Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced Facebook Home at an even which was scheduled in California, USA. As the name suggest, the Facebook Home is specifically released as home replacement app for Android users. In simple words, Facebook Home will act as a home launcher such as Apex Launcher, Nova Launcher or Go Launcher and will carry the sweet layout of Facebook stories.
Mark in his presentation stressed on point of releasing an app which would be people-centric and not application-centric. He also said that Facebook is not at all interested in releasing a FBOS which may or may not run on some phones. Instead, they are interested in giving pleasant experience on already existing open platform called Android. Facebook Home will initially be available for limited number of Android smartphones which include Samsung Galaxy Note 2, HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X+. The recently released HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 will soon be followed while other Android smartphone will also be able to run this in coming months.
Also, Facebook Home won’t be available on Android tablets and it might take couple of month to get it on tablets.
Facebook Home Features
Cover Feed – Facebook has completely replaced Android lockscreen with cover feed. It is aimed at giving photo centric updates from your friends and their feeds.
Chat Heads – This are tiny notification bubbles which appear on your screen once you receive any text message or Facebook message. They can be moved anywhere onto the screen.
Notification – This includes notifications from your Facebook account as well as those which are directly meant for you.
Apps – All your apps are residing under this icon. Hold your finger on your profile icon at the bottom and swipe up to open your favorite icons.