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Sundar Pinchai, Google's senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps, speaks during his keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, June 25, 2014 REUTERS

Android tablets are a great companion for students and workers. The features, apps and partnership with Google can help anyone stay productive. Here are some ways to be productive with an Android tablet.

Download productivity apps

Life Hacker points out that most Android tablets are already filled with apps needed for work. These apps include Gmail, Dropbox, and stock utilities like the calendar, clock, and calculator. Users can make this better by downloading third-party apps to help finish their tasks.

Here are a few suggestions to begin with:

● Office Suite Pro 7 lets users create documents on the go.

● Google Drive provides cloud storage for notes, files, and images that are synced from any mobile or computer device, which makes it really accessible. It has 15GB free storage capacity.

● Evernote is another must-have app to have to keep users productive. It gives users notebooks to store text, images, and voice reminders.

Note that these are only a few suggestions among a plethora of free and paid apps available on the Google Play Store.

Make your work-related apps accessible

CIO notes that users should set up their tablets for work so that all information is synchronized and easy to access. Life Hacker suggests creating bookmarks and shortcuts maks work easier, especially if the user's work deals mostly with online research and processes. Users should add work-related and relevant pages and websites to their bookmarks and add shortcuts to the home screen for improved accessibility.

CIO also notes that users should allocate enough time for app configuration. This is to ensure that each app works well and without a hitch. It also allows the user to familiarize with the functions offered by the apps.

Add a productive page on your homescreen

Life Hacker suggests creating a separate productivity page on the home screen to help users avoid distractions provided by games, social media, and other apps on the tablet. Keep it nice and clean - here's a suggested layout: On the top row, put the apps used most often. The second row may also include other important apps used regularly. The third row could be the bookmarks of most visited pages, and so on.

Anrdroid tablet owners already have an edge productivity-wise because of their device's similarity and compatibility with PC devices, but with the right set of tools and organization, it can be a very valuable productivity machine on its own.