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Android-Stocker is an Android based program to access near real time stock quotes.

Mandelbrot Map is a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer for Android that acts as an “infinite map”. Simply use it like Google Maps, with panning and zooming. It also offers options to save images and set as wallpaper.

A simple game for Android: the screen is covered with colored sprites (squares or circles). When you align 3 or more in a row, all adjacents sprites of the shape & color vanish. You can only swap adjacent sprites vertically or horizontally. You can swap sprites even if it won’t result in a 3-or-more alignment, but that will cost you 10% of your current score.

The game offers two variations on the gameplay and manages a list of current games, that you can pause and recall at any time.

This application allows Android users to play Infocom classics just as ‘Zork’, as well hundreds of newer text adventures written in the last ten years or so. The package comes bundled with a few built-in games, but also allows you to load games from your SD card.

Lights Out Android is a Lights Out game for Android phones.

Android rewrite of the original Windows game “Alien Blood Bath”.

This is a port of the KDE game “knetwalk”, by Andi Peredri, Thomas Nagy, and Reinhold Kainhofer. Ported to Android by Ian Cameron Smith (headstay); released under GPL. Includes MTRandom by David Beaumont, released under LGPL.

The player is given a network diagram with the parts of the network randomly rotated; he/she must rotate them to connect all the terminals to the server.

Scrambled Net detects the screen size of the device it’s running in, and configures the board appropriately. This makes the game a bit easier on smaller phones — we don’t want to make the cells too small, because it’s difficult to tap on a tiny cell on a phone’s touchscreen. Portrait and landscape phones are handled automatically.

Tile rotation is smoothly animated; highlighted tiles show the user’s progress.

The game is designed to be usable with 12-key keypad or QWERTY keypad, or by tapping the screen.

The game has 5 difficulty levels; the first 3 use different board sizes; then wrap-around is introduced for “Master” level; then “Insane” level adds invisible cells. In case you’re wondering, yes, I can solve “Insane” puzzles, usually in 10-12 minutes on a large (HVGA) phone.

An app for Android intended to allow you to update your status in one simple place and have a set of different services updated.

Jythonroid is an implementation of Jython in Android Dalvik Vitual Machine.

Ringdroid is an Android application for recording and editing sounds, and creating ringtones, directly on the handset.