5 GREAT ANDROID APPS

Apps such as these are crying out for the big screen tablet experience, and prove Honeycomb is one to watch

Swiftkey Tablet tba This Android keyboard was one of the hits of CES 2011, learning your writing style and offering precise prediction that appears to know what you’re going to write before you do.

ANOVA HD 218 Gameloft’s futuristic sci-fi shooter owes a lot to Halo, and it’s better for it. At the moment, like many Android apps, it’s only compatible with 7 inch tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Sketcher free A bare-bones drawing app featuring some amazing brush effects, which can turn the lamest doodle into a work of stunning penmanship. Works best with a stylus.

Amazon Kindle free Apple’s iBooks app looks neat, but the catalogue of books doesn’t come close to the Kindle Store. And because Kindle is cross-platform, you can get your library on any tablet.

VPlayer 145 Like format-straddling PC media player VLC, this plays a huge variety of movie formats – including WMV and DivX – without dropping frames. Works with HD videos, too.