| offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 4/27/11 10:39 AM | So excited to see the new Android app! I'm wondering about the possibility of viewing/editing documents offline. (I spend a lot of time in subways and on planes, so offline access of email, calendar, docs, etc... is invaluable to me.) I see that the |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Teresa C. | 4/27/11 10:48 AM | Hi alanpierson, Unfortunately, this app doesn't cache for offline editing. Thanks so much for posting here with your feedback - we're working on lots of exciting features and improvements for mobile. Teresa |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | wpijeff | 4/27/11 11:33 AM | App fail. I hope the obvious missing offline document feature is a top priority, as without it, this doesn't seem much better than just using the web page. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | WN-NJ | 4/30/11 6:37 PM | I cannot cache pdf docs either. This is a must have feature. Show stopper. Love the app. Good job. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Tzekelkan | 5/3/11 3:06 PM | I have to agree, it would be very useful, otherwise I just use Dropbox for offline viewing of recently downloaded documents. I'm just not as connected to the Internet with my Android as I am with my laptop. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Erstam | 5/8/11 3:50 AM | Offline editing here too please. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | muv | 5/8/11 4:33 AM | +1 Please add offline editing. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | AlanEP | 5/8/11 6:08 AM | I don't feel that, as wipieff said, this app isn't much better than using the web interface: I'm finding it very useful on the phone. But I agree: offline docs access on Android is critical and would make the app -- and Google Docs in general! -- _en |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Gill | 5/8/11 6:18 AM | << I'm finding it very useful on the phone.>> Interesting - what do you find useful that isn't part of the web interface? |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 5/8/11 2:04 PM | Well, I find the interface for browsing and accessing documents through the new app to be _enormously_ friendlier and faster than the web interface. Although I've been craving offline access, the single most irritating aspect of the old web interface |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Teresa C. | 5/9/11 3:19 PM | @alanpierson, glad to hear that you're enjoying the new app! |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Deifyed | 5/10/11 7:53 AM | +1 For an offline function. It would really more than double the value of this application. Been working on a Note app which does the same thing, but because my programming is mostly hobby I still havnt got it to work. :) Thanks for a great service.K |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | sandhuj | 5/18/11 10:37 AM | Very nice app but lack of offline mode means fail, unfortunately. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | conradcliff | 5/19/11 10:46 PM | Just seems crazy that the gurus behind the scenes at Google can't get docs to work offline... Must be something the general populace is missing regarding the complexity of this highly desired/needed functionality. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 5/20/11 5:22 AM | Well, I imagine that the inherently (and fantastically) collaborative nature of Google Docs means that a system for handling offline editing would have to be pretty complicated: Google has to integrate revisions I made while offline into a document t |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Teresa C. | 5/20/11 11:37 AM | @alanpierson, you imagine correctly that it's a really complex problem to solve. You'd be surprised how much engineering time even the seemingly basic features takes. Thanks to all of you, though, for your patience as we work on cool stuff for our us |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | dshersze | 5/29/11 8:49 PM | I'm also eager for Android offline docs access. I know that Google wants to move everyone to the cloud, which I'm enthusiastic about and ready for -- I'd love to move my documents to Google Docs and get rid of Microsoft Word. But I can't until Google |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 5/30/11 5:23 PM | Yeah, I'm a very enthusiastic supporter of Google's cloud evangelism, but at least until the everywhere-in-the-world wherever-you-go unlimited internet is a reality for all of us, offline access is, for me, essential to being able to use any cloud do |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | kosta5 | 6/1/11 1:52 AM | +1 for offline Android editing. A must have. It is a must have in my browser too. I know you stopped google gears support. But Google said HTML5 docs will support offline editing at the beginning of 2011, its June and still nothing... I know it is no |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 6/9/11 9:12 PM | Apple just implemented this functionality in iCloud: "Documents update on all devices when changed on any device." I'm a little sad/jealous to see Apple get there first and to out-cloud Google. But I don't really want to jump ship, so I'll just hope |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | cyberwolf009 | 6/26/11 7:19 AM | I know Google is working on offline docs and I can't wait to see it happen. Just another +1 for offline mode. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Syrenz | 7/7/11 9:29 AM | Really need offline mode and some updates for the Android app. Looking forward to that. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | awaymes | 7/8/11 12:24 AM | Just to add my voice... offline is critical for me. I'm creating a collaborative quick-reference guide with about 50 other vet students; it is now very long with lots of graphs, charts, and images.... and if you want to refer to it, you have to reloa |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | awaymes | 7/8/11 12:27 AM | *I should note that read-only offline functionality would be fine for my needs. *Needs.* Ha-- a convenience that didn't exist until mere months ago... okay I suppose it's not a need, but you get the idea. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | gaboo | 7/13/11 1:28 AM | I too, would really like a read only offline mode. I have a wifi only xoom, and being able to sync with wifi and open my documents anywhere would be a very useful feature. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | NeoV.A.L.I.S. | 7/19/11 7:23 PM | my wifi only tablet needs this |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | cunnart | 7/21/11 6:58 AM | I would even just like the ability to generate new "MS" Wod docs while off line, wifi online tablet. Even if they couldn't sync and update pre-existing ones. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Paul-inthewoods | 7/28/11 6:20 PM | Would a product like GDOCS be a solution to creating a document offline and syncing it into Google Docs later when you have an internet connection? The answer is obviously for Google to give us an offline mode, but until then... |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | richard.collette | 8/2/11 8:13 PM | +1 |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | ceret | 8/10/11 9:51 AM | +1, need offline access. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | paddyb | 8/10/11 3:43 PM | +1 offline access would really increase the value of this app - even if it was read only. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | yesdir | 8/12/11 9:31 AM | The app is pointless without offline mode. Might as well just use the web page. If we had the ability to use Forms offline, and they would submit internally to the spreadsheet, we could make custom "apps" for logging anything. Just touch the short |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | zabuch | 8/13/11 5:19 AM | Even read-only offline mode would be good. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | compaejopo | 8/17/11 6:06 PM | Offline access please. It is ironic that I use to have it on my iphone through a third party app (NoteMaster) which unfortunately it is not available on Android. Guys, come on. Fix this. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | mcl | 8/27/11 1:28 AM | I really need a READ ONLY button. I just can not help making a mess of spreadsheets, when scrolling. The interface to Google Docs is much better than the web way of looking at Docs. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | ElQanah | 8/31/11 5:08 PM | offline sync, for as much as we need, that is an excellent feature. While on the road it's something you would expect. Even if its read only, it will be awesome. Thank you ppl. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Ilya Vz | 9/4/11 11:20 PM | Hi! Please add offline mode to your application. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | mgiven | 9/7/11 9:17 AM | +1 for offline app. Until then it's Evernote as cloud note-taking choice. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | LKBig | 9/12/11 11:07 PM | Offline editing ability is a killer feature for me. I know it's diffucult to engineer but as soon as you get it done, I'll be completely hooked. Also...make a Honeycomb/ICS version for tablets please. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Kitezh | 9/21/11 9:48 AM | Yes, there's no other document editor that preserves footnotes and comments. It could be a winner. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 9/21/11 9:52 AM | Well, there's offline capability on PCs now! Maybe Android offline access is coming along soon too? |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Router user | 9/23/11 12:37 PM | Google- this would really make it more usefull. The real world is not always connected. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Dakow555 | 10/4/11 5:13 PM | I too want offline editing. Please add it! |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 10/13/11 5:23 AM | Wow, Apple just out-clouded Google with iCloud, which leaves me a little embarrassed: I embraced Google and Android because I loved the it-just-works security of knowing all my information was always available to me on any device at any time. How did |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Nigel X | 10/13/11 7:06 AM | being the paranoid kind, I avoid using public wifi; to keep my costs down I keep the 3G disabled unless I am in an area with an all-you-can eat price plan; when the battery is low both get turned off. So for much of my time my tablet is a stand-alone |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Ivkosky | 10/14/11 3:00 PM | Hi Nigel X, I would personally try a Linux distro. I think that offline Google docs won't be introduced soon (if ever). If you have a possibility to port Linux, go for it. :-) |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | damian h | 10/17/11 6:05 AM | +1 for offline editing - please!!!! |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Garth3 | 10/19/11 9:14 PM | Caution shout approaching: OFFLINE EDIIT VIEW. This is lame. Come on Google, really? |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | dr.frankinfurter | 10/24/11 2:39 PM | Part of the reason why I regret buying an Android tablet is because Google Docs is a poor, poor substitute for iWork. I am a college student and I haven't seen a single Android tablet on campus besides my own. Relative to iOS and the iPad, Android h |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Roman_L | 10/30/11 4:46 AM | I cannot agree more. Offline editing is a core function. It would ease my and whole team life soooo much !!! |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | everclarity | 10/31/11 9:30 AM | +1 I used to take notes on my ipod touch and email them periodically, but now I text to myself on my Nexus S when I need to remember something. The best of both worlds would be offline Google Docs that updates periodically to add newly updated text/ |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | manolson | 11/2/11 3:54 PM | +1 for the offline freature |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Ivkosky | 11/3/11 8:42 AM | To dr.frankinfurter: I agree, but I am afraid that you are probably comparing two slightly different things. While Apple has its iOS only on its own products, Android is a platform used (and adjusted!) by many companies. Some of the problems with int |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | mwburden | 11/6/11 10:21 AM | @Teresa C: OK, we're six months down the road from your last response.... can you give us any hint about progress being made? |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | dr.frankinfurter | 11/6/11 6:05 PM | +Ivosky: While I do recognize that some of the problems I've had with my tablet has been a direct result of Acer. In fact, I had the same problem with my handheld mobile that I got from Virgin mobile - it too had bloatware. The difference between my |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | gracielives | 11/7/11 9:47 PM | +1 |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | will_full | 11/8/11 5:20 AM | Another +1 for offline caching. Ta. Would be useful to get an update on progress on this from Google as well. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Tommos | 11/9/11 4:45 AM | Hi, I would also really, really like offline access for documents in the Google Docs Android app. When offline, only read-only access could be available.Offline editing is a much more complex feature which I do not even know if it would be worth impl |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Izanagi | 11/18/11 4:33 AM | Add me to the list of people that would like offline access available through the google docs app as well. I don't always have internet access, especially on my Motorola Xoom tablet and would like to be able to cache documents I want to access on it |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | jgannonjr | 11/29/11 11:28 PM | +1 |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | michelyn | 12/4/11 8:10 AM | With the Offline Docs Beta being released for Chrome browser users, is this functionality for the Android app being looked at next or in the very near future? In other words, if the Beta for Offline Docs becomes an official release, will that then op |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | c.neugebauer | 12/6/11 4:47 AM | i, too, would like to chime in and join the legion of users asking for offline-functionality. i'm mostly using this for taking notes on my students and their progress-making, but not always having WIFI-access at the places where i work prevents this |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | feisty_noodle | 12/6/11 11:52 PM | +1 It has been awhile. Where is the love? |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | HusseinNasser | 12/7/11 12:22 AM | Its a must we need it! |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | yesdir | 12/11/11 6:49 PM | This seriously needs offline viewing. It is useless without it. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | pjcamp | 12/12/11 9:55 AM | Full featured offline use is NOT OPTIONAL. EVERYTHING else you are doing on Google Docs and Android is of secondary importance compared to this. If I'm at a meeting and my presentation is inaccessible due to inadequate network access, I'm sunk. Tha |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 12/14/11 10:50 PM | I'm moving everything in Google Docs that I need reliable access to over to Evernote. Which sucks because I much prefer Google Docs. But today, again, I was struggling to access an important document from a place with mediocre internet, and I just co |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | h_dave | 12/19/11 7:10 AM | Every calm down. The chrome browser is coming to Android and when it does it'll run all the Chrome apps including Google Docs which, when run in Chrome, supports offline use. It's simply a matter of time now.... |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 12/19/11 10:02 AM | I've thought about that, but I think that an app is needed here rather than an in-browser solution. It's possible, of course, that everything we currently use apps for on Android could eventually be done in the phone's Chrome browser, but when you th |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | mwburden | 1/6/12 1:54 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | GreterJB | 1/7/12 1:07 PM | Keep the good work going on! I would already be very happy if plain text documents could be edited off line in the Docs Android app and synced to the cloud. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Dave_R | 1/14/12 11:51 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Dave_R | 1/14/12 11:53 PM | I say make it easy for the time being. Have offline docs show a warning sync if the online version has changed from the offline original version. For example, if I edit my doc offline on my mobile at 8am, then online on my computer on 10am, only to c |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | James Moss | 1/19/12 3:55 AM | I'd just like to put my vote behind this too: I do lots of transcontinental cycle-touring and Google Docs would without doubt be my tool of choice for editing blog posts for http://www.cyclefar.com if it had an offline feature where I could create documents |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | emiajseyer | 1/27/12 7:53 PM | Please provide editing offline Google Docs |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | AnaLikesLattes | 2/2/12 8:48 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | AnaLikesLattes | 2/2/12 8:50 AM | Hi folks, Just wanted to let you all know that you can now make Google Docs items available offline in your Android app. See below for our blog post and Help Article for this new feature: Blog PostHelp Article for Android app offline viewing Enjoy! F |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | HusseinNasser | 2/5/12 1:24 AM | I can only read documents that I made offline.. But I cannot edit them . This is kinda loses the offline point ... I have galaxy s2 the Edit button pops up enabled when I'm connected to the internet. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | PhileasFogg | 2/17/12 8:25 AM | Yep too right... which is why I wrote an app to allow you to open any file with any app you like, by saving it to disk first called AToolBox: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.coultard.atoolbox |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | H2Osamurai | 2/22/12 6:46 PM | Teresa, As I'm sure you can see from this thread, offline access to Google Apps is absolutely essential. It's really non-negotiable. I've been experimenting with Google Docs to do some serious writing, as I like the ability to have it in the cloud. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | H2Osamurai | 2/22/12 6:48 PM | Reading is NOT writing or editing. Go back to the drawing board, fellas. Either give offline access or don't. But don't tease us -- it's rude. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | HusseinNasser | 2/23/12 1:15 AM | Update 23/Feb Docs for Android .. still no offline editing .. It is not that difficult to edit offline why google is not implementing it yet i can view the document offline but I cannot edit it.. I want to edit offline and let it sync later |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | HusseinNasser | 2/23/12 1:17 AM | tried that.. good app ! but still i need a native support.. |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | meanderingthemaze | 3/20/12 12:26 PM | Editing may be difficult, but storing a read-only version cannot be difficult as it caches the version anyway in order to display it. This is very disappointing and another reason we have to stick with our file based workflow we're all so used to. Cl |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Alan E Pierson | 6/21/12 5:18 AM | In addition to offline editing, I'm craving better control over when Google Drive syncs my files -- too often, I end up in the subway with out-of-date versions of my documents. I'd like to be able to tell the app a) how often to sync and b) whether t |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Papa Bear | 7/1/12 12:36 PM | New best answer? View files offline http://support.google.com/drive/bin/search.py?hl=en&gs_l=partner.3...2755.5459.0.5806.9.8.1.0.0.0.192.1273.0j8.8.0.gsnos%2Cn%3D13..0.0.no5ZuEQR7Ek&query=offline&oq=offline&ctx=en:searchbox&aq=f |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Papa Bear | 7/3/12 8:44 PM | @Alan E Pierson Since you mentioned Evernote, see my post at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!search/evernote/drive/5CoyOzYGHLo/zuIqh_el9_IJ |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | Lachlan Phillips | 1/8/13 12:17 AM | Jan 2012 and STILL google has not delivered a working word processor. Google wants to take the laptop market, and can't deliver on something that people have used and required since the DAWN OF COMPUTING. Just to be clear here. When I was a child and |
| Re: offline Google Docs using Android app? | jimbob-in-mn | 1/23/13 9:58 AM | Teresa - Here is another request for offline editing. I think the case for this is even more pronounced because of the advent of tablets with physical keyboards. I have an Asus TF700 that I had hoped would be a laptop replacement. It has been grea |