Link Bubble - A new browser for Android

Re:Link Bubble - A new browser for Android by andrewmunsell on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:17PM (#7454615)

Well, to be fair, Facebook was the company that created the always open "floating bubble" concept, to my knowledge.

Link Bubble behaves very similarly to Facebook Messenger in this way (the way the bubbles move, how you interact with them, close them, etc), and I can't help but think that Facebook was inspiration for the project.

This is actually a good thing because I always thought that the Chat Heads were a novel idea, though Link Bubble's implementation of the concept is rougher around the edges than Facebook (e.g. "laggier", not quite as clean in design).

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Re:Link Bubble - A new browser for Android by jlogsdon on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:26PM (#7455735)

According to the developer, Chris Lacy[1], Link Bubble was in development before Facebook's Messenger was released.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454918

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Re:Link Bubble - A new browser for Android by JTon on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:18AM (#7458313)

Ehh. I'm not convinced this point really matters. If you ship a great idea first, you shipped it first.. no?

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Re:Link Bubble - A new browser for Android by TheCraiggers on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:41AM (#7458447)

>Well, to be fair, Facebook was the company that created the always open "floating bubble" concept, to my knowledge.

I believe Holo in Paranoid Android's ROM was first, beating Facebook's app by a few months at least.

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Re:Link Bubble - A new browser for Android by dannyr on Monday March 24, 2014 @02:28AM (#7457014)

There are a lot of apps that draw over other apps on Android before Facebook Chatheads.

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