Sharknado is an Android app developed by NBCUniversal Media, LLC (30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10012 United States). Others apps created by NBCUniversal Media, LLC are: NBC Sports, CNBC, Novelas, SYFY, NBC, AGT, Telemundo 51, Telemundo Now, Universal Hollywood™ App, Universal FL.

Sharknado first became available on 18 Jul 2014. Sharknado has been awarded with the "Top Developer" badge. It is estimated that Sharknado has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

Sharknado 2.0.1 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to write to external storage.