WordPress Launches Official Android App
Do you use WordPress and want to blog from your Android phone? Doing that just got a lot easier. Wordpress for Android - an open-source app backed by WordPress.org - is now available in the Android Market. With this app, anybody who blogs on WordPress.com or a self-hosted WordPress blog can post and edit blog posts, as well as moderate and post comments. In addition, the app will display notifications whenever a reader comments on a blog post.
Features
With WordPress for Android, you can also configure and manage multiple blogs, which is a great feature for those of us who post on more than one site.
Using the app is pretty straightforward. Simply enter your blog's URL and your credentials and you are ready to go. The actual editor is a pretty basic HTML editor, though unlike WordPress' early iPhone efforts, it's easy to add links and italicize or bold text. The app also makes it very easy to select and upload photos from the phone's photo gallery to a WordPress blog. While we were testing the app, however, selecting an image on the Nexus One regularly led to a crash.
Open Source App
Just like WordPress for iPhone and WordPress for BlackBerry, the Android app is an open source effort. Indeed, a large part of the code base for Wordpress for Android is based on the popular wpToGo application, which will now be discontinued in favor of the official WordPress app. Developers who are interested in helping out can find more information here.
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Hey there,
We've tested image upload on the N1 and it was working for us, can you provide more details on when/how it crashes? We've got a support forum up here:
http://android.forums.wordpress.org/forum/support
Thanks
Sure thing Dan - I will send you a private email as well.
Nice part is that they follow the same layout than in the other platforms.
Very exciting news! :) Thanks for your review. I'm downloading the app right now. Although I haven't tried WPtoGo, Android users were definitely lacking an WordPress Android app produced in house.
I downloaded the app, supplied the information for two of my self-hosted blogs, composed a brief post, clicked 'publish,' and uploaded to the blog--all in less than 10 minutes.
One thought: if I haven't yet uploaded the post, maybe the "publish" button should read "publish once I upload" or something similar? This isn't a big deal; I was momentarily confused when I checked the blog from my computer and didn't see the new post. Then I noticed the upload button on the smartphone (Verizon Droid Eris).
Terrific application to have.
I've published a couple using my Treo 755. Much easier to just blog by email though if you ask me, a standard feature WP supports.
it works good but they still need to update it. i agree its still easier to blog through your email while on your phone.
I want to download it where is the link for the app? And also tell me about the method for downloading it.
i had a web blog with wordpress, how my blog can view from android, iphone or blackberry friendly?.trims