Facebook Instant Articles comes to Android
One of the most acclaimed latest features of the social network Facebook lands on the platform Android This is your Instant Articles, or Instant Articles, a feature that is called to be a whole revolution for consuming publications through this social networkthanks to the comfort they offer when it comes to reading news, watching reports and, in short, improving the appearance and possibilities of the information shared on this social network
In this way, Facebook has confirmed through its official blog the launch of Instant Articles for the Google mobile platform after several months of testing for a few users. A launch in which España is also involved, since some of the country's media and publications already have this function to share their content with followers. But what is it?
This is a new way of publishing articles. In this way, instead of loading an external web page in the social network application, the article appears instantly on screen, as it loads via technology developed by Facebook But its instantaneousness, despite the name, is not its only advantage of these new publications.Its additions and the ability to interact with the content is what makes this feature truly remarkable.
Thus, taking advantage of Facebook upload technology, articles can be displayed on screen up to 10 times faster than regular posts. In addition, these articles have high-resolution photographs that allow you to apply zoom to see any detail in remarkable quality, or play a video automatically when hovering over it. All accompanied by interactive maps, author's audios, and other content that offers aMore complete experience without having to use the mobile Internet browser. Something that iPhone users have been enjoying for some time, and now it's coming to Android users
At the moment, the only publications that take advantage of and publish in the Instant Articles format of Facebook are: Cocina Facilísimo, Diario As, Diario Sport, El Huffington Post, El País, El Mundo, El Periódico, FC Barcelona, La Vanguardia, Manualidades Facilísimo, Marca, Mundo Deportivo, Playground Something that shows the long road that this function still has to travel, but which already collects information from the country's main general media.
The feature is rolling out on a rolling basis, so this feature may not be accessible to everyone from the start . When this happens, all you have to do is click on any of the publications of the media mentioned above through the Facebook wall to instantly load this content. It doesn't matter if they are articles with only text or full of images and videosAll of them are loaded almost instantly and with interactive and multimedia content available at a single touch of the screen. Quite a step forward so that Facebook ends up becoming a provider of news and information beyond the concept known as Social Media
