Facebook today announced its brand new Android Launcher called Facebook Home which will serve as a gateway to the social network’s services. The launcher is meant to replace the default skin on your Android device and hooks in with Facebook centric services. Predictably, the focus here is on sharing and keeping a track of whatever your friends are up to.
While the application itself will be receiving regular feature updates every month, Facebook has focussed on a few areas in the initial reveal. Cover Feed is a lockscreen replacement that pulls in data from Facebook and displays it directly on the lockscreen. It lets you flip through stories and double tap to like. The system should be handy to quickly browse through information while standing in a queue or similar.
Chat heads is an interesting feature wherein users can continue conversations with friends even using other applications. The chat head float above whatever you are working on and can be moved around. This component of the launcher ties in with both Facebook messenger and the SMS application on the device.
Facebook Home will launch on Google Play on April 12 for a select number of smartphones, initially - the Samsung Galaxy S4, S III and Note II and the HTC One and One X+. It appears to act as any launcher out there. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the team behind Facebook Home worked hard to make it feel better than just any other app, which means we can expect Home to work seamlessly or like a native app.
Here's Facebook Home in action -
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