While working on a recent Facebook release, we ran into a performance bottleneck in the Mojo.Format.runTextIndexer API. Performance on-device was on the order of a couple of seconds to process the content for feed items 30-50. This combined with the other tasks in the formatting and rendering cycle led to poor performance in the news [...]
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Facebook Places, Places, apps, facebook, facebook app, facebook beta
November 18th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
While Facebook is busy building apps for iOS and Android, the Palm Developer Relations Team is continuing to push the boundaries with their own webOS Facebook app. The latest update to the public Facebook app beta, version 1.4.53 brings support for Facebook Places, their location-based service that allows you to “check-in” at various locations. Places is gaining a prominent spot in the navigation menu, and as you’d expect each Places location receives its own page. The first major event we can see testing the new beta’s capabilities? Palm Developer Day NYC 2010, of course.
Source: Facebook for HP webOS; Thanks to everybody that sent this in!
apps, beta, facebook, facebook app, facebook beta, just type, webOS 2.0
October 19th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
The bleeding-edge Facebook beta client app developed by Palm today received an update to version 1.4, adding in new features to take advantage of webOS 2.0. Right now the only feature that those of us on webOS 1.4.5 can take advantage of is the Open New Card command, available at the bottom of the navigation pop-over. Tapping that bar opens a new Facebook card that duplicates the view of the source card. Additionally, a meta-tap (gesture area + screen tap) on any link within Facebook will open up in a new card.
The app notes also indicate that Just Type integration is present, as Dieter demonstrated in his 10-minute webOS 2.0 overview, though that integration is not something we’ll be able to take advantage of until webOS 2.0 and its Just Type feature is made available. Additionally, the "shake to reload" feature now has an on-off toggle in the app’s preferences, if, you know, you use your webOS phone inside a rock tumbler or something.
Via: benfysh (Twitter)
Update: That didn’t take long – the non-beta official version of the Facebook app has also received the 1.4.0 bump, bringing along all of the above-discussed features.
Thanks for the tip, Isaac!
Developing with the webOS SDK, facebook app
July 30th 2010 | Posted by Dion Almaer
When building the events scenario for the Facebook application I saw a screen that looks like this:
Two lists. One shows the events coming up, and the other birthdays forthcoming. As a Web developer I looked at this in a simple way. Literally two lists. When you click on a different command menu button, you show [...]
facebook app
July 27th 2010 | Posted by Dion Almaer
When you see a news item on your newsfeed and it has “4 comments” tagged right there, do you sometimes wish you could just see them inline? We do too. Often the conversation provides much of the entertainment around a post, and that is why we have implemented “inline comments” for you as a [...]
News Feed, Palm, apps, beta, facebook, facebook app, facebook beta
July 11th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
Attention Facebook Beta Client users: Palm’s dropped a preview image of what we can expect in a coming release: full and landscape support with selectable/filtered views of the news feed, the ability to clear all notifications at once, and other unspecified updates. Drop date is unknown, but we’re excited regardless.
Can we get a “huzzah!”?
Source: Facebook for Palm webOS, thanks to supercluver for the tip!
Developing with the webOS SDK, facebook app
June 16th 2010 | Posted by Dion Almaer
We kick into the new podcast talking about a panel that we were involved in discussing Flash and Canvas. After talking about gaming and platforms, we get to the meat of the podcast…. showing you details of the Facebook application that our developer relations team has been spending time on.
If you want to see what [...]
facebook app
June 3rd 2010 | Posted by Dion Almaer
We have a new beta of the Facebook app for you to try. This new release has a revamped photo area. Now you can view tags on photos, like photos, and add new tags yourself right from the app. Just tap.
We also have a fix for an issue with photo access. As always, the beta [...]
Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), The webOS Community, announcements, facebook app
May 7th 2010 | Posted by Fred Patton
For those of you who enjoyed the Developer Day videos uploaded earlier in the week, but were waiting for the rest to be made available, today is the day! You can now see Kevin Decker discussing development of the new Facebook app, and Kevin Hague introducing Ares fundamentals, plus more great presentations that dig deep [...]
Developing with the webOS SDK, facebook app
April 21st 2010 | Posted by Dion Almaer
f8, the Facebook developer conference, kicks off tomorrow to share platform news with the world. What better time than to share a new Facebook client for webOS users.
Some of you have hopefully been following the features in our beta channel, and now we have a new release for the official App Catalog distribution channel.
The biggest [...]