Google Drive gets support for streaming videos

February 21, 2013

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The Google Drive Android app just received an update that includes a much needed feature, video streaming. This means that you can now watch any of your stored videos on your Android phone or tablet. You will need Android 3.0 or above to get your stream on, which covers about 50% of the user base. They also added pinch-to-zoom support for presentations and a few bug fixes. If you already have Google Drive, head over to the Play Store to get your update or hit one of the links below to get the app.

List of changes

Performance improvements across the whole app
Support for streaming video files on Honeycomb+
Pinch to Zoom support in presentation viewer
Bug fixes and other improvements

Play Store Download Link

Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.

1 comment

vegiisan says:

February 21, 2013 at 6:52 PM

Still waiting for Google Drive to get, what I assume is inevitable, an update to make it start syncing app data across all your Google devices (like how DataSync Beta partially works). Annoying to have a new record for each game on each device, etc. I’d say, begrudgingly, this is the only thing iOS does better.. for now. ;D

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