{"id":13813,"date":"2023-12-08T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/13813\/optimized-version-of-twitter-x\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:17:07","slug":"optimized-version-of-twitter-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=13813","title":{"rendered":"Optimized version of Twitter (X) for the Google Pixel Fold &#038; Tablet rolling out widely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optimized version of Twitter (X) for the Google Pixel Fold &#038; Tablet rolling out widely\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The social media giant has finally rolled out some optimizations for its X app on Google&#39;s Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet, ditching the black bars that plagued the experience for months.  While it&#39;s not a complete overhaul of the tablet&#39;s UI, the small change adds up to a better visual experience.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, launching the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/app\/\"   title=\"app\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">app<\/a> on these devices resulted in a stretched interface confined to black boxes on the sides.  This less than ideal solution was Google&#39;s answer to the problem of many Android apps not being optimized for large screens.<\/p>\n<p>However, as reported <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2023\/12\/07\/twitter-x-google-pixel-tablet-fold-optimization\/\" class=\"external\">9to5Google<\/a>, Twitter\/X v10.18.0 brings much-needed relief.  The app now uses the full width of the screen without stretching the content, presenting it in a centralized and compact layout.  This significantly improves the user experience both on the <span>Pixel folding<\/span> And <span>Pixel Tablet<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>While this change technically applies to all Android devices, it&#39;s most noticeable on Google&#39;s big-screen offerings.  Unlike other manufacturers that require unoptimized apps to switch to full-screen mode, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/google\/\"   title=\"Google\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Google<\/a> initially chose not to do so in order to encourage app developers to add in-app support.  This has since changed with the introduction of per-app aspect ratio overrides with Android 14 QPR1 Beta 1 \u2013 which is now present in the December 2023 Pixel Feature Drop.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Twitter\/X with or without letterboxing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update is currently available on the Play Store and may even apply to older versions of the app.  This is a welcome improvement, especially since Meta&#39;s Threads app still suffers from the mailbox issue on larger Pixel devices.<\/p>\n<div>Still, this new UI is far from perfect and Twitter\/X could certainly do a lot better.  Even Instagram, which resisted rolling out a tablet UI for as long as possible, has finally joined the lifestyle.  Hopefully, X developers will continue to prioritize tablet optimization and roll out an even smoother and more enjoyable experience for users of large-screen Android devices in the future.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimized version of Twitter (X) for the Google Pixel Fold &#038; Tablet rolling out widely\u060c The social media giant has finally rolled out some optimizations for its X app on Google&#39;s Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet, ditching the black bars that plagued the experience for months. While it&#39;s not a complete overhaul of the tablet&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[772,70,7329,71,522,481,2941,2171,1936],"class_list":["post-13813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-fold","tag-google","tag-optimized","tag-pixel","tag-rolling","tag-tablet","tag-twitter","tag-version","tag-widely"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13815,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions\/13815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}