Check out the new XDA app! Let us know what you think [App rolling out now]

The new app is just an upgrade to the current XDA app, so you should be able to just go into Play and hit "Update" The app is rolling out now, and will take hours to get to everyone. For safety, we are doing a staged rollout at first at about 50%.

Update 12/8: App is now at 100% rollout so everyone should get it soon. Thanks for testing and using it!
Update 1/13/21: We are aware that for some, the app isn't working. We plan to release a fix ASAP.

Fun things to try:

- Login explore the app settings and gesture controls (hit the third button on the bottom).
- Read the Tips and Tricks thread

Hey guys!

About the xda app, here is what a representative of xda replied to the moderation team internally when we told them we had concerns about the future of the app (among other topics):

"The truth is the app development team was an outside source that we worked with, and they were never able to deliver on a bug-free experience. If we focus on an app in the future, I'd assume that we would come up with a different solution. For now, <... > we are aware of the bugs, but further updates will not be made to the app. Chances are we will have something better in the future."

Then, we told them we'd love to have an in-house development of the app, like it used to be the case with xda labs, they replied this:

"I am 100% on board with this. I think XDA Labs was the best mobile app we ever got and we need to go back to a solution like that. <... > We are working on sorting out so many things behind the scenes, and as soon as we can make the forums a priority again, I will pitch this idea to the new leadership."

The" new leadership" being Valnet Inc.


I am also very disappointed by the xda app, I don't use it except for push notifications.

So I guess we just need to be patient...

So many are asking about the news section in the app---and yes, we intend to bring this back.

Robbo.5000 said:

So far it's s long way short of the old app, in terms of functionality.
For me the main things that could be fixed/implemented are
. Easily select my device then have the main device subforum one click away. (No, it's not going to be good enough to bookmark/flag/watch/favourite/whatever the individual subforums of the device subforum. It would be nice to have the device forum in its own tab/link/etc. and not mixed in with the general watched threads section)
. Go to the last read post when opening a thread
. Selecting a thread, by default, opens that thread, not show some useless overview, requiring a second button tap to actually open it.
. Bring back the swipe left and right, in a thread, to go to the previous next page in the thread.

I've been lazy and haven't gone through this thread, so I assume there's nothing new here as these are all the staple needs of a forum app. So apologies if I'm repeating other thoughts, but the more often the basics are flagged, hopefully the higher up the fix list they'll go.

Click to expand...

OK, having spent a bit more time with it, here are more thoughts.
. The current home page is mostly useless, the trending, new posts, and new threads are 99.9% device specific about a device you don't own and so is pointless. Move this to the last tab on the bottom (I'll leave it to someone else to suggest an icon for it) then make a useful home page. The most useful things are quick access to your own device subforums (This would be an expandable list, depending on how many devices you own/care about.), quick access to see new posts where you have direct replies, quotes or mentions and quick access to see new PM's. The rest of the home page could then be configurable so each user can choose what else is important to them. (e.g. New posts to threads you've previously participated in).
. Bring back the functionality to automatically save a draft of a new post/reply. It was incredibly useful when you needed to add multiple links to other threads. It was also very useful when creating long guides, etc. to be able to compose it in stages if necessary.
. Why are PM's (conversations in modern parlance) only accessible in the alerts tab?. I understand new messages should have alerts there, but surely the whole collection should have its own place. I guess somewhere in the account tab would make some sense.

I'm sorry to have to say this to the developper of this app, but I really don't like the new app. It's so less convenient than the previous XDA Labs app.

Here in a list of key features I'm missing:
- Going straight to the last unread post when clicking on a thread (instead, the new app opens the thread in the OP which is very frustrating as you can't really figure out where you last left the thread).
- Navigating through thread pages by swiping left and right
- The Newsfeed section
- The XDA App section. Maybe it's because this is forbidden by Google, but then why don't you make a non playstore XDA+ app with this additional feature? Many XDA users are "expert" happy to install apps from other sources than the Play Store anyways
- The "My Device" section, leading straight to our Device forum
- The Subscribed Thread tab

Other things that I find very frustrating with new app:
- It's too cluttered, and despite the clutter, it is not only less convenient than the previous XDA Labs app, but it is also missing nice features/tabs/filters that can be found in the browser version
- I'm getting the SSL error when using NextDNS private dns. The only way around this is to whitelist www.google-analytics.com and www.googletagmanger.com. This is unacceptable for me. I can't whitelist this google crap just for the sake of accessing the XDA app (especially XDA, of all apps, why would you mingle so deeply with google analytics?).

I'm gonna stick to the web version for the time being (also a frustration), hoping for an improved XDA app, with a more user-friendly UI, less permission requests, and less dependancy on google-crap.

Also, is there a web browser equivalent to the XDA Lab App Store?