Facebook for Android

Posted Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 9:55 am by 15 Comments
Facebook for Android
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Facebook 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.

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

  • Connects to your Facebook account
  • No dealing with Permissions issues
  • Has an Android Widget with quick link to open full app (Wall entries)
  • Likes and Wall Comments are available
  • It’s speedy

Cons

  • Inbox (actually there’s a loop hole to get to it via checking Friends Profile… see small link to Inbox. Of course the Mobile Facebook app displays as referred to my rant on Babbler Android App Review)
  • Can’t view friends or your photo gallery
  • Can’t send/accept Friend Requests
  • Limited features

Features:

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.

Video: Facebook for Android

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn90BPNLNSg

Usefulness:

Facebook apps have such a high demand because so many people use the social network.

Ease of Use:

The app is intuitive and easy to use.

Frequently Used:

Possibly multiple times daily.

Interface:

The user interface resembles what could come from Facebook’s brand. Clean, organized, and mobile optimised.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

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Should you Download Facebook for Android? Yuppers! Fast Facebook App… and Free!

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15 Responses to “Facebook for Android”

  1. Henning says:

    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.

  2. Guy says:

    Actually just so you know, this is the official face book app. Why do you think it doesn’t have to request any permissions?

  3. cireasa says:

    Been to Facebook official app, been to Babbler, now I’m happily “married” to Bloo. Slickest of them, most features.

  4. Brian_S. says:

    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.

  5. Glenn says:

    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.

  6. Liz says:

    I can’t see any messages in my notifications even though messages is checked in the notification settings. how can i see and respond to fb messages?

  7. chirag says:

    I need source code for this application for uploading photo only
    Can any one help me????

  8. Laura says:

    I don’t know why you would download anything that wasn’t the official Facebook app – doesn’t it make it easier to not have to request permissions and stuff all the time?

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