Twitter has began rolling out some modifications for its Android app that offers individuals 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 provide customers “a smoother, extra constant expertise total.” 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 beneath, 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 reveals 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 mentioned it additionally labored on its back-end and rebuilt it with correct structure, bettering its responsiveness and its scrolling efficiency. Twitter mentioned it additionally redesigned the message composer, in addition to the app’s tweet forwarding capabilities. 

The firm has traditionally been sluggish to carry new options to the Android app — search, as an illustration, had been accessible on iOS and the online for nearly a few years earlier than it got here to the cell platform. Earlier this 12 months, Twitter expanded search’s functionality to make it simpler to seek out the precise conversations customers are searching for. That characteristic is obtainable for each iOS and Android customers.