Android users have been finally welcomed into the Vine community, which has amassed an impressive 13 million users on iOS alone since the app launched for iPhone back in January.
The six second looped video creation tool has exploded in popularity since it broke onto the apps market at the beginning of the year, and allows users to create looped clips with sound and explore popular posts using the familiar hashtag.
Twitter cruelly teased Android-ers when it hinted back in April that Vine would be coming to the mobile OS “soon” but such behaviour will no doubt be overlooked amid the flurry of excitement.
In fact, a feature has been added to Vine that is exclusively available on Android to make up for the five month delay, and that feature is zoom.
Vine on iOS is not perfectly in synch with the Android version, although the blogs insists this “won’t be the case for long”.
A raft of exciting new features has been announced, some of which have already been implemented, including front-facing camera, mentions and the ability to share to Facebook.
Vine is available as a free download for anyone running Android 4.0 or higher.
Jenny Maclean
