Flipboard Android Magazine Cuartion App: Users Can Create Own Magazines [REPORT]

Flipboard, the free magazine curation app, is now available for Android on Google Play. Android users who were envious of iOS users about not having the ability to curate their own magazine are finally able to do so now. The app makes it easy for users to build magazines based on their interests and then share it with friends.

To make up for the fact that it hasn’t been as option for Android users it has tons of features, some of which the iOS version doesn’t have:

★ With news and social networks all in one place, it’s easy to quickly catch up on the news you care about.

★ Search for anything—people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your favorite sites—and flip through articles, updates, photos and videos in a beautiful magazine format. ★ Connect Flipboard to up to 12 social networks, streamlining your reading and activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Services include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren.

★ Use Cover Stories, a custom tile on Flipboard that gives you the best of everything you follow on Flipboard. Cover Store is a quick dose of what’s happening now a constantly updated selection of articles, photos and videos shared by your friends.

★ Save anything to read later using Instapaper, Pocket and Readability.

★ Create a Flipboard account to access your favorite content and social networks on different or shared devices.

★ Enjoy Flipboard in 15 localized editions—for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, U.S. and U.K.

★ Explore hundreds of staff picks in the Content Guide, including must-read magazines and blogs, gorgeous photography and special curated sections devoted to the news of the day and other topics of interest.

★ Access Flipboard quickly through the widget.

The app has become very popular on the Google Play Store, achieving 4.5 stars out of 5.0. There is also an option to further edit magazines using a laptop or desktop web browser by going to URL: https://editor.flipboard.com/u/login?done=%2F . Once your magazine is curated you can hit publish and share it with your friends and on your social networks. It’s a brave new world of content creation.