Overview
- X published the rebuilt Android app to the Google Play Store on Monday, making the new client available to users as an update.
- The company says engineers rebuilt the app from scratch on a modern Kotlin plus Jetpack Compose foundation to improve loading, scrolling and notifications.
- X describes the app as faster, smoother and more reliable but warns of remaining rough edges, notably slower performance on older Android devices and missing support for Spaces, its live audio feature.
- Some features such as cashtags and custom timelines are already live, and X says the video editor, react-with-video and Spaces are coming soon while many future features may land on Android before iOS.
- X hopes the relaunch will win back and grow users in Android-dominant markets by fixing long-standing parity and stability problems and by allowing faster feature development going forward.