Dear Facebook: Please learn how to design Android apps that don't suck

Re:Dear Facebook: Please learn how to design Android apps th... by andybak on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:18AM (#5114932)

The previous post gave more reasons that 'notifications'. Read it more carefully - the important one is 'integration' which covers a host of possible behaviour.

One example - uploading photos straight from the camera. This is a html5 api but the browser support is appalling: http://caniuse.com/stream

More examples - integration with contacts? (i.e. appearing as an option next to call/text etc). Registering under the 'share' menu in Android? Registering as an Intent where appropriate? Ability to run background tasks?

I don't know if Facebook uses these but there's certainly good reasons for an service with it's wide spread of potential functionality to do so.

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Re:Dear Facebook: Please learn how to design Android apps th... by Nursie on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:40AM (#5114984)

Those are good reasons for some people, sure. I guess I still see FB as 'just a page' rather than an full, integrated comms service.

I really don't want it as a full integrated comms service!

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