X Rebuilt Its Android App to Speed Up Releases

X has released a newly rebuilt Android app on Google Play after the team spent nearly a year on the project. Nikita Bier, the company’s head of product, described it as one of the biggest engineering efforts in X’s history.

According to X, this is more than a performance update. The company says the new architecture should bring faster launches, smoother scrolling, and more stable notifications, while also making it easier to ship new features on Android more quickly.

That matters because Android accounts for roughly 70% of the global smartphone market. X is also trying to fix a long-running imbalance in which new features often arrived on iPhone first, while Android users waited for months.

Bier said the work was a shift to entirely new code, not a set of incremental fixes layered onto the old app. X says that should improve startup speed, stabilize the interface, and reduce delays in feature rollouts on Android.

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The relaunch also fits a broader split inside X’s services into standalone products. In November, the company moved X Chat into a separate app, while X Money is also being developed separately and is currently available by invitation only.

Other large platforms have taken a similar approach in recent years, aiming to ship updates more easily without dragging along legacy code. For X, the rebuild is also a chance to repair the Android app’s reputation after years of user complaints about bugs and usability issues. If the new build delivers on release speed, the gap between X’s two mobile platforms could start narrowing in the next updates.