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Google+ for iOS is out
- dkokelley 15y agoThe link is not working for me, and it doesn't show up in the app market search. Released and pulled? False alarm? Update: I'm reading that it's only available on the iPhone currently. Alas, my iPod Touch and iPad are not the iPhone. If this is the case, then that's too bad.
- ComputerGuru 15y agoIt's working for me. Maybe it's your region? iTunes is region-specific.
- ugh 15y agoI think the App Store is a bit slow at updating. Early on apps also seem to show up only in some places and not in others. I can get to the app from the link (and I’m in Germany), I can’t actually get it to show up through search, that’s probably another one of those early issues. It’s gonna get better eventually. Really, Apple can’t reject the Google+ app without causing a huge shitstorm. It would be stupid to do so. Also: The app doesn’t actually violate any rules Apple has laid out, not in any way, shape or form – Apple most certainly doesn’t want to confuse developers with arbitrary rejections, at least not anymore.
- Splines 15y agoWasn't showing up in the app store for me (when I searched), but clicking on "View in iTunes" in the browser brought iTunes to the correct page.
- injekt 15y agoInteresting. I'm running iOS5 beta3, and when I attempt to hit the Stream, the app dies. Does this happen for anyone else? EDIT: Also when I click on someones profile in the 'cirlces' list. I can't really give any impressions on the app without these things working, but viewing photos and photo comments feels nice and responsive.
- pjdavis 15y agoI'm also running iOS5b3 and it crashes on just about everything. Stream, Pics, Circles, Profile.
- sbarre 15y agoI'm still running 4.3.x and it crashes sometimes on the Stream (but works sometimes too). No doubt an update is forthcoming. :-)
- matwood 15y agoNo doubt an update is forthcoming. :-) Hopefully that doesn't mean waiting another 3 weeks for Apples approval.
- josefresco 15y agoI installed the app this morning and then an update in the afternoon. I'd say the speed of new releases is quite aggressive.
- markgx 15y agoYep, same here using iOS5 beta 3. Crashes when I try to look at my stream or profile.
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- dxShen 15y agoVery interesting to see how much an improvement this is to the mobile site, which is a chore to use on the iPhone. Also here's hoping for a decent iPad app, since the mobile Google+ site looks ridiculous on the iPad and the desktop version is buggy.
- benbscholz 15y agoI can't find the iPad app in the App Store.
- featherless 15y agoThere isn't one, afaik.
- chris_engel 15y agoThe app doesn't work on ipads...
- robert-boehnke 15y agoIt only works on iPhones with GPS, that's probably why it does not work for you. (That's what it says when I try to install it on my Wifi iPad and it did not show up in the App Store on the iPad either)
- Groxx 15y agoBut that really doesn't make sense, unless they're rolling their own location system. i-anythings with wifi have the location service, it pulls from nearby networks.
- joejohnson 15y agoIt's not showing up for me in the app store yet :( Must be rolling out slowly or regionally.
- jonknee 15y agoQuicker than the mobile site and supports photo uploading (annoying attribute of Mobile Safari). I like it.
- Titanous 15y agoIt's interesting that Apple allowed Huddle, which is a direct competitor with iMessage.
- sbarre 15y agoI couldn't fine it in the App Store on my iPhone, but I installed it via iTunes to my computer, then went to the App Store on my phone, went to Update -> Purchased and "Not on this Phone" and it showed up there, and I clicked to install/update from there, and voila!
- kylec 15y agoIf you go into Settings -> Store then turn the switch next to "Apps" to "ON" then the app will automatically download and install on your iPhone when you make the purchase on iTunes.
- chacha102 15y agoCan any experienced iOS developers please tell me if it is really 'that' hard to make an app iPod Touch compatible? I mean, come on, you just alienate a ton of users without implementing iPod or iPad compatibility...
- featherless 15y agoiPad is 'that' hard because it is non-trivial to take advantage of the new screen real estate. Often-times you must implement a completely new navigation model because the stock split view controller is rarely the navigation model you want to use. iPod touch is generally easier. It usually comes down to gracefully degrading features. Much care must also be taken to ensure that the app performs well on the iPod touch models which are often running much weaker hardware specs. The reality is that sometimes devs will only test on their personal iPhones and forget to test on older-gen iPod touches, so the iPod touch experience can sometimes be less than ideal.
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoProbably has a hard requirement for GPS for checkins, which the iPod doesn't have.
- jolan 15y agoThe iPod does fake it with wifi-based location.
- ugh 15y agoThat’s stupid, though. iPod touches can competently locate themselves (it’s actually astonishingly precise – at least in cities) even without GPS. Oh, and the app should already behave gracefully when determining the location fails – GPS is most certainly not always available. It’s just dumb.
- powpowpow 15y agoEven then, I can't think of much you've got to degrade for the iPod touch. The big stuff (screen/ram/graphics/cpu) is near enough identical. If you support the previous gen iPhone, the current gen iPod should be no problem. You can pick up location from wifi... all I can think of not being available is the compass...
- dstein 15y agoI would much rather them spend the time to make the regular website iPad compatible. But Google has some funky JavaScript on the inputs capturing every keystroke and sending each keypress to the server and none of it works on iOS. You can't type, and you can't paste anything in the textboxes. And similar bugs effect Firefox, like you can't select text in the textareas using the keyboard.
- nc 15y agoCan't believe they went for the same Facebook style launcher, when it's a) used by Facebook b) only got 5 icons c) it's explicitly regarded as bad UI design by Apple (at this WWDC).
- joejohnson 15y agoI don't think it's terrible UI design, even if it isn't the best. It is familiar, which is smart for a new product which is aimed at converting users.
- nc 15y agoIt's still less familiar than the bottom tab bar which is optimal for 5 or less tabs. (fewer taps required to browse between screens).
- steven_h 15y agoWhat alternate style launchers would you recommend then rather than the standard grid of icons? I agree that it doesn't look very good with few icons and has a bad UX with too many icons, but it seems hard to find something that fits perfectly in the middle.
- glassx 15y agoTwitter, Tweetbot, tumblr, Instagram, Skype and Wunderlist (my most used apps) all get away with the 5 icons on the bottom. They mostly contain 4 main options, plus another screen with configuration and advanced options. Tweetbot's fourth button allows you to rapidly change its behavior, it's fast enough and the best UI I've seen so far.
- dmbass 15y ago"it's explicitly regarded as bad UI design by Apple" I find that hard to believe considering that launcher concept is implemented by Apple in the iOS home screen.
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- joshu 15y agothis is impossible to find in the app store. conveniently, i have a meeting with the plus folks so i will tell them :)
- berberich 15y agoAgreed. I tried searching for it in every possible way, with no luck. I finally ended up using the direct link.
- redrory 15y agoNot even the direct link works for me :(
- leviathan 15y agoIt looks like google didn't release it in all the stores, for example, it doesn't exist in the Lebanese App Store, where I can download it. I still don't understand why would someone want to alienate users of certain areas or countries. Doesn't it make sense to release in all the stores to get the most exposure?
- tbh2347 15y agoOn the other hand, I don't understand why someone would alienate users of certain countries unless they had a reason to do so. I like to give companies benefit of the doubt when there's no hint of a conspiratorial political agenda.
- treblig 15y agoProbably just propagation delay in the App Store. I'd be surprised if it wasn't searchable in a few hours or less.
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- Joshim5 15y agoThis usually occurs during the release date of an app. It takes some time for the app to come up in search results.
- pnp 15y agoI found it on my iPhone by searching for "google social huddle" as that seems to hit the description.
- tingley 15y agoThis worked for me as well.
- farnulfo 15y agoCan't find where huddle messages are stored on the web interface !?
- kodisha 15y agoNot available in Croatian store.
- saturdaysaint 15y agoHuddles are even more confusing here - when I target my "Friends" circle, it populates the field with specific the names of everyone in that list, including people who aren't in Plus yet. Are they going to get an annoying nag e-mail that I do NOT want to send? I don't know, so I'm not using Huddles yet. This problem is arising frequently for me with Circles - I'm not exactly sure what the impact will be beyond blanket posts to Friends and Public.
- pohl 15y agoI agree about how it's unclear, and I wondered the same thing. I've experienced this from the other end, though, so I know what actually happens: nothing. I have a couple of friends who included me in huddles days and days ago on their Android devices. It wasn't until today that I knew about them: they were all there for me to read after I installed the app on my iPhone.
- Andrenid 15y agoSame here, when I downloaded the app today I had "huddles" waiting, where people had been chatting. I like that they did it this way. If you don't know you're missing out, you don't really care... then when you finally get it and jump in, you're excited about all the content and chats happening.
- saurik 15y agoFor the record, I received a text message related to Huddles, so it might not involve e-mail (but might in fact be even more annoying for some people).
- inam 15y agoI'm using 2-factor authentication. Couldn't create an application password. Had to use my main pwd+token which is only good for 30 days. Shouldn't they allow the use of a 2-factor application password for an iOS app?
- joebadmo 15y agoWhy couldn't you create an application password?
- inam 15y agoI created an application password to use for the iPhone app. After I tried to authenticate it told me that I couldn't use application passwords and to use my normal password+token.
- kisielk 15y agoWorse yet, on my iPhone 3G I can't get the code from the Authenticator app and then log on to the Google+ app before it expires... it's just too slow :/
- joejohnson 15y agoWhat are the advantages of using this app? It seems like a lot of overhead for recieving information that can be sent in a text message.
- Groxx 15y agoNo text message costs, I'd think. And I've had text messages take several minutes to arrive, websites rarely run that slowly. For myself: I've got an iPod. No text messages there (I have Voice, but not everyone does).
- joejohnson 15y agoIf you have an iPhone, isn't it required to subscribe to an unlimited SMS plan?
- rryan 15y agoApparently there was some kind of bug in the app store and it started serving up an older test version. If you downloaded within the first hour or two of release, you should re-download. https://plus.google.com/111499908439497508351/posts/dESepcDjBZi https://plus.google.com/111499908439497508351/posts/dESepcDj...
- xuki 15y agoI suspect Google submitted at least 2 versions, the previous one was approved but it was buggy and Google did not release until Apple approved this new version. Google then rushed to release the stable app, didn't know that App Store would still serve the old version until a few hours later.
- adig 15y agoSince google+ launched I thought that the "Photos from your phone" is a really good idea. I haven't found any option for syncing in the iPhone app. Is it only available on the Android app ?
- clobber 15y agoCool - another medium for more baby photos and emoting.
- mattdeboard 15y agoLuckily for us, HackerNews is not another medium for mindless whining.
- Groxx 15y agoCan't test it, as I have an iPod (which is wtf-worthy...), but from what I'm seeing... have they released an API yet? Surely someone can come up with something better.
- bhartzer 15y agoI really need to ditch the blackberry and get an iphone.
- carvaka 15y agoI can't use it to post a message to a specific person (can only select circles). This means I can't use Agent G to post to FB / twitter. Will stick with the mobile app for now.
- carvaka 15y agoWell, mobile app doesn't let me do it either.
- j79 15y agoIf you're having a hard time finding the app via search, try going to Categories -> Social Networking -> Release Date I was able to find it there.
- jdelsman 15y agoInteresting. Using this app, I'm able to use Google+ in China. However, going to plus.google.com doesn't work. Does this use a different communication method we & China aren't aware of?
- foobarbazetc 15y agoA different host name... not rocket science. :)
- beej71 15y agoSearching for google+ in the app store got me nothing. But searching for "google+" (with quotes) in the app store found it.
- now 15y agoSo far, the only thing that the native client seems to enable you to do that the web client doesn’t already do is dealing with photos.
- aufreak3 15y agoLooks like it is available in the US store only? Can't get in Singapore.
- runjake 15y agoMany people are having trouble location the app by using the obvious search terms. However, if you search for the words "google huddle" it should come right up.
- robryan 15y ago"Google+" worked for me, so all good in Australia at least.
- shinratdr 15y ago...no iPod touch or iPad support? Honestly? Why? That's insane. Judging by how ubiquitous support is for those devices across iOS apps, I almost thing Google specifically disallowed them to be pricks, which is supported by the fact that it runs on the iPhone 3G. Either way to not be aware that this is an issue floors me. Maybe they really DON'T see the value or market in the iPod touch at all? Between that sheer ridiculousness and the Android-esque navigation bar, this is shaping up to be one underwhelming iOS app launch from Google.