{"id":18527,"date":"2011-07-19T00:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=18527"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:58:45","slug":"dropbox-for-android-gets-a-few-useful-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dropbox-for-android-gets-a-few-useful-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox for Android gets useful update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>File sharing and collaborative tools <\/strong>are all the rage lately. From cloud-based <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/newest-version-of-box-net-focuses-on-simplicity-2\"><strong>Box.net<\/strong><\/a> to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-sharepoint-workspace.en.softonic.com\/\">Microsoft SharePoint<\/a><\/strong> and beyond, being able to access your important documents immediately and from virtually anywhere is of utmost importance to users today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.com\"><strong>Dropbox<\/strong><\/a> is arguably the best known cloud-based file sharing service. It\u2019s available for <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/\">Windows PCs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Macs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/iphone\">iPhones<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/android\">Android smartphones<\/a>. It\u2019s Android that received this newest Dropbox update, and although it\u2019s a small one, it should please Android users who value simplicity and ease of use.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond vaguely described <strong>bug fixes, security updates and performance improvements<\/strong>, Dropbox for Android has added two new features that make using the app from your phone even easier. The first involves the ability to <strong>delete folders in your account directly from your phone<\/strong>. This will help users cut down on clutter wherever they go. The second update has <strong>added photo thumbnails to the file browser<\/strong>. This should help users quickly identify the files they\u2019re searching for.<\/p>\n<p>Making file uploads and organization both quicker and simpler seems to be Dropbox\u2019s main points of focus and it\u2019s hard to find anything to complain about when this newest update gives users just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File sharing and collaborative tools are all the rage lately. From cloud-based Box.net to Microsoft SharePoint and beyond, being able to access your important documents immediately and from virtually anywhere is of utmost importance to users today. Dropbox is arguably the best known cloud-based file sharing service. It\u2019s available for Windows PCs, Macs, iPhones and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dropbox-for-android-gets-a-few-useful-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dropbox for Android gets useful update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2659],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-18527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondropbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334176,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions\/334176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=18527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}