Best Free Android Apps for a spare 10 minutes

Imagine the setting… you’re sat at a bus stop, you’re in a waiting room, you’re on your lunch break at work.

In the bad old days, you’d be forced to do something drastic to pass the time, such as read a book, or attempt conversation with a fellow human being.

Thanks to the Smartphone, however, there’s a wealth of opportunities at your fingertips.

It was recently announced that Android have become the smartphone leaders with 52% of the market share. Therefore, for the 52% of you out there with a spare 10 minutes to kill, we present the best Android apps, available free of charge, to pass the time of day.

5. Ultimate Light Sabre

Apps have a tendency to be annoying to those around you, and it’s always helpful to weigh up the ratio of ‘fun-for-you’ against ‘annoying-for-them’.

The Star Wars Ultimate Light Sabre walks this line, like no app before it. Whether you think this is one of the best Android apps available really depends on if you’re using, or sat next to someone else who is using it.

An endless collection of 5 star user reviews show how well this app has been received, but anyone in your vicinity may end up wanting to toss you into the Pit of Sarlacc, as your weapon hums with each swipe of your phone, and your camera’s flash lights up the room. Choose from 15 different characters, 15 different Light Sabres, and 5 different authentic musical scores (yes, The MosEisley Cantina tune is on there), just make sure, for your own benefit, there’s no-one else in the room.

4. Fat Booth

We’re all busy professional people with very specific needs, and it’s hard to remember how we got by before the smartphone revolution.

How did we ever survive in a time when we couldn’t take a photo of a friend, and see what they’d look like with a big face? This app is an old favourite on the ipod, which has reached the Android market in time to make number four on our list of best Android apps.

It’s hard to find a life that has, as yet, been untouched by the wonders of fat-booth. Even those shiny deities that us mortals call celebrities have been in on the fun, seeing what their flawless features would look like after an attack on the biscuit tin.

See if you can identify the famous faces from the flabby line up below.

3. Andro Daft

Let’s face it, there’s no finer dance tune known to man than the Daft Punk classic ‘Harder Better Faster Stronger’.

With Andro Daft, you can sit atop your giant triangle and bash out this electro classic with such glee that anyone would be forgiven for mistaking you for a French techno robot.

The original version of the app contained just this one song, but the glorious 3.0 version offers a whole collection of Daft Punk hits, as well the backing tracks to play them over.

Simply tap away the individual lyric buttons and see why this is among the best Android apps for killing 10 minutes.

2. Skitch

Skitch is a photo editing and sharing tool, which is one of our best Android apps because sometimes it’s not enough to just take your friend’s photo, you have to doodle on their faces too.

Draw, scribble, distort, and annotate, then upload directly to your favourite social network.

You can either take a photo though Skitch, or kill 10 minutes with ease as you browse the pictures in your photo galleries, and draw a little moustache on everyone you know.

1.Angry Birds

Top of the list, we have the granddaddy of games. The mafia don of the Android market. The Numero Uno of best android apps. I am of course speaking of Angry Birds. The game, in case you’re one of the eight people who don’t know, presents new levels of social realism as you attempt to fling different forms of avian ammunition at the disembodied heads of smirking green pigs, whooink at you like gleeful bogies if you fail to make them explode.

The dangerous thing about using Angry Birds to kill 10 minutes is just how gosh darn addictive it is, sucking away minutes and hours like some kind of angry time vacuum, leaving you to emerge bleary eyed after 10 minutes of play only to discover that several days have passed.

It’s number 1 in our rundown of best Android apps, but play it at your own peril.

Honourable mentions also go to Fruitslice, Bubblebuster, Talking Tom, Milk the Cow and The Moron Test.

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