Hand-picked Free Android Apps for Designers and Alike

Conventionally the word Android means a robot or machine that is made to act and look likes normal human beings. But ever since 2005, this word has gotten a whole other meaning when Google purchased Android Inc., a mobile operating system. Many Android supported mobile sets have met with enviable market success.

We have shared free iPhone Applications for Bloggers and and free iPhone Applications for Photographers, but no Android Apps had been shared yet. So today, I’m presenting 22 of the best and most useful Absolutely Free apps from all the categories, related to design.

 

Design

Magic Color Picker

Magic Color Picker is an powerful color selection tool suitable for designers, artists and programmers for selecting colors using different color models.

SketchBook Express

Autodesk SketchBook® Express is a professional-grade paint and drawing application offering a set of sketching tools and a streamlined and intuitive user interface.

Adobe Photoshop Express

Edit and share photos virtually anywhere. Touch to crop, rotate, adjust color, and add artistic effects. Access all your photos and videos directly from your free Photoshop.com account.

Color Palette – Iromihon

Iromihon is a color tool to adjust and to see. In full screen, it also works as a color light (flashlight).

Camera Illusion

“Camera Illusion” is a camera application that lets you process photos in real-time, previewing and taking amazing pictures combining filters, effects and masks.

Ultimate Finger Painting-Free

One good use of this app is while speaking with clients, you can make a dummy design of their thought. If the client has an idea for a logo, you can draw a logo right away.

Many drawing brushes and sizes; Dots, continuous free style, lines, triangles, rectangles, rounded rectangles, circles, stars, a colorful morphing shape that can be tweaked by easy sliders to many shapes such as crosses, to snowflakes, to flowers, plus paint bucket fill.

 

Design Snack Mobile

Design Snack is a feature-rich, interactive and socially-powered web design gallery. It’s web design inspiration, evolved.

Font Based

Fontest

Fontest is a developer and typography tool that helps you quickly preview how your favorite fonts are rendered on Android.

Fontroid

Fontroid is a world’s first social font service that creates best handwriting font with everyone. Let’s draw your own font everywhere with a mobile phone.

Typography Wall

For advance user, you may like to try the Edit screen feature to change the size, location, transparency of the clock, calendar and betterl text!

Browsers

Opera Mini Web Browser

Get the fastest mobile browser with Opera Mini. By compressing pages with Opera’s servers, Opera Mini not only loads webpages faster, but it saves on data charges since it uses about a tenth of the data of normal browsers.

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

Take Firefox anywhere. Go from desktop to mobile without interruption. Introducing Firefox 4 for Android! It’s fast, easy to use and completely customizable.

Dolphin Browser Mini

Something powerful, something elegant, something valuable! It is Dolphin Browser HD. It is full-featured with multi-tab support and flash preview.

TweetDeck (Twitter, Facebook)

TweetDeck is your social browser for Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Buzz.

Everything Else

Flickroid

A simple flickr upload application that integrates in the share feature of the media gallery. It supports: video, background uploading, tags with suggestions of your used flickr tags, privacy settings, photosets, blog sharing like Twitter etc.

Evernote

This award-winning app lets you remember and recall anything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put everything into Evernote and watch as it all instantly synchronizes from your phone to the Web to your PC.

Thinking Space

Create visual thought maps that help organize and plan your activities and ideas Thinking Space is a Mind Mapping application for Android.

Dropbox

Dropbox syncs your files online and across computers for a universal access anywhere. Sync your files between your computers and your mobile device.

Excuse List

Ever need a good excuse? The app features around 2500 excuses divided in 35 categories.

WordPress

WordPress for Android is an Open Source app that empowers you to write new posts, edit content, view stats, and manage comments with built-in notifications.

AndFTP

AndFTP is a FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP client. It can manage several FTP configurations. It comes with both device and FTP file browser.

Merchant Lite

Accept Credit Cards from your phone! Use your phone and merchant account to accept your customer’s credit cards. No more bad checks, enter info and get paid. Works anywhere with a network connection.