Comments on: Facebook for Android

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:35:24 +0000

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?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:38:09 +0000

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.

By: Brian_S.

Brian_S. — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:52:32 +0000

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.

By: cireasa

cireasa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:00:47 +0000

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

By: Android Tapp

Android Tapp — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:55:37 +0000

Yet you chimed in on “dumbest argument ever”??? Your analogies are comparing apples with oranges.

By: Cyclolink

Cyclolink — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:04:54 +0000

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.

By: Android Tapp

Android Tapp — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:45:35 +0000

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”???

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:56:12 +0000

Burned on your own website!

By: Gyuri

Gyuri — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:34:33 +0000

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.

By: Android Tapp

Android Tapp — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:24:59 +0000

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

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:43:42 +0000

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

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:12:17 +0000

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.