Discord today announced new measures to bring its Android app in line with its iOS counterpart. The changes will improve the experience of the app for Android, which has historically lagged behind the iPhone version of Discord.
disagreement say the app is now “rebuilt from the ground up” using React Native, a developer framework for creating apps that work uniformly across platforms. Some changes have already been made in recent weeks, but the revised version of Discord for Android should be available to all users within a few weeks.
The chat app is about as cross-platform as they come, and the company offers a version of the experience for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Discord also recently added a new integration for Xbox Live that allows users to forward their chats to their consoles.
The company says the new development method will allow it to accelerate new feature releases and bug fixes, making those changes uniform and faster than before across the multi-platform app. Prior to the new system, Android users had the short end of the stick, often waiting for features and updates that their iOS counterparts received first.
“React Native allows us to streamline and consolidate our processes, making our engineers more efficient and releasing updates more frequently, especially now that the team won’t spend as much time maintaining different codebases for different devices,” the company wrote. in a blog post.