A brief review of the Threads Android app

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Let’s begin with the Threads icon. I used to be skeptical at first – too crazy – however seeing the refresh animation actually explains it. Meanwhile, what’s basically a white squiggle on a black circle/canvas is quite stark. It’s actually totally different from different icons but not that distinct at the identical time, giving off a barebones high quality. Will it’s as iconic as the Twitter chicken? That stays to be seen.

Jumping into the app, there are 4 tabs in the backside bar. It’s straightforward to mistake the button at the heart for a fifth feed, however that’s a shortcut for posting. It’s not totally different from Instagram’s structure and has the benefit of letting you submit from wherever in the app, however I really feel {that a} bottom-right FAB is likely to be extra obvious.

The backside bar is persistent and serves as a approach to shortly scroll as much as the prime of your present feed. The Home feed solely reveals the app bar with the Threads emblem while you pull to refresh. At the backside of posts, you’ll discover the choice to love first (quite revealing), adopted by choices for replying, reposting, and sharing. (The customized share sheet consists of “Tweet” – heh.) As a Twitter person, I’ve been conditioned to having the first button in the row open feedback, and I’ve unintentionally appreciated so many posts in consequence.

The app’s gentle and darkish themes can solely be managed by way of your system theme. Hopefully, an in-app toggle is coming quickly. I’m often not a fan of AMOLED black (Twitter’s Dim blue was nice), however it’s surprisingly advantageous in Threads.

Search is barebones, whereas the Activity tab being represented by a coronary heart icon is certainly from Instagram and considerably betrays the engagement lure that’s Threads and fashionable social media. (Initially, I stored considering that was the tab for seeing posts I’ve appreciated, however that’s undoubtedly a holdover from Twitter purchasers the place you might customise the backside bar.) The prime filters for Replies, Mentions, and Verified are useful and principally persistent.

Lastly, there’s the profile web page, the place fascinating icon selections had been made. The globe opens privateness settings (I used to be anticipating a webpage to open), and the one at the proper is for settings (filters-esque).

Overall, the app is quite performant and seems like Instagram, which has been snappy for the previous a number of years (on Android flagships). It’s quite simple, and I like that, however I’m unsure if that’s resulting from the rushed launch or by design. The primary Instagram app could be very cluttered, not simply with content material, given how a lot performance is being packed into it. I hope Threads stays easy.

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