Facebook for Android hits Market

[Chris Davies]

We're hearing from multiple Android Community members that a new Facebook application has arrived in the Android Market. ÂThe app seems pretty spartan at present, but does allow access to walls, posting of statuses and commenting.

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[konzern]

its a good start but it needs improvements

[Fare]

it's going to be the most heavily downloaded 3 star app...

[calculust]

been waiting for this for so long!

[Cryoflesh]

By the looks of things it wasn't developed by Facebook. The developer page even states this, plus I somehow doubt that facebook would use the facebook.android@gmail.com as a contact address!!!

babbler seems to be the winner over this one!

[rdarmand]

This app is *NOT* officially from Facebook. Going to the "Developer's Web Page" takes you to a Facebook "Fan" page. In the "Information" section is a statement below the "Category" that says: "This application was not developed by Facebook."

[konzern]

we have all been bamboozled lol i guess this is the app that orells was beta testing

[DesignDawg]

By the looks of things it wasn't developed by Facebook. The developer page even states this, plus I somehow doubt that facebook would use the facebook.android@gmail.com as a contact address!!!

babbler seems to be the winner over this one!

Yes and no. It IS the "official" Facebook app, and most certainly must have been developed WITH Facebook. Actually, even the iPhone app development page said it was not developed by Facebook up until v. 3 (I think). --And it definitely was. They just gave credit initially to the FB employee who had done the coding. The story behind this app is that Google "lent" FB an Android dev to create this app.

The Palm, Blackberry, and other "official" FB apps also say they were not made by Facebook. Click "mobile" on your computer at the bottom of the screen and check them all out. FB does this for some reason. Also, any previous apps that have been developed have been forced to remove the word "Facebook" from their names. Bloo was originally called something different, and he was forced to change the name. This is why we have "Babbler", "Bloo", "Fbook", etc. You know every one of those devs would have preferred to name their apps "Facebook". I have no doubt this app is developed officially in conjunction with Facebook.

[extreme99]

This is great start and so far has a nice interface, but it does need improvement. I hope the negative comments dont push Facebook away from improving it.


I will now use babbler as a backup.

[toddp]

This app is pretty weak to say the least. Just a feed reader. But it seems fast so that’s good. Not sure how speedy notifications are yet. If they are pretty much push it will help make it somewhat useful.

It’s almost identical to the abandoned app friendmobilizer. And that one has an inbox wrapper and wraps people’s walls, photos, etc. The official one pops up browser so you have to wait for that to launch. Mobilizer was abandoned so it doesn’t show comments, but other then that it has more usability. That’s pretty sad.

I don’t know, I wasn’t expecting the world, but I really hope they step up with updates. Missing some real basic function.

Time will tell how fast updates come I guess.

Bloo and Babbler don’t have much to worry about right now