Periscope, live video sharing on Android

Periscope, the app’s video-streaming real-time Twitter, reach the Google Play Store and is compatible with all devices running Android 4.4 or later.

Periscope is an app for the live stream video is running on iOS and Android. The start-up was acquired by Twitter last March for an undisclosed amount confirmed to the public, but which could be hovering around the $ 100 million. During the day yesterday has been released on the Google Play Store, after 60 days spent on the digital store competitor to Apple.

What can you do? Basically, it allows you to share the moments of his life with a more or less extensive, depending on your choices. Unlike other social services everything that happens on Periscope is real-time (or almost), and this is its peculiarity. Broadcasters can choose whether public or private broadcast and enable comments from viewers.

The app for Android contains some exclusive features: the Material Design, for example, but also the management of push notifications is more widespread. On Android there is also the ” Resume notification “, an option that allows the user to return to following a live stream that had to stop for a phone call or for the arrival of a message.

Being replays saved locally, the option will not weigh on the data traffic and will of course save you time once you return to the app. Periscope is available on Google Play Store at this link and is compatible with all devices running Android 4.4 or later. For Apple users Periscope can be downloaded on the App Store.