New Android App: Get your Podio Apps & Workspaces on your Phone – Be Productive Anywhere

27.09.12 Posted in Product News by

It’s been fantastic to hear so many great stories of how you’re using Podio on your Android phones: from reviewing new job candidates as they apply, to managing task lists on construction sites and even coordinating band performances! As of today, you can now do much more!

The new Android App puts your Podio Apps and Workspaces right onto your mobile. Any of your existing Podio Apps will work on your Android – helping you and your coworkers stay productive, wherever you are.

Download the new app for free on Google Play and please leave us a review there, we’d really appreciate it. If you’re not using Podio yet don’t forget to sign up first, it’s free.

   

One company already using the new Android app is Nørrebro Bryghus, a Danish microbrewery with big ambitions. Their unique, all organic beers have won acclaim and customers around the world. Sales Director, Anders Kleinstrup calculates that Podio and the new Android App saves each of his staff half a day a week, by reducing their email clutter and admin tasks. They now spend that time on what’s most important – being out the office meeting customers. See the full story in the video above.

Build your own work app for your Android

Podio set out to empower you to manage your work in an easy and efficient way. If you use Podio you probably also use some apps, these are the core of getting work done on Podio. Anyone can build their own app on the web-version of Podio – no technical skills needed – and it’ll instantly be available through the new Android App, truly enabling you to work from anywhere. Some great uses for your Podio Apps on your phone: reporting expenses, managing sales leads, taking field notes, spotting trends, and tracking bugs. Have a different use-case? Just build your own app in minutes. [See how here]

What you can do with the new Android App

  • Customize your Podio mobile home-screen with all your favourite Apps and Workspaces.
  • Create and edit app items from your Android for everyone to work on.
  • Put photos and video directly into your app items.
  • Quickly find what you’re working on – for example, use app filters to only see deals with closing dates this week.
  • Access your workspaces to post status updates and get an overview of all the activity in the workspace.
  • Manage your personal task list and assign tasks to your coworkers.

What do you think?

Once you’ve tried the new app [available here] help us improve Podio as a mobile work tool by giving us your feedback below or by tweeting using @podio. We’re really looking forward to hearing how the new app will help you work. And of course, if you’re not using Podio yet – signup for free before trying the app.

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Co-founder at Podio. For several years Jon Froda has been researching the field of social software, specializing in strategies and tools that help organizations develop knowledge, lead and stay ahead of the market. At Podio Jon is involved with marketing, product development and customer service.

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  • http://twitter.com/mundustorsten Torsten Mueller

    Hi Jon, looks very good, happy to finally see more features on the android. Previously I wouldn’t make much use of the phone app at all – that might change now :-) Please let us know when it will be available for nexux7 /jelly bean devices as it still claims it’s incompatible…

  • http://podio.com Michael Dean

    Thanks Torsten, if you email support@podio.com they may be able to figure something out for your tablet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rbraga1 Rodrigo Braga

    Windows Phone will have a version of Podio?

  • http://twitter.com/kristianmj Kristian Jørgensen

    Hooray – I love it! Adding apps to the homescreen means a lot to me and our customers who need quick access to certain data. However I notice one issue: Google Drive docs show up perfectly on the iPone app, but does not load on Android. Same seems to go for Dropbox and Evernote. Are you aware of this?
    Kristian/BendixKiel

  • http://podio.com Michael Dean

    Thanks Kristian, we are aware of that and hopefully it’ll be coming in future versions.

  • Alex Allen

    After reading this post, I was excited to install Podio on my Jelly Bean Android phone, only to find that it isn’t supported.

    Is this something you guys are working on?

  • http://www.jonfmoss.com JonFMoss

    You should still be able to install it by connecting your device directly to a computer. It may not be optimized but it should still work. Hope they get an update out there soon for all us Nexux 7 owners!

  • Alex Allen

    Yeah, I’d still need to get access to the APK to do that though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/suzanneyada Suzanne Yada

    Tried logging in but am getting an eternal “Loading, please wait” message, then my Android system bar shows a “Log-in error” message. I’m on Samsung Epic…

  • Joel Franklin

    How is this not compatible with the Nexus tablet??

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=512981361 Jon Froda

    We can help you out if you write support@podio.com, cheers.

  • http://twitter.com/mundustorsten Torsten Mueller

    Thanks, done :-)

  • http://twitter.com/huckjr huckjr

    There still is no ability to add pics or vids….No attachment icon like the iphone/ipad app has

  • http://twitter.com/devongilchrist Devon Gilchrist

    The new app is great! I’m really excited it has arrived; thanks you guys! I had a glitch with it creating duplicate tasks when I was testing it, but that may be something quirky I was doing (Bionic, OS v2.3.4). Would be great to be able to set a time & reminder when entering new tasks. Other than that, I’m happy happy! Thanks again!

  • Anonymous

    You had me at “workspaces”! Without this frankly it was unusable for me… too many posts polluting the feed.

  • http://natejones.me/ Nate Jones

    Wow! Great work all! Just updated my HTC Evo 3D and tried it out. So far I’m super impressed. Love having access to my apps and it seems more responsive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/steverevere Stephen Revere

    I get the exact same thing. HTC Evo 4G. Help me out here. I really am addicted to Podio, and I’ve been waiting for you to finally make a decent Android App – and now it doesn’t work for me.

  • Samuel Sampi Kamffer

    I have a Galaxy Nexus running JB and it is running perfectly.

  • Samuel Sampi Kamffer

    I had the same problem initially. Did you have the old app installed and then updated it? If yes, my fix was to uninstall the old app and do a fresh install. Working fine now. (Galaxy Nexus / Jelly Bean).

  • http://podio.com Michael Dean

    Hi Huckjr, it’s possible to attach videos and pictures to app items but not currently in the stream. That’s likely to be coming in future versions.

  • Tobias Lindberg

    Hello Torsten,
    the app should be available at Google Play now for Nexus 7 tablets as well as for many other tablets.

  • Tobias Lindberg

    Hello JonFMoss,
    the app is available now to install at Google Play for tablet users.

  • Tobias Lindberg

    Hello Joel,
    we have enabled it now for tablets as well at Google Play. Main reason was that we wanted to make a custom designed tablet version that we release later but after a lot of demands since release we decided to enable the existing version.

  • Tobias Lindberg

    All of you guys with these sign in issues, contact support@podio.com and then we will make sure to make the app running for you.

  • Tobias Lindberg

    Hello Alex,
    Jelly Bean should have not been an issue unless you are running a tablet with Jelly Beans. Anyway, after a lot of demand we decided to release the app for tablets as well, our original plan was to postpone for tablets until we have a custom tablet design.

  • http://podio.com Michael Dean

    Hi Rodrigo, we’re not currently working on one but it may happen in the future.

  • Torbjørn Eide

    The new version of Podio for Android is really usable at last. Great work! Now, only one important thing should be implemented: It takes up a lot of the limited storage on my phone leading to memory problems. Making it movable to sd storage easily fixes the problem. Here is a recipe for your developers:

    http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/move-to-sd-card/

  • http://www.facebook.com/steinerd Anthony William Steiner

    Personally, compared to all the other GTD Phone apps that claim to be the end-all-be-all solution for ‘getting things done’, I find that they pale on comparison. Exellent job this tool, it comes in handy for multi-tasking projects and keeps the stream of activity off my computer screen on a device that would normally just be sitting next to me waiting for someone to call. :D thank you. Keep at it!

  • http://twitter.com/rygriffiths Ryan Griffiths

    Hello, one quick suggestion, I can’t seem to click on email address or telephone numbers, this would make our CRM app more functional on a mobile.

  • http://twitter.com/Froda Jon Froda

    Thanks Anthony, much appreciated.

  • http://twitter.com/ajwmedia Adrienne | AJW Media

    Its working on my nexus 7 yeah!!

  • http://twitter.com/maxxxhayden Max Hayden

    Youtube is blocked here; couldn’t see the video. Overall it was very informative post.

    android app developers

  • http://blueseed.co/faq.html dandv

    Four months later, the Android app still lacks two VERY BASIC functions: search, and delete. Seriously, while you’re on the go and need to search for data in your workspaces, you can’t do that from the Android app!

  • http://www.facebook.com/michaeljohndean Michael Dean

    Hi dandv, we’re working to improve the app all the time and we recognise that these features are needed. I can’t give you a precise timeframe but hopefully it won’t be too long.

  • http://blueseed.co/faq.html dandv

    Hey Podio team, this is one of those “big bang for the buck” issues I’ve been reporting over ZenDesk. Right now if I want to call someone, I have to memorize their 10-digit number, because I can’t click on it. Honestly, that’s a bit ridiculous. I realize you guys are still a small team, but I do hope you can fix these sorts of things soon.

  • Tobias Lindberg

    Hello dandv,
    we have just released a new version today on Google Play were you can click on the blue link that will take you to the phone app with a pre-filled phone number.

  • http://twitter.com/KaybieRocket Kim Brokaw

    Android is unable to see any documents attached to Podio? This is critical for our team since we’re all mostly accessing Podio on our phones!