--- title: X rebuilt its Android app from scratch. It took a year. description: X has rebuilt its Android app from the ground up after nearly a year of work, shipping it as a standard Play Store update. The old app had a poor reputation —... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/x-rebuilt-its-android-app-from-scratch-it-took-a-year--szglx5nrz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: X rebuilt its Android app from scratch. It took a year. | daily.dev og:description: X has rebuilt its Android app from the ground up after nearly a year of work, shipping it as a standard Play Store update. The old app had a poor reputation —... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/x-rebuilt-its-android-app-from-scratch-it-took-a-year--szglx5nrz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sZgLX5nRz.png og:image:alt: X rebuilt its Android app from scratch. It took a year. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # X rebuilt its Android app from scratch. It took a year. **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary X has rebuilt its Android app from the ground up after nearly a year of work, shipping it as a standard Play Store update. The old app had a poor reputation — lagging behind iOS, struggling to load posts, and accumulating technical debt. Product head Nikita Bier called it one of the platform's largest engineering projects. The rewrite prioritizes speed, smoother scrolling, and faster feature development to support X's 'everything app' ambitions including payments, video, and Grok AI. However, the launch shipped with notable gaps: Spaces is unsupported, older phones still have performance issues, and users reported bugs including slow image loading, broken dark mode, missing foldable support, and a 2FA login loop. Features like a video editor and custom timelines are promised with no release dates. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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