Clubhouse's ultra-premium app is finally coming to Android Co-founder Paul Davison says it will take "a couple of months" to launch on Android (via TechCrunch)

The news was confirmed at Clubhouse's weekly town hall on Sunday Details have yet to be announced, so for now Clubhouse is limited to iOS users Still, you need to be invited to participate

In January, Clubhouse confirmed that it would support Android and announced that it would "soon" begin development of the app This news is still a good sign

Taking Davison's words at face value, Clubhouse's Android debut would be in late spring or early summer However, the day Clubhouse does not appear on Android is also an opportunity for other social networks to build rival services

The Twitter space launched on Android last month and was available on iOS last December The feature is still in beta and will be available to the public next month However, it is still ahead of Clubhouse, which, despite launching last year, has placed restrictions on registrants

Instagram has also launched its own experiment with Live Rooms The difference here is that Live Rooms is something of an extension of Instagram's existing live streaming feature, with space for four people on a single stream, sort of like TV to Clubhouse's radio Similarly, Instagram's parent company, Facebook, is said to be working on its own Clubhouse clone, though it is not clear when it could launch

Messaging service Telegram is also working on its own version And these are just the big players we know of There are countless other Clubhouse clones, and no doubt more well-known brands are working on their own

However, Davison explains that Clubhouse's approach to expanding to a larger market needs a slower pace Existing social networks do not have that problem The last thing the Clubhouse wants is for so many people to join, which would negatively impact the in-app experience

He stated that users are seeing more foreign language groups in their feeds, thus making it harder to find friends and good content This can easily be taken the wrong way, but at the same time users do not want to be bombarded with content in a language they do not understand

Therefore, changes have been made to Clubhouse, including adjustments to the activity feed, better control over push notifications, and the launch of several personalization features other points that Davison deemed "important" were localization, accessibility, and ultimately dropping the invitation model

Apparently, the invitation system may be discontinued "in the coming months However, we will have to wait and see what happens

In the meantime, note that there is no Clubhouse app for Android; Google Play is flooded with fakes, and criminals are using app hype to get people to install malware Beware