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Google docs for android

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140 pointsalbemuth23 comments

Installed. First impressions: Edit mode is quite sluggish and the document header refuses to stay at the top (compare with simple view mode). UI nitpicks: Logo does not work as "home", you need to use the hardware back button. The breadcrumb-as-filter while clever and aesthetically pleasing, is far too small.

Bonus points: You can print directly from the app via Google Cloud Print!

Overall it looks like quite solid, no complaints here. Looking forward to using it extensively.

Tests conducted on HTC Desire (Bravo) CM 7.0.2

For some reason, searching the Market from my phone for "google docs" didn't list this app. Found out that their "install" button on the Market website actually works quite well. :)

I find myself hardly ever using the Market app on my phone anymore. (I'm a slow touch-screen typist.) Searching on my laptop and having apps install auto-magically is killer.

the "plan b" app was mentioned on reddit the other day when someone posted about his wife going missing.

it's pretty neat that you could remotely install an app like this after your phone is already lost:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb

as long as it's you doing the installing.

of course, the context in which it was mentioned on reddit was a husband installing it on his wife's phone to locate her.

Wow, that's neat! I didn't think of that.. But useful app anyway, thanks!

Appears to just be a wrapper around the mobile site.

You can click "Desktop" at the bottom. Then it becomes a wrapper for the desktop site. I don't...I don't really get this? Why did they release this? How is it in any way better than my docs.google.com bookmark?

I'm definitely disappointed.

Editing spreadsheets really sucks. You have to reload the spreadsheet after every edit to see the new data. Yikes.

QR Code for the link:

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmark...

Could they think of any more permissions to ask for? I think that's the first time the permissions list has needed me to scroll.

I've been hoping they'd release an app like this forever. The app looks great, doesn't seem to cache the documents though.

Works like a charm on my Nexus S, even with a relatively large spreadsheet (450 rows).

Weird, it got into an infinite loop redirecting between the Docs app and the browser and back again when I tried to open a spreadsheet.

Google will not allow it to be installed on my hacked Color Nook running CM7.

Arg.

I wonder if it requires some buttons or something that your nook doesn't have as it installed fine on my phone running cm7

It wants a camera so it can scan and ocr documents.

Well, its not perfect, but its better than GDocs.

Never noticed how much I used Google goggles until I reached for my phone to scan the (nonexisting) qr code from the page.

Why didn't you just click the 'Install' button and let it send it to your Android automatically?

I was not logged in to my Google account. Good to know it works that way too.

well it's about time

(looks pretty good on first impressions, anybody know how it works on a tablet?)

Thanks.

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