Quickoffice – SomeGadgetGuy

During Google I/O we heard about native Office document support, and we were pretty sure that was built on the QuickOffice platform.

It looks like after Google Docs receives the updates to natively edit Office files, Google will be properly retiring QuickOffice from the Play store. From the Google Apps Update blog:

With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks. Existing users with the app can continue to use it, but no features will be added and new users will not be able to install the app.

Short and sweet. Google acquired and retired in around two years. Fret not though as Drive and Docs will be getting much better soon…

Just a quick heads up!

Google recently bought out QuickOffice, and it looks like they’re ready to start bringing it into the proper stable of other Google Apps. QuickOffice can integrate with Google Drive, and it provides much better tools for document and spreadsheet editing (IMO) than the stock Drive app. Not the least of which is the ability to create a new document while offline…

QuickOffice has become my go-to solution for writing while traveling on my little Nexus 7, and now it’s completely free! That should be enough for you to at least give it a whirl, but Google is going to sweeten the pot a little more. If you install by September 26, you’ll also receive an additional 10GB of cloud storage through Google Drive.

Hit the Google Drive Blog for more info, or go directly to Google Play to install QuickOffice!