Google launches Cloud Print app for Android

Google has launched the official Android application for its Google Cloud Print service.

The application can be downloaded from Google Play store. While the cloud printing service has been here for a few years, it took Google surely long to bring an official application for the same on its own platform.

The service was up till now supported by third party applications on the platform. Though the official app has landed on Android, it still is not available on other platforms such as iOS and Windows Phone. iOS users will still have to use third party solutions such as Print Central Pro while users with Windows Phone devices will have to utilise the web version on their Internet browsers.

The Google Cloud Print service connects your printers to the web. Hence, you get access to a printer connected to the service remotely. Also, just like you share a document on Google Docs, you can share a printer using Google Cloud Print. Google had earlier integrated the service on its Chrome web browser giving users the option to send a print command to Google Cloud Print directly.

The service connects to both 'Google Cloud Print ready' printers or a normal printer you might have at home. Printer manufacturers such as HP and Kodak are coming out with Google Cloud Print ready machines. In order to use a normal printer, it needs to be connected to a computer that is connected to the Internet.

A quick demonstration video on the Google website shows how the service can be used to send a print command to a printer in your office while you are on your way as well as to a sibling in another continent. With the application now available on Android, it might surely be easier for users to send print commands to the cloud.