{"id":3491160,"date":"2026-07-20T19:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/x-reintroduces-a-revamped-android-application-following-a-year-long-endeavor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:37:39","slug":"x-reintroduces-a-revamped-android-application-following-a-year-long-endeavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/x-reintroduces-a-revamped-android-application-following-a-year-long-endeavor\/","title":{"rendered":"X reintroduces a revamped Android application following a year-long endeavor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Almost a year back, X, owned by Elon Musk, revealed plans to overhaul the Android version of its app, which had not performed as well as its iOS variant. On Monday, the company launched the revamped app, now ready for download.<\/p>\n

The newly developed Android version of X was constructed entirely from the ground up and promises enhancements in loading speed, scrolling, notifications, and more, according to the announcement from X.<\/p>\n

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We’ve completely rebuilt the Android X app from the ground up.<\/p>\n

It’s faster, smoother, and more reliable than the old version in every way. We modernized the foundation so everything just feels better: scrolling, loading, notifications, you name it.pic.twitter.com\/ULlSwiIlvV<\/p>\n

\u2014 Engineering (@Engineering) July 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The update has been under construction for nearly a year. Last August, Nikita Bier, X’s product head, mentioned that the social media company was assembling an Android \u201cdream team\u201d to transform the experience. Later that fall, he also indicated that X experienced one of its best weeks ever for Android downloads in October \u2014 a key reason why the new app became a priority.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s launch, Bier referred to the initiative as \u201cone of the largest engineering projects\u201d in the company’s history, emphasizing that the new Android app was developed from scratch instead of just receiving an update.<\/p>\n

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Haha, straight answer: none of it. The full Android rewrite was a human engineering feat by the X team on a clean Kotlin + Jetpack Compose stack. Grok helps devs code faster daily, but I have zero visibility into their internal codebase stats or contribution here. Big win for\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Grok (@grok) July 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quicker, smoother, and more dependable. But most importantly: it will allow us to develop new features at incredible speed,\u201d Bier shared on X. The social network owned by Elon Musk has recently been introducing a variety of new features, including X Money and X Chat, which now have their own separate applications.<\/p>\n

The Android launch may also attract more users in global markets, where Android leads as the primary smartphone platform, encouraging them to either download or return to X, after years of platform disregard. (At one point last year, issues on Android were so severe that the X app wouldn’t load X posts when users clicked links.)<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Bier cautioned that there are still some rough aspects to address, including boosting performance on older Android devices and introducing support for Spaces, X\u2019s live audio feature. Those upgrades are still in progress. Bier noted that additional features, such as the new video editor, the react-with-video feature, cashtags, and custom timelines, are also on the way for Android.<\/p>\n

Current Android users can access the new X app by updating their existing application via the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\n

Almost a year back, X, owned by Elon Musk, revealed plans to overhaul the Android version of its app, which had not performed as well as its iOS variant. On Monday, the company launched the revamped app, now ready for download.<\/p>\n

The newly developed Android version of X was constructed entirely from the ground up and promises enhancements in loading speed, scrolling, notifications, and more, according to the announcement from X.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

We’ve completely rebuilt the Android X app from the ground up.<\/p>\n

It’s faster, smoother, and more reliable than the old version in every way. We modernized the foundation so everything just feels better: scrolling, loading, notifications, you name it.pic.twitter.com\/ULlSwiIlvV<\/p>\n

\u2014 Engineering (@Engineering) July 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The update has been under construction for nearly a year. Last August, Nikita Bier, X’s product head, mentioned that the social media company was assembling an Android \u201cdream team\u201d to transform the experience. Later that fall, he also indicated that X experienced one of its best weeks ever for Android downloads in October \u2014 a key reason why the new app became a priority.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s launch, Bier referred to the initiative as \u201cone of the largest engineering projects\u201d in the company’s history, emphasizing that the new Android app was developed from scratch instead of just receiving an update.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
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Haha, straight answer: none of it. The full Android rewrite was a human engineering feat by the X team on a clean Kotlin + Jetpack Compose stack. Grok helps devs code faster daily, but I have zero visibility into their internal codebase stats or contribution here. Big win for\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Grok (@grok) July 20, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quicker, smoother, and more dependable. But most importantly: it will allow us to develop new features at incredible speed,\u201d Bier shared on X. The social network owned by Elon Musk has recently been introducing a variety of new features, including X Money and X Chat, which now have their own separate applications.<\/p>\n

The Android launch may also attract more users in global markets, where Android leads as the primary smartphone platform, encouraging them to either download or return to X, after years of platform disregard. (At one point last year, issues on Android were so severe that the X app wouldn’t load X posts when users clicked links.)<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Bier cautioned that there are still some rough aspects to address, including boosting performance on older Android devices and introducing support for Spaces, X\u2019s live audio feature. Those upgrades are still in progress. Bier noted that additional features, such as the new video editor, the react-with-video feature, cashtags, and custom timelines, are also on the way for Android.<\/p>\n

Current Android users can access the new X app by updating their existing application via the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}