Android Update

Snap’s biggest project for the coming year is to reengineer its Android app. Snapchat has been notoriously slow and buggy on Android smartphones, and is virtually unusable on lower-end Android devices that have slower processing speeds and lower quality cameras. Such is the curse of a social media platform based on data-intensive content like photo, video, and augmented reality. Snap’s goal is to make its Android app 20% faster in 2019. Snap executives have been cagey about when this update will be ready.