smartphone and tablet friendly view which is easy to read on a tablet and smartphone because of bigger font, and better touch navigation like swiping your finger to the left of the screen to change a page like a ebook.



The Google Android operating system for tablets like the Nexus 7, and smartphones like the Nexus 4 also come with a few social networking apps bundled with Android. The YouTube app lets you subscribe to members channel, comment on  videos, like and favorite videos, and also upload your own videos from your mobile phone or tablet. Google Plus is another social networking app which let you do video chat via Talk or hangout, text chat, post videos, text, links, and share content on Google Plus. You can also use Google Play to install the Blogspot/blogger app, and third-party apps like Instagram which is a photo sharing social network which can be used to add special effects to your photos which you taken with your phone or tablet's camera.

Feedly, Magazine Style Google News Reader App for Google Android

Feedly is a free magazine style Google News Reader App which you can use on Google Android phones, and tablets.

I like Feedly because it is easier to read then desktop and many mobile sites on a small phone and tablet because it is like a magazine or ebook with larger font, and cleaner design. There is also a night mode which changes the color of the background to black, and the font to white to make it easier to read at night.

It is also faster then using a web browser because I just need to connect my Google Reader/Gmail account to Feedly to start following blogs, websites, and other sites with RSS news feeds on Feedly. Plus, Feedly just load the article and article images instead of the whole website, so there is less to load, and article load very fast. Feedly also have a built-in web browser to view the article from within Feedly web browser, or click the browser button to load an external web browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Opera, so you can read  and make comments on the article from the articles official website on the web.

The page turn animation., and scrolling up and down an article is pretty fast, and Feedly rarely crashes like other news readers.

What I like about Feedly is that I can easily add new subscriptions to Feedly by using my Google Reader account on Google at google.com/reader/view/ which has a easy to use website for adding new websites by just clicking the subscribe button, and pasting in a blog link into the textbox, and clicking add.

You can also use the Google Reader App for Google Android to add a website to subscribe to in Feedly, and to manage your subscription.

You can also add suggested or websites you like to read in Feedly's App, and star/save articles to read at a latter time, on Feedly or Google Reader. You can also save articles to Pocket, or Instapaper to read offline when you are not connected to the internet.

Feedly can also be used to share web links articles on Twitter, and Facebook from within the App, so your friends, family, and followers can more easily find and comment on articles on Facebook and Twitter.

Feedly is also available on popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, so you can read the same article on multiple devices and browsers.

Maxthon Mobile Browser for Google Android, Makes browsing the web easier and faster on phones+tablets

Maxthon Mobile Browser for Google Android is a mobile which uses cloud/internet computing to make it simple for users to sync their tabs, bookmarks, text, images, and other files to their Maxthon Cloud account.

Maxthon is one of the fastest, easiest to use, and most stable mobile web browsers which I use on Google Android. Pages load in seconds on my home's wireless internet. The user interface on Maxthon is also easy to use like desktop web browsers which I am used to with an address bar, bookmarks, back, forward, and other features. Maxthon browser also rarely crashes, or freezes in my experience.

Maxthon cloud sync makes it easy for you to pick up where you left off from your Google Android phone or tablet, on another Maxthon web browser running Windows, Mac, and iOS operating system by signing in with your Maxthon account.

You need a Maxthon account at Maxthon's website to use Cloud Sync feature, but you do not need to a Maxthon account to use the non-cloud features of Maxthon to browse the web.

With Maxthon, you can push  text, images, websites/links and tabs from your Maxthon account on Google Android to Mac, Android and Windows operating systems which also have Maxthon installed on it

Maxthon ha cloud download which let you upload files to your Maxthon "My Cloud" account to backup up to 10GB of data from any device with Maxthon web browser on it.

Maxthon also has a full screen mode which has a fan-menu which make it easy to switch tabs by using touch gestures. The full screen mode also uses all your screen's space to view a website in full screen mode.

The homepage for Maxthon is useful because you can add speed dial bookmarks to open up websites with a tap of a finger on an icon. You can also setup Maxthon to open web apps, apps, and add-ons from the new tabs, or homepage.

The add-ons like Task killer, RSS reader, screenshot, file manager for Maxthon are also useful when you installed them from Google Play.

App Center in Maxthon makes finding web apps and content online easy.

You can also use touch gestures in Maxthon to close, open, switch, and restore tabs, or create your own gestures.

Reading in Maxthon is faster because it preloads pages, so you do not have to wait for pages to load. There is also night mode in Maxthon which makes your web browser easier to read in low light rooms, and it is easy to adjust the brightness in Maxthon for more comfortable reading in bright rooms.

Reader Mode adjust the font, and remove objects like widgets on a website to make reading websites easier.

There is a mode in Maxthon called WAP mode which makes downloading websites faster by using the low bandwidth WAP version of the website. It is easy to switch between the regular version and WAP version of a website in Maxthon in Maxthon's settings.

The Maxthon community also is very active with a forum, a lot of Facebook fans, and blog, so finding help on how to use Maxthon browser, or just to talk about it is simple.

Pinterest App for Google Android, fun online Image pin board app

Pinterest for Android is a fun pin board app which lets you pin images, videos, and other visual content to Pinterest.com.

You can make boards/categories for pinning your images, so they are easier to organize your pinned content. You can also give category and descriptions to your boards, so viewers can more easily know what your board is about, and possibly, let Pinterest more easily make your photos and videos which you pinned easier for users to find. You can also add a short description to images and videos which you have pinned on Pinterest.

Pinterest App for Android let you pin images by uploading them from your Google Android phone or tablet's  storage and camera, or you typing in the link or using the pin button on websites to pin a image which you selected from the website with Pinterest.

Pinterest also let you search for images and video, Pinterest boards, and members on Pinterest's built-in search engine. You can also browse categories like Art, Kids, Humor, etc when you just want to browse pins related to categories. I like using Pinterest for searching for images because most images are more high quality, bigger size, and newer then most image search I tried. For example, if I search for Tablet PC, I would get fewer results with those old Windows XP Tablets with Stylus pens instead of the iPad.

You can also use Pinterest to search for friends you already know on Facebook or Twitter by signing-up to Pinterest with your Facebook or Twitter account, or linking your accounts to Pinterest.

My favorite feature about Pinterest is the social network part of Pinterest. I can re-pin other users pin, and reply to other pins which people posted. It is also easy to follow other people's boards, and pins by following them, or just a board they made. It is also a good place to share website pictures and links with other members on Pinterest.

Pinterest is good for collecting images from around the web for arts and craft, or to easily find at a latter time by organizing them on boards. You can also make private boards to hide your images from the public.

The Pinterest App is pretty easy to use because it is like Pinterest.com which has a simple to use website for pinning images, videos, and links. The App is also pretty fast and stable in Google Android.

Duck Duck Go Search App for Google Android

Duck Duck Go is a website search engine app which you can use for Google Android phones and tablets. I like the search app because it is clean, fast, and easy to use.

Duck Duck Go have less spam, and cluttered websites because they ban undesirable sites, and it also does not collect information, and track its users.

I like that the homepage of the Duck Duck Go app is a newsreader RSS news feed from news sources from around the web like Yahoo News, Time, Reddit, NPR, and more, so once you open the DDG app you are greeted with news which got posted from around the web.

You can also use Duck Duck Go App as a simple web browser to browse, and save webpages. All links open in the DDG app also open in the DDG app, so you do not need to launch another web browser. The Duck Duck Go Web browser app is also pretty fast, and the settings are easy to adjust.

The app is also only 679 KB in size, so it loads fast, and does not take up much room on your Google Android phone or tablet.

The Duck Duck Go App is fast, and so is the web browser. The web results which Duck Duck Go provide are pretty good when I search DDG, and the web results don't have a lot of big ads, and links on it.

Learn more Abour Duck Duck Go at http://duckduckgo.com/

You can download the app at Amazon's Duck Duck Go page , Google Play's Duck Duck Go page, or at

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216461-android