20 Best Android apps this week

it's been an exceptionally busy week for new Android apps around the Google Play store, so this weekly roundup is back up to 20 apps.

As ever before, games are not included, as there is a separate weekly post for new mobile and tablet games. The latest one includes quite a few Android games: Sky Gamblers: Go up of Glory, Bingo Blitz, Labyrinth two, Monster Warlord, Prince of Persia Basic, The Curse, Critter Escape along with Judge Dredd vs. Zombies.

The weekly Best iPhone and iPad Apps post will abide by later in the day. For the moment, here are the 20 most notable new Android apps from the past seven days:
Chameleon Launcher

Chameleon Launcher's developer raised over $66k on Kickstarter earlier in 2012 to generate its "better Home Screen for your Android tablet", and now it's out inside the wild. It aims to place a better-looking spin on Android's default widget system, with several of its and an API for developers to generate others. It's built for tweaking way too: users can create several different home screens, and set "context rules" to switch between them in different occasions and locations.
Amazon MP3

Not, admittedly, a new app, nonetheless it now has a new service for Brits. Amazon launched its Amazon Cloud Player in england this week, enabling people to play the songs they've stored inside their music locker. New purchases through the MP3 Store are also automatically included in the Cloud Player.
Talking Ginger

The popularity of Outfit7's Talking Friends apps can be gauged by the point that Talking Ginger has more than 500, 000 installs on Android a matter of days right after its release. As with other apps inside the series, its animal hero will speak your words back, with a focus on his bedtime routine designed to appeal to children.
St John Ambulance First aid

St John Ambulance has launched a state app for Android phones providing its latest first-aid and emergency advice, complete with illustrated guides along with voice instructions for use each time a situation arises. The organisation is keen to stress it's mostly not a replacement for an entire course or first-aid manual.
GWR2013 Augmented Reality

This year's Guinness World Records book includes its own augmented reality accomplice app, used to bring sharks, slam-dunking parrots, bird-eating spiders and world's shortest men one's and jumping out of the pages.
Scosche RHYTHM

The latest fitness app for Android was created to be used with a real accessory, namely Scosche's RHYTHM Armband Beat Monitor. The idea being which you wear the armband while working, and the app tracks your vital signs and makes them readily available for later analysis. Music features and "motivational voice prompts" can also be provided.
eMusic

Subscription music service eMusic launched an Android app in the united states earlier in 2012, but now it's been made available in england. Anyone can use it being the music already stored on the phone or tablet, while also getting recommendations on new songs they might like. Paying eMusic subscribers can also download music through the service itself.
ICC Cricket

Just with time for the World Twenty20 tournament, the International Cricket Council has released a state Android app. Its focus will be on news and team facts, but also ball-by-ball text comments during matches, live audio and video highlights during the tournament.
Audioid

Get in a right 808-state with this "electronic audio rhythm composer" for Android units. It's launching with a digital version from the famous TR-808 drum machine, that has a TB-303 bass-synthesizer to come in a very future update. Expect plenty involving effects, sounds and "linear along with logarithmic knobs and bars". Which is always nice.
Bloomberg Radio+

Bloomberg continues to be probably the most active broadcasters when it relates to launching apps for multiple platforms. Its latest Android app gives its radio station to mobile devices, streaming live audio round the clock, while also making shows and interviews available on-demand. Expertly, it also shows you stock chart and data while they're being discussed on-air.
Triggertrap

Are smartphones eradicating off standalone cameras? Not SLRs but. In fact, this Android app was created to work with an SLR camera, triggering it using modes which includes timelapse, long-exposure and Star Trek. A separate hardware dongle is required for the actual connection regarding the Android device and the camera, though.
Geotracks

In a high-profile week for everyone things mobile and mappy, Geoloqi provides released its GPS logging along with location-sharing app. Its focus is something we've seen before – a chance to share your location with good friends in real-time. It's been created using Geoloqi's API, which it can be touting to other developers, and this is as much a showcase for the as a standalone app.
Problems Signal

Billing itself as "the comprehensive mobile emergency solution", this app wants to help people contact the community emergency services, even if they're not inside their home country. The idea: it sends an emergency text with the user's current location for the emergency services, translated into the area language. The service currently works in a very few countries: the UK, Ireland in europe, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Philippines along with Iceland, but a wider rollout is on the way.
Sig. Gen.

Another musical model here: an audio signal generator that's actively attempting to look "as if it were knocked together in a very garden shed". It's a large knob, basically, which can be twisted to generate noises, including chords and weighing scales.
NuffnangX

We can't shy from this: the name is bad. NuffnangX is also getting a mixed reception on Google Play for the standard of its initial release, but the theory behind it is interesting: ways to find and follow blogs through browsing one-line summaries, while also commenting with them – if the blogs help the NuffnangX technology.
Michael Manley Motiv8

Fresh from his TV commentating stint in the Olympic Games, former athlete Michael Johnson has taken his fitness app to Android. It follows the pattern laid down by others inside the genre, tracking your runs while playing music from your collection. The twist being that Manley himself provides vocal encouragement as you go along.
Insomniac

Dig out your neon trousers and celebrate the kick off of Insomniac's official Android request. The company promotes music festivals and events in the united states, including EDM-favourite the Electric Daisy Carnival. Its app provides information and content dependant on all its events, including photographs, videos and its own loading radio station.
MyShelf

Launching a new app to store notes, images and links? A tough concern, given the popularity of Evernote. All the same, MyShelf is having a bust at it, with the promise so it exchanges data across devices without ever storing it inside the cloud, using Wi-Fi or USB.
Pray With Me

This app features a very specific focus: "A personal vocal assistant designed to help with perfecting the pronunciation from the Arabic verse for the 5 regular prayers (salat), while the user will be performing salat". It includes several recordings to assist users get the pronunciation proper, with a percentage of revenues likely to charities.
Stay. com City Courses, Offline Maps

More maps in this article from Stay. com, which is touting the thinking behind "social travel guides" – some thing we've seen from other startups like Gogobot. In this case, there exists actually a dual focus. This app helps people create collaborative journey plans with friends, while also plotting everything with an offline map for non-wallet-shrieking use abroad.

That's our selection, but what have you been using on your Android gadget this week? Make your tips, or give feedback on the apps above, by posting a comment.