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.

Bob

Anyone else having trouble with the audio note? It seems to record, then gets a “Java exception” . Is there a place to get support for such problems?
Kevin

Why i can’t find evernote from android market?is there any thing stupid than this?
Lou

One thing that constantly annoys me is that the UI on Android makes getting to the list of notes more difficult than it needs to be. When I start the application, I see large UI elements for creating new notes 4 different ways, but to look at all the content I have created, I must use the menu button on my device and then select between “Notes”, “Notes nearby” and “Pending Notes” to get to what I want. Surely there’s room on the initial screen to get me to my list of notes?

Do people really create new content more often than referring to existing content? The UI seems a little backwards in that respect in terms of optimizing use of the application.

And no, please don’t suggest that I use the search widget. When I’m on the bus from the airport in some strange city, and I’ve carefully added a note with directions to the hotel, I really don’t want to have to type text while standing up to find a recently created note. Oh, and it really sucks that I get to pay for data roaming charges because there’s no apparently reliable local storage of note, right? Too bad for me that I have a CDMA android device and I might be traveling in Europe where even roaming charges aren’t an option..

I’d upgrade to a professional, paid user if the Android client supported offline content and exposed the various notebooks that I created in any useful way.
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Please, put the offline mode! We “Wi-fi poor users” are suffering! hahaha. I dont want to change to another app.
JCFX

Any chance of Ink notes coming to Android any time soon? I’ve got a lovely new FroYo touch screen slate and the only thing I miss from myb windows phone Evernote is the ability to scribble a quick thought – much faster than thumb typing and 9 times out of 10, with a typed title and tags, I don’t need to convert the ink to text at any point.
Claudia

In the last few days, Evernote crashes EVERY time I try to view any notes. Sometimes it crashes even before it will show the list of notes. And when I tried to submit a tech question to Evernote on their website, it said Error! I love Evernote, except it’s useless to me at the moment unless I can get to a computer. Anyone else having crash problems?
Norton

Still no offline Notes for Android. Not even for premium??
-> Please developers put it to the wishlist (!)
Fel

Why when I record an audio clip, I cannot hear it on my pc after a sync?
Pmibal

Fantastic update! Now if I could only add and select checkboxes within a note, I could also use it as my task list tool.
Chris

Just had to switch phones (Droid Incredible to Droid Incredible, both running 2.2) and the Evernote app on my new phone crashes every time I attempt to open (both phones running Apps Organizer – Evernote causes phone to lock up and Apps Organizer to crash). Uninstalled/reinstalled Evernote app several times, issue persists. Please help.

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