Official application of facebook is much enhanced than it used to be, if only because the facility has turn out to be so omnipresent that it is more or less frequently being updated. There are Android smartphone users with older or cheaper phones, and users in locations where it is difficult to find a consistent data connection. To end that, Facebook has introduced “Facebook Lite” in the Play Store. This smaller and faster app is not offered in the US, but American readers can download it via the “APKMirror” link below:
DOWNLOAD:
The
APK is signed by Facebook. The cryptographic signature guarantees that the file
is safe and sound to install and was not tampered in any means.
Downloading the application and successive updates from APKMirror is possible from
any market and on any smartphone.
File name:
com.android.chrome-40.0.2214.89-2214089-minAPI16.apk
Version: 1.0.0.0.0
(Android 2.2+)
MD5:
48df1316724c995dd0d9032154f9c7ac
Facebook Lite is comparatively small for an application from
a most significant social net, weighing in at only a quarter of a megabyte - a vital
stat if you live in a place that can merely get 2G data access. There's a fine
reason for that too: it looks like Facebook Lite is not much extra than a
WebView wrapper for the smartphone site, plus native Android notifications.
That certainly be very helpful for someone who just desires to check in on
Facebook without loading up the admittedly heavy Chrome application, but for
most existing users it won't include any genuine functionality. Facebook Lite
does contain a few additional bells and whistles that are not accessible on the
web, like the facility to peek into your mobile contacts to see if there is any
person you have ever spoken to that is not your Facebook friend up till now.
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Add to that, a pretty long list of permissions that no small WebView app really requires. The application is well-suited with Android v2.2 and higher, which should cover more than 99% of Android devices at this point. There is one confirmable advantage of Facebook Lite: it both notifies you to new Facebook messages and permit you to operate them straightaway without requiring the Facebook Messenger application. That alone might be a adequate reason for some users to switch.