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Facebook crap!

Why the heck facebook takes 100mb ram??

Because its coded very poorly. FB is like crack to most of its users, so they don't care it uses a ****-ton of resources, so FB has no reason to bother coding it efficiently. Like a ton of other apps too. As the phones get more powerful, the devs get sloppier since they don't have to optimize. Same with computers, or any electronic, so few users are going to notice it doesn't matter to lose the few who do over sloppy code when compared to the money and time it might take to write it efficiently.
It doesn't pay to pay attention to such things anymore, there are just way to many of the clueless around out-spending the discerning consumers at a break-neck pace (i.e. the success of the iPhone). Join the herd or be forever disappointed.
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yeah u r right, good point! that background detection is pretty bothering though.

Worse still is that even their mobile website is so poorly done that it sucks ever so slightly less than the app. So the only way to use Facebook reliably is with a computer. And morons were surprised when the ipo tanked!
Now ask yourself, did I really just read that? Yes you did.

Droidificator said:
Worse still is that even their mobile website is so poorly done that it sucks ever so slightly less than the app. So the only way to use Facebook reliably is with a computer. And morons were surprised when the ipo tanked!
Now ask yourself, did I really just read that? Yes you did.
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Even the web FB is slower than most sites for me. *Sigh*

Yea I'm sick of Facebook. I mostly use Google plus
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Is anyone using any third party Facebook as a replacement? Like faster book or whatever its called.
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Thinking about just using the browser instead of the app, it's so frickin bloated.

Try friendcaster
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Friendcaster is a really nice replacement, but it lacks permissions to show all the content, so often you get redirected to the browser. Facebook doesn't only create s crappy app, they also stop third party apps from making better ones :/
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brwetz said:
Is anyone using any third party Facebook as a replacement? Like faster book or whatever its called.
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Dolphin Browser with the 'Desktop Browser' Addon and Full screen mode does a Facebook just fine. I find the mobile web version a bit more sufficient than the app. Justmy opinion...
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JohnnyEpic said:
Dolphin Browser with the 'Desktop Browser' Addon and Full screen mode does a Facebook just fine. I find the mobile web version a bit more sufficient than the app. Justmy opinion...
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A little convoluted, but if it gets the photos to load every time, worth it. That's really my major gripe with the app, after you look at a few photos, they stop loading. I have to back out, force close, and clear cache to get them back.
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I am in the facebook developer programm ... I will take a look at it... I know that its really "crap" so some code modifications won't work better then another app... So there will be two options.. wait for a new one...or write a new one..
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kyrofighter said:
I am in the facebook developer programm ... I will take a look at it... I know that its really "crap" so some code modifications won't work better then another app... So there will be two options.. wait for a new one...or write a new one..
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Tell us how you really feel. With all the money and non- monetization from mobile use, you'd think it would be his... Mark Z's biggest priority after he is done shopping for Camera app developer's.
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I removed the updates and disabled the app, F IT!

Looking for an app..

Hey everyone,
Im kinda a party guy and ive been looking for an app capable to lets say : me and few of my friends attend an party and, we all take pictures on our device during the event and it auto uploads the images to a online server so later on everyone can see the album ??
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong section was unsure if to post here or Q&A...
Thanks
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Anyone ??
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]is there an option to auto upload with dropbox or picasa

I know you can this on the Google+ app

Oomike said:
]is there an option to auto upload with dropbox or picasa
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Yeah but id like that the people who takes pics at the party it gets uploaded all in the same place
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o0o Wiggy o0o said:
I know you can this on the Google+ app
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Will try
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shahkam said:
Yeah but id like that the people who takes pics at the party it gets uploaded all in the same place
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You all can upload to a same dropbox account. Dropbox would be best IMO. Just use the same sign in for all the phones. But its hassle later on if all wnt to maintain their own dropbox account.

You can choose it on Google + its a event mode
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ziaulh.ch said:
You all can upload to a same dropbox account. Dropbox would be best IMO. Just use the same sign in for all the phones. But its hassle later on if all wnt to maintain their own dropbox account.
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Yeah its not a bad solution but thanks for the suggestion
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tessut said:
You can choose it on Google + its a event mode
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Yep this is working perfect
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maybe you should make everyone autoupload to one Flickr account? I think not a lot of people use this, so problems with everyone`s private account is solved

Is it me or? Facebook app related

Since the last update the Facebook app has started to be really buggy. Did anyone else notice as well?
My gf has a Galaxy Note and the FB app on hers bugs at the same spots as mine does too. Really annoying.
Was wondering if any of yall noticed as well or if its my cell and my gfs that are messed up.

Fb's fault! The latest update id buggy.
Their devs do not care about Android!
They have released an awesome update for iOS which is fast and nice.
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Mine keeps locking up and FC'ing since the update too.

Rumors say Zuckerberg is forcing every one at Facebook to use android phones so they can see how bad the app is.

I have had to desinstal it, now i acced it via google chrome, was drainning to much juice I will wait till the android app be good enough.
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G-Bus said:
Since the last update the Facebook app has started to be really buggy. Did anyone else notice as well?
My gf has a Galaxy Note and the FB app on hers bugs at the same spots as mine does too. Really annoying.
Was wondering if any of yall noticed as well or if its my cell and my gfs that are messed up.
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They focus on the iOS app, facebook recently had their developers be required to use android phones to see how bad the app is, I'll try to find the article and link it here.
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Yeah its buggy...I uninstalled and restored a romtoolbox backup to remedy the issue.
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danny39 said:
They focus on the iOS app, facebook recently had their developers be required to use android phones to see how bad the app is, I'll try to find the article and link it here.
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That was just a rumor. Since the IOS got rebuilt they are rebuilding androids from the ground up. No eta but the facebook ceo said employees are not being forced to use android phones.
!!! Cool story bro !!!

GalaxyMaster said:
That was just a rumor. One that the ISO got rebuilt they are rebuilding androids from the ground up. No eta but the facebook ceo said employees are not being forced to use android phones.
!!! Cool story bro !!!
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Okay thanks for the clarification.
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danny39 said:
Okay thanks for the clarification.
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Found the link.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...sses-android-and-answers-questions-on-reddit/
!! Cool story bro !!!

FB has never really been very good on Android. It's actually better to use a browser than it is to use the app for FB. Pretty sad, actually.

Worked pretty good until I installed the update.
Now same as others fc a lot and freezes when browsing photos
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Well for quite a while, the Android FB app was way ahead the iOS one. Granted, wasn't crazy but was a lot better... Hopefully they come up with the new update quick because its annoying as hell.

Facebook App Center - Android developers experience

Hello guys!
I've opened this thread in order to collect some facts and issues by android developers who use the facebook app center. My experience is really bad, so I want to know if somebody had a bad experience like mine!
Please put the name of the app and after the "story".
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Fast for Facebook
My experience is really really bad, my app is ALWAYS under review.
They asked me to change the privacy policy about 5 times, descriptions, screenshots, covers... everything!
Today the worst thing is that they realized that they don't like the app, so they replied to me in this way:
"Apps that replicate facebook functionality are not permitted in app center"
Uhm, yeah? After 1 months of strange reviews? What about friendcaster? or seesmic? Why these apps are listed, but not mine? Lol?
I think I will give up on the app center, unless they will reply to my messages.

They find you as a threat because your Facebook application is much better then there's and its much faster don't give up on this at all you have my support
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raymond4 said:
They find you as a threat because your Facebook application is much better then there's and its much faster don't give up on this at all you have my support
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+1 you have full support from all xda
Don't give up! Your application is now running in my ROMs with thousands people using it!

As said before. Don't give up. Your app is great. They are just scared.
I use your app daily. Used friendcaster before but it was always buggy. Your app maybe don't have all the functions yet. But it is the best app for facebook anyway.
I have tried Facebooks official app but don't get me started....
Keep up the good work
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your app is faster, they are just jealous your app is better than theirs

raymond4 said:
They find you as a threat because your Facebook application is much better then there's and its much faster don't give up on this at all you have my support
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Thank you raymond! I will never give up on Fast, I will give up on the app center submission! I don't care if they want to obstruct this project, it's just unfair that other apps are listed but not mine!
varun.chitre15 said:
+1 you have full support from all xda
Don't give up! Your application is now running in my ROMs with thousands people using it!
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Wow! I didn't know about your ROMs! If you have any issue, please contact me!
Thank you!
orrebo said:
As said before. Don't give up. Your app is great. They are just scared.
I use your app daily. Used friendcaster before but it was always buggy. Your app maybe don't have all the functions yet. But it is the best app for facebook anyway.
I have tried Facebooks official app but don't get me started....
Keep up the good work
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Thx! I will work on this until Facebook will give up on his official crappy app

And by the way the reason why they don't accept Fast on app center is not listed in the official policy https://developers.facebook.com/policy/
( the reason: Apps that replicate facebook functionality are not permitted in app center )
Lol 2.0

taomorpheus said:
And by the way the reason why they don't accept Fast on app center is not listed in the official policy https://developers.facebook.com/policy/
( the reason: Apps that replicate facebook functionality are not permitted in app center )
Lol 2.0
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Lol...why don't you ask them then?
Force them to do that

varun.chitre15 said:
Lol...why don't you ask them then?
Force them to do that
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I have done it... but no replies for now :/

taomorpheus said:
I have done it... but no replies for now :/
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They are silently fixing their policy, what do you think :laugh:

Where can i download your app? I wanna try it. Facebook's app is full of crap! It SUCKS! TOOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOOOW!:banghead:
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evilscxfreak said:
Where can i download your app? I wanna try it. Facebook's app is full of crap! It SUCKS! TOOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOOOW!:banghead:
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Playstore?
Your app is brilliant. It lives up to its name.
Like.
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Dang! Its TOO FAST FOR FACEBOOK! Dude! I got your app, man it rocks! I'll be spreading this app, and suggest it to my friends.
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Can't find it on play store
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genusswurzel said:
Can't find it on play store
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.fastfacebook.com
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Thank you so much guys!!! :good:
Anyway I am really pissed off. They don't reply to my messages and Fast is still unlisted!!! :cyclops:
The funny thing is that I have told them in my messages that other apps that replicates facebook functions are listed in the app centre.
An example? https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/112618498804176?fb_source=appcenter https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/23723376453?fb_source=appcenter https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/getpath?fb_source=appcenter
I don't care if Fast is listed or not. We are a great community full of supporters, we don't need them.
But I don't accept unfairness. What is fair? Remove them or add the other apps unlisted. That's easy :/

Some good guy at facebook re-accepted Fast in the app center.
You can check it here https://www.facebook.com/appcenter
Finally xD

Good sir,
Ut app so fast in my rom fast fast fast
Even the function
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Facebook native for andriod

Perhaps most of you know this all ready. And honestly with Facebook you are the product cause your not a customer. However because I along with others have family on Facebook we are in a bind. Well Facebook went native and it finally works well with android. So for the others that have resisted being a user. Maybe its time to give them one more shot?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...ing-the-slow-html5-rendering-for-native-code/
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so far im very impressed with 2.0

The experience is definitely improved with the latest version.

Yup, much better.
Also, the argument that if you're not paying something "you're the product" is.... well I'll just say "dramatic." Yes you're being advertised to, and maybe your information is being used for advertising purposes, but.... most normal people don't give a crap, and it certainly doesn't hurt you.

It would be nice to actually be able to hold down on an image ave save !!
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thebobmannh said:
Yup, much better.
Also, the argument that if you're not paying something "you're the product" is.... well I'll just say "dramatic." Yes you're being advertised to, and maybe your information is being used for advertising purposes, but.... most normal people don't give a crap, and it certainly doesn't hurt you.
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I couldn't agree with you more about it hurting anyone.
Its not dramatics' its a simple fact. And that's OK that they sell my info to make money so I can have a free social media outlet.
I Apologize if this thread seems derogatory to Facebook. They seem to had missed the mark with not taking care of its "product". A vast amount of android users became disheartened of the HTML code. I wrote emails to fb explained how it seemed they were ignoring the android user.
I digress... the point of this thread was to welcome back and perhaps persuade old users to "give them one more shot" I would have never thought I'd give fb 5stars for the app! all my cool friends are on Google + and my sheep ios family are on fb.
My cool friends are all you guys on XDA!
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gotfolk said:
It would be nice to actually be able to hold down on an image ave save !!
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Thanks for pointing that out. Just noticed. Good news though. FB also released SDK files so I'm sure we will have some tweaks soon.
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It seems good only because the previous version sucked so hard.
We have low expectations for FB, and they finally exceeded them.

iElvis said:
It seems good only because the previous version sucked so hard.
We have low expectations for FB, and they finally exceeded them.
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There's no bigger burden than potential. Lol
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It is about damn time they release a good rework of this app. About. Damn. Time.
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There are some features that is not present upadate...multi select on photos thru update status
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javascript18 said:
There are some features that is not present upadate...multi select on photos thru update status
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i can do that just fine

Lol. There was no better way to accessing FB than the application. Idk how you handled that if you didint bother with the app . I've dealt with that for years, but it is much better now! Not just better, but good in itself.
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hyun18 said:
Lol. There was no better way to accessing FB than the application. Idk how you handled that if you didint bother with the app . I've dealt with that for years, but it is much better now! Not just better, but good in itself.
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I usually just used the browser and the mobile site or the Friendcaster app. The mobile FB site looked almost the same as the old app and Friendcaster works really well on a tablet. I'll definitely check out the new update though. It has to be better than before.
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