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.
That'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.
> 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.
I 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.
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.