Instagram on the way to Android

By George Wong on 12/08/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Instagram, one of the most popular photography apps available for iOS devices, might be making its way over to Android in the near future (finally). Instagram’s CEO, Kevin Systrom, spoke at LeWeb ’11 today, and at the event he mentioned that two people on the team (there are only 10 people working in Instagram) are working on the Android version of the app. While no specific timeline was mentioned, this is the first time he’s acknowledged that his team are working on it, so it should be on the way.

In case you’re unfamiliar with Instagram, it’s basically an app that lets users take photographs, apply filters and then share them with the world on the Instagram network as well as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The app currently has about 15 million users on iOS alone, so branching out to include Android would definitely increase the number of users by a huge amount. It looks like PicPlz is about to face some stiff competition.

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Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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