Facebook For Android Updates To 1.61 : Adds Comments Like And More

F acebook for Android™ makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. You can share status updates from your home scr...

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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. Share photos from your phone and can even look up up to 125 friends’ phone numbers from the home screen. And now, Facebook fans head over to Android Market as it updates to version 1.61. It is not necessarily a huge one but it does improve and bring a couple of features to the mobile app: Improved News Feed, Pages Support, and Video Upload. Now share and stay connected with your friends with the Facebook for Android app. Facebook for Android makes it easy to stay and remain connected and share with friends. Share status updates from your home screen, chat with your friends, check out your News Feed, review your upcoming Events, look at your friends’ walls and user info, check in to Places to get Deals, upload Photos, share links, check your Messages, and watch videos. Join us after the break for more.

Features At A Glance

  • Easy to get around
  • Upload photos from your phone
  • Slick event viewer
  • Pull-up notifications screen
  • 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

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The home screen now shows messages, notifications and friend requests separately. On the bottom of the home screen, you can see a swipe-to-scroll slideshow of your friends’ recent picture uploads. Notifications, which comprised the greatest pain point for users we polled last week, now appear in a slide-up bar along the bottom of the screen, similar to the Android OS’s slide-down bar for notifications at the top of the screen. While the Notifications bar doesn’t seem to be working quite smoothly with the rest of the app yet (it keeps launching Facebook’s mobile touch site), we hope an upcoming software update will address this issue soon. And we’re grateful and slightly ecstatic to report that you no longer have to navigate out of the app to Facebook’s mobile site to do any normal Facebook actions, such as approve a friend request, view a video, RSVP to an event or respond to a message. You’ll use your device’s browser when you click through to shared links, but getting to those links is much easier now. You click through to a screen showing your friend’s post with the link in question, then you tap on the link itself to be redirected. It’s a much better interface than the app’s previous iteration. Also, “likes,” Facebook search and mobile photo uploads are now as easy as a single touchscreen-tap in most cases, and the overall navigation and interface have gained a few new touches that are subtle but elegant and welcome.

 

Grab it from Android Market

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