Gadgetory

Google Drive is all about making it really easy to live life in the cloud and that starts by making all of your files available on all of your devices anywhere and to do that we built a really nice web interface desktop sync applications for Windows and for mac and also a really really nice android app but like with chrome we want drive to be available on every platform and so today I'm really excited to announce we're making it available on iOS and on Chrome OS so let me start here on on iOS here on the iPad just going to zoom out a bit and I'll just open up drive and you can see the interface is really really fluid it works just like you'd expect you can browse through dozens and dozens of file types here I'll pull up a photo it's a bigger photo than I remember and everything just works like you'd expect but it's not just browsing that we made available on the iOS experience we brought a lot of the best features of drive right to the mobile and tablet experience so for example I'm going to open up this folder of receipts here and a big nerd I scan all of my receipts but I was also too lazy to actually title any of these but I know that somewhere in here there's a receipt from the post office with a tracking number so what I can do here is just search and i'm going to type certified mail i think that word was in there somewhere and just like that i can pull up the receipt notice this isn't a text file there's no text in here I haven't written anything instead we used optical character recognition technology to actually extract the text from the scan index it and then make it searchable now the cool thing is that doesn't just work with text that's pretty cool it doesn't just work with text it works with photos to let me show you what I mean so here I have a big pile of photos I took a trip with my wife through Africa last year and I know somewhere in here are photos of us at the pyramids but again I didn't title my keeping my photos I didn't add keywords but if i search for pyramids just do a search up come the images rush at the Baron again we can actually use image recognition technology to peer inside of the images to actually understand the content I don't have to do anything no labels no metadata no nothing just works so of course I don't always have an internet connection and so drive makes it really easy to just save things cast them offline so here I'll just save this manual offline so I can read it whenever and of course at its core drive is about enabling sharing and collaboration so i can add users to collaborate in documents with me right from the app so here's i think a relevant document here I haven't gotten very far but i'm going to add brian right here he's now backstage and we'll see if he has any other ideas give him edit access I've added him right there so we'll come back to that in a second so that's google drive on iOS to vail ipad iphone ipod touch later today check it out you think you'll like it so if we can go over to the Chromebook now I want to show you drive on Chrome OS so of course drive does a lot more than just sync your files to the cloud it enables some amazing applications and one of those is real-time collaboration in the cloud with applications like Google Docs so I'm going to open up this document here there we go and I'm also going to pull it up on my smartphone and on my tablet and here's everything synced across all of my devices right keystroke by keystroke I can see these edits everything just works now this last point is an important one Google Docs works great if you're connected to the Internet but what if you're on a plane or you don't have a connection what about that we've been thinking about that and we're really excited to announce that today Google Documents works for editing offline so let me show you how this works so what I'm going to do is we've turned off wireless on the laptop here and I'm just going to unplug the ethernet cable so there it is it's unplugged and just to prove to you that I am in fact offline New York Times no connection but I can just go back to my google doc and I can keep editing just like I'm online all the formatting still works and you'll see that google docs it's just noticed gracefully I'm offline all of mice ate all my changes are just saved locally to a local cache and I can keep on without even thinking about it all just works without me even noticing so what I'm going to do now is I've made some changes offline maybe my Brian and folks backstage and making some more changes I'm going to close this document all my changes are saved I'm going to plug ethernet back in and now watch what happens when I open the document because it's going to happen pretty quickly I'm going to open it back up and drive and like that it's going to be sink back to the cloud and you'll see it across all of my devices updated in real time so let me open up the drive web interface here it is I'm going to open up this document and get ready because it happens quick there is and there it is everything everything just thanks and once you've shown the feature move on to the next thing so that's Google Documents working offline it's available today we're working on offline presentations and spreadsheets those are coming soon but if you're flying back from google i/o and you don't have internet on the plane try out google docs it works great we think you really love it so Google Docs offline