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I am currently in need of a bitcoin wallet app on Android. I am using the one by Bitcoin wallet developers at the moment but I need more than one. All the other wallets seem as though you have to create an account and I wanted to avoid this.  I was wondering if any other apps are available.

Thank you in advance for any replies.

Electrum doesn't need you to create an account.  It's one of the most secure SPV wallets too.
Also there's mycelium but I don't know if you need to create an account to use it.

I used Electrum because it was recommended to me when I started using Bitcoin.
The interface looks good and everything works well.
It did run a little slow when setting up the account, but I think thats because my phone is a few years old.

Just be sure to make a backup of your key and passphrase somewhere.
I write my keys to a text file and encrypt them, then save them on a computer and a couple USB sticks as backup in case of emergency.

I have just installed electrum and I have copied the phrase and entered a pin, this was not too much of a problem as I appreciate security of the wallet. It is currently generating the wallet addresses and has been on this for a while.

if i were you i would most probably go with the simple blockchain.info wallet because in my opinion it is really easy to use, besides that i have never had any problems with it

I'm starting Core for the first time today. Catching up...

I just edited my post to say that it took a long time when I first installed,
but I also think this is because my phone is old.
(3-4 years is a long time for a smartphone to be outdated)

oh wow, that will take a really long time, also it will take a lot of your hard drive space, i just use a paper wallet and i think with that my bitcoins are really safe

Mycelium is the standard bitcoin wallet on Android and supports Trezor and Ledger. If your phone is running Marshmallow you need to take a look at Breadwallet, which takes full advantage of the hardware encryption available on Marshmallow. Either would work well for you. Marshmallow is quite secure so no one is breaking into your Breadwallet (https://breadwallet.com/blog/breadwallet-for-android/) without your fingerprint and passcode.

You can't normally run bitcoin core on a phone. There is an app called ABCore (https://github.com/greenaddress/abcore) you can run on Android but is not really meant for phones, you would need wifi for data and 128 GB storage.

I would bet that Breadwallet becomes the most popular bitcoin wallet for new phones. It is really very good.

yeah, to be honest i also use that and in my opinion this wallet is the best right now, i hope that i will never have to search for any other wallets as core wallet is the best

If its the wallet that looks like the bitcoin symbol your using right now then i would ditch that soon as and install mycelium instead. Mycelium forces you to write down the password seed when you first start it so that you have a backup copy made. The wallet your using although its alright it doesnt offer the same incentive to backup which everyone who has a wallet should do. Either way though for android theres no beating mycelium.

Here is a good one I found on Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=piuk.blockchain.android&hl=en

You might want to consider XAPO. So far it has been working well for me on my Samsung Galaxy S6. I heard they have "military"-grade security for their cold wallets. 

I do currently use a xapo purely for the fact that I do not have to pay fees. I was however looking for another wallet that does not require a sign up.

XAPO would not be my first choice of advice.
I rather would say go for the old names in the scene; blockchain and coinbase. Both have good security features and you can also sign messages with your key.

As my experience to use any wallet in android i would suggest to you that dont use coinbase because i experience bad in that wallet better to use electrum for android never had any problem using this wallet.

I tried the electrum wallet but it took to long to generate the wallet address (im not sure why this was). I am currently using the mycelium wallet and all is going well so far.

If you do not personally control the private keys to your bitcoin you do not really own them, you just have an IOU from the service you are using. The safest but still convenient way to keep absolute control of your bitcoin is to use a hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger, both can be used with Mycelium on your phone. Breadwallet is second best choice in my opinion.

I personally use Electrum for a desktop wallet and I have a Blockchain.info wallet for use on mobile and for smaller amounts. I'd recommend not using web based wallets for a long-term storage or storing large amounts of money in - keeping your own wallet on your own PC to which you hold the private key is recommended as this is more secure - not relying on someone else's security to keep your money safe.

I do actually control the private keys to my wallet and needed an app I could import them into, that was the purpose of this thread, to find a wallet that I could import a private key into. I having been using mycelium for the past few hours and it seems ok so I think I will keep it.

I use MultiBit.

You can evaluate your options by operating system and desktop/mobile at
https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

Ok, you already get an answer to your problem but from your past experience, I'm excited to using my calcium because currently, I using electrum wallet. so thank for your topic it's very useful for me. :)

I think if you just search in google you can find the answers even better than ones in here.
But I can't really tell the best one since I only used the online wallets so far.

There are more bitcoin wallet can use by its users and also there are altcoin having own wallet then you will pick what is the best and convenient for you to used and to store your money.

I went through pretty much the same process as yourself when I first started. I started with a web wallet, simply because it was the easiest and didn't require much effort. Then I delved further into the Bitcoin world and discovered that if your web wallet does not actually give you the private keys (looking at you Xapo), then you effectively don't own any Bitcoin.

As a previous poster mentioned, it is effectively like the web wallet just hands you an IOU and you have to trust the web wallet to honour it when you want to do something with "your" Bitcoins. Also, there have been reports on this forum of users having their Xapo wallets randomly "locked". It seems they have some fairly obscure clauses in their Terms of Service that allows them to lock down your account if you do things they don't approve of. One of these is gambling... I don't know why, but if you send or receive money from online gambling sites using Xapo, there is a good chance your account will be locked.

Anyway... after deciding that web wallets were basically just useful for collating small payments into larger amounts to avoid "dust fees"... I went hunting for a proper wallet. I decided against core, because 1. I didn't have the time nor space nor bandwidth to download the entire blockchain and 2. I wanted something a little more mobile.

I had considered Electrum, because everyone says it is great and I like the idea of having both a desktop and mobile client that would "sync"... but the Electrum Android client... well... IMHO it is rubbish. The UI is terrible and just doesn't seem to fit Android at all. It was slow and painful to use on my device. Granted, it isn't a Quad Core with 4gigs of RAM, but still... Electrum isn't exactly 3D gaming either!

I ended up settling on Mycelium. It just works. It is relatively lightweight, the UI is pretty friendly, it doesn't require an account or anything anywhere. It is a HD (Heuristically Determined), wallet, so you get all the benefits of the automatically "changing" wallet addresses, with just a single Master Seed to worry about. Plus it lets you import other private keys... create "watch only" addresses using public keys etc.

It isn't perfect... I'd prefer if it asked for the PIN code when you bring the app up from the foreground like my Internet Banking app does (I'm considering setting up an android dev environment to try and hack it in and recompile the code)... and I'd like if it let you specify fees manually, rather than the 4 preset fees they currently have (again, considering hacking the code to change this)... and I'd like to be able to manually generate the next address. At the moment, you have to wait until an address receives a payment before a new address is created. I'd like to be able to manually "force" the next one to be generated, so I can give different addresses out as required without waiting or having to reuse an old address etc. (Sadly, I think this is beyond my coding skills)

Anyway, other than those 3 relatively minor annoyances... I have had no issues with the app so far... And I hear there is supposedly a big upgrade/update that is coming. So, hopefully that happens in the not too distant future and the app becomes even better :)

if I were you , I'd probably would choose to wear blockchain.info wallet . I think blockchain.info very simple because it is easy to use.
other than that I have not come across such a problem that you are experiencing now .

yes mate block chain wallet would be a good option since its is useful in any how
other wallet have limitation especially when you are involved in gambling so
as for now block chain mate good to start.

if your in philippines you can use coins.ph / rebit.ph/ xapo.wallet so you can easily withdraw your funds in any remitance center easily as 123 you can also withdraw your funds via banks you can also pay your monthly bills via this wallet's i use this you that i don't hassle for paying my monthly bills it help me alot :)

It's been said many times, but Mycelium wallet is probably the best adroid wallet app there is as of now.
For desktop wallets, I use Electrum simply because it's simple and it is a trusted wallet. You can visit bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet and see the trusted wallets there.

I think electrum and blockchain.info mobile wallet best. Electrum seems secure however they have relatively poor user interface and many option may be confusing for newbie users. On the other hand mobile wallet from blockchain.info has very good userinterface and easy to understand.