(APP) Android Gets A (Sort Of) Native Google Docs App

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If you’re a
heavy user of Google Docs and
are sporting an Android device,
Google has some very good
news: it ’s just launched a new
‘Docs’ application that gives you
quicker access to your cloud-
based collection of documents.
You can download the free app
right here.
Fire up the app and you’ll see a
slick-looking interface that lets
you jump to your documents,
images, starred items, and
collections (you can also use
filters to toggle between all
items in your account and just
those that are ‘owned’ by you).
There’s also a very nifty feature:
take a snapshot of a document,
and Google Docs can
immediately turn it into a text
document using OCR (the
original photo is presented in
the document as well).
The one quirky thing that I
noticed is that when you go to
edit a document, it looks like the
native application actually loads
the web-based Google Docs
mobile editor that was launched
in November. This means that
the app requires an internet
connection — you can’t edit
documents where there’s no
service and sync your changes
later. Then again, given that one
of the most compelling features
of Google Docs is real-time
collaboration with coworkers
(which gets messy with offline
syncing), this isn’t all that
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