Hasta La Gadget!

This week Facebook Home has been revealed by the company as a Home Screen Replacement app for Android. This update takes on Android as a sort of cover for your Android device – any Android device – as an app available on Google Play. You’ll be able to take a peek at this app starting on April 12th and updates will be available each month afterward on-the-day each month without fail.

This app will be available to you through the Google Play app store and will be linked from the Facebook App right out of the box once it’s available. All you’ll need to go to get this app is to download it and load it. It’s just that simple.

1A. Go to your Facebook app and connect to the Google Play store with the link that pops up on the app starting April 12th.
1B. Go to Google Play and look up “Facebook Home” to grab the app (also starting April 12th.)
2. Download the app.
3. Hit your home button.
4. You’ll be asked if you want to use your regular launcher or Home – use Home!
5. You’ve got Facebook’s Home!

Facebook also has a http://www.facebook.com/home page set up that we’ll be watching like a hawk for any changes – cool beans!

Have a peek at the software through our collection of updates from today and get pumped up about our hands-on look in just a bit. Make sure you’re ready to see the Facebook Home Program as well – a set of guidelines made for those that want to work with Facebook Home right out of the box.

Have a peek at our Android Hub and the timeline below for more information as well!

Facebook Home for Android: here’s how you get it is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’re here at Facebook’s phone event, where they just announced Facebook Home, a new home screen of sorts built for Android devices. The company is going a little deeper in depth on some of the new features, one of which is a new messaging system called Chat Heads, which essentially allows you to message your Facebook friends in a new way.

Facebook Chat Heads works in any app that you’re in, so if someone messages you while you’re playing around in another app, a “chat head” will pop up in the corner, letting you know that you received a message from this friend of yours. From there you can tap on the head to reply to the message.

Facebook addresses the problems with messaging on smartphones today, including the fact messaging is treated like “just another app.” This means that you’re switching between apps, which can become really annoying. Facebook notes that you should be talking to people, not apps.

You can also move the picture around to different parts of the screen, and when you’re done with the conversation, you can toss it off the screen to get it out of your way. It looks pretty slick, and really easy to use at that.

Facebook announces Chat Heads messaging service is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week Facebook has revealed a software experience for any Android device they call “Home.” This experience is a family of apps for any Android device that’s been teased to work on not just the HTC device we’ve already been teased with, but any Android device you’ve got in your pocket right now. This system is build around people, not apps, as Zuckerberg spoke about, and is not a full re-work of Android.

With Cover Feed you’ll be seeing a selection of updates from your Friends. You’ve also got notifications as you’d have gotten before (if you’d had Facebook’s app working with notifications to Android), but here it’ll be appearing right from your Android lockscreen. This system is at it’s base a real Facebook-centric world for your Android smartphone.

With Home you’ll also have access to your normal Android apps. Your lockscreen shows you and your Facebook updates – one swipe up from your Facebook profile image and you’ve got your normal Android apps. Each of these apps load normally, using your smartphone as they normally would. One swipe back downward and you’re back to the lockscreen.

Chat Heads is a messaging system that takes on the full messaging world inside Facebook and applies the Home aesthetic. This system will be your one-stop-shop for talking to your friends on Facebook.

This is part of an ever-expanding world for Facebook on your smartphone that’ll be shown all day long here on SlashGear and through our own Android Hub – grab all the info you need there!

Facebook Home revealed: a family of apps for any Android device is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

This morning as we prepare to enter the Android-centric Facebook event, we’ve spotted no less than Ralph de la Vega himself: AT&T Mobility President and CEO. As the mobile carrier’s president steps into Building 16 at 1 Hacker Way, it essentially means a lock for a real-deal Facebook Phone coming up later today.

What we’ve heard thus far – unofficially, of course – is that there will be a Facebook-centric smartphone coming carried by AT&T with full 4G LTE data onboard. With the appearance of de la Vega, we’ve got another piece to the puzzle that is the official reveal!

UPDATE: Ralph de la Vega is the President and CEO of AT&T Mobility, not just AT&T as a whole. Also note – Qualcomm has been spotted at this event as well!

The official event begins at 10:00 AM PST – that’s less than an hour away! This event promises to be the home of not only a smartphone, but a full Facebook software experience as well. We’ll be front and center as Facebook reveals their next-generation in mobile excellence, and perhaps once and for all gives the Android world a taste of the full-function Facebook app experience iOS has had for so long!

Check the timeline below for more information on the Facebook event we’re about to jump into, and don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled in the Facebook tag portal as well! The Android Hub you’ve loved for so long is bumping wildly today too – make with the clicks!

AT&T Mobility CEO spotted at Facebook Phone event is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

It definitely is an open secret by now that Facebook has plans to roll out a new smartphone, which many has dubbed it to be the “real” Facebook phone, known as the HTC First, in addition to introducing a rich, skinned version of its Android app at tomorrow’s press event. Well, we have seen Facebook Home leaked before, and here we are faced with another decent image that might just give out some pointers unwittingly. A picture, after all, speaks a thousand words, so it is a rather lengthy story that our eyes have met up with here.

It seems that Facebook Home will take the route of minimal aesthetics, while placing plenty of emphasis on full-screen photography. There do seem to be hooks to the primary Facebook functions that are available from most menus, and the entire look seems clean and well thought out. Social networking fans with a penchant and appreciation for design would most probably like what they see tomorrow with Facebook Home, and we keep our fingers crossed that we will, too.

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