You can read our Q&A with Diana Luckevich, the developer of TextDooDad, here! TextDooDad makes it easy to evaluate trends with SMS messages and phone calls on your Android device. This app is pretty lightweight and it is also easy to use once you poke around with the settings and click around in the app. Maybe you’ll be smarter than me and figure it all out without watching the video, but if not, TextDooDad’s website offers a handy YouTube video of the features and how to make...

Diana Luckevich is the developer of “TextDooDad“, an Android app that provides data and analysis of your text messages and some additional capabilities. Don’t miss Ellie’s unbiased review of TextDooDad here. I sent Diana some questions, and she was nice enough to tell us all about her experience with programming and releasing an Android app, which you can read below. This is our first in what I hope will become a long series of profiles of female Android developers. If...

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Android Community, I have a confession to make: I am a Capital Beltway driver. Those of you who understand what I mean are probably nodding or wincing. For those who do not, let me explain. The Washington, D.C. Capital Beltway was ranked #3 in The Daily Beast’s “America’s 75 Worst Commutes” and I drive a portion of it as part of my trip to work on a daily basis. I, like most of my compatriots in driving, would LOVE to find a way to make it...

I first heard about the Congress app from AndroidAndMe blog, where they wrote: Sunlight Labs, an open-source community of developers and designers aimed at opening up government to make it more transparent, accountable, and responsible, released an Android application entitled Congress, which is aimed at getting Android users more involved in government. Currently in version 2.2, Congress allows users to find and call their elected officials using their location and read the latest bills and...

I don’t play games on my phone often, but I like this quick cute game: Abduction! When I first tried it, I liked it as an app to show off the Droid’s accelerometer (since I had never had a phone with motion interactivity before). I believe the story behind abduction is that you are a cow and all of your cow buddies have been abducted by aliens, and you have to get up to the UFO to save them before the aliens take them to space. (Of course.) Here’s how it works: The cow is...

Adobe recently announced that they released a Reader PDF-viewer app for Android. Of course, Droid phones could already view PDF files with the QuickOffice viewer (or other PDF apps): The QuickOffice viewer’s menu makes it easy to fit the document to the screen and to jump to any page. However, I find myself wanting to zoom in often (because it’s hard to read a whole page of text on a small screen) and QuickOffice doesn’t make use of the Droid’s pinch-to-zoom...

We’ve already told you about Listables!, a great way to share and save a list of your Android apps – but even more full featured is AppBrain, which is part website linked to the Market and part Android app that helps you search for Android apps online, make lists of the ones you want to add to your device and sync lists of apps between phone and web application. Once you’ve logged in with your Google account, you’ll want to add AppBrain to your device using the QR Code...

One of my favorite features of Android is the ability to change your wallpaper (backgrounds) to whatever your heart desires. Backgrounds makes this task easy, even if it is a little daunting to go through hundreds of photos to find that ONE perfect one! Backgrounds is broken down into dozens of categories, so you can narrow your search to things like trees, stars, buildings, technology, flowers, etc. Once you start searching through a category, you’ll see four (4) photos at a time. use...

I love storing my photos online in the Picasa photo album. It makes it easier to share with friends and family since I already use Gmail and it is so tightly integrated with other Google services. There is no native Picasa client for Android, but Picasa Tool Pro is perhaps the best Picasa app out there for Android. Picasa Tool Pro makes it easy to view your online albums from your phone, share photos via Facebook, Twidroid, email, etc. and search the public archives for interesting photos you...

It has come to my attention that some people with Android phones aren’t yet using Google Voice! This really surprises me, because Google Voice is one of my favorite things about my Droid. If you haven’t made the switch yet because you’re used to your “regular” voicemail and haven’t felt the need to try visual voicemail, I strongly urge you to just try it out – you can always switch back if you don’t like it. However, once you can read your...