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.

Chuck

How can I paste text into a note? Can’t seem to find a way!
Jordanrinke

The ability to actually check off an item in a check list is missing, which I find surprising since the checkbox itself is displayed. That is the only thing stopping me from using this full time and most likely becoming a paid member to be able to share check lists and notes.
http://www.shelukhin.com Sergey Shelukhin

+1 for handwriting
Not being able to write directly on new shiny big screen Android tablets in Evernote is nearly a deal breaker… I’d pay for that
Doug

My longer Evernote documents on the android phone don’t scroll correctly. When I try to scroll down to the lower end or bottom of the note and release my finger, the note jumps/scrolls to the top immediately on its own, not allowing me to read the lower portion of the document. I tried synching a number of times, but that did not work. This happens whether I am online or offline.
Debbie

Wish List:

1) List view for Tags
2) Widget to add a Tag to the Home Screen
Ward Silver

I second Debbie’s #1: Provide a list view for tags in addition to thumbnails (which is pretty useless).
don

long ago I downloaded Evernote to my Android phone and set up an account and forgot about it.Last week I got an Ipad and downloaded Evernote to my computer and my Ipad under a new account.
I have tried uninstalling Evernote app from my Android phone (since it is linked to an account I’m not using) so I could set up my Ipad/computer Evernote account to link with my phone.
I’ve tried everything and even clicking uninstall and installing a new Evernote app links me back to the old account. HELP! I’d like to start using Evernote with my new account and link it to my Android phone but I am unable to do so.
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Don, it sounds like you need to sign out of your Evernote account on the Android phone. Do this by launching Evernote, then tapping Menu and choosing Sign out.
Mark

Using Android 2.2, LG Optimus V phone – can’t find Evernote widget. Saw it once, installed it and then after a reboot it disappeared. Any reason why it wouldn’t show in the list of widgets?

Also – I understand that lime green is the color of Evernote, but the appearance of Evernote on my iPod Touch is so much more pleasing than that on the Android, which is really garish, if you ask me. Any way to change that?

Thanks for a great service! (above issues are minor, but still would like to know if there are possible answers)

Mark
everenote_user

I found this interresting information on anoter website

You need to install Evernote (and any other apps that feature widgets) on your Android’s internal memory rather than the SD card. This is a limitation of the Android OS in general — widgets don’t work well (or at all) from the SD card.
Mike

I am planning to get the Acer Iconia Honeycomb tablet – does Evernote support stylus based handwritten notes – I have seen evernote work on Ipad 2 with a stylus before.

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