pauloslf

[beta testing] Cloudprint 0.5.8 and !free! Cloudprint PRO

2012-06-02T17:25:00.004-07:00

Hi all, the new version of Cloudprint is ready for testing, and it has a few new features :

1 - Dropbox support : now you are able to print files stored in your Dropbox account..

2 - print Facebook photos: now you are able to print your facebook fotos

3 - improved printer settings : since Google cloudprint supports a lot of printers and each printer has it's own settings, this new version of the app tries to make it easy to change the most common settings

4 - bug fixing: as usual we trying to improve on all the issues reported by the users.

This new version will bring another new thing: Cloudprint PRO. There are a few things about this:

- all the features that are free will remain free, now and in the future

- some new features might be available only for PRO users, like Dropbox and Facebook (altough you have 5 days to play with them and decide if it's worth to upgrade to PRO)

- the users that payed to remove ads in the app, will now get Cloudprint PRO for free.

- Users that help on the testing Cloudprint, and provide USEFUL feedback will get Cloudprint PRO for free

- user who helped or will help in the translations will get Cloudprint PRO for free

And now here is the link for the first release candidate version:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/125190/Cloudprint058rc1.apk

In order to apply for a free Cloudprint PRO:

1 - install the app

2 - go to "Help" > "Contributors" and click "Apply"

As usual , please let us know what you think of the new version!

How to remove Cloudprint ads

2011-11-15T10:21:00.001-08:00

Hi all, as it seems some users are having issues removing the ads from the app so here goes a tutorial: NOTE: removing ads is a payed service, that helps to support the development

Step 1 : Click "About/Store" icon

Step 2 : Click "Cloudprint Store" button

Step 3 : Click "Disable ads in all the app" button

Step 4 : (optional) you can also click "Buy a coffee for the developers" as many times as you want... thanks! (IT WON'T REMOVE THE ADS, IS JUST A CONTRIBUTION)

Note: If for some reason (network issues) you sill have the ads, please go back to the store and wait a bit until the purchase is restored. For any issue, send us an email :)

thanks to all!

Beta testers needed

2011-09-27T15:54:00.000-07:00

Hi all! As we have a new version beeing tested, i'd like to ask for volunteers, in order to help on the testing, please join our Google group at : http://groups.google.com/group/cloudprintandroidapp , you will find the latest beta version there .. The main 2 ideas for this release were: - new UI, something that scales from a very small android screen to a 10.1 tablet - improvements to sharing for other apps.. So now is possible: - to print picasa and facebook fotos using the pictures gallery in the phone and the facebook app (support inside cloudprint app is comming) - print emails from android default mail app - use the app in Hebrew :) here are some screenshots :

paulo f

We are selling ad space :)

2011-06-27T15:24:00.001-07:00

Hi all,
would you like to see your ad in CloudPrint app ? let us know at cloudprintandroid at gmail dot com

Cloudprint 0.4.2 is on the market

2011-06-17T10:37:00.001-07:00

Hi all,
i'd like to anounce that Cloudprint 0.4.2 is on the market :)
here is the new stuff:

- fixed issue in Samsung galaxy devices
- added Spanish translation
- rewritten communication layer
- added advanced options for Gdocs and webpages

As usual, let me know for any issue..

I'm aware of the webpage issues and i'm are currently working on a solution, current idea is to some a webservice to convert webpages to pdf before printing, Joliprint seems the best candidate..

thanks,
paulo f

Cloud Print 0.04 is OUT

2011-05-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Cloud Print users,
i'd like to start this email with a request: please join our Google group at :http://groups.google.com/group/cloudprintandroidapp (if you haven't done it yet) , by joining this group your question will be answered a lot faster, and you will get access to the most recent news and beta versions :) .. Also if you use the group i will have more time to work on new features, and thats better for all of us:)

Now the good stuff :)
This new version took a bit longer then usual since i wanted to make it a lot better, so a lot of issues were fixed and some requested features were added, here is the list:
- Translated in : DE,FR,IT,NL,PT -> this is a big one, now the app speaks 6 languages and all of this thanks to our awesome users who volunteered to do this! ( let us know if you would like to translate the app into your language)
- Printer options -> still very experimental, but you should be able to change your printer settings now..
- Share printers with friends -> a very cool feature, you can print to your friends printers :) just share it!!
- Contacts printing
- Better sms printing
- Print from clipboard
- Improvements to small screens
- bug fixing, bug fixing... :)

Just to finish, i'd like to say thanks to the users who helped bringing this release out:
Awesome translation team :Fabrizio Alberti aka technofab (IT), Awesome Dutch user(NL),Awesome German user (DE),roaddan from Québec(FR), me (PT)
Awesome testers team !

THANKS A LOT FOR HELPING!!

Translators needed

2011-05-17T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,
with new features comes new text, and therefore translation are needed once again.
if you want to help, you can join our google group here:
http://groups.google.com/group/cloudprintandroidapp

Or go directly to our translation site here:
http://crowdin.net/project/cloudprint-android/invite?token=738474f662b9baf5e91bef70a31ea288

so all the help is needed!

thanks,
paulo f

Cloud Print 0.2.1 is out

2011-03-19T21:02:00.000-07:00

I'm happy to announce that Cloud Print v.0.2.0 is finally available, this version brings some of the features requested by the users, the most important ones are mail and sms printing.
In order to be able to print emails an external app is required, it's called K9 and it's probably the most powerful Android email client. K9 is based on the default Android email client, but it adds a lot of new features including the "Share" feature, that should be used if you want to print from K9.

Why an external app and not an email app integrated ?
Developing an internal email client would be extremly complex and would take a lot of time, and at the beginning would not support the mail server types that k9 does (imap, pop3 and exchange), also having an email app integrated, would result in a much bigger app.

Let us know what you think about this feature, and in the future we might add an integrated email app only for gmail (and only if users really ask for it).

complete list of features:
- mail printing with K9
- sms printing
- added support support for txt,doc,xps
- improved job management (delete jobs)
- improved UI
- improved error handling
- bug fixing, bug fixing... :)

About the "Jobs in qeue" issue:
Some users have reported that sometimes print jobs stay in the queue and don't get printed, so i would like to explain that this app can only put the jobs in the queue, after that Google Chrome is the one responsible for sending the jobs to the printer. So it seems that Chrome has some issues, with some accounts, in fetching the print jobs. Some users have reported that login/logout from the Cloud Print service in the Chrome options fixes this issue, but in the meantime we reported this to Google and we really hope that the issues get's fixed soon.

Plans for the future:
i've been receiving a lot of requests for a paid version without ads, for those users : i'm working with the in-app billing from google (should be released soon) that will allow me to sell a no-ads version from inside the app using the market. Also i might have some pro options to sell there.. still working on that!!

to all users:
thanks for the 16.000 downloads,
thanks for the 4.5 rating
and thanks for understanding that not all issues can be fixed by the app :)
please keep sending ideas, we have a lot planned for next versions and almost all came from your ideas/requests!

This is not a google app :)

2011-03-16T04:20:00.000-07:00

Hi, i've seen many comments on the market of users saying thanks to Google for this app, well you can definitely thank them for the awesome Cloud Print service they have, but the app is not from Google :)

Note: I'm just trying to avoid issues with google..

Translators needed

2011-03-16T03:29:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
as next version will be released this weekend (hopefully) right after it, i'd like to translate the app in a few more languages.. if you have some free time let me know..

Beta testers needed!!

2011-03-11T10:41:00.000-08:00

As we are doing some big internal changes in Cloud Print app, we would like to request some help in testing it.. if you have some free time and you know how to install and apk, send us an email to cloudprintandroid at gmail

Cloud Print 0.1.5 is out

2011-03-06T11:59:00.000-08:00

NOTE : 0.1.7 was just released with some fixes..

First off all i'd like to thank you all for the support these days, Cloud Print app would not be the same without you, also i'd like to thank the fact that you preferred to send us an email instead of just leaving a bad review, in tried to help in all cases i could, altough in some cases Google Chrome or Google Cloud print, prevented me to be able to fix the problems.
Also i'd like to thank you for sharing the app with your friends, thanks to you the app appear on the front page of Gizmodo, and that, made us very proud :) and thankfull. (http://gizmodo.com/#!5775642/cloud-print-sends-web-pages-images-and-files-to-your-printer-through-chrome--dropbox)

Today we are releasing a new app that brings some of the more requested features :
- Print webpages (using share page)
- new direct print mechanism (no Dropbox needed)
- improved error handling/reporting
- possibility of installable the app on SD (apps2sd)
- Print jobs are now viewable in the app
- print .txt files from internal file browser

some screenshots:

More then the features i'd like to request your attention to the new direct upload, this means you won't need dropbox anymore to get more stability as you have a more reliable and secure way to print your documents, i ask you to test this feature (disabling dropbox) and let me know how it went, it was a huge effort from our side towards a more stable app so we want your feedback.

Another important thing is that now we have a poll in our blog (pauloslf.blogspot.com) with the features the users want more, you can now vote there or just send me an email with the features you'd like to see in the app. btw, keep an eye on our blog :)

As you know this app is ad-supported, unfortunatelly in 2 weeks and almost 8000 installations we have made less then 3$, which is preventing us to expand on some areas (eg. not enough devices for testing) so for now all i ask is: Share this app and keep sending feedback.

Cloud Print: version 0.1.0

2011-03-04T01:04:00.000-08:00

Finally i managed to create a page for Cloud Print, one week after it launched and to celebrate i'm also launching a new version with many new features and issues fixed:

- fixed issue with JustPictures

- added internal file browser

- improved "first time user" experience

- improved configuration menus

- added printing from the app

- added support for the following file types: pdf,jpg,jpeg,docx,ods,xls,xlsx,ppt and odp

for the ones who don't know Cloud Print for android here is a description and some new screenshots:

Cloud print allows you to print files from your phone to your printer. In order to do this it uses the new google cloud print service and as this service is still in beta you need to use a special version of Google Chrome for windows in order to be able to use it. Before using this app please configure your pc following this guide:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cloudprint.html

In order to get better results please use your Dropbox account, if you don't have one, go here: www.dropbox.com it's free.