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Better Facebook App - Update 10/24

UPDATE 10/24 -
members posting here on XDA have turned me to an even better Facebook app..
Friendcaster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
All the features of stock Facebook app and then some.. theming and easier navigation, better notifications.. definitely worth checking out!
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Stumbled upon this searching the forums. I tried it out and so far so good.
"Fast for Facebook" is an app started by an XDA member and it has a couple different themes. It has most of the features the official Facebook app has but the major benefit is battery saving with background processes not running constantly.
Play Store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImFwcC5mYXN0ZmFjZWJvb2suY29tIl0.
XDA link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581371
Credit to forum member: lilchicano
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I downloaded this app many months ago but at that time many features were missing. It seems like there's been a lot of progress so I'll give it another shot. I didn't know someone from XDA made it.
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Honestly its still a little buggy
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hollywood528 said:
Honestly its still a little buggy
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Yeah I ended uninstalling after a day of use. It has made a lot of progress but still not worth replacing the original FB app.
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ZzFDKzZ said:
I downloaded this app many months ago but at that time many features were missing. It seems like there's been a lot of progress so I'll give it another shot. I didn't know someone from XDA made it.
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There has been a ton of progress to the app. I thoroughly hated it months ago but now it stands as a decent competitor to the official app. The only real thing I don't like is no push notifications, but I check FB often enough for that not to matter.
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another good fb app
ZzFDKzZ said:
Yeah I ended uninstalling after a day of use. It has made a lot of progress but still not worth replacing the original FB app.
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try flipster..i ve been using it for a while and its quite good. no frills approach to fb

I recently tried Fast and Flipster, and quickly started getting a bunch of spam email from random Yahoo email addresses, spoofed with the names of my Facebook friends.
Maybe just a coincidence, but seemed pretty fishy to me.

karthik2k2 said:
try flipster..i ve been using it for a while and its quite good. no frills approach to fb
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Nice! I just uninstall the Official FB app for Flipster. Works great reminds me of Plume for Twitter.

I've been using Friendcaster for about a month and its been solid, I like built in theme chooser.
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twinklet03s.0 said:
I've been using Friendcaster for about a month and its been solid, I like built in theme chooser.
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I've been running it for about 6 months, I guess from Gingerbread to Jellybean, and it's worked fine. I like how it shows the posts more than my computer browser.
Every once in a while it'll do something weird...but so do I
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+1 on Friendcaster! Awesome app. Thanks for turning me to this one
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[Q] Swiftkey Flow

What do you guys think of it?
http://www.swiftkey.net/introducing-swiftkey-flow

Given that I consider SwiftKey the best keyboard out there for the way I use one, I think it would be an awesome topic for the Apps section!
>>> POOF <<<<
That was amazing!
I'm looking forward to trying it out. I did sort of like Swype, but it was just to buggy, its predictions too far off the mark, and no ability to edit the user dictionary made me leave it behind long ago.

Looks neat I signed up for the beta, tried out touchpal the other day, seemed too bloated but this looks somewhat promising. Thanks for the share.
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Bump, I wish this would come out already.
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Got my email registration confirmation yesterday. It's almost here. But like others almost needs to hurry up.
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Swiftkey Flow launches tomorrow.

https://mobile.twitter.com/joebraidwood/status/276423496010190848

I got mine but I like the old delete feature of this keyboard
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tvotony said:
I got mine but I like the old delete feature of this keyboard
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How did you get yours already? Mines yet to update.
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Hey Jacob said:
How did you get yours already? Mines yet to update.
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Just do a quick Google search you will get it... I'm using one as I swipe to post..
Nothing is True.. Everything is Permitted©

Hey Jacob said:
How did you get yours already? Mines yet to update.
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They sent me the email
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Huye there are go!! http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
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I like it so far. It's pretty darn accurate.
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I agree
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I like it too I just don't like attempting to do a complete sentence because it doesn't always catch what I putting and then leaves me hanging. Lol
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Why is Flow disabled under special circumstances, such as search bars (except google search).

th3controller said:
Why is Flow disabled under special circumstances, such as search bars (except google search).
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I was wondering that myself, it's quiet annoying.
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th3controller said:
Why is Flow disabled under special circumstances, such as search bars (except google search).
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Hey Jacob said:
I was wondering that myself, it's quiet annoying.
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It is explained on their support site here:
http://support.swiftkey.net/forums/...tion-to-use-swiftkey-predictions-everywhere-i
But, basically, there are two flags that android developers can use to let a keyboard know not to supply predictions. One of them is for a field that offers its own autocorrect. SwiftKey 3 behaves the same way. You can't flow anywhere that you don't have predictions. I hope that they change this and I hope that Google/Android changes how these flags work.

Just went ahead and downloaded this. Been wanting a nice swipe app. This works really well so far. Diggin the customization ability of it too.

Sucks battery like no tomorrow, from what I can tell. CM9 here.

Next Launcher [new generation Go launcher ]

This is new generation of Go launcher
Cool Animations which you have never seen before !
Smoothness like project butter
Customizations like AOKP
BUT THIS IS STILL UNDER BETA STAGE
Hope you like it !!
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Wow, any chance this will work on tablets?
Answering my own question, clearly, this is for phones only. It isn't anywhere near optimised for tablets. Just tried on my SGT 7.7. Phones only.
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Full thread on this here ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005513

???
See attachment.
I HAVE to share your launcher to start it?!
You must be kidding.

andryyyy said:
???
See attachment.
I HAVE to share your launcher to start it?!
You must be kidding.
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+1
I shared it with myself via email just to play along...messed with it for a bit then uninstalled it on principle because of that. Typical GoDev silliness.
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Just share via gmail and then don't send the message, thats what i did.

This is not my launcher
I found this for testing and shared on xda
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Just share it with your note-app if you have installed one.
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You have to have dev permission to make threads about their apps.

XDA PREMIUM app is garbage!

When viewing a topic and hitting return arrow it closes to my home screen, not to the section I was in.
Replying to a topic 6 times out of 10 freezes it and "Unfortunately XDA Premium has stopped"
Cleared data, uninstalled and reinstalled, tried everything...
Anyone else having these issues??
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Just use the official tapatalk app... The xda app is based off that anyways...
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It's sucked for many months now. I've abandoned it for Tapatalk and all is well. There should be refunds for people who wasted money on that app, since actually fixing the problems doesn't seem to be an option.
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joe3681 said:
When viewing a topic and hitting return arrow it closes to my home screen, not to the section I was in.
Replying to a topic 6 times out of 10 freezes it and "Unfortunately XDA Premium has stopped"
Cleared data, uninstalled and reinstalled, tried everything...
Anyone else having these issues??
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Have you updated to the latest version? The latest version doesn't close when return key is pressed.
Post all complaints here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841646

Yes, I'm on the latest
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I'm using the premium app on both my N7 and my vivid without any issue...
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I get them once in a blue moon. Or if I'm on page xxx and try to go back to page one it crashes but its not a big deal to me.
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I had issues running a with certain ROMs. With my current setup I've had no issues for weeks
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Isn't the official app just a way of supporting XDA? Yeah, tapatalk is probably better because it'll be the most up to date. So buy both- one for XDA, one for yourself.

Never had a crash
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I've used this app and for a very very long time. Never have I experienced any problems. Sorry bout your bad luck
Sent from me suckas

I have issues opening links in the news section. Like if u click on a link to take u to a thread I get a force close. Not sure if anyone else is either though
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Never had a problem with it and love the feature to create shortcuts on my home page to certain threads.
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Yes, the official XDA app is just to support XDA. It's based on and maintained by Tapatalk, and XDA paid Tapatalk a little bit of coin for this. It's a service Tapatalk does, you can look it up.
By far the best thing to do is to simply run Tapatalk. If XDA is the only forum you manage (as it is for me) take the Tapatalk shortcut off your home screen. Add a shortcut, to a Tapatalk forum, then choose XDA. Now you basically have the XDA app. But it's the latest Tapatalk, it's just a shortcut to the XDA forum. Icon is better, too (yellow "xda" on brown background).
If you want to give XDA your charity, I'm sure there are better ways of doing that.

XDA App issues

Quite simply, is anyone else having issues with the app? I'm talking about the Play Store app, not through Tapatalk. Probably been almost a week it seems very goofy. Every other app on my phone works fine. Android Central works flawless (in comparison) but not XDA
Just trying to see if I'm not alone.
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Any specifics? What do you mean wonky?
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area51avenger said:
Any specifics? What do you mean wonky?
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Loads slow, getting "Unfortunately XDA has stopped working" many times when looking to open a PM. just not working correctly at all.
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No. Never got that
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Yah same here also getting force closes
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Zacedward said:
Yah same here also getting force closes
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Been happening close to a week. Online it's perfect but the app itself has just been bad.
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+1 some times it will show no topics and nothing in participated. Minor nuance however can be frustrating
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subarudroid said:
+1 some times it will show no topics and nothing in participated. Minor nuance however can be frustrating
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I agree, minor, frustrating but annoying too. Haha. My pm box has been useless today for a few hours. In the last few days it's been hit or miss. Plus content takes forever to load sometimes, even the latest posts when you open the app.
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I get a problem with the app where if I click the next page button it sometimes takes 30 seconds to register. Only been getting that for the last month or so.
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ECEXCURSION said:
I get a problem with the app where if I click the next page button it sometimes takes 30 seconds to register. Only been getting that for the last month or so.
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Try scrolling up and down the thread it will jump to the next page. Does the same to me we need a android native app for xda. I hate to say this but even FB is better nowadays.
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Xda app has always had some minor glitches ever since I used it. I found that they mostly pop up after restoring apps on a new ROM. So what I do is just uninstall it and reinstall fresh and everything works good again, mostly.
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FC's on clicking links from news posts here.
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xaey said:
Xda app has always had some minor glitches ever since I used it. I found that they mostly pop up after restoring apps on a new ROM. So what I do is just uninstall it and reinstall fresh and everything works good again, mostly.
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See I guessed the same thing and it still doesn't work for me. I nailed down too that one specific message in my PM box will FC the app. Weird. I had to go on my laptop to check and delete it. Online works perfect but the app has just been strange lately. At least for the most part the forum loads and I don't get FC issues but issues still persist.
I'm enjoying this community here so much I check often, sucks when the app is malfunctioning.

Now that you mention PM box, reminded me that mine fcs leaving it.:-\
WR
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subarudroid said:
Try scrolling up and down the thread it will jump to the next page. Does the same to me we need a android native app for xda. I hate to say this but even FB is better nowadays.
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Facebook is native.
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Its been native for.... 3 weeks I think. Works a lot better.
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For those having issues accessing their pm box, what I usually do is go to my profile the my posts and then click on a post (any). Then back out then got to pm box. Usually works. I know it's ridiculous to have to that but it's a work around. It may not work for everyone but I hardly ever have force closes that way. Just fyi.
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GRock84 said:
For those having issues accessing their pm box, what I usually do is go to my profile the my posts and then click on a post (any). Then back out then got to pm box. Usually works. I know it's ridiculous to have to that but it's a work around. It may not work for everyone but I hardly ever have force closes that way. Just fyi.
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You want odd? I deleted one pm from my profile by using my laptop since I couldn't access it through the app and now I have no issues with FC. However, I still have other issues.
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ToxicWaste said:
You want odd? I deleted one pm from my profile by using my laptop since I couldn't access it through the app and now I have no issues with FC. However, I still have other issues.
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Whoa that's stupid lol yeah I have other issues too. Like when I get a notification from the xda app I click on it and it opens the app then loads to infinity. But the pm bug is THE most annoying by far...
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