Recent updates to the Facebook Messenger app have prompted me to uninstall it. Over the passed few days I've been looking for a quality alternative to it and most have fallen short. Many apps on the play store are chock full of ads, don't offer the same amount of features or just plain don't work anymore. I've googled and searched for hours now and I'm about ready to give up.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a good Facebook Messenger replacement? Or at least an app that is capable of integrating with Facebook Chat?
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So I am a pretty big facebook buy, i dealt with the crappy official Facebook app but now im REALLY sick of it. The Facebook Touch app is slightly better but the developers that made this app really need to wake up, even look at the iPhones facebook app. Why make the app come with the phone and get people to use it but make it a crappy app. Like almost everything redirecting to the web. Maybe even the people that made the XDA app can make a facebook app that relates to the iPhones. Im sure developers on this site could do a hell of alot better. I would even pay for it.
What do you guys think?
I would be willing to pay $10 for an Android Facebook app that matched the functionality of the iPhone Facebook app.
+1million.
I have no clue who the facebook developer team for the official app is but someone should find out and send them an email lol
Trouble is Facebook themselves made the iPhone app, hence why it is so good. I find Bloo is the best we have so far and with chat coming in the next version and a widget soon, it's already better than the 'official' android offering
Wait so the Official facebook app (the one that came on the phone) isn't made by facebook themselves?
however, i like the offical facebook app more, but it shows a photo in mobile facebook instead of showing in it's own apps ... v. sad
Yeah thats what i mean, and on the touch facebook site it doesnm't show picture comments for some reason too. This crap needs to be fixed lol
THe HTC desire being my first HTC phone I had never used the sense UI or any of its features previously, so had only had experience with the official facebook for android app from the Market.
Ive just set up facebook for htc sense with the friend stream etc and I'm rather impressed by it. Just wondered what your thoughts are on both these apps? here are mine.
Facebook for Android:
Pros
Has the chat function
Official app from facebook so gets updated (eventually) with new features, although still way behind the iphone app apparently.
Cons
Doesnt allow tagging of photos
Doesnt allow you to remove/delete a post/comment or that you have made or un-like something.
Facebook for HTC Sense
Pros
Allows tagging of photos
Allows multiple upload of photos to albums etc..
Integrates extreemely well with the rest of HTC sense UI, and the phone features such as the people app, gallery etc..
Cons
(most of these are things that I am not 100% sure on, so they are more like a question than a statement)
Not sure if the app gets updated when new features come out on facebook, or being as the app is shipped with the phone is it pretty much that what you get now is what it will always be, and no changes, or do HTC release updates for the sense features?
I dont think the check in feature is available with this?
I also dont think this app allowed you to delete a comment/post, althought I havent tried it yet, if it is possible, how is it done? Same with un-like...
What are you guys thoughts on both of these apps? Which do you prefer out of the 2?
I've been facing this same issue for past 24 hours. I needed batch upload for photos. I assumed, oficial fb app should be able to do that. Well, horse hockey. It's not even able to move photos from album to album or delete album. Before I discovered that Fb for sense is able to do that, I uploaded it via email. All in all, fb app from fb lackes many features, some even included in web version for phones (touch).
well you can always choose between the two, you dint have to just use one
persinally i think sense is amazing! (wish i had it on my sgs2)
the android fb is mediocore, so i use it mainly fir chat.
so i use the facebook mobile site mainly! it has the most info on news feed etc.
I personally still use the m.facebook.com website for facebook interaction on the phone. I found the facebook application a little too limited and clunky.
Although didn't know that it could enable FB chat, until I read the posts above...so thanks.
This way I don't get constant Facebook notifications, but get the ones that I have choosen to get through my FB settings as alerts through new emails. I use both Yahoo and Google mail applications.
I have still enabled Facebook for Sense, so that I still get the status updates, birthdays etc which then add value to my users from Google contacts...
take a look at FriendCaster
Hey guys, I tried searching but couldn't find anything at all on this. Are there any tablet optimized facebook chat apps, or instant messaging apps in general? GTalk is awesome on the tablet and I'm surprised other apps haven's followed suit by now.
I use the old facebook app before they removed tablet support which has chat.
You can try trillian for android
i saw trillian and ebuddy both work, but i'm really looking for something that takes advantage of the screen real estate and has split screen for online list and conversation
Palringo works well.
i just use the browser and the full facebook site. works pretty well
I'm using imo.im. The UI isn't very polished and it's not tablet-optimized but it supports all the IM Clients I need (including Facebook, Skype, GTalk and ICQ).
Hi,
I am making an app and I want to use Facebook chat in it. Meaning I want to enable for people can log in using Facebook and select friends and message them. I tried looking in the developers section of Facebook and couldnt find anything related to chatting. Is this not possible? Anyone have any information on this? I think its possible since apps like Go!Chat does it.
Thanks!
Don't know about GoChat but I'm personally using IMO.. Least ram usage (only 13mb) and damn battery friendly.. Hope you'll come up with something even better.. Good luck.
Do you know where I can access the Facebook api to get chat?
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to talk a little about the best info widget for android.
Organizer widget combines the notification for everything you could ask for, in a very descriptive way: Calls, Messages, Calendar, Email, Facebook, Evernote and more.
I bought this app because it deserved the money.
Yesterday i searched for it on the market and nothing.... what's happening GOOGLE, are apps i bought just dissapearing from the market without notification?
I payed for that app and Google just took it away from me, are they even allowed to do that?
Have a great day,
Daniel
dumitrudan608 said:
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to talk a little about the best info widget for android.
Organizer widget combines the notification for everything you could ask for, in a very descriptive way: Calls, Messages, Calendar, Email, Facebook, Evernote and more.
I bought this app because it deserved the money.
Yesterday i searched for it on the market and nothing.... what's happening GOOGLE, are apps i bought just dissapearing from the market without notification?
I payed for that app and Google just took it away from me, are they even allowed to do that?
Have a great day,
Daniel
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How do you know that it was Google that removed it and not the developer? And of course they would have the right to remove an app if it didn't meet the guidelines. Why would you expect them not to have this ability?
I would expect Google to be more serious and let me know if an app that I payed for is no longer available. What would you do if you bought a big screen TV, and one day the store comes and takes it away, no questions asked? once you buy an app from the app store, you have the legal right to own a copy of that app. Luckily I had a backup done only a day before, but allot of people did not.