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Are people using G+ on Android? How is it? Especially on a tablet? Can't wait for this to be approved.

by rakkhi 15y ago

aristidb 15y ago
On my phone, it works very well. It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only).
- esrauch 15y ago
  I suspect that once they get around to it integrated group chat is going to get rolled back into gchat. It remains to be seen how that will play out on android though (perhaps with the chat app being completely dropped in favor of the G+ app).
- patrickaljord 15y ago
  > It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only). Some googlers said that if you want live chat on google+ desktop, you just post something and the page updates automatically with new comments. Giving the same experience as a group chat, not to mention hangouts which have both chat and video.
ben1040 15y ago
The interface is really nice on a phone. Clean, very responsive. The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. The integrated group conversation feature ("Huddle") is really slick. Not as nice on a Honeycomb tablet; you get the typical "just stretch the phone interface" behavior. It's still usable, but just not optimal. Honestly I'm a little surprised they didn't push this app out the door without a tablet-specific interface.
- rakkhi 15y ago
  Do you find yourself using hangouts on the mobile? This is a feature I could see leaving on all day on the iPad (on free wireless and plugged into power)
  - ben1040 15y ago
    Sadly the hangout feature isn't implemented in the mobile app; it's the top feature on my wishlist. It's something I'd certainly like to be able to use on my tablet for sure. The only "real time" group conversation feature is "Huddle," which is just a group text chat -- and this feature isn't available on the website at all, only on the native mobile app. I've only used this feature once; I might use it more often if I had more friends with Android phones who were also on Google+.
- tonfa 15y ago
  > The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. It's pretty nice when people try to get you to remove some pictures (e.g. it's useful for some protesters), since as soon as you get a picture it's on the cloud.
Tsagadai 15y ago
Surprisingly, Google+ is blocked on the South Korean Android Market.
- antrix 15y ago
  Not available in Singapore Market either.

Are people using G+ on Android? How is it? Especially on a tablet? Can't wait for this to be approved.

by rakkhi 15y ago

Are people using G+ on Android? How is it? Especially on a tablet? Can't wait for this to be approved.

aristidb 15y ago

On my phone, it works very well. It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only).

esrauch 15y ago
I suspect that once they get around to it integrated group chat is going to get rolled back into gchat. It remains to be seen how that will play out on android though (perhaps with the chat app being completely dropped in favor of the G+ app).
patrickaljord 15y ago
> It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only). Some googlers said that if you want live chat on google+ desktop, you just post something and the page updates automatically with new comments. Giving the same experience as a group chat, not to mention hangouts which have both chat and video.

ben1040 15y ago

The interface is really nice on a phone. Clean, very responsive. The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. The integrated group conversation feature ("Huddle") is really slick. Not as nice on a Honeycomb tablet; you get the typical "just stretch the phone interface" behavior. It's still usable, but just not optimal. Honestly I'm a little surprised they didn't push this app out the door without a tablet-specific interface.

rakkhi 15y ago
Do you find yourself using hangouts on the mobile? This is a feature I could see leaving on all day on the iPad (on free wireless and plugged into power)
- ben1040 15y ago
  Sadly the hangout feature isn't implemented in the mobile app; it's the top feature on my wishlist. It's something I'd certainly like to be able to use on my tablet for sure. The only "real time" group conversation feature is "Huddle," which is just a group text chat -- and this feature isn't available on the website at all, only on the native mobile app. I've only used this feature once; I might use it more often if I had more friends with Android phones who were also on Google+.
tonfa 15y ago
> The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. It's pretty nice when people try to get you to remove some pictures (e.g. it's useful for some protesters), since as soon as you get a picture it's on the cloud.

Tsagadai 15y ago

Surprisingly, Google+ is blocked on the South Korean Android Market.

antrix 15y ago
Not available in Singapore Market either.