By Anderthan Hsieh, Software Engineer & Lingtong Sun, Software Engineer
Over the past few weeks we’ve been working hard on updating the DoorDash Android app, including adding some new features, giving it a fresh coat of paint, and making a few infrastructural tweaks behind the scenes.
Here are just a few of the new features to try out in the brand-spanking-new DoorDash Android app.
Visual update
We’ve also made a whole bunch of visual updates to the app, giving the entire experience a much cleaner look and feel. The biggest new feature you may notice is carousel discovery, which allows you to swipe left and right across the most popular restaurants and those that you’ve recently ordered from.
Supercharged Search
We’ve also implemented a new search functionality that allows you to search by cuisine or item, rather than simply by restaurant name. For example, try typing in [thai] to see all restaurants labeled as Thai food, or “tikka masala” to find all restaurants offering that dish.
Major infrastructure improvements
Lastly we’ve made some major improvements under the hood to help make the app faster and more reliable. With these improvements, the app should feel much snappier with fewer hangs, delays or crashes.
All of these features are now in the latest version of the DoorDash Android app in the Google Play store. We hope this new update makes your DoorDash delivery experience just that much more delightful.