On the one hand, I find Android app Andmade Share useful enough that I pretty much instantly paid $2 for it. On the other hand, it is an example of a class of apps that leaves me shaking my head wondering why I need to constantly buy apps just to make Android functional.
Here’s the problem — I have about 150 apps installed on my Android phone. For about 50 of those apps, the developers decided that they had to add themselves to the Android Sharing menu.
For example, I have the Amazon Kindle app installed on my phone, and it helpfully adds a “Send to Amazon Kindle” option on the Sharing menu. I am never going to want to send anything to the Kindle app, and yet it is there cluttering up the Sharing menu and. With vanilla Android, I have no way to remove it from the menu.
So every time I want to share a link or text or whatever with the 3-4 apps I actually want to, I have to scroll through a list of 50 different apps. That is stupid to the nth degree.
Andmade Share fixes this by showing me a list of all apps that appear on the Sharing menu and allows me to check ones that I want to hide. Thank you.
It also allows users to share the same thing to multiple apps–so you could share a link to both Twitter and Facebook, for example–although that’s something else I’m never going to do.
