Comments on: Google Finance Android Application Launches

By: Jamiecasey

Jamiecasey — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:45:44 +0000

Sounds cool, but I’ll still stick to EasyMoney.

By: Oh brother

Oh brother — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:58:40 +0000

Prediction my foot. Stock market, meet technology.

And I hate to be the poo-pooer here, but if a soccer mom is driving around looking at her cel phone while driving no less — what happens when she does realize her stocks are nose-diving? How’s she going to actually make the trade? By phoning up her broker?

I predict that *gasp* you’ll be able to place trades from your phone. I’ll take your kudos in advance.

And brokers don’t integrate google finance, they have far superior systems at work already. That, for instance, can report on dividends properly in non-u.s. markets for starters…

Maybe I should start a blog…

By: jewelry online

jewelry online — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:26:21 +0000

I searched the net and found you guys when I wanted to improve my android/google finance experience. Great job guys. But I really want to suggest one more feature, the price purchased and current market value, as well as shares, should be either displayed or used to calculate your portfolio loss/gain.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:15:18 +0000

This app MIGHT be cool, if I could use it. I have a Google Apps account with my own domain using the Gmail interface AND a regular Google account. But it won’t let me log in with either, because I don’t have a @GMAIL email address. I love Google, but shit, why should I have THREE Google accounts? Isn’t two enough?

UNINSTALL!!!!!!!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:21:31 +0000

Great prediction.

I think the next big shift will be towards more apps needing to deliver TRUE streaming data (think ‘comet’ based), particularly when stock brokers will increasingly be wanting real-time prices to form part of the deal/execution process (no more x seconds to accept an offer on the screen). The market fluctuations are getting wider and wider and are happening within smaller and smaller time frames.

This app seems to poll regularly not ‘stream’ which for informational purposes is probably fine for most.

For a view on how a true streaming connection works and how that impacts what the Android displays take a look at the app called ‘SharePrice’ – this streams real-time UK LSE prices and delayed US. Comparing frequency updates on say AAPL or GOOG during market hours on SharePrice app (albeit delayed) to the Google Finance app demonstrates the differences between stream and poll when it comes to market data.

By: IG

IG — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:07:22 +0000

This is a good App! Good job Google. Now I am just waiting for the Google Docs App.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:21:20 +0000

You read it wrong I think Rob, this is available in the UK too, but it only supports US STOCK market data….

By: Dave Kaufman - Techlife

Dave Kaufman - Techlife — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:37:25 +0000

Great job Rob…more video reviews! I love it, and I totally missed this app. I have been using Quote Pro which is really nice.

By: Vinc

Vinc — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:50:30 +0000

Kudos on the prediction.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:47:52 +0000

This is a great app, but what I found most interesting when installing it, is that it requires the user to accept the “Google Account” permission. This permission gives the application the ability to authenticate with Google applications, like Finance or Gmail. To my knowledge, the current SDK doesn’t have this ability, so I’m wondering if the Finance app was built using an unreleased version of the SDK.