Update for Google+ for Android brings new design and photo stories

Google has updated its Google+ app for Android. The update brings several new features and a revised design with some new navigation, such as the new Google+ boss David Besbris about the Social Network tells .

The focus is on the image features. So Google+ now creates a kind of travelogue (Travelogue) by publishing photos, videos and visited places linked.However, no manual changes to the history of photography can make. The feature is called Google "Car Awesome Stories ". It is not only under Android available, but also in the web version of Google+. Support for iOS is to follow soon.

Available on all three platforms is now, however, the end of October 2013 presented feature "Auto Awesome Movie." It allows you to quickly create movies from multiple clips and photos with filters, transitions and background music are added automatically by the software. 

In addition, recently let create animated GIFs and photos in Photo Booth style. The function is accessible via the new Plus button in the Photo section of the app. With the new Google+ App now should be capable of see through quickly and easily with thousands of images and very large photo libraries. For a better overview the entire collection as well as the highlight area can be sorted by date.

Like the web version shows the user profile from now on the absolute number of calls. As an option, the statistics also hide.

A new navigation menu is designed to facilitate the exchange between favored circles, communities and other areas of the app. Also publishing content has simplified Google. For now suffice merely a click on the pencil icon in the lower right corner of the stream. You scroll on the stream, the app menu is automatically hidden, leaving more space for the actual content is available.

Was also improves the functions assumed by the set in August location service Latitude. Thus, integrated location sharing, with which you can tell friends where you happen to be, a navigation function that displays the route to the current location of selected contact using Google Maps.

The new version of Google+ for Android is distributed gradually as usual at Google. Therefore, it may take a few days until all users have received them. Who does not want to wait that long, installed the Google+ Android manually. To do this you must under Settings - ativieren the option "Unknown sources" security.