Miscellaneous Tools

Given how developer- and hacker-friendly the Android OS is, it should come as no surprise that a vast array of free and paid developer-centric utilities are available for the platform. Here are just a few of the gems I have discovered in my own Android application explorations.

AndroZip File Manager[107] is a feature-complete file archiver application for Android that supports a variety of compressed file types, including GZIP, RAR, TAR, and ZIP. This program really comes in handy when zipping up a project to send as an email file attachment or post for download from a website link.

PHP developers will appreciate the free LAMP-like stack for Android by DK Labs called KSWEB.[108] Not only will you be able to write your ...

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