Google Docs is one of the widely used product which serves as an online or web-based Office Productivity Suite that specializes in spreadsheets, forms, word processors and many other components that are widely used by the folks worldwide. But now as people prefers mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computer more than that of a laptop or desktop because of the freedom to work even on the move, the mobility of such useful products are also in great demand. In this regard, Google has introduced an Android App for Google Docs and one can get it for free from the Android market and use it to perform all sort of stuff such as create or edit, upload and share right from the convenience of a mobile device. It is the official app that is now made available thereby bringing an end to all the anticipation for such useful products by users of these online productivity tools.


One of the most featured convenience in the android version of Google Docs is that of its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support that allows the users to covert an image full of read-only texts to editable text formats or in other words it can extract the texts from captured images which are taken from the lens of the phone's camera. It is not fully developed in terms of allowing some advanced features like multiple language support or identifying handwritings or any thing of such sort but it is still very useful even with the limited functionalities that it has and inclusion of other such extended capabilities in future updates cannot be ruled out as they are known to revamp their products at regular intervals and facilitate good usable standards to its users.


It offers many shortcut ways to accomplish your tasks and work with all your documents whether it be a Spreadsheet, PDF or any documents and helps you edit them or make changes easily with less efforts and in quick time. It will also allow you to share all those stuffs that you created or edited using Google Docs Android App with your contacts directly from the device. It has a neat interface and everything is well-organized so that you can find each item easily without requiring to explore complicated navigations as most other apps provide. It can also be used to view all the documents or images and accordingly facilitates easy access to the files that you are looking for and saves some valuable time.

The current version of the Google Doc Android App is v1.0.4r and it requires the Android operating system of v2.1 (Eclair) and above for it to be compatible. It is hardly one megabyte in size and can be downloaded for free from the android market through the links as mentioned above. It has got good content rating and apart from a few annoying experience reported by the users of this app, it is a good option to consider while searching for such free and useful productivity tools for the popular android platform.