Facebook says "Home", a replacement home screen Android application




Facebook today announced a new Facebook application called screen, home of an impressive experience with Facebook photos full screen replaces the standard Android updates status updates and notifications. Facebook also announced a special version of Home will be pre-installed on the new HTC's first mobile phone on AT & T.

Was started on 12 Published in April in the U.S., and is for users of Android Jelly Bean and Ice Cream Sandwich, but not Gingerbread. The international version will follow. Not required or modified forked version of Android is that HTC is the first. Facebook tries to start in tablets make in a few months and is expected to be a great experience to be there. Each month, Facebook launched an update to the website to add new features and make it accessible to new devices.

You can download it at home if you have the latest Facebook and Facebook Messenger applications on your Android phone. You will see a warning sign download, the house of Google Play. When you first start, you can choose to "Try Again", or select "Always" to the home screen to move the house later.

The experience of the main home screen focuses on the establishment of the cover, which can not sit a constant stream of photos and stories full screen and watch shows. Demo'd by Adam Mosseri, Product Manager, the house also has a new notification system that you can pass through multiple alerts at once. Check out our hands on video with Facebook Start a better idea of ​​how it really works.

Applications are also important, Zuckerberg said, you can always add applications to your device. A blow away from the home is the Application Launcher screen. Messaging is at the top. The phones are communication devices and transfer the entire message of the day, appcentric in today's world, messaging is treated as a different application. Switching between applications is boring. We want to talk to people, not applications.

Listen to a friend posts, homepage opens heads the Facebook chat. It seems that a person's face and your face touch and hold on a conversation without the context of what you do in the implementation. Cat Heads means you do not have to decide to read a message, or continue to use the application. It allows the flow of communication via phone experience. It is designed for you to play over multiple message strings.

"Today we are talking about the end of the Facebook phone, more specifically, let's talk about how you speak turn your phone into a Facebook" Mark Zuckerberg said that the event will begin. After finding out that we spend over 20% of our time in mobile social applications, Zuckerberg said: "We asked ourselves - if we spend so much time on our phones, how can we make it easier, and if it develops to people first?, and you might as well get to interact with applications? "

Facebook Facebook has established to enable handset manufacturers to optimize the experience of home. The partners include AT & T, Orange, Qualcomm, HTC, Samsung, Huawei, Sony, EA, ZTE, Lenovo and Alcatel.
HTC and AT & T launches one of the first phones with them on Facebook. The phone will be the first HTC. The operating system of the device will be "optimized" to provide users with unique experiences such notifications by e-mail and calendar on Facebook Home. Connection runs on AT & T's LTE will be available 12 April for $ 99.99.

Zuckerberg closed the event of market development and the international potential of Facebook. "Only about a third of the world is through the internet", but in five or ten years, legions of mobile phone users are on smartphones. Zuckerberg left a cliffhanger, to ask the people what it means to think of social networks and the Web as a whole.