Google has updated its Google Reader for Android with a couple of interesting features, most importantly the ability to add it as a widget to the home screen of your Android device.
The widget comes in two flavors. You can either have an unread count widget, which merely shows you the number of unread items for a feed, label, person or all items in your Reader, or a news ticker widget, which is larger and displays items in any stream you choose. You can click on a headline to read the article; clicking on the folder will take you to that stream.
These updates are coming to lucky owners of Android 2.2+ devices, while those sporting Android 1.6+ will now be able to mark previous items in the stream as read.
Furthermore, the entire app has now been translated to Russian.