FaceBook for iPhone Updated to 5.0
FaceBook app for iPhone & iPad is updated over the complaints on speed issues. The program was previously created in the HTML5 language. it has now been rewritten it in Objective-C and FaceBook Engineer’s says it should now respond to commands twice as quickly. This would encourage users to spend more time using this application. The New version is 5.0 that has brought following improvement as per facebook.
- Scrolling through news feed is faster than ever
- New Banner lets you tap to quickly see more stories. No NEED TO REFRESH
- Photo’s Open fast & close with just swipe downwards
- Instant Access to Notifications.
Speed bump
Mick Johnson, product manager at Facebook, said he did not think the company had made a mistake in using HTML5 since it had helped the firm get the product to this point.
But he added that the rewrite to “native code” should mean users would notice a difference, even though there had been only minor tweaks to the app’s look.
“We tried to look at what is the core Facebook mobile experience and eliminate the pain points,” he said.
“The three things we really focused on were opening the application, scrolling through the news feed and tapping into and viewing a photo. So we made all those things twice as fast.”
He added that the rewrite had taken more than half a year to complete, but had no information about efforts to improve its counterpart on Android.
You can Update your App via App store or Directly DOWNLOAD it from HERE
