Android users cannot complain about all the applications that we have for this operating system. However, there are still several exceptions that are yet to reach Google Play. In this situation, we can make a decision: wait for it to arrive officially, or take the war on our own. The latter is what has happened in Clubhouse for Android.
Do not throw the bells to the flight, since there are many 'buts' in this tremendous news. However, it marks the way forward to develop the application on Google's operating system, and serves as a patch while completing the official arrival of Clubhouse.
What is Clubhouse
Who knows the Stereo app, you must be very familiar with the operation of this app on iOS. Is a atypical social network in which no images are shared - neither photos nor videos-; only pop-up audios.
You cannot leave written or recorded messages, which allows not be aware of the mobile screen and that the conversations are more relaxed. Neither can you put 'emojis' or 'likes', it is a kind of interactive podcasting which could also be defined as a kind of giant virtual roundtable in cyberspace.
It allows listening, through rooms or forums, people conversations who want others to hear what they say. When you enter a room, you can take your turn to speak and the moderator decides whether to give the floor or not. The key is that, when accessing the application, tastes and interests are defined, and a menu allows you to see the rooms that the algorithms select for the user based on their choices. In the rooms, all the information on the subject is detailed, the matter that is being dealt with. etc.
This Clubhouse app, is it official?
The momentary exclusivity of iOS and the access to the platform through invitations, make it a platform for a select club of listeners. All this remains with this adaptation to Android, which is far from an official development. Its APK is located in the GitHub repository.
Everything is carried out by a Russian programmer named Grigori Klushnikov, who has created this version named as Houseclub. His attitude shows what we indicated at the beginning of this news, that of taking the war on our own. This programmer shows his satiety by saying the following: "I got tired of waiting for Clubhouse for Android and wrote mine in one day."
However, here comes another of the 'buts'. And the developer explains that he only managed to implement a part of the basic functions, including viewing the list of audio rooms, listening to user conversations, communicating with visitors to the room and updating the list. of assistants in real time, among others. Therefore, You will not be able to create rooms or moderate them, or receive notifications.
It is simply a kind of port for Android. In this way, we must continue to have an invitation or an account to Clubhouse from iOS to be able to access this app, since otherwise, it will not be possible. Regarding security, it seems totally normal and legal, although we must always take all possible precautions on the protection of our identity.
Clubhouse is on Google Play… but it's not about the social network
Curiosity makes the most eager to write in the Play Store the name of the most fashionable application in recent weeks. In that eagerness to find the version on Android, they manage to find an app exactly called Clubhouse. It seems that success is coming and that we already have this social conference network available in our terminals, but it's not like that.
It turns out that behind this name there is a tool focused on productivity. It focuses on the organization of tasks to carry out a project, so it effectively has nothing to do with the interactive social network. This, more than a blessing for adopting such a keyword as Clubhouse, is hell for this application on Google Play.
The scores they are receiving are very negative, with to much critics for wasting users' time, believing that it is something else. It does not seem that it was an attempt to take advantage of the pull of the name, since this app has been active since July 2020, although all the popularity has agglutinated it since last January.
