Must Have Android Apps for college students & professors

A list of 10 of the best Android apps for college/university students and professors alike. From note-taking and scheduling to scanning and document handling, there is an app here to cover everything you are going to need in an academic institution.

The Play Store is flooded with so many Android Apps – let alone Android Apps for college — nowadays that it is hard to sift out really great ones to use, and with a tight college schedules — for students and professors alike — it is often an impossible task.
But this list is perhaps all you would need: here are 10 Android apps for college you simply must have if you own an Android smartphone and go to college. I use most of these apps myself; and they are functional, good looking, smooth, tested and everything else you could hope for.
(The list is in alphabetical order to get rid of any prioritisation. Click an application name to download it from the Play Store.)

1. CamScanner/CamScanner HD

College has several instances, sometimes in a day, when you look at a document and you want a copy but cannot get it just then. Of course you can take a photo, but how good can it possibly turn out to be?
CamScanner (and if your phone supports it, the HD version) is a complete, near-perfect app to scan documents on the go. CamScanner uses your phone camera but has a nifty contrast feature that cleans up the text for you, as well as an option to compile several scans into a single pdf document. The effect is nearly as good as scanning it with an actual scanner!

2. Course Schedule

The calendar app that comes bundled with most Android phones is good enough, but it has its limitations. While most can be synced with the cloud and retrieved across phones, their performance within one phone itself is lacking in that it requires too many clicks to access.
How about a calendar on your home screen? If you are the kind of person who likes to see their wallpapers, Course Schedule still has you covered: their unique transparent schedule widget gives you access to your appointments on the go while not stealing the look of your phone.
The app requires you to log in via your Facebook or Twitter accounts and then the app’s real functionality comes in.

3. Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com is perhaps the most recognisable online dictionary website and this is their Android app.
College student or professor, anybody in the academic field often looks for a dictionary every now and then, and what better to have it on their phone?
Dictionary.com’s app is free, includes a thesaurus, audio pronunciation, voice search, idioms and phrases, daily content, including Word of the Day and The Hot Word and a home-screen widget. The app is also compatible with your tablet.

4. handyCalc

I am going to plead guilty to utter nerdiness here! On almost every single Android phone I have bought, this has been among the first apps I installed.
handyCalc is a full-fledged scientific and graphing calculator for any college student studying the physical sciences. It is almost too good to be true — and moreover, free — and for the mathematically less inclined, handyCalc might seem to have a steep learning curve; but rest assured, once you get the hang of it, there is no going back.
The app has a tutorial built into it, but the makers of handyCalc have also provided this explanatory video to help you get started.

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5. Kingsoft Office

With some of the best features in an office app, if you have not been given a bundled complete office software with your phone, you cannot go wrong downloading Kingsoft Office.

With a great UI, support for viewing and editing various file formats (up to 25 formats,) opening files larger than 100MB and including a built-in documents manager, Kingsoft Office is a great, free choice for your smartphone or Android tablet.

6. Note Everything

Note taking apps are a dime a dozen on the Play Store, so why choose Note Everything? Perhaps the easiest answer would be because you can go freehand. Indeed, with Note Everything, if your phone is supported, you have a clean bundle that is almost up to the standards of Galaxy Note’s S-Memo or S-Note apps.

Apart from just note taking, the app comes with a great array of note types, organisation possibilities, a good widget, built-in barcode integration and a neat slew of sharing options to make team tasks a breeze.

7. Schooltraq for Android

Although planning can be done with anything from a post-it to a 400 page diary, special academic planners just need to be a lot more than just easy to lug around.

Schooltraq fills in the gaps and does so in a pleasing way: it allows students to ‘organise schoolwork and assignments in a minimalist fashion,’ as the app makers put it.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of schooltraq is its seamless cloud sync that lets you access your planner from where you please, so long as you maintain a single account for it. While it is marketed with students in mind, its use is equally exhausting for a creative professor.

The app also has a dedicated calendar view and a neat homescreen widget.

8. Alert Student

For all students and professors of medicine, this is probably a very handy app.

In brief, Alert Student allows you to ‘organise your medical knowledge in digital format.’ It includes a multitude of concepts organised as per the SNOMED Clinical Terms, and allows you to create and share concepts as best as you can with a unique social networking that lets you reach contributors from several universities.

The app requires registration, but is free and promises to hold your thoughts and get you exploring content for a long time.

9. Studious

We have previously seen Schooltraq, which is a wonderful app, but it is only free in its beta version (it was free as of the time of writing this article.) But if you would rather save some money — and who would not? — then Studious is the app you are looking for.

It is my own favourite among the two, and indeed among most planner apps for college, and Studious is more openly helpful for both students and professors alike, with its greatest feature being the ability to automatically silence phones during class hours. Simply feed in your class timings and you are good to go. It will also automatically remind you of upcoming tests and assignments.

10. WolframAlpha

I am a self-confessed nerd. The chances are you are too. And if you are, you would probably love to have the WolframAlpha knowledge engine right on your phone.

For those of you who do not know, WolframAlpha has been a to-the-point Siri — minus the unnecessary voice recognition bits — for some of us since quite a few years now. It gives to the point mathematical and statistical answers to all logical questions (which you can ask like a question.)

Source:

http://vhbelvadi.com/2012/09/19/10-must-have-android-apps-for-college/