Alright,

This is a major annoyance for me and in reading around seems to be a general gripe with Linode's services when ever an Android based phone is involved.

First off, no official Android App is a major let down to learn about, got the service anyways once I'd seen the iPhone app and figured "Hey! Can't be more than a month or so till the Android one is here!" but I'm not seeing anything still.

There is an app on Android by a third party, and its actually pretty neato! Seriously, look at what you get presented with after you login and select a Linode. Android Market link for it even.



Pretty spiffy, even looks a lot like the iPhone app, in fact, lets go take a quick look at that app...

I've got all the usual things, and then I've got what I check most often, a little bandwidth history chart...



Like to monitor I/O to know if anything odd is happening with the system since it should do little to no I/O...



And at last, CPU, nothing much changes here, ever.



Lets see what the Android app reveals, even if it is a third party bit of software...





OK, maybe the developer just needs a nudge to add that feature right? I'm a cool guy, maybe a quick bounty for the feature could get it included, worth a shot...



FAIL

can't possibly be...

But a quick Google search shows up with this: archive/o_t/t_5811/new_linode_api_version.html with an answer

And this: http://blog.linode.com/2009/08/03/linode-api-2-0/ with requests.

Well thats not spiffy at all! In fact, thats not 'cool' in the least, thats the least spifftastic thing I've learned about recently, to be frank, it made me a bit of a saaaaad panda.

Not having this sort of option is the sort of thing that makes customers with certain devices feel like what they own is being treated as a second rate citizen. The iPhone app, its pretty nice, very useful, it was a BIG selling point on the service for me, and I'm sure for others based on my conversations with other clients, but the iPhone isn't the only device out there, and its a bit silly to see a lack of support for my Linux based device, from a company that offers a lot of Linux based products.

Now, your products are fantastic, I love them, have not had a problem so far, but this is a major annoyance for me and I'm sure its an annoyance for others as well, possibly other Android owners aren't as (un)lucky as I am to have an iPhone to test the app on and see what the other platform is missing.

Can we have a kickass Android app, or at least access to build one with some really spifftastic monitoring capability?

Please?

upvote more cooperation on android app!
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