Manage SD Card Media with an Android Tablet

I love my Nexus 7.  It's the 2012 version and when I got it for Hanukkah, I pretty much entirely stopped using my laptop.  It's a large enough screen while still being small, light, and portable. It's powerful enough to be a solid graphics post-production workstation for photos from my adventures, and it was quite a bit less expensive than similar tablets.  There are tons of really powerful (FREE) apps that can tune my pictures and really make my photos pop!

The only drawback to the Nexus is that I've had to transfer media from my old GoPro HD Hero or my point & shoot camera to an intermediate device before I can dig into editing the files on the tablet.  I'll have to:

1. Connect the camera/card to a computer
2. Transfer the files to the computer
3. Connect the tablet to the computer and transfer again, or e-mail the photos to myself

This also implies that I have both a mini-USB cable for the cameras, and a micro-USB cable for the tablet.

Solution:

1. Any USB multi-card reader: $5-10

2. Any micro-USB OTG cable ("On The Go" cable): $1-2

3. Nexus Media Importer app: $4 on Google Play

Setup:

1. Buy the card reader and the OTG cable. With shipping, it's still probably under $10.
2. Download Homesoft's Nexus Media Viewer and test out your new cable and card reader. If you can successfully view photos with this app, uninstall it and buy the Nexus Media Importer app

That's it! It's a pretty solid app.  Simple to use, simple to copy data to your tablet, and it has some pretty sweet methods to select the specific files or groups of files that you want out of a given directory.

It also works for other types of data (video, music, documents, folders, etc.)