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Google Docs for Android Gets Offline Mode, Better Tablet Experience

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The good folks at Google have just updated Google Docs for Android. The document editing application had a big crutch in its inability to work offline but that is all changed now. Google has added an offline mode in the latest version. You have to select individual documents to make available offline but that shouldn’t be a problem for most. Your changes offline will be made to the online version as soon as you’re back on a network so you won’t have to remember to do it manually (though you can do it manually if you want). They’ve also made the viewing experience better on Android tablets by presenting the documents and controls in high quality. Three megabytes and a few seconds will get you the update in the Android market here. [via Google+]

Quentyn Kennemer
The "Google Phone" sounded too awesome to pass up, so I bought a G1. The rest is history. And yes, I know my name isn't Wilson.

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5 Comments

  1. i’ll stick with Documents To Go and Dropbox.

  2. It still performs sluggishly as compared to viewing GDocs in the stock web browser with the mobile interface disabled.

  3. how is the spreadsheet support like?

  4. yay…finally!  DocsPics can be a pain to use!

  5. “Your changes offline will be made to the online version as soon as you’re back on a network so you won’t have to remember to do it manually (though you can do it manually if you want)”
     
    No, they still haven’t implemented offline editing. This update just enables offline viewing. In the Google+ post, when they talked about updates syncing they meant that if you edited the document online (using a computer or other device), then those changes will by sync’d to your offline version the next time your Android device gets online.

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