WordPress recently released (early February) their first version of WordPress for Android (WfA). So I thought I should give you my first impressions.
First of all the installation was really easy. It was just a matter of downloading it from the Android Market, and the phone took care of the installation automatically.
Setting it up proved to be just as easy although I expected to run into problems as I am running a WordPress solution myself on a private domain. However, it was litterally a walk in the park, or from the toilet and back to the living-room if you like, and a click on the computer to enable xml-rpc (older and simpler version than SOAP) to get things up and running.
Having my HTC Hero connected I immediately started to look through my blog for updates and changes. I marked a comment as spam with a few touches, previewed a post that has been awaiting my attention … and started to write this post.
The interface is really simple and to the point. You basically have three tabs, comments, posts and pages. In my case I use the posts tab to create this new “post” 
Now I need to save in order to find an image to upload with this post …
Now that I’m back after finding a suitable image online I noticed one important detail when saving a post on the Android. WfA saves the post as a local copy which is good as it saves bandwidth. In order to upload the draft to the webserver you simply select Upload Draft from the menu. Another small detail that might be annoying to some is that you (as far as I can see) have to manually copy, paste and edit the image tag in order to place it where you want in your blog post. This requires some basic skills in HTML which to most novice bloggers is complicated enough.
Usability wise I don’t see myself as an avid user of this app in order to actively upload posts because touch phones, IMOH, are better suited to send text messages and add comments to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. IOW, short and simple sentences. Anyways, that is not to say the application is totally useless. It has the basic features you need, and the interface is not crowded with buttons.
However, for those who cannot survive 5 minutes without updating their blog, or just love to tap the backspace button on their Android because it cannot keep up with your fast moving fingers, it is the coolest app you will find for your WordPress blog 
Now I’m going to rest my eyes on something else than this bloody phone, and upload this post and see how it went …