If you're a Google+ user with an Android smartphone or tablet, here's a simple piece of advice: Download the Google+ Android app right now. It's so well-designed, simple and straightforward to use, you would have thought that Google+ was designed to be a mobile service from the beginning.
(iPhone and iPad users now have their own app as well; check out "Google+ iPhone app: 5 things you need to know").
Google+ for Android home page
The home screen offers icons for all the most important parts of the service: Stream, Huddle, Photos, Profile and Circles. (Huddle is an extra that's not included in Google+'s Web interface; more about that in a moment.) Unfortunately, there is no Hangouts videoconferencing feature, which Google should consider adding in an upcoming version -- especially considering that many Android tablets and an increasing number of Android smartphones include a forward-facing camera for mobile videoconferencing.
Tap any of the icons and you'll come to a well-designed screen that manages to fit in most of Google+'s features without looking cramped. Tap Circles, for example, and you'll get a list of your circles; click on a circle and, by using tabs at the bottom of the screen, you can view a list of all the people in that circle, read all their posts or see their photos. You can also switch to a list of all of the people in all of your circles. An icon at the top lets you search for additional people to add to your circles. Viewing photos is similarly easy.
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