{"id":44503,"date":"2013-07-01T17:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=44503"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:20:21","slug":"skype-celebrates-100-million-android-installs-with-4-0-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/skype-celebrates-100-million-android-installs-with-4-0-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype celebrates 100 million Android installs with 4.0 release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/skype\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skype<\/a> has hit a new milestone today on <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and its celebrating with a redesigned app. Version 4.0 of Skype for Android features a new design that looks more like Windows Phone, as well as redesigned conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The impetus behind the redesigned converstations comes from wanting to make &#8220;interactions easier and [putting] conversations first.&#8221; Check out the short trailer below to see the new Android app in action.<\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Beyond visual changes, Skype for Android also has a ton of performance and bug fixes. Skype has been concentrating on making a more stable and speedy app. The company also promises more updates &#8220;in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a title=\"Skype blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/2013\/07\/01\/skype-passes-100m-android-installs-and-launches-redesigned-4-0\/#.UdGOXc9BSUA.facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skype<\/a> | Download: <a title=\"Skype for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/skype-1.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Softonic<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype has hit a new milestone today on Android and its celebrating with a redesigned app. Version 4.0 of Skype for Android features a new design that looks more like Windows Phone, as well as redesigned conversations. The impetus behind the redesigned converstations comes from wanting to make &#8220;interactions easier and [putting] conversations first.&#8221; Check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/skype-celebrates-100-million-android-installs-with-4-0-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skype celebrates 100 million Android installs with 4.0 release&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":44506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2559],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-44503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionskype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332681,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions\/332681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=44503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}