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Google Launches Docs and Sheets Add-ons For Android
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced the launch of new add-ons for the Android versions of Google Docs and Google Sheets. Those services have offered integrations with third-party tools on the web, and now a similar capability is coming to Google's mobile operating system. There's now a dedicated section for add-ons for Docs and Sheets in the Google Play Store, Google Apps product manager Saurabh Gupta wrote in a blog post. Nine add-ons are available for Android as of today: AppSheet, DocuSign, EasyBib, Google Classroom, PandaDoc, ProsperWorks CRM, Scanbot, Teacher Aide, and Zoho CRM. The DocuSign add-on, for example, lets you sign or send a file in Google Docs or Sheets through DocuSign. Generally these services are meant for a work context, but it's possible that developers will build more consumer-oriented add-ons, too.
You can't kill what is already dead!
I'm surprised to learn this wasn't already a thing.
Are these basically wrappers on the online code? I'd be fine with that.
When is Google going to announce a full API for a programming language other than Java? Java fails at being a decent high level language so why are we paying this ridiculous performance penalty?
Yes, if only there were Objective C & Swift support, or REST or an official client library for PHP or node.js and JavaScript or Python, .Net, Ruby, Go... and more.
Perhaps be meant Android, which supports C and assembler too.
Anyway, when are they going to enable add-ons for mobile Chrome? It badly needs uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. I guess they need to come up with a UI but it doesn't seem to be getting any attention.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
So, you want Google, a company whose revenue comes mainly from online advertising, and who released Android in order to ensure Apple will not cut it out of the lucrative online mobile advertising business, to enable the ability for users to impact its revenue stream? uBlock to kill ads, and Privacy Badger to satop the data collection...
No, its not a UI problem - Apple has done it. It's closer to a fundamental business decision.
Considering the context, he probably meant Android API support you retard. Most of the Android APIs are still restricted to Java or alternative JVM languages which don't typically work very well.
Google is fine with it on Chrome for Desktop. And unlike Apple, they're happy for you to install any third-party browsers on Android with this functionality, such as Firefox. Heck, you can unlock your Nexus phone and install an module to block ads etc at the system level, or even use APK's Hosts file if you want.
What is dead may never die.
Hard to fathom?
A few browser apps forked from Chrome/Chromium for Android already have some other kinds of half-assed ad-blocking components built-in more or less. I wonder if the same can be done with uBlock.
Oh no, yet another bunch of crappy apps from Google that will become as mandatory built in system components on next Nexus upgrade. When I bought my Nexus 5, it did not have these dozens of useless Google- applications. After two years, the amount of un-removable system applications has multiplied and the Google play tries to shovel in new "improved, now with new icon!" versions of these applications daily.