When I started to think about what my favourite app was I realised that there is one app that I use more than any other. I tend to use apps with a specific purpose in mind, so if I need to write notes I'll use Evernote, or if I need to read a e-book I'll use Moon+. However, after deleting my daily influx of email spam in the morning I tend to open up the Reddit Is Fun app and read it like a newspaper.
Reddit is a social link sharing site with some 70 million users and 4.8 billion monthly page views. The site is broken into a number of user generated sub categories and users can submit links or posts to those groups. Other users can then up or down vote a post or even comment on it.
The good thing about Reddit is that you can customise what groups you want to see. This means that you get a page consisting of news items and stories that are of interest to you. As a result I tend to see new developments and techniques in web development, keep up to date with gaming news and also have an eye on world events. I spend a lot of time either reading Reddit posts or reading blog posts and news articles that I have found through Reddit and will often send round some of the better ones to colleagues.
Reddit Is Fun is an Android app that essentially wraps Reddit into an application, but provides a number of extra features along with a neat user interface. The experience you get through the app is much better than through the website, even after installing a bunch of browser plugins. It isn't endorsed or developed by Reddit themselves but uses the Reddit API to interact with the site. The app is available for purchase as well as a free version that contains a few adverts and some missing features. Both the paid and free versions are good, but you should show some love for the developer and buy the app.
I recently bought a new Nexus 7 and I have found the experience of using the app much better than on a phone. The user interface is much less crowded than on a tiny little screen. Many of the posts on Reddit that go to external sites I can now sit and read properly without having to battle with my phone to display the website correctly.
Honourable mentions should go to Twicca for being the best Twitter app on Android and Beyond Pod for being the best podcast app I've ever used. And also to the many games I have installed, which is perhaps the subject of another post...
