There are many Xbox Live apps in the Android marketplace for gamers who spend more time on their phones than their Xbox. Whether your goal is to keep an eye on what people are playing, or to decorate your phone's main page with your friends' avatars, there are plenty of tools and apps to keep your head in the game.
1337pwn.com
The 1337pwn.com app for Android is useful for keeping tabs on your Xbox Live friends. Search "1337pwn.com" in the Android marketplace, and download. Once the app has finished downloading, open the app, press the "Menu" button and press "Add Gamertag." Type in the Gamertag you wish to follow, and keep track of all of your Xbox live friends when you are away from the Xbox. There are options within the app that allow you to get notifications when your friends come online or start playing a different game. This app is free to all Android users as of October 2010.
Xbox Live Avatar Widget
The Xbox live avatar widget is a fun tool for Android users who wish to decorate their phone desktops with their best friends', or their own, Gamertags. Search "Xbox live avatar" in th Android marketplace, and download. Once the widget is finished downloading, go to your phone's home screen and hold your finger on the homepage until a window pops up. A menu with multiple options will come up, choose the "Android widgets" option. Scroll down the list of widgets until you find the Xbox live avatar widget, and choose it. This is the only way to open the widget. Type in the avatar that you wish to have on your home screen and select "Add Widget." This will place the avatar on your phones desktop.
There is an optional addition that allows you to link the avatar to a contact in your phone upon placement to the desktop. If you link the avatar to a phone contact, whenever you touch the avatar located on the desktop, the phone will bring up the selected contact's phone information, giving you an option to call, text or email that person. This app is free as of October 2010.
Xbox 360 Live
With the Xbox 360 Live app, Xbox users can enter their login information and view everything that they would on the friends portion of the Xbox dashboard. Users of the app can view friends, send messages, compare gamer scores and games, and keep track of what all of their friends are doing. All you need to do is download the app and enter your login information, and the app takes care of the rest. No typing in your entire friends list to follow, all of your friends and information will already be loaded into the app. This is the easiest app to use, and the most useful when it comes to functionality. The Xbox 360 live app costs $1.99 on the Android market as of October 2010.
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