Trying Out The ShareMyApps Android Application

Hmmm.... the below is the Blogger output from the ShareMyApps Android application. This app inspects your phone to see what applications you have installed and then allows you to select from a list and share with your contacts.

The sharing options seem pretty good. Again it inspects your phone to see what you have installed and allows you to share using applications installed on your phone. So in my case it allowed:

• Gmail
• Text
• Bluetooth
• Blogger - app installed on my phone
• Docs - Google docs
• Dropbox
• FriendStream - the HTC pre-installed app
• Mail - the HTC Mail client
• Peep - another HTC pre-installed app
• Twitter

so a very extensive selection! I tried sharing via Blogger though and this was the output that was generated. See the list of links below. Not exactly user friendly! Can you make sense out of it?

Tried sharing the list via Twitter as well. Hmmm no luck there, my tweet was 763 characters over the allowed 140 character limit!

So although plenty of sharing options, not much validation going on as to whether the content worked in a particular application! Perhaps additional validation, to determine if content is appropriate to share in a particular medium, might come in an upgrade?

Sharing via Blogger:

Amazon UK: http://market.android.com/details?id=uk.amazon.mShop.android Chrome to Phone: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.chrometophone Dropbox: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.dropbox.android Finance: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.finance Foursquare: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.joelapenna.foursquared Google Sky Map: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.stardroid Gowalla: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.gowalla IMDb: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.imdb.mobile LinkedIn: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.linkedin.android My T-Mobile: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.everythingeverywhere.tmobile RunKeeper: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.fitnesskeeper.runkeeper.pro ShareMyApps: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattlary.shareMyApps Shazam: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.shazam.android Shopper: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.shopper ShopSavvy: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.biggu.shopsavvy Skype: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.skype.raider Sonos: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.sonos.acr Spotify: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.spotify.mobile.android.ui Translate: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate TripIt: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.tripit Tube Chaser: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.andybotting.tubechaser XE Currency: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.xe.android

To be fair though, sharing via email did work a treat. The following is the email output:

Amazon UK
Chrome to Phone
Dropbox
Finance
Foursquare
Google Sky Map
Gowalla
IMDb
LinkedIn
My T-Mobile
RunKeeper
ShareMyApps
Shazam
Shopper
ShopSavvy
Skype
Sonos
Spotify
Translate
TripIt
Tube Chaser
XE Currency

Generated by ShareMyApps

At least they are clickable links to the Android Market! ;-) Also as you can now install apps direct from the PC, via Market Place, onto your Android phone, this allows a user to actually download the application suggestions!

So if you like telling your friends about applications they might like, ShareMyApps is a pretty good way to do it. It might not work across every format, but potentially additional support, for some form of validation, might be available in later releases

Have fun

Cheers

m