ParentLink Launches New Android App

ParentLink, the complete communication solution for education, recently introduced a new Android (News - Alert) application, ParentLink Admin, for administrative users of the ParentLink notification service.

In June of this year, the company launched its Mobile application for the Apple iPhone (News - Alert), which received a tremendous response from administrators at customer districts.

Market analysts report that the Apple App Store recently reached 15 billion downloads while the Android Market has recorded 6 billion. Some also predict that as new Android devices are being activated at a much higher rate than iOS devices, there will be more Android devices than iOS devices in use by year's end.

“All of our efforts are focused on making superintendents great at communication,” said John Graff, President at ParentLink, in a release.

“Adding an Android version of our Admin app to our growing mobile portfolio is a significant step in our efforts to make that communication easier and more powerful. These mobile applications give our customers a level of usability and performance that is unmatched in the industry. And ParentLink is quickly becoming the mobile apps leader in the K-12 market.”

Available for download from the Android Market, the new app will now allow ParentLink users to quickly create and send messages to their entire school or district community or to targeted contact lists.

The app also makes it easier for ParentLink administrators to immediately respond to the urgent communication needs of their school or district, regardless of their current location.

Thousands of schools and hundreds of districts, including 5 of the 10 largest districts in the country use the ParentLink notification service. The new Admin app brings the convenience of the Android smart phones to administrators who are already sending millions of messages every day through the ParentLink system.

In related news, ParentLink announced that their popular communication platform now has the ability to post messages to Facebook (News - Alert) and Twitter.