Facebook brings the Home environment to its Android application
Few will remember Facebook Home Something more than an experiment on the part of Facebook to apply a social layer to smartphones that would put on the front page the relationships and publications of this network social, instead of applications An application that didn't quite catch on with the public because of the absence of privacy and security, in addition to being available for a very small range of terminalsHowever, the Facebook team is not resigned and, with a new update of its official application for Android , new arrivals from your environment Home
This time it's not really new, but one of the most characteristic features of Home, which integrates directly into the official Facebook app for Android This is your lock screen With it it is possible to be aware of the status updates of friends and family without even unlocking the terminal , being able to see shared images and published content just by sliding your finger to the left or right.
This is a way to bring the wall directly to the first screen that you see as soon as you use the terminal. To do this, simply access the menu Settings within Facebook and activate the option Use as Lock ScreenWith this, this new screen is applied, being able to consult the contents without unlocking the terminal, or by moving the button at the bottom to skip this screen and access the rest of applications and functions of the smartphone Of course, as was the case with Home, only a brief list of terminals can make use of this lock screen. Specifically the Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Nexus 4, HTC One X, HTC One X+ and HTC One
Along with this, in addition, this update has included a most useful novelty. This is the possibility of downloading the photographs published or shared on Facebook from the viewing gallery In such a way, when viewing a group of photos, You just have to press the menu button and select the download option to get a copy in the terminal's gallery and thus not depend on the application to see it at any time or place.
Also related to the photographs, but in this case being the correction of a bug, the error that preventedfrom show images in some publications Thus, there will no longer be white gaps on the screen instead of photographs, at least until they are loaded and displayed.
In short, a striking update, which shows the intention of Facebook to continue betting on its Little more than a failed Facebook experiment Home And, if the bubble conversations, another of Home's functions, it does managed to find their place, it is possible that a screen with publications instead of the usual blocking ends up working. All this taking into account the limitation of the list of terminals in which it can be used. The Facebook update has already been released via Google Play completelyfree, so it will arrive in the next hours or days progressively.
