Hey everyone, the new Facebook UI is out for alpha testers! If you want to get the new Facebook UI and get all the Play Store updates once they come out, follow the steps below.
I know there are some posts that give the APK, this method allows you to get the latest updates from Facebook itself without you having to sideload the new APK everyday.
First you want to ensure that you aren’t part of a beta testing group for Facebook. If you are, head to the beta tester Google Group and click on the settings. Here, simply choose to leave the group.
Now you want to become an alpha tester, which you can do by joining this Google Group. On your internet browser, click on link to the Alpha Tester Group and then choose ‘join group’.
Ensure that the information on the popup window is correct, like your display name and email address. Choose to join this group.
Now, as part of the alpha testers group, you will be brought to a welcome page. Follow the instructions to get the new UI.
Visit this link and click Become a Tester.
Uninstall the Facebook app on your device by going into the settings of your device, then Manage applications, swipe to All, and scroll down until you find Facebook. Tap on the app and select uninstall.
Open the Play Store app in your browser and re-install Facebook by choosing Update or Install.
Turn on automatic updates, because they will be updating alpha multiple times per week.
Log into Facebook on your phone after installation.
Note: If you don’t see the new UI on your phone, you might just need to go back into the Settings and the Facebook App info page under Applications Manager, and then Clear data.
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*****EDIT 2/25/2011*****
VERY SORRY for the delay in editing this post and/or replying to the comments!
I have had some very serious family problems in the last couple months and during this, didn't renew the lease with the server i was renting. I am currently looking to buy a server (or share one with any other dev??) that i can use to run this App. It requires its own server due to the amount of requests it needs to keep thousands of users up to date with all their accounts and push messages to your devices.
I am EXTREMELY sorry that I had not been able to come on and post this, but in the last 24 hours I have received TONS of emails stating you're getting an error signing up. Thats because The server isnt responding anymore to requests, I apologize.
I will have this fixed hopefully soon and also incorporate many more social media outlets into the app that don't currently have push updates.
Again, SORRY for the delay in updating this. I hope to have a new Beta out soon.
Thanks!
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Hey Guys..
This is our first post to XDA, and we are glad to be here.
We are a new Android development team, Atomic Pineapple. We wanted to let you guys know we have an app in Beta that brings push notifications for Facebook, and Twitter (this week for twitter) for ALL versions of Android. The app is called "Pushee"
Our plans are to grow the app into a full service push notification tool, including all the most used social platforms, FB, twitter, 4square, etc. We also have plans to bring push notifications for all POP3 email for non Gmail accounts as there is currently nothing for this. All these are in the works and will be integrated into pushee in the next few weeks.
If you want to get the Beta for Pushee just go to pushee(dot)atomicpineapple(dot)com and download it. Sorry we couldn't post a link because we are new users lol.
It will be out of Beta within a week or two and on the Market with a 7 Day Free Trial, and then for sale at 1.49.
Any comments on adding services to have notifications pushed are welcome!
Thanks!
Justin,
Atomic Pineapple.
I'm going to test it right now and it seems to be awesome !
I'm loving it so far. Few things..
1) Icon, I'm sure this will get changed soon. Just checking
2) When tapping on the notification for new items for Facebook, it wanted to open my browser. I would rather have it open my Facebook app. For example, when I see I have 2 new friend requests, I would like it to go to my Friends section of the Facebook app. Possible? =D
Also, do I have to add this to my task killer for it to monitor my Facebook?
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I'm loving it so far. Few things..
1) Icon, I'm sure this will get changed soon. Just checking
2) When tapping on the notification for new items for Facebook, it wanted to open my browser. I would rather have it open my Facebook app. For example, when I see I have 2 new friend requests, I would like it to go to my Friends section of the Facebook app. Possible? =D
Also, do I have to add this to my task killer for it to monitor my Facebook?
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Not sur but i think you must add this to your Task Killer
Waiting for the twitter option !
Looks great so far! One question, when we say "yes" when application asks for "exit?", are we gonna receive notifications?
And one addition, charset seems not "utf", or whatever (im new in android world), when we have non-english characters in the account name, it appears as a "□".
I just installed it, so im still waiting to see if i get a notification within 60 minutes (logged on gf's account and posted on one of my own comments)..
Bug/problem ->
Since i have an x10 mini pro, i have a small display - it is really hard to setup Pushee on this phone, as text is cluttered all over the screen, and email input is behind 'explanation text' etc.
Besides that, because of the MANY MANY permissions pushee needs, it was almost impossible (i got lucky) to press 'accept' to those permissions on facebook popup.
I've set facebook to 'never' update - i assume that is correct? As the Pushee servers will do the checking.
- If this app works & it enters the facebook app instead of the browser - then i'll definatly buy it - Even though 1.49$ seems like a bit much for a 'notification application'..
This app looked really promising.. but..
After a few hours, spamming myself with notifications and messages on facebook - I still didn't get any on the phone.
Installation/Configuration text is all messed up, and its hard to configure on an x10 mini pro.
Tried reinstalling - Cant create an account with the same email - Fair enough... But i cannot login to an existing account, the button simply doesn't work.
Sure this is a beta, and not alpha?
Yes! Finally we have Push notifications for Facebook AND Twitter After the new facebook update, you might have noticed you are forced to have your facebook sync every 5, 10, 30 etc. minutes? Yeah, drove me insane too. Well there is now a fix. This is not my software. But it WORKS! and thats all that matters right? Make sure you check the "Unknown Sources" tab in Settings -> Application BEFORE you download to allow you to install this app. Browse this link below on your andorid device, download the small .APK, and install. Simple as that. Let me know if it works for you! Also, follow me on twitter @rosenbachera
http://pushee.atomicpineapple.com/
Cheers!
-Arturas
interesting
The title says it all, this is the latest version of Hangouts which comes with some nifty new features. You can find a changelog in this Google+ post:
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12gjtzbjp2yt5mgj04chbax4xrxurtazoc0k
Download the app here:
com.google.android.talk-2.1.075 (1123407-30).apk - Dev Host
com.google.android.talk-2.1.075 (1123407-30).apk - Android File Host
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We must change the apk or just install it?
All you need to do is navigate to the downloaded apk and click it to install it. It will install over the previous version.
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I just installed it, thanks. Now Im looking for the new options.
!! All users who are NOT on Google+ be CAREFUL!
!! All users who are NOT on Google+ be CAREFUL!
This latest version removes the possibility to send pictures via Hangouts if you are not a Google+ member. Prior to this version this was always possible via using the "share" button in e.g. the Gallery app and then selecting to share to Hangouts. Google completely blocked this possibility now unless you join Google+. This means this is now a text-only app for everyone who does not want to join Google+.
Unfortunately I realized this too late; will most likely revert to an older version; which is a pity since a lot of aspects in this new version have improved.
If anyone can create an Xposed module which enables non-Google+ users to post pictures within Hangouts again, you would be my hero.
Google is not doing themselves a favor with this.
Why not just create a Google+ account? You don't even need to use it or put any real information in it.
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is there anyway to block SMS from certain people using hangouts? i haven't mixed sms and hangouts because of the lack of possibility to block SMS from certain people...
I don't think there integrated a blacklist feature into Hangouts yet.
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timmaaa said:
Why not just create a Google+ account? You don't even need to use it or put any real information in it.
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This. I get why people don't want to USE Google+ accounts, but you already have a Google account obviously. Just enable Google+, lock everything down, and voila.
Exactly.
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Another awesome feature of the newest update:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...ay-into-hangouts-for-android-with-2-1-update/
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love hangouts
GREAAAAAT i love using hangouts instead the standar msg apps thanks bro
How to send messages on Facebook without installing the messenger app in Android
Facebook, recently decided to undertake this fairly unpopular practice – while the former decoupled the check-in feature to a whole new app, called Swarm, the latter decided that its users shouldn't be able to chat from the main Facebook app anymore, but make use of the chat head-wielding Messenger instead. The latter has been allegedly gaining market share in favor of its messenger rivals, but isn't forcing it to users the main reason behind this?
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Well, forced things are never highly looked upon and quite a lot of users have expressed their utter displeasure with Facebook for taking the messages away from the main app. If you're one of the distressed Facebook users, rejoice, as a workaround exists that will allow not Messenger, but your main Facebook app to handle your messages. Of course, you can always go to the mobile version of Facebook and access your messages from there, but a lot of users probably prefer to delve into one of the most popular social networks through the dedicated app.
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We'll show you the ropes on how to do this, but you should have in mind that this method only works for some users. Facebook will surely find another way to force Messenger upon them in the foreseeable future, but for the time being, at least some of the users of the social network get to do things their way.
So here it goes with the method 1.)
A quick guide for those who want to use Facebook messages without downloading facebook messenger.
Step 1
Uninstall Facebook messenger (if you have it installed)
Step 2
Make sure you have Unknown sources enabled from device settings
Step 3
Install the attached apk (hello world application) or create a new (empty) android project with the package name com.facebook.orca
As long as the only validation that the facebook app does is checking to find if an app with package name com.facebook.orca is installed on the phone this should work
Thanks to @nemoc 23 For his guide
I'll attach the Messenger.apk in the attachment too.you can download from there too
Method 2.) [For Non-Rooted Device]
Make sure you have Facebook official app already installed in your smartphone (no need to root), and if the Facebook app is not allowing you to chat with your friends, then try to download the Facebook messenger initially from Google play store, here is the tricky part, before completing the download (100%) cancel the downloading of Facebook messenger (make sure it’s not installing) and yeah, you are ready to use the official Facebook app again to chat with your friends, give a try and tell us if it’s working for you or not!
Method 3).[For rooted device]
STEP 1: Download the official Facebook Messenger App from Play Store.
STEP 2: Download “TITANIUM BACKUP” or “DISABLE APPLICATION” App from Play Store
STEP 3: Open Titanium Backup and give it ROOT privileges. Scroll down to Messenger App
STEP 4: Select the Messenger App which will result in a dialog box to open up. Hit the “FREEZE” button which will freeze the application eventually.
STEP 5: Once the app is freezed it will be highlighted in blue tint color.
STEP 6: Now open the Facebook App and go to the Messages section of it.
STEP 7: Choose the person you want to chat with and you are good to go!
Enjoy the freedom until it lasts! Feel free to let us know if there are any other method and we will update this post with those methods too!
Thanks mate for sharing these methods. It is really helpful but anyway I prefer to use messenger since it has more features
Thanks For sharing all the methods man
The messenger.apk really worked well :good:
Works as advertised! Cheers mate.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2938742
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Very good a very needy one too
I cant update instagram cross platform messaging feature and the option of that is not showing in my account please help
Pre-requisites:
The latest version of Facebook and Instagram app
Working internet connectivity
Open your Instagram app, head to Settings and then tap on Update Messaging.
On the next screen tap on the Update button and link your Facebook account with Instagram.
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Pre-requisites:
The latest version of Facebook and Instagram app
Working internet connectivity
Open your Instagram app, head to Settings and then tap on Update Messaging.
On the next screen tap on the Update button and link your Facebook account with Instagram.
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There is no update messaging option available.
But mu facebook and instagram os linked
Launch the app on your device.
Tap your Profile.
Select the Menu button.
Go to Settings.
Navigate to Privacy.
Now, tap Messages.
From here, you can edit how you want to receive your messages.