Periscope is now available on Android

Periscope for Android is finally available. Twitter's new streaming app has many of the same features found in the iOS version, but with a few Android-unique features.

Sources also reveal that the notification setting also gives users the ability to opt in or out of alerts when a followed user goes live, shares a broadcast or when a user gets a new follower.

The Return to Broadcasts feature places a notification on the Android home screen when viewing a feed is interrupted by a call or any other thing. When the viewer is done doing what it is that stopped them from watching a feed, they tap the alert and the app loads the feed they were previously watching, and its as simple as that.

The Android app's development was led by former Secret and Twitter Android lead, Sara Haider. Haider returned to the team in March and started building the Periscope for Android app immediately.

The team mostly had to deal with the usual fragmentation issues that comes with dealing with the multitude of screen sizes out there. "It's been a jam packed last couple of months," Haider said. "I dealt with a lot of those challenges on Vine, so I'm not a stranger to them."

The Android app supports KitKat 4.4 and later which made development "significantly easier" since it encompasses more of the hardware encoding and video APIs.

It also has Material Design elements of Lollipop 5.0 including a dedicated broadcast button instead of a the broadcast tab found in iOS.