Discord is overhauling its Android app within the coming weeks in order that new options and updates arrive concurrently iOS and desktop. If you’re a Discord Android consumer, you’re in all probability used to seeing new options not seem for months after they have been introduced on iOS, and we noticed that almost all lately with the Server Profiles characteristic being obtainable on iOS way before Android.

“Historically, work on the Android implementation of new features would often be delayed until desktop and iOS were completed, resulting in some features that launched first on one platform before eventually arriving on another one,” explains the Discord product workforce in a blog post.

Discord is switching to React Native for its Android app, which can enable the corporate to roll out new options throughout each platform concurrently. It additionally signifies that the design of Discord on Android will extra carefully resemble what you’re used to seeing on desktop and even iOS.

React Native is extensively used throughout many well-liked cellular apps, together with Instagram, Microsoft Outlook, Shopify, Tesla, Pinterest, and lots of extra. Discord has been utilizing React Native for its iOS app because it was open sourced by Meta in 2015, permitting the corporate to construct its iOS app from the core of its React app.

The transfer to React Native on Android may also make Discord options and design extra constant throughout Android, iOS, and desktop. While the Discord Android app will nonetheless hold some particular customizations, issues like font sizes can be aligned between Android and iOS.

“Android users will also enjoy the benefits of faster app update release cycles,” explains Discord. “React Native allows us to streamline and consolidate our processes, which helps our engineers work more efficiently and push out updates more frequently, especially now that the team won’t be spending as much time maintaining different codebases for different devices.”

Discord has already began rolling out its up to date Android app, so Android customers ought to begin to really feel the advantage of this underlying codebase change over the approaching weeks. And hopefully, it ought to imply we’ll by no means see one other “coming soon to Android” message for future Discord options.