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Grok Android app gets speed improvements, tasks feature is coming
xAI is rolling out a new update for the Grok app for the Android platform, which will increase the startup speed by up to 20% to improve the user experience.
The Android app developer Attila explained that these improvements are achieved through Startup and Baseline Profiles. These are used to improve Android app performance with distinct purposes and scopes.
Among these, the baseline profile optimizes code execution for all common user journeys to create smoother interactions from the first launch. Startup profiles identify and prioritize code executed during app launch, enabling Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation to pre-optimize critical paths. It can reduce initial load times by up to 20-30%, thus improving the app’s performance.
Baseline profile generated via tools like Macrobenchmark provides detailed class and method data, allowing the Android Runtime (ART) to efficiently compile and cache the elements. This minimizes Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation delays, especially for cold starts.
These two combined streamline resource usage, remove unnecessary interpretations, and provide a fast user experience, which is beneficial for apps such as Grok.
The company has released a new update with version 0.5.25 for users, bringing the following changes:
- Support for opening shared conversations and continuing within the app
- Significant stability improvements for Grok Voice
- Improvements and fixes for Recently Deleted chats
- Chart rendering support with streaming
- Markdown rendering updates
Grok Android app startup speed improved by 20% (Source – @ablenessy/X)
Initially, xAI released app support for iOS users. It allows users to conduct text-to-text conversations, generate images with prompts, analyze images, and use voice mode with different personas. These capabilities were later made up to the Android platform.
The company has also fixed a crash issue on Android, first spotted on the Android 9 operating system. Attila later announced that the issue is fixed with user feedback, but this issue was on Google’s side. The tasks creation and edit feature is under development, and it is likely to rollout next week.
