When Android made its handset debut on the T-Mobile G1 back in October of 2008, a nasty bout of drama between Facebook and Google kept the former from developing on the nascent platform. 9 months later, Facebook took a look at the ever growing number of Android handsets and decided to move past the politics. Work on the Facebook Android app began, with at least one Google engineer lending a hand.
Facebook has yet to officially acknowledge that an Android port is in progress, but a series of leaked screenshots suggest that it’s well underway. We can see that the application looks exactly as one would expect, toting a ton of Facebook’s signature design elements. Unlike the iPhone application, there are no static tabs along the bottom of the screen for jumping between sections of the app; Android apps generally tuck these away into a slide-out drawer, accessible via the “Menu” hardware button.
Additionally, one of the screenshots indicates that the Facebook application will have a companion widget for the homescreen, allowing users to update their status without opening the application. It’s more convenient than ever to tell your Facebook friends where you’re getting drunk.
The screenshots that have leaked so far are all rather small, but they do the trick. If someone involved in the development or testing is willingly sharing these shots, we can probably expect more to crop up before too long.
[LeakDroid Via AndroidGuys]
It looks pretty much similar than the iPhone application they lately released. Lets see if the features are the same aswell.
it will prob be the same, i love it already on my blackberry
Seems good. Facebook rocks. Hope the viral vandals broom elsewhere.
can’t wait for this, current fb apps on android market sucks.
WTF! Last week it was, by the end of the week. Now it’s here are some crappy screen shots. What ever happened to reliable news.
I can’t wait to see how the widget works. So far, all web widgets on Android have failed me.
There’s already a facebook app bundled with the htc hero. Check the xda forums.
Pretty pumped about this, I used to cook Hero ROM’s at XDA but have since moved on to cupcake based ones because of, well, speed, performance and reliability. The only thing that brings me back to Hero is that darned social networking integration as I’m a New Media Director out in Michigan and it makes my jobs a lot easier. Finally an answer to my prayers.
By a EditText view being in the app widget, that means the widget was built into the actual Android code. I doubt Google would allow this into master, and if you look, it isn’t. So this is definitely either through an OEM, through a carrier, completely hoaxed, or just a mock up by someone who has no idea what they can and can’t do in an app widget.
If this is really internal to facebook, they are planning on marketing this to OEMs and/or carriers and not directly to consumers.
would really be nice if google put some ad dollars behind their platform. i have the iphone and would love to sport an android but theres no reason for me to switch yet.
I am glad some editing had began.
nice :)
hope we’ll c this app in the market soon as posibble….