How to move Android Apps to SD Card

Every time when you install an Android application, it is automatically saved in internal storage of your device. Usually internal storage is smaller but most of the apps are running from here. The storage will be filled with a few apps and then will give ‘Low disk’ warning message.

If you want to install a new app then you need to uninstall another installed application. Furthermore your phone also needs certain space to run apps. Moving the installed applications to an external storage is the best solution to keep the space in the internal storage.  Some applications can be moved to SD card (external storage) but some are not. They must be always run from the internal storage which is mounted and cannot be removed from the device.

Moving an application to SD card is quite simple and easy but you may not aware of it. This tutorial will help you how to do it.

First, tap ‘Settings’ button on your phone or any Android device. Then go to ‘Application > Manage Applications’. It will show what the applications are installed and how much of memory is available in your device.

Tap an application which you want to move to SD card then tap ‘Move to SD Card’. If the ‘Move to SD card’ button is inactive, you are not able to move it into SD card. It means it should be run from the internal storage. If you find ‘Move to phone’ button instead of ‘Move to SD card’, it means the app has been already installed into SD card.

Top 10 Cool Android Apps for Sri Lankans

There are several Android apps for Sri Lankans on the Google playstore. Most of them are free. After a small study I have been able to list out some useful apps for all Sri Lankan. The number does not mean the rank.

1.    Lanka ID Card

 Sri Lanka Department of Registration of Persons issues National Identity Card (often called NIC) for every Sri Lanka who attains 16 years of age. After obtaining this card, he or she becomes an eligible one to vote and is identified as a Sri Lankan while seeking for various services. The NIC has a unique 10 digit number ending with ‘V’ or ‘X’. Anyone can guess some information from this number such as date of birth, sex, age etc.  The first 2 digits give the year of birth of a person and next 3 say on which day of the year he or she was born and whether the person is male or female.
Lanka ID Card app makes the things easier. Simply input the NIC number and tap ‘Get Details’ button, the screen gives some essential information of the cardholder. This app gives date of birth, age, the weekday of birth, gender and voting eligibility. [Download Link]

 

2.    Electricity Bill Sri Lanka

Electricity bill has turned into a big headache for all Sri Lankan. For few months it has been a serious talk between the citizens.  Several people have started to monitor their service meter and try to control the use of electrical equipments.
This cool app offers you an electricity cost calculator. This allows you to calculate monthly electricity bill for a given period of time.  It produces the results in 3 ways old tariff, proposed tariff 2013 and approved tariff 2013 according the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka.
Select the category ‘Domestic’ or ‘Religious’ and give start date, end date and number of units consumed. Tap ‘Calculate’. [Download Link]

3.    Sri Lanka Train Schedule

This is an award winning app from which you can get the information of train schedule, train delays and ticket prices. This application is very useful for every Sri Lankan. Obviously most of the north people may not use this app until ‘Yarl Devi’ hits Jaffna station.
[Download Link]

4.    Sri Lanka Postal Codes

This simple application gives the postal code of every city in Sri Lanka and contact numbers of the post-office in the city.  It also allows you to search a city for a postal code. Postal code always helps to find exact place without any confusion.

[Download Link]

   

5.    Sinhala –Tamil - English Dictionary. 

With this nice app, find the meaning of an English word in Sinhala and Tamil. It supports for Android 1.5 and above. This dictionary has over 150,000 English words with spelling suggestions. No font installation is required.
You can use this dictionary as English to Sinhala or English to Tamil. The big advantage of this dictionary is that you can transliterate Sinhala to English or Tamil to English by the typing the Sinhala or Tamil words phonetically. For example, if you type ‘Ammaa’ it understands and transliterates as ‘mother’.
As this is an online dictionary, internet connection is required.
[Download Link]

 6.    Sri Lankan Recipe

This app delivers quick and easy to prepare recipes which can be made in your kitchen. All recipes have been made to taste in a western kitchen. Each recipe is explained with a nice picture.
All recipes have been classified into seven major categories Rice, Poultry, Beef, Seafood, Vegetarian, Sambol and other. Once you downloaded this app, you can refer the recipes offline too. No active internet connection is needed.
[Download Link]

7.    Sri Lanka Weather

This app gives 10 day weather forecast for major cities in Sri Lanka from current day. This application is quite different from other weather apps. The weather of the cities is shown on an interactive map of Sri Lanka. It lets you to changes the unit of the temperature C or F.
[Download Link]

 

8.    Sri Lanka Bus Fares.

Bus fares for major cities in Sri Lanka can be viewed with this application. Find the route number and bus fares by entering the starting location and ending location. It gives the normal rates, semi luxury rates as well as luxury rates.

[Download Link]

9.    Sri Lanka Heritage

Sri Lanka Heritage is a travel and tourism guide which shows the heritage and historical sites of Sri Lanka. It gives the information, map and nearby things for each heritage.  You can pick your place with Google map and find the nearest heritages, historical sites and hotels. But its full version allows you to find nearest ayurveda and spa, beach, bars pubs nightlife, hospital, shopping mall, wildlife and so on.
[Download Link]

10.    Sri Lanka mobile portal

This is very useful information for those who work in Government institutions and those who seek information regarding Government institutions and services.  It provides government mobile applications for Android, Government SMS (GovSM) services such as Postal Codes, NIC Application Status Tracking, Police Clearance Certificate Status Tracking and Train Schedule.
[Download Link]

Record calls automatically in Android Phones

Normally the smartphones which runs on Android platform do not have call recording facilities, even if normal mobile phones have. Recorded calls may be helpful to you in so many ways. For instance, I have a habit of recording calls when I talk to a technician to sort out a technical problem. I use these recordings for my future reference.

There are numerous stunning applications available in Google playstore to record the calls. Auto Call Recorder is one of the best free call recorder records any phone calls automatically while calling. After calling, you are notified to choose which calls you want to save. This application also allows to save the recording into Dropbox or any other cloud drives.

Every recorded call is stored in the inbox which is a temporary storage normally saves 20 calls. You can increase the size up to 100. If you forget to save the calls into ‘Call Recordings’ folder in SD card, it may be deleted when new records fill the space in the inbox.

With this free version, every time you need to save the calls manually. If you purchase its Pro version, you will be able to set calls to save automatically for selected contacts.

The free version allows you to do 3 settings. Default mode is ‘Record everything’ which records all calls without any notification. ‘Contacts to record’ option lets you to choose which contacts' calls should be recorded. Third option records all the calls of the people who are not in the contacts.

Auto Call Recorder has the feature to record the calls in three audio formats AMR, 3gp and wav.

How to integrate with Dropbox

Head to settings. Under the cloud category, choose Dropbox. It will let you to sign up with Dropbox. All recorded calls are synchronized once you signed in with clouds and devices.