Hey, so remember Facebook Homeonce again for the first time by bringing in all your other favorite social media accounts—you know, everything that’s not Twitter.
Facebook Home has been updated, with the new socially-enabled homescreen for Android smartphones now pulling in Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram content in addition to media from your friends list. The update, which hit the Google Play store today, helps crack open Facebook Home from its relatively insular beginnings to a more encompassing social-first platform. […]
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Facebook for Android has been updated to bring the Facebook Home cover feed over to the main app, where it can now be set as the Android lock screen. The feature, which pulls photos and posts from the user’s friends list on Facebook and cycles through them, was previously limited to the Facebook Home app, […]
You might remember Facebook Home, the Android launcher that didn’t exactly take off. Home brought a feature called Cover Feed, which is basically a user’s News Feed displayed in a much more exuberant fashion. Facebook Home is only available for a select number of smartphones, so quite a lot of Android users are not able to download it on their devices, which means that not a lot of Android users are taking advantage of this feature.
Users who update to the latest version of Facebook for Android will now be able to set Cover Feed as their Home screen. Cover Feed displays posts and photos from friends, users can pan around it to view the content. There’s a caveat though, not every Android device will be able to support Cover Feed. Only those devices that are capable of running Facebook Home support Cover Feed activation through the standalone Android app, these devices include Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, LG Nexus 4, HTC One, First, One X+ and the One X. So if you own any of these devices and like Cover Feed but want to get it without installing Facebook Home, here’s your cue.
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Facebook Home had its Android-only release in April and it’s been sort of proliferating a little bit maybe? ever since. It lives in a weird space between operating systems and apps, but it’s meant to be something you don’t over-think. So don’t think about. Just let it be a mostly successful