Google quietly announced on Google+ that they have added “location sharing” features to Google+ for Android.

This was expected since Google Latitude died and was being shut down. We knew Google wanted to integrate latitude-like features into Google Maps and Google+ and this is their first attempt at doing so.

Virgil Dobjanschi, Google’s tech lead for Google+ Android applications, explained the new features added to Google+ for Android to enable location sharing.

Here are some pictures:

There are many other features added to version 4.1 of Google+ for Android, but location sharing is a big one.

The other features include:

Account and page switching is a lot easier
Google Apps for Business features are now fully supported
Google Drive photos & videos are now accessible from Google+
Messenger is going away, Hangouts is sticking around

Forum discussion at Google+.