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Evernote for Android Gets a Tablet Redesign, Swipe Navigation and More

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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Today we have a bunch of great improvements to Evernote for Android (version 4.1), particularly for tablet users. There’s a completely redesigned tablet interface, an entirely new note view and lots of other enhancements. Plus, the app works beautifully on 7″ tablets, such as the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire. Let’s take a look.

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The New Tablet Interface

In this update, we’ve made the tablet interface much easier to use:

The New Home Screen
When you launch the app, you’ll be greeted with a sleek new home screen. Tap to create a new note or jump directly into your notebook, tags and place views.

Swipe!
We’ve added a number of swipe interactions that dramatically improve navigation through the app. From the home screen, tap on Notebooks and a notebook panel slides in. You can also swipe the note list to make it full-screen, swipe it in the opposite direction to bring back the left panel.

Improved Note List Design
We redesigned the Note List to make it easier to browse and read than ever before. We changed the shape of the note thumbnails and improved the text contrast in the titles.

Places
Whenever it can, Evernote saves the location associated with the notes you take. From the home screen, tap on Places to see your notes as pins on a map.

Tablet List View

You asked and we listened. Evernote for Android Tablets now has List View, a compact note list that shows you basic information about the note in a single list including title, tags, text snippets, attachments, and the date. The attachments icon also shows the number of attachments in the note. This view displays everything you need at a glance.

Updates for All Android Users

This update also includes a number of improvements for both mobile and tablet Android users.

Sublists
You can now add additional levels to your bulleted and numbered lists. To do this, either create a list or tap into an existing one. You’ll notice indentation arrows appear in the formatting bar. Tap these arrows to indent the line further.

Improved slideshows
When viewing a note, tap on an image and you’ll be taken into slideshow view. In this update, we made the slideshow view faster and more reliable.

A Better Evernote

With each update, we strive to make it easier for you to save, find and relive all of your memories. We hope you like what you see. Let us know what you think.

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  • Irina I

    Looks great! Can’t wait for this to come to the iPhone app!

  • Rickje

    Will there be a iOS GUI overhaul as well?
    Because this new GUI looks very nice :-)

  • http://www.frankwaive.com Frank Waive

    Evernote is a great app, i practically depend on it as my notebook in meetings, when alone, writing articles, speech writing, storage for frequently used css snippets and much more!

  • Javier

    That’s great. It would be awesome if you could make the items that are being checked off in a checklist move to the bottom of the list.

    • Brian

      Or a small seperate “TO DO LIST”

  • Dmitriy Goldner

    While trying to update Evernote on my Android Nexus One (Android 2.3.6) I got the error message “Invalid Package File”. Is this because it is error with installation package or its incompatible with my phone?

  • http://realpersonalcomputing.com Frank McPherson

    Nice to get this update on the day the Nexus 7 is supposed to arrive.

    Will we ever get encryption on mobile devices? Right now we can decrypt snippets of text in notes that are encrypted on a desktop, but we can’t encrypt snippets on the device. Is that too difficult for smartphones/tablets? I would like to be able to do encryption some day if possible.

    • http://annewareham.veddw.com/ Anne Wareham

      Yes! Total ability to encrypt files please!

  • Evernote lover

    Getting a “Package file is invalid” error while attempting to update both my Acer Iconia Tab A500 and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, both running ICS.

    • Kasey Fleisher Hickey

      Thanks for letting us know. We are aware of the problem (it’s related to Google Play’s upgrade process) and are working on getting it resolved!

  • Philana Crouch

    Will this be implemented on the iPad anytime soon? It looks great!

  • John Frew

    Fantastic work on the new interface for Android… Looking forward to Penultimate for Android……..

  • Tyler

    Hey, will this app be ported or replicated to the playbook?

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