At the time, it was already announced by the creator of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg: on Facebook they were working hard so that their application for devices that use the Android operating system works better ... and it seems that they have found what they should do : they abandon HTML5 and switch to using native code from the Google operating system. And the results are available to users.
You can now download the new version from the Play Store in this link, and the first ones who have done it (or have been updated) confirm that the improvements are evident and that, now, the functionality and speed of the application is much greater than what it offered before. That is to say, it seems that from Facebook they have fully hit the mark.
Just yesterday in The Verge, one of the company's engineers named Philip Fung, reported that the new update would bring great performance improvements. Indicating that when opening photos or reviewing the timeline it was up to “twice as fast”And that even the start of the application was“noticeably faster”. Perhaps, in this way the development for Android ceases to be the worst of all that existed.
An arrival announced
Apart from the confirmation by Zuckerberg, already in summer a update for iOS which also began to include native code, it already let us intuit the path that Facebook was taking and, from what is shown now, Android also wanted it to be the same way.
In addition to the inclusion of the native code in the new Facebook application, which has hardly changed aesthetically, other options that were in the client for Apple devices have been added in the specific for models with Google's operating system. For example, the banner called New history and, also, they have improved internal protocols so that memory management is much better.
Therefore, we are faced with a deep draft update and, as Fung pointed out, now Facebook for Android is much more “solid”. If you have already installed the new version, have you noticed an improvement?
It goes better, but it is not so bad….