Building on the success of the Guardian's ever-growing mobile product portfolio - and as mobile traffic to the Guardian's online content reaches new record-breaking heights - the free app features all the best content from guardian.co.uk including the latest news, sport, comment, reviews, videos, podcasts and picture galleries.
Key features:
• Fully customisable homepage and the ability to 'favourite' sections and contributors for quick access to relevant articles
• Flexible, unrivalled navigation by section, topic or contributor
• Award-winning Guardian video and audio, available over 3G and Wi-Fi
• Comprehensive offline browsing mode with the ability to download all homepage articles / favourite sections at the touch of a button to read later with no connection, or schedule a daily download for a time that suits you
• Full-screen picture galleries, allowing the user to swipe through all the latest images, covering everything from news and sport to fashion and wildlife
• The ability to share content via the Android share menu
• Landscape reading mode
Georgina Henry, the head of guardian.co.uk, said: "In a year when the number of people accessing our journalism and content on mobile devices has soared, reflecting not only the different ways people are consuming news, but also the relentless news agenda, we're thrilled to be offering another key mobile product to our audiences.
"We've seen over half a million downloads of our re-launched iPhone app this year, and with over 150 million activated Android devices worldwide the potential audience for this product is huge."
The app was designed and developed by an in-house team using the Guardian's content API and is available now from the Android market in all locations worldwide.
The Guardian app for Android is free of charge and ad-funded.
On Tuesday 9 August a record 803K visitors used the Guardian's mobile site, m.guardian.co.uk, up from a previous record of 580K.
Since the Guardian's iPhone app launched in January 2011, it has been downloaded 509,264 times globally. 86,000 users have gone on to take out subscriptions for the app (£2.99 for six months, £4.99 for a year, up from a launch price of £3.99 for a year). In the US, where the iPhone app is free and ad-funded, it has been downloaded 52,915 times.
According to Google, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide, with over 550,000 devices now lit up every day, through a network of about 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers in 123 countries.
