X Rebuilds Android App From Scratch For Faster Features
X says the year-plus rewrite should make the Android app faster now and easier to update next.
Entities: X, Nikita Bier
X says it has rebuilt its Android app from scratch, wrapping up what engineering VP Nikita Bier called one of the biggest projects in the company's history. In follow-up posts, Bier said the work took "well over a year," should make the app faster, smoother and more reliable, and is meant to help X ship new features more quickly. The company account echoed that claim and said more upgrades are coming, including Spaces hosting and better performance on older devices.
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Today we're announcing the completion of one of the largest engineering projects in the company's history: We rebuilt the X Android app from scratch It's faster, smoother and more reliable. But most of all: it will enable us to build new features at lightning speed.
big day to be an Android user we’ve completely rebuilt X for Android: faster, smoother and way more reliable https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2079273272274026718/video/1
@nikitabier It's cool that SpaceX cares about poor people this much
Today we're announcing the completion of one of the largest engineering projects in the company's history: We rebuilt the X Android app from scratch It's faster, smoother and more reliable. But most of all: it will enable us to build new features at lightning speed.
more upgrades to come including hosting Spaces and performance improvements for older devices feel free to reply with any bugs that you catch 👇
@nikitabier And they said it couldn't be done.