As the most popular camera app on the iPhone, Instagram allows the user to add a variety of stylish filter effects to photos. Since the app was released on the iOS platform in 2010, has gathered more than 30 million users, and landing the Android platform until today. You Android users now have the opportunity to use this popular camera app.
Instagram for Android support Android 2.2 and above, the filter effect needs the OpenGL ES support, which seems to mean that it needs to work properly in the high-end platform. Now users can free download the app in Google Play.
This app is extremely easy to use. Open the application to take a photo, or select an existing photo from the phone, then you can add a variety of filters to photos. After the completion of your creation, you can easily share it via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Posterous, FourSquare, or Email, etc..
In addition, Instagram also provides social networking features. In which users can share and comment on photos, and can also interact with other users.
Compared to iOS version, Instagram for Android is not complete. Although has the same filters and community characteristics, but some features such as Flickr integration have not added, is expected to be gradually added in the updated version.
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[...] The release of Instagram for Android has, understandably, been met with a great deal of fanfare, with 1 million downloads in under 24 hours. The release has also been accompanied by a surprisingly vile backlash from a group of iPhone users who are annoyed, to say the least, with the appearance of Android users in their previously exclusive space. [...]