{"id":52421,"date":"2013-10-04T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=52421"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:07:06","slug":"latest-twitter-for-android-beta-features-new-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/latest-twitter-for-android-beta-features-new-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Twitter for Android beta features new UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what the next version of <a title=\"Twitter for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter for Android<\/a> will look like, this is it. <em>Droid Life<\/em> reports of a massive redesign in the latest Twitter beta for Android. The biggest change is the persistent tool bar at the bottom, which allows users to quickly post a picture from the gallery, take a picture, or compose a tweet. The top menu bar is also gone, replaced with just three tabs: Home, Discover, and Activity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52423\" title=\"Twitter beta for Android\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Twitter-568x334.png\" alt=\"Twitter beta for Android\" width=\"568\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Twitter-568x334.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Twitter-256x150.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the new app functions the same as the old one, it&#8217;s odd that Twitter has decided to go against the <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> style guide. The app looks more like something you&#8217;d find on <a title=\"Windows Phone\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/windows-phone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone<\/a> than on Android. There&#8217;s no cards, which Google has popularized, nor do the bottom buttons conform to Google&#8217;s standards (notice the transparency).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/h4>\n<h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/twitter-improves-photos-in-embedded-tweets\">Twitter improves photos in embedded Tweets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/twitter-introduces-a-new-recommendation-system\">Twitter introduces a new recommendation system<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/twitter-app-redesigned-for-ios-7\">Twitter app redesigned for iOS 7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to be part of the Twitter beta (sign ups are <a title=\"Twitter beta for Android sign up\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/twitter-for-android-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now closed<\/a>) in order to download the app and test it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>[Source and image credit: <a title=\"Droid Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2013\/10\/04\/new-twitter-beta-released-with-updated-ui-goodbye-hamburger-menu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Droid Life<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what the next version of Twitter for Android will look like, this is it. Droid Life reports of a massive redesign in the latest Twitter beta for Android. The biggest change is the persistent tool bar at the bottom, which allows users to quickly post a picture from the gallery, take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/latest-twitter-for-android-beta-features-new-ui\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest Twitter for Android beta features new UI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":52423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-52421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332055,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421\/revisions\/332055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52421"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=52421"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=52421"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=52421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}