Twitter offers its DMs on the Android app a extra fashionable look | Engadget

Twitter has began rolling out some modifications for its Android app that offers folks sliding into DMs a extra visually interesting interface. The social community’s Android app has remained largely the identical over time, however this replace, whereas fairly minor, was meant to offer customers “a smoother, more consistent experience overall.” Twitter says it set to work redesigning its DMs on Android after its groups evaluated the expertise on the OS and decided that it wanted an enchancment. 

As you’ll be able to see within the screenshots under, the messages view on the app look cleaner now, with rounder speech bubbles and textual content field on the backside. The inbox itself additionally appears to be like a lot much less cluttered and is devoid of line breaks. Ditto for the message requests view, which now additionally exhibits an “x” button for every request that makes it simple to delete them. 

Twitter did not simply give DMs on Android a shiny new veneer, although. The firm stated it additionally labored on its back-end and rebuilt it with correct structure, bettering its responsiveness and its scrolling efficiency. Twitter stated it additionally redesigned the message composer, in addition to the app’s tweet forwarding capabilities. 

The firm has traditionally been sluggish to convey new options to the Android app — search, for example, had been obtainable on iOS and the net for nearly a few years earlier than it got here to the cellular platform. Earlier this yr, Twitter expanded search’s functionality to make it simpler to search out the precise conversations customers are on the lookout for. That characteristic is obtainable for each iOS and Android customers.