Professional networking website LinkedIn has been given the Android treatment in two apps recently added to the Android Market. DroidIn and its free counterpart, DroidIn Lite, offer LinkedIn members a chance to follow the latest activity of the popular job search and networking website. Users can view or edit their profile, read recent activities of their professional connections, and browse their network to connect with others.
While both versions of the app are open to LinkedIn members, only the $2 paid version of DroidIn has certain features. Anyone who wants to use the search function or avoid Google Ads will have to pony up for the paid version.
UPDATE: DroidIn supports sending messages within LinkedIn, contrary to the original post. Though there isn’t a direct link to the Inbox, clicking on a user’s profile provides a link to send that person a message. Thanks to Bo for pointing that out.
Both DroidIn and DroidIn Lite can be located in the ‘Communication’ section of the Android Market.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Andrew thanks for noticing my humble effort. Couple of thing though: DroidIn does support sending messages to contacts through their profiles.
I didn’t bother with “Send Invite” since it requires user to provide email address of the person they wish to contact. On the second thought – I’ll add this just to make DroidIn match m.linkedin.com features.
I’m hard at work to improve the app with moving network calls on the background to get rid of nagging “terminate/wait” screen. I’m also planning on adding some unique features not available in mobile version.
Thanks,
Bo Stone (the author)
April 13th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Hi Bo,
Can you provide a direct download link of the free version’s APK?
I’ve tried to download from Android Market a couple of days ago but it was nowhere to be found. I’m using ADP1 from Europe. Thanks in advance!
Cheers!
Shonzilla
April 16th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Good idea. I added link on DroidIn site (http://droidin.bostone.us)
April 16th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Does this have anything to do with the droidin.com website or is that something different? I did not see anything on that site about the Android Mobile app.
Thanks!
May 1st, 2009 at 4:48 am
The guy who opened the site simply took the name and my logo from LinkedIn account. It's a blog-aggregator, dead on arrival
May 1st, 2009 at 4:50 am
Andrew and all. Within past two days I posted very important upgrades to DroidIn that fixes a lot of issues users were complaining about. Please give it a try
December 12th, 2009 at 1:29 am
what is the sense of having this application if you cannot view your linkedin inbox. Why is linkedin so far behind facebook and twitter?
December 31st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
What about integrating the with the directory like facebook does? It would be nice to have a place to update professional contacts online (I do mine in gmail right now, but they aren't self maintained).
January 8th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Hi,
I think the best feature will be integrating the phoneboox (people) with linkedin, as facebook is now. So far, no luck on this matter