Best Facebook app? - General Questions and Answers

Probably been asked a million times, but I can't find the answer, what is the best Facebook app? I need notifications at least every half hour, full features and speed. I bought friendcaster pro last year but lately it has been buggy and unusable, and the official app hogs data and is SLOW. Any help would be much appreciated
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When I had Facebook and all that I used Seesmic. A lot better than stock, doesn't hog too many resources, sync works fairly well, overall a awesome app if you hate the stock FB app.
Nevermind, can't give you a link because I don't more than 10 posts.
Goodluck, and let me know what you think! :good:

Duhstehn said:
When I had Facebook and all that I used Seesmic. A lot better than stock, doesn't hog too many resources, sync works fairly well, overall a awesome app if you hate the stock FB app.
Nevermind, can't give you a link because I don't more than 10 posts.
Goodluck, and let me know what you think! :good:
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Tried and hated it. I want a dedicated Facebook app that supports more features, the Facebook side of it felt too basic, thanks for suggestion though but its more of a twitter app
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@non4 said:
Tried and hated it. I want a dedicated Facebook app that supports more features, the Facebook side of it felt too basic, thanks for suggestion though but its more of a twitter app
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I never knew there was an alternative to the stock Facebook app.

I hate Facebook stock. Wish they made a better one, but I haven't found anything that has the same/similar features.

rmaltempo said:
I hate Facebook stock. Wish they made a better one, but I haven't found anything that has the same/similar features.
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Friebdcaster does but lately its been buggy
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grayson73 said:
I never knew there was an alternative to the stock Facebook app.
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Yep, there is. In fact, type in "facebook alternative" in the Play Store and you will see there are several. The one I currently use is FBMX - Another Facebook Client. It seems to be faster -- and more reliable -- than the stock one and does everything I need it to do. I used to use Friendcaster too, but I agree that it has gotten too buggy lately; I liked it better before it became overly popular.

internalrage said:
Yep, there is. In fact, type in "facebook alternative" in the Play Store and you will see there are several. The one I currently use is FBMX - Another Facebook Client. It seems to be faster -- and more reliable -- than the stock one and does everything I need it to do. I used to use Friendcaster too, but I agree that it has gotten too buggy lately; I liked it better before it became overly popular.
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Thanks I'll try it
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Nope this is no better than official for me, which would be fine if it was a little faster
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@non4 said:
Nope this is no better than official for me, which would be fine if it was a little faster
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I don't do a whole lot on FB so it works great for me. Facebook Stream for Android could be worth looking into. If that one doesn't work for you then I'm outta ideas.:fingers-crossed:

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[Review] TweetDeck Beta Launches – Best Android Twitter App?

As you might have heard, TweetDeck has released its Twitter app for Android after what seems to be ages of development, at least for me, as I’ve been dying for this. Twidroyd has long been, at least in functionality, best Twitter app for Android, but TweetDeck hopes to change that by bringing the best Twitter app for PC to Android. Interestingly, its not a direct port of their iPhone app, rather, its been built from the ground to up to showcase the changes that TweetDeck hopes to roll out across its other platforms. I’ve gotta say, its looking great, but not quite there yet. Check out the video for a demo of the great functionality as well as the missing functionality. All in all, though, great job TweetDeck.
TweetDeck Beta for Android Video Demo With Download Link
Tweetdeck is nice, the font size is annoying though
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Tried it did not like it my self not enough options IMHO
from the apple store loling
Naw it's definitely not the best quite yet. It's lacking A LOT feature wise but it's on the right track. It's been the main one I've used since it came out yesterday. Just might replace my Twitter for Android in the end.
Sporkman said:
Tried it did not like it my self not enough options IMHO
from the apple store loling
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Dropped it like a accident at a nuclear power plant!
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FTW! yes now i dont ahve to run all the twitter apps (too cheap for twitdroid pro lol)
Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
Rhoq said:
Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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Yup, that's a def.. +1
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TweedDeck desktop is awesome. Can't beat it imo. TweedDeck for Android... another story. As someone said above, they have a long ways to go. ALTHO one think I do like, is the smoothness of the app. Thats all tho... I'm sure over time it will get better, but they have lots of catching up to do.
NovaFox238 said:
TweedDeck desktop is awesome. Can't beat it imo. TweedDeck for Android... another story. As someone said above, they have a long ways to go. ALTHO one think I do like, is the smoothness of the app. Thats all tho... I'm sure over time it will get better, but they have lots of catching up to do.
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Well said. Thats exactly how I feel. The app is really smooth and I like that it brings you back where you left off in every column, but they've got a lot of work to do. But with their apps for other platforms, I know they can do it.
What's wrong with TweetCaster?
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Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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same here!!
Not bad....
I dig it. It's not fully featured, but it is really smooth. I'll keep it to test it out for now, but I'm not getting rid of my primary twitter/fb apps. I'll keep those and reserve judgment on this app until the official release is out.
ballr4lyf said:
I dig it. It's not fully featured, but it is really smooth. I'll keep it to test it out for now, but I'm not getting rid of my primary twitter/fb apps. I'll keep those and reserve judgment on this app until the official release is out.
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Same here.
Don't complain
To all of you that complains about Tweetdeck for Android. It's still beta and not the finished application. I can assure you there is frantic activity over at Tweetdeck support, and I don't doubt that this will be a killer app
I think it kinda sucks at least right now, all the other Twitter apps I've tried are better and actually have features. And it won't stop sending Twitter notifications which I don't want as it's constant and annoying. Oh and it's ugly..haha. I'm sure it will get better though. I like Twicca myself.
effluent said:
I think it kinda sucks at least right now, all the other Twitter apps I've tried are better and actually have features. And it won't stop sending Twitter notifications which I don't want as it's constant and annoying. Oh and it's ugly..haha. I'm sure it will get better though. I like Twicca myself.
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In the app, hit Menu>>Manage Columns and turn off the notifications you dont want
TweetCaster lets you to disable all background notifications.
tweetcaster is really everyone main twitter app? over twidroyd pro and toutier?
i liking tweetdeck so far.. it is lacking some options.. but i like seeing my fb/tweets in one column. twidroyd is my fallback.
autoprime said:
tweetcaster is really everyone main twitter app? over twidroyd pro and toutier?
i liking tweetdeck so far.. it is lacking some options.. but i like seeing my fb/tweets in one column. twidroyd is my fallback.
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Thanks to whoever told me how to turn off notifications. I wasn't getting them then randomly this morning they started coming in. I just use Pure Messenger to read FB/tweets in one column and open Twicca/Facebook from Pure Messenger to post something. I like it because it's a widget. Is Tweetdeck going to put out a widget? I didn't notice one looking through my widgets.

SPB mobile shell 5.0 beta

I have it working on my Droid x its awesome. But some apps that came with it don't work. Other than that the 3d ui looks great. Runs great. Is anyone else using this app? If so what do you think of it?
This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
musashiken said:
This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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I didn't know that but I can't post links anyways. I can't wait for it to be out of beta. I might buy it.
musashiken said:
This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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Did you get the gallery app, weather page that comes with it to work?
Yeah i like the look of SPB more than Honeycomb. I hope its doesn't get bought by RIM like they did to TAT.
Its faster than ADW EX for me.
Anyone get it to work with the evo?
TheHonkey said:
Anyone get it to work with the evo?
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Did you try it and get compatibility error?
matrix2004 said:
Yeah i like the look of SPB more than Honeycomb. I hope its doesn't get bought by RIM like they did to TAT.
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I really doubt that's going to happen. SPB is a big company from what I understand (google them).
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Anyways, I did try it out, but had to remove it since I kept getting unending "Activating..." and reloading.
But my impressions while I did use it were:
3D look very cool. But not especially useful.
Instant tap and click widgets very useful and great idea.
Lack of app drawer is undesirable.
It has some cool stuff, but isn't anything "groundbreaking" imo. SPB charged consumers about $30 for this on WM and Symbian I believe, doing the same on Android would be quite insane (considering it doesn't add any huge benefits like it did for those OS). I'm curious to see what they plan to charge, and it's something I could consider using as my default launcher... but nothing truly fantastic about it imo.
I used SPB at great lengths with my Windows phones. It was a resource hog, but it still ran smooth and looked awesome.
Didn't know they were actually working on Android...cool
Yep says its not compatible with my device.
works with the epic unfortunately.....
TheHonkey said:
Yep says its not compatible with my device.
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Does it say spb loading overtop of that?
It takes forever to load on my Samsung I9000, but works well once it does. Amazingly smooth and the widgets look great. Could take some getting used to though!

LiveProfile

Has anyone tried the new LiveProfile app. They released it today for BB so its the closest thing we have to BBM. So far im loving it, its really fast! What do you guys think?
I love it!
Moving from blackberry to android had me missing all my bbm friends, but now I can talk to pretty much everyone with a smartphone lol. Awesome.
Liveprofile so fast.. but need more media sharing, group chat
I now using whatsapp, its almost like a bbm
Pingchat is better then whatsapp as you can add people via a username instead if phone number
whats the advantage of this over Ping?
Ping never really worked for me. This has a really nice UI smileys, facebook integration. Plus ping is a huge battery drain according to my friends on BB.
It's way to buggy!!!!! But it has gotten really popular
shukla said:
It's way to buggy!!!!! But it has gotten really popular
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it seemed to work so much better before they added BB users. Hopefully they continue to improve things and add new features
Works great for me but updating my profile with a pic took half a day to show up.
But the chats are fast.
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Nekromantik said:
whats the advantage of this over Ping?
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ping chat was good but 80% of the time message doesn't get pushed, i get a lot better pushing with liveprofile

[APP] Extensive Notes

So I've actually had this in the market for a few months now but never actually posted here. This was one of the first apps I created and it just sort of grew and got an assortment of features. So if anyone wants to give it a go here is the market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.flufflydelusions.app.extensive_notes&feature=search_result
If anyone finds this app too complex, do try my other app I've developed to address this issue. It has nearly all the same features though very easy to use. Here is the xda link:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/classic-notes-lite-for-android/
I like this; "So many features, it's bordering on insanity."
This was the first app to make the App of the Week feature on my site. It's still one of my favorite apps I've ever used. Definitely the best notepad I've ever seen!
http://buenojoe.com/2011/03/app-of-the-week-march-27-2011/
CyberStorm98 said:
This was the first app to make the App of the Week feature on my site. It's still one of my favorite apps I've ever used. Definitely the best notepad I've ever seen!
http://buenojoe.com/2011/03/app-of-the-week-march-27-2011/
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Awesome! I never knew about that. You should check out my other note app I am working on. Many people thought this app was too complex or the UI to difficult so I am making an app that is feature rich yet simple to use. Here is the link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078091
Dblfstr said:
I like this; "So many features, it's bordering on insanity."
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lol, glad you like it
It only does everything! Thanks for the app! Gonna try it out.
Lawliet said:
It only does everything! Thanks for the app! Gonna try it out.
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Awesome
Well said, looks really nice. Will it sync?
TnTonly said:
Well said, looks really nice. Will it sync?
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Not yet though it's planned. Just a matter of finding the time. Working on a few other things also For now however you can create backups easily via extras>backup & restore.
Pro vs. Lite?
What's the difference between the Pro and regular version?
mattloak said:
What's the difference between the Pro and regular version?
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Pro just has settings such as default sort, login screen, theme etc. No loss in functionality.
plbelanger said:
So I've actually had this in the market for a few months now but never actually posted here. This was one of the first apps I created and it just sort of grew and got an assortment of features. So if anyone wants to give it a go here is the market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.flufflydelusions.app.extensive_notes&feature=search_result
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I havent downloaded it yet... but im loving it already xD
Ima give it a test ride
Solrac_Leinad said:
I havent downloaded it yet... but im loving it already xD
Ima give it a test ride
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LOL, well hope you like it
Was the first app I bought for my new Galaxy SII. Crazy amount of features.
+1 for sync! PLEEEEEEASE!!!!
Edit: Nevermind.
Love this POWERFUL app. But love to have the following changes in the upcoming version.
1. Memorize the settings selection in Extra. E.g. "from" and "to" language for Google Translate, Currency converter.
2. Sorted list for Currency. (e.g. ANG > BHD > VEF ...etc). It's quite hard to find the currency I am looking for the current implementation.
Just downloaded it, very nice app, seems to have LOADS of functionality.
Thank you very much
Glad you guys like it. Yes still lots of work to do with it
Just downloaded this. looks awesome, will be testing it today

[Q] App Suggestions

Hey guys!
I've finally taken the plunge and done the whole ordeal to my HTC One S, installed a new rom and all. Not that i haven't done it before though.
I really enjoy that i have the freedom to choose my own apps now, that i haven't really got any bloat anymore. But on the other hand it's proven to
be a challenge to find fitting apps to fill in the gaps.
Can anyone recommend a good facebook client? i'm currently using flipster, and honestly it's decent. but i'd like something more in line with the material guidelines. there's no way i'm returning to the official facebook client.
and how about a camera app? i've searched everywhere, and it seems borderline impossible to find a camera that's lightweight, is capable of taking photos with a 16:9 aspect ratio and not be a total mess.
So what do you guys use?
Thanks in advance!
ChristianFS1 said:
Hey guys!
I've finally taken the plunge and done the whole ordeal to my HTC One S, installed a new rom and all. Not that i haven't done it before though.
I really enjoy that i have the freedom to choose my own apps now, that i haven't really got any bloat anymore. But on the other hand it's proven to
be a challenge to find fitting apps to fill in the gaps.
Can anyone recommend a good facebook client? i'm currently using flipster, and honestly it's decent. but i'd like something more in line with the material guidelines. there's no way i'm returning to the official facebook client.
and how about a camera app? i've searched everywhere, and it seems borderline impossible to find a camera that's lightweight, is capable of taking photos with a 16:9 aspect ratio and not be a total mess.
So what do you guys use?
Thanks in advance!
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I really like "A better camera". I used the unlocked version. About facebook? I DON'T USE IT
LS.xD said:
I really like "A better camera". I used the unlocked version. About facebook? I DON'T USE IT
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Thanks, i'll check it out!
yeah, that's true, but tastes vary i guess. i've also tried "fast" and others, they just didn't appeal to me.
facebook lite ?? very small
Yeah, i gave that a go, it just wasn't very pleasant. Very barebones and rough. But thanks for the suggestion!
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