Google renews Drive for Android to make it more fluid - Engadget (blog)

After announcing just last week changed how to offer free space, reaching 15 GB. Now Google renews Drive for Android to make it more fluid . As always waits iOS, giving preference to its own users.

It is an application focused on better performance, which incorporates a new grid view , with Google Now-style cards, but showing a preview of the files. The issue I think is really a wise move to give more flexibility to the application.

Another very interesting feature recognition scanner with OCR , allowing us to take a picture with your mobile phone, recognize the text of the document, it that

speeds lookups then much the same, something that really can be very useful when we accumulate a large number of them in the cloud.

We can also have the files downloaded to our device , accessing them from within the application, which is useful when we work well with tablets that rely on WiFi. For this we have the option on the menu to download a copy.

Another issue

have improved, although this aspect is far from office applications available for Android, is the ability to edit fonts, colors and alignment of cells in spreadsheets . It is a step forward, but in this regard is room for improvement.

Personally

is an application that I use every day more and some of these developments ‘m going to thank a lot . Especially the Grid view and to download documents. To think I will scan using other applications more functionality then allow me to also upload them to drive if you so desire.

Road | Android Engadget
More | Google Drive Blogs
Engadget | Google changes its mode of offering free space: 15GB now in total, 30 in Apps