best electronics app for android? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: maor
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2015, 06:51:14 am
content: So I'm moving from the iphone world to android, and theres an app I use quite a lot called Electronic toolbox, it has many reference tools such as parameters for cable guages, common connector pinouts, smd code chart, and a large database on many discrete semiconductors (FETs,Transistors etc.) and I wonder if there is something equivalent on the android market I can buy.I already found RF & Microwave Toolbox which contains quite a lot of tools I require but it's missing a lot of the things I mentioned above.any help guys?

author: PedroDaGr8
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2015, 07:35:50 am
content: Quote from: maor on January 16, 2015, 06:51:14 amElectroDroid sounds like what you want. It's the premier electronics related app on Android.Though it lacks the FET database, it does have a PIC and AVR database that you can add on IIRC.

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 16, 2015, 05:11:23 pm
content: There is alsoAnyCircuitEvery Circuit. There is a free version and a paid version. I think though that ElectroDroid is closer to what you want.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2015, 11:36:37 am
content: An absolute must... RealCalc. The free version is very good, but the full version is even better. I use it every day at work.

author: IO390
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2015, 11:43:57 am
content: +1 for electrodroid. Really handy for pinouts and virtually everything else.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2015, 10:00:34 pm
content: ohm's law calculator.

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2015, 10:51:01 pm
content: +1 for electrodroid

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2015, 12:33:47 am
content: I use both electrodroid and realcalc. Highly recommended.I don't even miss my hard HP calc anymore (except the soft programs). For those I use droid48 now, the HP48G emulator.But even though I have both realcalc and droid48, I almost always use realcalc. It's a real nice RPN calculator.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2015, 04:12:05 am
content: Tried to install electrodriod on my nexus 5 but not enough memory. Must be a memory hog. I will have to deleted a few eevblog and amp hour podcasts to make room.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2015, 06:33:06 am
content: I haven't used it in a while but I do remember Electrodroid being a really neat program. I also have programs that are AVR and PIC parts databases. The Digikey application is also useful for looking things up.

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 18, 2015, 08:19:19 am
content: I meant to say Every Circuit. It is worth a look too.

author: TMM
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2015, 04:31:12 pm
content: I've got Electrodroid installed but honestly i hardly ever use it. One app i do use a lot at the bench is Calculator++. If you are used to graphics calculators that take strings as input (as opposed to a typical scientific calculator) you will love it.Quote from: zapta on January 18, 2015, 04:12:05 amIt's only taking up 15.83MB on my Nexus 5. Not exactly what i'd consider a memory hog when Facebook etc frequently bloat out to over 100MB.

author: Kedar264
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2015, 06:32:57 am
content: what do you think about eevblog forum app

author: Kedar264
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2015, 09:40:27 am
content: check this outhttps://www.mediafire.com/?si0crlkw7oju4ib

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2015, 05:58:41 pm
content: is it open source? ... I can't just install some random program onto my phone..

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2015, 06:07:32 pm
content: Quote from: Lightages on January 18, 2015, 08:19:19 amNote, the free version is so limited that you can't really do anything with it.

author: Kedar264
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2015, 01:43:36 pm
content: It is open source.

author: timofonic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2015, 04:04:55 pm
content: Electrodroid seems okay, but it has flaws. I yet have to find a well rounded electronics Android app, using tons is sometimes worse than using a website, computer or paper reference.Most apps are really half-baked.- SandScan looks promising, but outdated and not works good here.- Electronics Toolkit has a really interesting set, but unable to do useful things such as show resistor color codes when entering a resistance value. It has a list of 4000 series ICs, but not of 74000 series ICs.- ElectroDroid seems overall better ( you can do resistor reverse lookup) , but lacks stuff such as 4000 series ICs.- ElectroBuddy seems nicely done with a nicer UI, but lacks 4000 series ICs too.I would pay up to 20EUR for an app with the best of al them plus some more. But maybe it's a difficult project to do.There are some apps for kmaps, but each has it's limitations too.Quote from: Kedar264 on February 14, 2015, 01:43:36 pmDo you have an URL with your repo? Maybe you can talk with Dave about making it official