User Rating2.81/5Facebook for Android™ makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. You can share status updates from your home screen, check out your news feed, look at your friends’ walls and user info, upload photos and share links.
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The app that dupped us all into thinking it was the official Facebook app for Android, yet a 3rd party developed Facebook app. The app is pretty limited in features in comparison to top apps like Babbler and Bloo. Upload photos, take a pic and upload, view your Feed, read/write to your Wall, Comment on Friends Wall, Like and Dislike comments.
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Facebook apps have such a high demand because so many people use the social network.
The app is intuitive and easy to use.
Possibly multiple times daily.
The user interface resembles what could come from Facebook’s brand. Clean, organized, and mobile optimised.
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In the last few weeks, I have installed and tried several (free) Facebook apps, but I didn’t find any one that is really complete in terms of functionality. The official mobile site is sometimes hard to use, and they don’t let you comment on your own posts anymore, unless someone else has posted a comment. There’s a nice wrapper around the Facebook mobile site, called fBook. To get some advanced features, I’m using the mobile site along with Babbler which gives a quite complete set of features. Both applications don’t feature chat functionality, so I’m using Meebo for that. Quite a mess having to use three independent apps to get the most out of Facebook
And there have been rumors that there won’t be an official Android Facebook app as Facebook is allegedly boycotting Google for some strange reason.
Actually just so you know, this is the official face book app. Why do you think it doesn’t have to request any permissions?
Ummm… it’s not official. 3rd party, no permissions because it doesn’t have features that need to request permission.
Also, have a look at the Gmail support email address: http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.facebook.katana
Then have a look at the contradictory note Facebook placed in the Information field “This application was not developed by Facebook.” http://phandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/facebook-app.jpg
According to TechCrunch, it IS official.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/facebook-on-android-not-much-to-review-but-we-do-it-anyway/
This is an “official” Facebook app, the company tells us, even though the page says “This application was not developed by Facebook.” That’s because, as we previously reported, Google has actually built this themselves – obviously having a Facebook application was strategically important to them.
Burned on your own website!
I really didn’t think it needed to be pointed to Gyuri once again, this is NOT the official Facebook app. (The quoted proof is contradictory to his statement). I read the TechCrunch back when they reported it, and read clear English that Google developed this and NOT Facebook. Hence “not the official Facebook app”.
To make it simple to understand… if Facebook developed a Gmail component within their website, does that make it “the official Gmail app”???
I am not arguing whether it is official or not but your argument is the dumbest argument I have ever read. Since Google developed it, it must not be official – that is complete BS. Lots of companies will hire 3rd Party developers to develop software for them. Infinity Ward is the creator of Call of Duty however Treyarch created Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: WaW. By your logic that mean those are not official Call of Duty games.
Horrible, horrible argument.
Been to Facebook official app, been to Babbler, now I’m happily “married” to Bloo. Slickest of them, most features.
Has anyone tried m.facebook.com? It will detect you are using a Droid phone and switch over to touch.facebook.com which I think most will find much better.
Reasonably good, though there’s nothing this can do that the Touch website can’t do and it’s quite annoying with some features as it just takes you to the browser. Also I’d rather it took me to the Facebook touch website, rather than the standard mobile one as that works better with my phone.
Yet you chimed in on “dumbest argument ever”???
Your analogies are comparing apples with oranges.