WordPress For Android
Checking your WordPress Blog on your mobile phone can be bit of a pain if your Smartphone is on the Android platform.
The easiest way I have found is to bookmark each blog, but then writing the post is awkward because you're only getting a mobile view of the page, so it often involves a lot of scrolling around a page.
Last night I was looking through the Android Market and saw the WordPress Logo as a featured application.
After installing the app you get to put the address of your Blog in the setup and put in your username and password in, (you will need to make sure XML-RPC is ticked in settings).
You can have multiple blogs setup as well which I find really handy, you can choose which blog you want to work on as soon as the app loads, as you will get a list of the configured blogs.

When you first configure your blog it may take a minute or two to retrieve the comments and posts especially if you have an established blog with frequent commenter's.
Adding posts is simple and easy, as to is adding media from your mobile and linking to others, you can even select your category and or tags. The only thing you can't appear to do is time stamp your post for release in the future. You even get the option as saving the post as a draft if you need to close the application.
Editing an old post is easy with WordPress for Android, the only issue I have found here is that there is no option to switch between HTML and Visual, so if you have any html in your post this will be displayed as well as any ordinary text.
WordPress for Android is a great app if you need to do a post while you're away from your laptop or desk, and makes WordPress truly mobile.
If you're looking to try WordPress for Android then all you need to do is search the Android market for WordPress you you'll see the official WordPress Logo.
10 Comments
Kean - http://www.keanrichmond.com
Think I prefer the iPhone version, looks much nicer http://iphone.wordpress.org/
David Whitehouse
Yeah I’m loving it, and it can only get better!
Anthony - http://shapley.eu
I agree with Kean, iPhone wins again.
Goosh - http://www.goosh.co.uk
Gonna have to download this now. The browser version isn’t that bad to navigate, but this is so much better – smoother and instant.
Irrespective of whether the iPhone app is better or not, I have an HTC so it’s much more relevant to me.
rory
I think it’s better than the iPhone version but, we all know that nothing could ever beat an iPhone
Anthony - http://shapley.eu
Look what Shoemoney said about the iPhone: – http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/02/17/12-months-7-phones-3-networks-and-500-in-et-fees-in-1-year/ need I say more about how awesome it is 🙂
James
@David: you said it crashed when you tried it. Is that what you mean by “it can only get better”?
shinra - http://3d-hdtelevision.blogspot.com/
I do agree with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They are very convincing and will definitely work.
Patrick - http://pinoydroid.net
I use wordpress blog for android to check my latest blog comment.
Allans - http://www.allandroids.net
I use this application. Very useful!