Facebook’s iPhone App is New, Improved; Android, Not So Much - burkesiry1989

Facebook has completely rebuilt its iPhone app, making it much quicker at loading status updates and scrolling through news feeds.

Android users, however, will have to wait for a better Facebook experience.

The key difference in the new Facebook iPhone app is that it's written in native cypher, rather than HTML5. Although HTML5 allowed Facebook to write its app erstwhile and ship IT across multiple platforms, it also slowed the apps go through, hence the notorious Facebook loading spinner.

The new app is much quicker, even on my old iPhone 3GS. New status updates still take a few moments to shipment, merely I've yet to experience any of the serious hang clock time that ill the old iPhone app.

The iPhone app's interface is mostly unchanged from previous versions, simply a "new stories" notifier appears at the top of the news feed, which loads more updates when you tap on it. Photos can also be dismissed with a downward swipe.

I own a Galaxy S Cardinal in increase to the iPhone 3GS, so I compared the old HTML5 Android app to the new native-born iPhone app close. Status updates took much yearner to load on the Android app, and photo viewing was unreliable, at times failing to load thumbnails or images. It's a reminder of how dispiriting the Facebook app has been on some platforms for the last few old age, and how HTML5 just isn't good enough in its contemporary state for mobile apps like Facebook.

When will Android users get a autochthonal app? Facebook International Relations and Security Network't saying, and reported to Business Insider, Humanoid development has been somewhat of a fight off for the companion. Unnamed sources said Facebook had to pressure employees to give up their iPhones for Android phones, just to make them suffer through Facebook's sub-par Android app Eastern Samoa need.

Anyway, a blog post about the new iPhone app from Facebook's Jonathan Dann bodes well for Humanoid users: "The development of this raw app signals a budge in how Facebook is building mobile products, with a focus on digging deep into individual platforms," he writes. Seeing American Samoa Android is in the lead for smartphone market share, there's a good enough chance it's next in line for an modernize.

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