My Android conversion gripes

funny cartoon androidI’ve been officially running Android for a couple of months now, and while the transition has been mostly pain free, I still have 3 issues that leave me kind of missing my iPhone.

  1. There is no Android Twitter client that compares to Tweetbot. I’ve tried the official Twitter app, Tweetcaster, Plume, and Carbon so far. And because they are all lacking in some way, I find myself rarely using Twitter anymore, unless I’m on my iPad. I’ve heard some good things about Tweetings, but I’d have to shell out $3 just to try it, and I’m not willing to do that just yet. So still looking for a decent Twitter app.
  2. Music. I still to this very day don’t have any idea how to easily listen to my music on Android. Yup, I am coming from the iTunes/iPhone world, where all this worked very, very good. I guess Android doesn’t even have a built in music app, so you have to install one. But there’s tons of choices, and none them look amazing. And what’s the best way to get my music files on my phone?? It’s just too much of a pain in the ass. So for now, I’m relying on my Pandora subscription for music, but that doesn’t allow to to listen to specific songs. I’ll post back when I find out a solution. Or feel free to share what works for you.
  3. The last issue, which isn’t too big, but is annoying, is not having Airplay anymore. While I don’t have any way to listen to my music yet, I do listen to a lot of podcasts and I’ve settled on Pocket Casts and my podcast app of choice. While it’s not as good as Downcast was on the iPhone, it works pretty well. But I like to listen to podcasts while I work and I used to Airplay them to the receiver I have in my office. I miss that. For now, I’m just using a cheap bluetooth speaker, but I look forward to the day I can send the audio of my phone back through my sweet sound system.

So those are my 3 major gripes. Aside from that, I really love the phone, and I love my provider, Ting. If Apple ever releases a larger screen phone, and that phone becomes available on Ting, there is a strong chance I would go back (at least as my feelings about Android stand right now).

One thought on “My Android conversion gripes”

  1. Welcome to the dark side…

    On the subject of music – I’ve been a subscriber to Google Music All Access for a while now, and I absolutely love it. Monthly subscription gets you unlimited access to the whole Google Music library. I haven’t touched Pandora since joining All Access a year ago. If you don’t do the pay thing, you can just upload your music library to Google and playback through the same Google Music app.

    Podcasting, I’d suggest trying “Doggcatcher”. It’s got a great interface and lots of configuration options, and it supports Chromecast and Bluetooth.

    For your Airplay replacement, check out “AllCast”. I’ve heard it works quite well.

    I use the official Twitter app on my Android phone, and Plume on my Android tablet… both seem fine to me, though I admit I’m a bit oblivious to the apple Twitter world.

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