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What astounds me is that Google encourages me to type emails when I'm in the metro underground by allowing me to start new e-mail drafts. But Drive? "Error crea
by cryptoz 14y ago
What astounds me is that Google encourages me to type emails when I'm in the metro underground by allowing me to start new e-mail drafts. But Drive? "Error creating document" (yes, they lead you into thinking you can make a document by letting you get 99% of the way there before the app displays an error). You literally cannot type a single character in a document offline in Drive on Android. It's outrageous. If they improve their offline support, and become more resistant to downtime, I'll be very happy using Drive. Otherwise, I'll wait for a startup to fix collaborative Document editing.
Edit: I'm going to update my pending YC application with another secondary idea; fix Google Drive with open source tools, build it into a protocol and not a single proprietary product.
- habosa 14y agoThat's just an issue with the Android app. On my Chromebook I can start documents offline no problem, and on the Android app you can work on offline documents without a connection.
- cryptoz 14y ago> and on the Android app you can work on offline documents without a connection. Did they fix this recently? As of last week, my experience says this is false. I have been unable to edit "Offline" documents on Android ever since I started trying.
- habosa 14y agoI had this feature available on my Transformer ~2 months ago.
- Evbn 14y agoI didn't believe you so I flipped to airplane mode and opened Drive. It crashed. Then the crash reporter hung, so I had to Force Quit from the App manager in order to try again after enabling WiFi. Then I opened and "offline" doc amd found that "offline" mode is "read only" mode (taps cause zoom instead of highlight/edit) even though the UI says that nowhere.