Microsoft Updates OneNote for Android App, Improves Handwriting Function

Just in time for school, Microsoft unveiled a new update to the company's well-liked OneNote for Android app. The new version is aimed at tablet users and includes improved handwriting support.

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The app will allow scribblers to smudge their tablets with their fingers, though a stylus works well (especially on a tablet that recognizes a stylus as an input different from fingers). Once the update is downloaded, users can draw over existing documents or start scratching on a fresh lined digital page.

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Users have flocked to OneNote because of its berth of abilities. Besides pulling up photos from your camera roll and letting you annotate them, you can also clip sections of webpages. To open up a document originally created on another device or desktop, you can just email it to the app and it's available for you to mark up.

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Collaboration is also a snap, making the app perfect for group projects (as long as everyone has an Android device). A team can work remotely on the same project in real time, commenting and notating over photos, diagrams and notes.

The app was clearly updated with a special focus on students, both school-age and college-bound. There's a better horizontal feel to the app, making it more useful on tablets. The marketing points out how the app is the 2014 digital equivalent of the black-and-white speckled composition notebook.

Redmond released a trailer detailing the updates and applications of the app, watchable below.