X spent about a year rebuilding its Android app from scratch, improving loading, scrolling, notifications, and more.

X has announced a complete rebuild of its Android app. This project has been underway since around August 2025, and it is being built from scratch, not just an update with patches.

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.

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— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) July 20, 2026

We've completely rebuilt the Android X app from the ground up.

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

— Engineering (@Engineering) July 20, 2026

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X Rebuilds Its Android App From Scratch
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In July 2025, X appointed Nikita Bier as its Chief Product Officer.

X (formerly Twitter) has appointed Nikita Bier, who has also founded the teen-focused social networking service 'Gas,' as its new head of product development - GIGAZINE

Mr. Beer cited Android apps as X's top priority and recruited members to work with him on X in August 2025. At that time, Mr. Beer mentioned the Chicago Bulls, who won six championships between 1991 and 1998 with players like Michael Jordan, and called out, 'We're trying to create an Android dream team.'

I am assembling the Android Dream Team.

The 1991-1998 Chicago Bulls of Android teams.

You will be working alongside the most elite engineers of your career.

Books will be written about this team.

This app will be regarded with more reverence than the moon landing

The code…

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) August 13, 2025

Approximately 11 months after Mr. Bia's call, X has finally completed a complete rebuild of its Android app from scratch. The revamped Android app is faster and more reliable than the old version, and because the underlying structure is new, basic operations, scrolling, loading, and notifications have all been improved overall. Mr. Bia said, 'Please feel free to provide feedback if you find any bugs.'

There are still some rough edges. We're hustling quickly to get features out like hosting Spaces and improve performance on older devices.

If you have any feedback, feel free to let us know about any bugs you catch.

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) July 20, 2026

In addition, features that were delayed compared to the iOS version have been added, and it is expected that some features will be implemented in the Android version first in the future.