Evernote for Android update

Product updates | 11 Aug 201011 Aug 10 | By Andrew Sinkov

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If you are a proud owner of an Android phone, then you may have felt a certain lack of love and attention from us recently. Here’s some news that will make you happy. We’ve significantly ramped up our Android development by more than doubling the size of our Android team. We are on track to release a bunch of great new features and enhancements, starting with today’s update. To quote our VP of Engineering, “My Android is now cooler than your iPhone.” We’ll see about that.

Get Evernote for Android from the Android Market

Evernote Widget

In this update, we’re releasing our first major Android-only feature: the Evernote Widget. This super useful home screen widget allows you to quickly jump right into your desired Evernote action. You can pop into a search or into a new text, snapshot or audio note. Activating the widget is simple. Press and hold your finger on your phone’s home screen. Select ‘widget’ for the menu that appears, then choose Evernote. Next, drag the widget to any screen you like. You’re done.

Pinch and zoom support

Pinch and zoom is now supported within notes. If you would like to get a closer look at that snapshot, zoom in, swipe around, then zoom out. Now you’ll be able to see every minute detail of your note contents. This feature is available on phones running Android 2.1 and later.

Send to Evernote

Android apps that have a Sharing menu, will now list Evernote as a recipient. This means that you can easily send stuff from many of your favorite applications directly into a new Evernote note. For example, you can send images from a photo app, save URLs of cool websites you browse, capture tweets in Seesmic, and lots more. This is another Evernote feature that’s only available on Android.

Performance improvements via note caching

After you view a note, Evernote for Android caches that note on the device so that it will load much faster the next time you search for it. This is the first step towards (drumroll, please) offline note storage, which will be coming soon.

Lots and lots of fixes

This release also addresses a number of little annoyances:

Fixed a problem that kept an edited note from updating properly
Fixed a problem that removed intentional white space within notes
Added higher resolution iconography (Android 2.1 and later)
Placed the Save button onscreen on the audio notes screen
Fixed a problem that kept the app from loading tags properly

And many, many other fixes.

Get Evernote for Android from the Android Market. If you have trouble accessing Evernote after installation, restart your phone. You may also need to remove the old application shortcut.

Ross Hodgson

Found it thanks – works a treat cheers
Cabs

Evernote still doesn’t show up in Market from my HTC Tattoo with QVGA screen – it never has. But I’m happy to be able to download it from the direct link above! And even happier that it seems to work great on my Tattoo – only (minor) issue so far is that the icons in the main Evernote screen partially overlap the Evernote search field. But that doesn’t keep me from being able to search.
Glenda Carl

THANK YOU for adding the Send to Evernote option to the Share menu! I’ve wanted that for a long time. More and more of my mind is in Evernote.
Ricardo

I’ve been using evernote since I got my HTC Desire a lot more than I did on the PC, but this update made it unusable for me… force closes on almost everything. Hope it gets fixed soon!
- James
  
  I concur on the Droid. The update forces close of the app/widget on almost everything. Please fix this excellent app!
Chris

I wish I could love this app, but a couple of items are making it no fun.

1) Why in the world would the notebooks not show up in the Android app? It’s insane to have to sift through all notes to find what you are looking for. I have notes for different projects in different notebooks and reviewing them away from my office is VERY difficult. You don’t even support a sort by alpha so putting the project name 1st is of no use.

2) I can make checkboxes in the pc app, but can’t check them off as completed from the mobile. Really…..really? How can this app do so much and yet the android mobile app falls short on being able complete a simple checklist. What were you thinking?

I haven’t given up yet. I dropped ColorNote for this because of the desktop and sync, but I’m not finding the Android mobile app very useful. Please teel me that Android improvements are on the way.
Mike Montrose

Have you fixed the “no snapshot found to upload” that broke? The beta you suggested didn’t fix it. I have a DROID running 2.2.
http://flotsampicnic.com Seth Lieberman

When will Evernote for Android install to the SD card and allow for local search/editing of notes while offline?
- asaf
  
  I want to know this as well, this is the only reason why I don’t use evernot.
  Why do Iphoners have the option in free mode and androids don’t ?
suoiduts

Unfortunately, my major frustration with Evernote for Android has not yet been addressed. I have some long notes which I edit regularly. When I scroll down and find the place I want to edit and then tap on the screen Evernote activates the keyboard and scrolls me all the way back to the top of the note. Then when I scroll back down and again find the place I want to edit and again tap on the screen, Evernote sets the cursor where I tapped but again scrolls me all the way back to the top of the note. I have to scroll down and find my place a third time in order to edit. Very frustrating.
One other small thing: When I make changes to a note and then decide to exit without saving the changes, instead of saying “Are you sure you want to discard the changes?” it says “Are you sure you want to discard this note?” as if the whole note will be deleted. That’s unnecessarily confusing.
http://www.mclemoreauction.com willtmc

The snapshot feature doesn’t work at all. Always says “no snapshot found to upload”. Please fix this! I want to use your service.
Patagonia

Currently traveling and found out that the favourite (offline) Features is missing
the app is cool but whithout offline feature useless, can then also use a PC

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