Android has become the world’s most-used mobile OS and some amazing apps for web designers have been created that you should take advantage of. Whether you are a graphic designer or you work with website coding, there are apps out there that will make your life much easier especially when you are not near your desktop.
After a comprehensive reading and a lot of research, I hand-picked this list of some of the best Android apps for designers. While this is by no means a complete list, the apps listed here will increase your productivity no matter where you are. It includes tools to help you create, edit, and save your design work on the go.
1. Adobe® Photoshop® Touch $9.99
An app designed for tablets, it transforms your images by using popular Photoshop features such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters. If you want to create artwork on your phone and not your tablet there’s a version for cell phones as well.
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2. Color Pal Free
If you have trouble with color schemes this app has a wide variety of color palettes and schemes for any design project.
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3. SwatchMatic Free
Need an app that generates beautiful color palettes from photos that you believe capture the mood you’re looking for?
Take any picture and quickly generate a color palette from the photo itself. Great for clients that have photos they want included in their web design!
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4. Paperless $1.99
This is a tablet drawing app very similar to the app Paper for the iOS. You sketch and paint with water colors, feather, pencil, and brushes. The app allows you to set line thickness, size, opacity and smoothing.
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5. Skitch Free (with Limitations)
An app designed to annotating images and screenshots such as adding highlights and arrows and text to images. Need to explain something to a client or draw attention to something specific on the webpage?
This is great for that!
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6. Adobe Edge Inspect CC Free (with Limitations)
One of the most useful tools on the marketplace at the moment, this is great for web designers who are targeting mobile browsers. You’ll be able to pair your devices, have them browse in sync with your computer, and perform remote inspection and debugging so you can see HTML/CSS/JavaScript changes instantly on your device.
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7. Box Free
A useful alternative to other more popular storage apps on the market (like Dropbox). This company occasionally runs a deal to give away up to 50GB storage space, FREE. It will cut down on the problems when submitting and sharing valuable files with your colleagues and clients, and it can handle small and large data storage. File storage size ability will vary.
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8. HTML5 & CSS Quicklook Guide Free
If you are a web designer needing to get back to the basics or a designer wanting to get involved in web coding with HTML5 and CSS, this 20 tutorial course guide is packed with useful information.
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Some of these android apps may be ones you already know and use. However, I’m sure there are a few on this list you haven’t seen! Before writing, I read the reviews on the android market to hear real-time what people think about these app and what they liked, didn’t like, and the app limitations.
Do you have an app that you use and feel should be on this list too? Find one that maybe doesn’t deserve to be on the list? Tell us in the comments and let’s discuss and educate your designer colleagues!
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