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Friendcaster 5.0 is the best Facebook app for Android [App Reviews]
April 6, 2012 | by Andrew Kameka
Android App Reviews, Reviews, Social
I’m not a fan of the official Facebook Android app. I hinted at that in my review of the third party client Fast Facebook, and I have a feeling I’m not alone in that regard. If you’re someone on the fence about the official app needing a complete overhaul, there’s a good chance that the latest version of Friendcaster for Facebook will push you over the edge.
Friendcaster 5.0 does what Facebook users have wanted the official app to do: institute a new good-looking UI without making the app painfully slow in the process. The new interface is ICS-inspired with flat icons and navigation buttons, and can even apply any of six themes. The app launches to the 11 popular features accessible to Friendcaster: News Feed, Profile, Friends, Photos, Checkins, Messages, Notifications, Groups, Events, Chat, and Pages.
All these features mean nothing unless the app runs quickly and smoothly, and Friendcaster moves very quickly. The News Feed loads in fewer than 5 seconds, and users can infinitely scroll to bring up more status updates. Swiping left or right will then apply filters to the feed, bringing up only photos, links, or your Facebook lists. Members can then like a post, add a comment, hide it from the feed, or share it with others.
The improvements to Friendcaster go beyond the visual of the feed. In addition to adding a new check-in and status update interface, the app also adds:
1. Real-time notifications available for all
2. Higher resolution photos in your news feed
3. Ability to tag more than one Friend at the time in a Post
4. Memory improvements all-around.
5. Quick access to post status update or photos/video
6. Major Android design improvements
7. Lots of little things all over the place
If you want almost all the features of Facebook without the slow loading times, grab this app now.
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It’s a great app indeed, but it has lots of bugs. For example, it doesn’t see some of my friends’ photo albums, all of which show fine with the official app and even with an obscure app called “Black for Facebook”.
It’s a great app if you don’t mind some your friends missing. I would like to use it but I miss to many posts.
I have been using it since some of its early iterations. This new update is simply brilliant! Definitely the best Facebook client available!
World’s better then the official Facebook App, but still buggy. My main issue is that more often then not, after typing a message and hitting send, it just hangs on “loading” and the message never goes thru. If I hit back or close the app I lose everything I typed. After 5 days of this I just uninstalled the app.
FriendCaster is far and away better at Facebook than Facebook’s own app is… but the whole point of Facebook is to see what my friends are doing, and if FriendCaster can’t see all my friends…
Agree.. FriendCaster didn’t dhow all of my friends posting. Missing too many..
I really wish I could like it more than the official app but the official app is the only one that seems to let a person view all their friends they’re connected to including the ones with the extremely strict viewing settings, Friendcaster, like all the other 3rd party apps can’t do that.
The only draw back and why friends are missing is because they have to allow 3rd party apps to access their information. If they have it turned off in security settings then it can’t access their posts, pics and anything else. But, sometimes I will just use Dolphin Browser and go to Facebook. To see what I missed. but the fb app was a memory hog and performance was horrible.
good info, thanks! n good idea bout using browser on the side to help fix that lil issue, but why do u use dolphin browser as opposed to official browser, and as opposed to others?
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