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Vine for Android: Every robot has its day

Android owners: Welcome to Vine. Starting today, you can begin to shoot, share and watch short looping videos. We’ve been looking forward to this day, and we’re excited to get the app into your hands.

Vine for Android has many of the features that more than 13 million people have grown to love: easy video creation with automatic playback and sound; Explore, where you can discover popular posts and see what’s trending; and Find Friends, where you can find and invite people you know to join. You can also share your posts to Twitter –– people will be able to watch them right within your Tweet. We even added a few features that are unique to Android: zoom (on devices that support it), and much improved offline browsing.

Though we’ve been very focused on releasing Vine for Android, we’ve continued to release updates and add new features to the iOS app. As a result, the two apps are not perfectly in sync, but that won’t be the case for long. Over the coming weeks, you’ll see frequent updates with new features –– including front-facing camera, search, mentions and hashtags, and the ability to share to Facebook –– as well as bug fixes and performance improvements. Of course, this is only the beginning –– we have exciting plans for features that could exist only on Android.

Android owners running 4.0+ can download Vine today. Keep an eye on @vineapp and our blog for updates, and please do share your feedback –– we’re reading it all.

We can’t wait for you to bring a bit of your world to ours.

Posted by Sara Haider (@pandemona)
Android Engineer

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