Hello all,
I set up Cloud printing on my computer and it works fine. According to the article listed below, it states that the Gmail app as been updated to include the google cloud print option. I am able to navigate to gmail.com on the mobile browser and I have those printing options, but not in the gmail app ( made sure there wasn't any update in the market)... Am I missing something here?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20029456-1.html
Google unveiled Cloud Print in last year's Chrome Dev Channel build, and the search engine giant forges ahead again with today's release of Google Cloud Print for the Gmail mobile app for the iPhone and Android operating systems.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20029456-1.html#ixzz1CahUikZF
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Seems that the CNET article is indeed misleading in that it IS NOT part of the app.
Maybe it's better this way.
The article also says:
from your smartphone simply by opening a file in the mobile browser and choosing "Print" from the drop-down menu in the updated app.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20029456-1.html#ixzz1CdPXFuMd
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They got it half right anyway.
On the google blog page itself...
This feature will be rolling out today and tomorrow for English speaking users in the US and will work on most phones that support HTML5
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Basically, you can print from any modern phone simply by logging in at gmail.com instead of using the gmail app.
They may update the app but for now I can tell you... IT WORKS!
Sweet beans!
The only "catch" seems to be that Google Chrome would have had to been open at least once after a reboot and the computer has to be running, of course.
Right now, with chrome running, cloud printing will work.
If I close chrome, it will still work - chrome will leave a small process/service running in the background so that it will print immediately without having the browser open.
So I decided to test it by rebooting and printing something from my superphone.
The phone sent the print job successfully, cool.
The computer is still booting up...
Windows loads and after everything is running, it still don't print - seems that chrome's print service/process doesn't get loaded on boot.
So I open up chrome and close it... and the email immediately printed out
I can add the chrome service thingie to windows startup anyway so it's an easy workaround to get it to print without having had to open chrome manually after a boot.
All in all, it's pretty neat.
Oh and thanks for posting about it... I knew nothing about this... heh
Thanks for the information! I don't think I will be using this feature, but I was curious how it actually worked.
Does anyone know if it's possible to 'share' this to someone else's account? I have a file server which has the printer connected to. There are 3 of us in the house on Android phones, but I'm the only one that can print from Gmail?
Looks like chrome will only setup a connection to 1 gmail account.
A workaround would be to change the email setting in chrome (disable cloud printing and then re-enable with a different email)
If you had 2 other computers running chrome and connected to the printer, that would work too.
If you go into chrome, cloud print, manage printers, hover to the right of the printer, there is a pull-down to share the printer. Enter their gmail address and you are all set.
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So I've tried using IMAP (but didn't like how changes on my end were not reflected in my Gmail account, and vise versa, such as having messages show as being read, or being able to archive them,...), and I've gone to gmail.com from Opera (but don't like the user interface, it's not optimized for phones).
I want to use the downloadable version, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. I go to m.google.com/mail on my Fuze, and it takes me to the same page that tells me to go to m.google.com/mail on my phone or to send a link to my phone! Where is the actual link to download it? If i click on "I'm on a mobile device" in the upper left corner, it takes me to a page where I can choose different google services, and when I click Gmail, it takes me to the web interface.
Where is this Gmail app I've heard such good things about?
Google keeps leading me in circles!!
Thanks for your help, this is driving me crazy!
Don't forget that Gmail have been experiencing problem today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7907583.stm
**problem resolved**
It turns out that I needed to use Internet Explorer, and not Opera or Skyfire. That sucked...
I want all the folders supported in Dolphin, not just 500 bookmarks that aren't in folders.
I am also trying to sync my chrome contacts.
I stumbled upon this and am also having trouble finding a way to do that easily. Or at all as a matter of fact.
you may want to look at "google bookmarks assister2" its a free app that will sync you google bookmarks. Now it doesn't sync them with a browser app it will show the bookmarks in that application and you can launch them from there and it does give folders so it isn't to bad. I had some trouble getting it to sync correctly but after I did it worked pretty nice. Hope this helped good luck.
anyone found anything to do this? if i had all my bookmarks i could seriously use my tablet as a laptop/desktop replacement.
google bookmarks != chrome bookmarks (which are still synced to the cloud... there must be a way of syncing)
It would be really nice to sync the bookmarks from Chrome with the Android browser. Will look in the market..
EinZtein said:
I want all the folders supported in Dolphin, not just 500 bookmarks that aren't in folders.
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Have you tried Xmarks? It's not free (you have to pay a $1/m subscription fee to get the Android app to let you login. see: http://buy.xmarks.com/premium.php), but it will automatically sync your bookmarks to Android, as well as between computers and browsers, and it stores them all online.
Chrome 2 Phone
dkelle4 said:
Chrome 2 Phone
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thats isnt the same thing as what we are talking about. We are talking about syncing 50+ bookmarks at times. with chrome to phone you would have to send each one then bookmark each one. That could take a while
PhoneMarks, great app
k0smo86 said:
PhoneMarks, great app
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May have to give this a try myself. Thanks.
k0smo86 said:
PhoneMarks, great app
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I can vouch for this. It synced every app that was in the specified folder rather fast. I definitely needed this.
ChromeMarks (Lite/free - if you're satisfied with 1 way sync => PC to phone)
thank you for the help
I just tried PhoneMarks. I setup it up to sync with the default android browser, then went into dolphin HD\bookmarks to SD to sync from android browser to google bookmarks, then synced google bookmarks to dolphin. long story short, my chrome bookmarks are finally on my phone. thanks for the tip.
I'd love to try chromemarks, but I fear giving that many permissions to an app, that should be a stock feature. :/
I'm sure in time I'll just do it.
questions:
does it sync folders as well?
and does it just show up in the browser bookmarks, or do you have to click the app icon or whatever?
Phonemarks moves the bookmarks to recently visited on Samsung phones. Melt.
If you do however, go into most visited and untap the yellow favs star then click it again it'll add it to favourites.
Can't believe google didn't had that damn feature on last 2.x updates..! PhoneMarks, what would be the danger to use it exactly..?
i would like to realize an application to synchronize google chrome bookmarks with my phone.
no problem realizing the application. the only problem is: how can i download data from google server? how can i get the list of bookmarks from google chrome server?
From what I heard, they used to have them available in the google docs website. However, they're making some changes and the synced bookmarks are not currently accessible.
I occasionally use an app called (I think) Chrome to Windows Phone which is useful for sending one link at a time - but like you say it would be great to have a complete sync like e.g. XMarks does for desktop browsers.
It might be worth contact XMarks to see if they would open their API for you to write a phone app.
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I occasionally use an app called (I think) Chrome to Windows Phone which is useful for sending one link at a time - but like you say it would be great to have a complete sync like e.g. XMarks does for desktop browsers.
It might be worth contact XMarks to see if they would open their API for you to write a phone app.
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xmark is a browser extension. i think it's possible to realize an extension, but my idea was an http request like you can do with google bookmarks.
an extension won't allow me to access data from the device anytime i want (or i can do it using a webserver)
You might want to take a look at chromepush.com as well.
Similar app
There is a similar application for Android:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.h.chromemarks&hl=ru
It will be great, if any alternative will be released for WP7!!
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You might want to take a look at chromepush.com as well.
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This site is not working already. Maybe url or program name changed?
There is already an app for this called Chrome Bookmarks
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/apps/0ec0fe4d-85f6-4a48-936d-cc03b75e2402
andreacorti said:
i would like to realize an application to synchronize google chrome bookmarks with my phone.
no problem realizing the application. the only problem is: how can i download data from google server? how can i get the list of bookmarks from google chrome server?
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I recently released an app that does that - it talks directly to Google's servers using the native Chrome sync protocol. It syncs down open Tabs, Bookmarks and recently accessed web pages. It is available in the marketplace under "Chrync" - there is an unlimited trial, and I've no problem with people using it without paying for as long as they like.
I've also released a beta of a new version, which works when you have sync encryption enabled in Chrome. It also (optionally) syncs passwords, lets you pin bookmarks and folders, and lets you search bookmarks, passwords and recent URLs. Info on the beta at chrync.com/beta1-1/
Damian
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I have installed PrintBot and it works perfectly to print a pdf or e-mail from Katien Mail. From browser, I have to convert to PDF first but that's no problem as there are plenty of apps that can do that.
I would like to know if it is possible to print off a GMail app. I don't see a share menu which what I need to be able to print off an e-mail off of GMail. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
ASR831 said:
I have installed PrintBot and it works perfectly to print a pdf or e-mail from Katien Mail. From browser, I have to convert to PDF first but that's no problem as there are plenty of apps that can do that.
I would like to know if it is possible to print off a GMail app. I don't see a share menu which what I need to be able to print off an e-mail off of GMail. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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Theoretically you could try to browse Gmail via web browser and convert the page to a PDF as you said you've done with other stuff before. I've noticed that sometimes when browsing Google sites on my TF or my SGS that it detects I'm signed in already, which would make sense since the Google account is linked to the device and signs in from time to time to sync any new data to your account.
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Theoretically you could try to browse Gmail via web browser and convert the page to a PDF as you said you've done with other stuff before. I've noticed that sometimes when browsing Google sites on my TF or my SGS that it detects I'm signed in already, which would make sense since the Google account is linked to the device and signs in from time to time to sync any new data to your account.
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The problem is you can't convert from an https. It uses an online service to do the conversion of PDF.
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The problem is you can't convert from an https. It uses an online service to do the conversion of PDF.
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Ah, now I see where you're coming from...not really sure at this stage what else to suggest unfortunately. Hope you find an answer to this as I can understand to an extent why this might be useful.
Hello,
I don't find how to print directly a mail (simply via wifi, not via printing a pdf of the mail and print the pdf, for example) via gmail app or the classic email app.
I've installed the Epson iPrint version 2 for android (I've got an Epson PX730FW) but It's not a solution...
Tks for your help.
eleger91 said:
Hello,
I don't find how to print directly a mail (simply via wifi, not via printing a pdf of the mail and print the pdf, for example) via gmail app or the classic email app.
I've installed the Epson iPrint version 2 for android (I've got an Epson PX730FW) but It's not a solution...
Tks for your help.
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You can download cloud print from the Google play store and use that to print from anywhere... only catch is that you have to have chrome on the computer you will be using to print to and the computer and printer must both be on...
Other than that, works great!
eleger91 said:
Hello,
I don't find how to print directly a mail (simply via wifi, not via printing a pdf of the mail and print the pdf, for example) via gmail app or the classic email app.
I've installed the Epson iPrint version 2 for android (I've got an Epson PX730FW) but It's not a solution...
Tks for your help.
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In Maine Terms....you can't get there from here....but it can be done.
Try out an app called PrinterShare from the Market. I believe it includes the necessary drivers for your printer. Once you have that installed on your tablet, open it and connect directly to the printer via WiFi.
After that is done, you send things you want to print to the printer via the Share function, it shows up as an option called PrinterShare. You should be able to try it out first before you buy the key, if it works for you.
The Google Cloud print option also works, but requires a PC connected to the Printer on the network, and the PC needs to be on. PrinterShare should let you go direct, and also supports printing from web browser or any other app that you can share from.
Hope this helps.
EyeBeeNY said:
You can download cloud print from the Google play store and use that to print from anywhere... only catch is that you have to have chrome on the computer you will be using to print to and the computer and printer must both be on...
Other than that, works great!
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You can accomplish this with a printer that support CloudPrint. The device is registered with your Google ID and the cloud print app will allow you to print to that printer without needing Chrome on your PC.
I have a Kodak Hero 9.1 that does this flawlessly.
I use PrinterShare too with Google Cloud Print! Works very well.
EyeBeeNY said:
You can download cloud print from the Google play store and use that to print from anywhere... only catch is that you have to have chrome on the computer you will be using to print to and the computer and printer must both be on...
Other than that, works great!
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or a wifi (cloud print) printer
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I use Let's Print Droid (free from Play Store) for CUPS-connected printers at work and PrinterShare ($) for my home wifi printer. Let's Play Droid also has options for LPR, Google Cloud Printing, SMB, and FTP but I haven't tried these modes.
I bought PrinterShare.....
I bought PrinterShare, and it prints fine to my HP printer, however, it will not print to my Dell Laserjet. It seems that it has something to do with dell and releasing drivers or something like that. So, do you guys think google clould print would work for me?
Am I missing something...the original post asked about printing from the gmail app. There is no share button in the gmail app unless I'm missing it, so I don't think it can be done from the app.
PrinterShare has an option to print gmail.
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amaddux said:
Am I missing something....
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Yes.
But seriously, if you have a google cloud capable printer and install the cloud print app you can print from pretty much any app at that point.
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I use PrinterShare too with Google Cloud Print! Works very well.
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Thanks.
I'll test PrinterShare pro
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In Maine Terms....you can't get there from here....but it can be done.
Try out an app called PrinterShare from the Market. I believe it includes the necessary drivers for your printer. Once you have that installed on your tablet, open it and connect directly to the printer via WiFi.
After that is done, you send things you want to print to the printer via the Share function, it shows up as an option called PrinterShare. You should be able to try it out first before you buy the key, if it works for you.
The Google Cloud print option also works, but requires a PC connected to the Printer on the network, and the PC needs to be on. PrinterShare should let you go direct, and also supports printing from web browser or any other app that you can share from.
Hope this helps.
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Is "google cloud" shown as "MyCloud" in my Android 4.0 ?
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But seriously, if you have a google cloud capable printer and install the cloud print app you can print from pretty much any app at that point.
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I had no idea PrinterShare had the capability to print from within it. I've always clicked Share, then selected it to print when the Share button is available in an app. I don't really print or try to print that often though. The idea behind the tablet to me is to avoid having to print things.
That being said, unfortunately, I think the fact remains that printing is not available for the great majority of apps, so "pretty much any app" means 10% or less of apps. For instance, I can't print from Google Maps. Another thing I've never found a good way to print...a web form that I've entered data into. Sending it to Cloud Print prints the form, but with none of the entered data.
Although I'm sure someone will give me the process almost as soon as I post this
I mean a screenshot would at least get what youre talking about done better then not... And then you have to figure there is an app that will wifi print those screenshots. This is obviously not too useful when the document is multiple pages
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MyCloud is ASUS's app for cloud storage, not any "Android 4.0" app.
So I just reloaded Cloud Print (it's actually been awhile since I used it on my old Prime and had not yet put it on my Infinity). I had forgotten that in order to print mail easily, you have to install the K9 mail app to use in conjunction with the Cloud Print app.
Once you have K9 loaded, you simply go to your inbox and long press on the mail you want to print. When the context menu opens, click "share" and you will have the option of sharing with cloud print. Once you do that you simply need to click the "click here to print" button.
I prefer the Gmail app's UI by a long shot. I install K9 and disable notifications and syncing and just refresh manually when I need to print an email.
You can also print attachments in Gmail with the cloud print app by clicking the attachment and downloading, then choosing "share" and sharing it with the cloud print app.
I hope this helps!
YES. I am So tired of new attitude the kids have of "Oh I don't know the answer, so let me just make one up".
Google forums are full of crap answers these days. Someone needs to tighten it up.
amaddux said:
Am I missing something...the original post asked about printing from the gmail app. There is no share button in the gmail app unless I'm missing it, so I don't think it can be done from the app.
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I use PrintHand which can be found in the Play Store
I use Printer Share :good: