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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by mik3y on Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:54PM (#5494073)
Setting aside the Launcher replacement, the most technically surprising aspect of this demo was the messaging app: it showed avatars and a messaging window hovering above the currently-focused app.

As far as I know, this isn't possible on stock Android. You can make a non-fullscreen window, but you can't continue to interact with the layer behind it.

This may be the motivation for the "set of OEM guidelines" Mark very casually mentioned. I wonder what other enhancements they call for..

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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by Shooti on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:21PM (#5494669)
It's perfectly possible. They're doing it by setting the window type as TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT, and then switching it to TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY as needed.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowMa...

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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by mik3y on Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:09PM (#5495600)
Learn something new every day; thanks!
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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by krschultz on Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:29PM (#5494352)
They also cribbed the way iOS does notifications and put it on Android. Instead of messages being in a drawer on the top, they show up on the home screen immediately.

The Facebook Android app feels a little too iOS flavored to me (the Action Bar sliding in its entirety to the right when you slide in that menu is wack), and Facebook Home looks a little bit iOS flavored as well.

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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by andrewmunn on Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:44PM (#5494471)
Actually chat heads works on stock Android! Not sure the exact wizardry that went into implementing it, but it's very impressive to use.
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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by shagrath on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:17PM (#5494655)
probably like explained here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8073803/android-multi-tou...

but imho, given they already downgraded the behavior in 4.0, this is really looking like a security hole that might be closed in a next Android release.

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Re:Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For S... by owenwil on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:49PM (#5494829)
...Do you have an APK?
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