Description
REALLY IMPORTANT: If you have any issue, things don't work as you expected or whatever else, please don't complain on the market since I have no way to help you out there.Tutorial: http://mikebannion.altervista.org/tutorial.html
Let's face it, when it comes to Android, whether you like the official Facebook application or not it has one major flaw: no notifications! And this is even more true when you don't use any app for Facebook at all but just the browser, and yet want to keep updated. I frankly hate this: why would you have to check for updates yourself when you could get automatically notified whenever a notification from your Facebook account arrives, just as iPhone users do?
I decided to solve this issue for my own convenience, and so this is where this app chimes in: a lightweight and fast application to get notifications from Facebook, what you decide, at the interval you decide and reported as you decide. Nothing else, just as plain and simple as effective! Choose between general notifications, private messages, friend requests, events, birthdays, pokes, online friends and lost friendships and decide how to view the notifications:
* directly in the app, with the ability to like/comment/share/reshare/RSVP;
* open it in the official Facebook app;
* open it in FriendCaster (Free or Pro) if installed;
* open it in Seesmic, if installed;
* open it in Facebook Stream for Android, if installed;
* open it in the browser (full view, Touch or WAP version);
* or just open any other app you have installed (just opening the main activity of app, no custom behaviour)
The service can be started automatically at boot if you want, and a 1x1 widget is provided as well to explicitly request new notifications should you want to. 1x1, 2x1 and 4x1 widgets are also available to show counters of unread notifications. (NOTE: the widgets will NOT work if you move the app to SD). Notifications can be received in the notifications bar and as popup dialogs (by also unlocking and/or waking the screen, if necessary). Details on all the required permissions are at the end of this page.
Other features include: newsfeed, walls, pages, groups, checkin, photo/video upload and much more!
IMPORTANT: the app only gets NEW and UNREAD notifications, meaning it won't download, for example, all the notifications you already saw before launching the app or between refreshes.
Icon set realized by Elisa! (eli.palmiotto@gmail.com)
Thanks to Matthew for the Gingerbread status bar icons!
Spanish translation realized by Luis López Moreno (lulomo18@gmail.com; www.llmgraphics.com)
Danish translation realized by Rasmus
German translation realized by Carsten Schläger (fsmcas@gmail.com; http://carstiboy.blogsport.eu)
Dutch translation realized by Elroy Tirbeni (Specially for his love: Annelies)
Portuguese translation realized by Marcio Andrade (marciozomb13 - marcioaribeiro@hotmail.com.br)
Turkish translation realized by HuS (He falls in love with Gözde <3) (wildhus@gmail.com)
Pull to refresh implemented thanks to this library: https://github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh
This application is not affiliated with Facebook. Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc.
PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED:
* android.permission.INTERNET: to get notifications from Facebook;
* android.permission.VIBRATE: for the optional vibrate functionality in notifications;
* android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: to avoid making unneeded requests if the network is unavailable;
* android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD: to unlock the lockscreen, if requested for popup notifications;
* android.permission.WAKE_LOCK: to wake the screen, if requested for popup notifications;
* android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: to save pictures associated with notifications in the SD cache (the internal cache alone may be emptied arbitrarily and as such force the app to download the picture again, wasting bandwidth)
A Google User
May 12, 2013 3:26:41 PM
Isn't working I am not being able to authorize my app.
A Google User
May 12, 2013 12:26:02 AM
Screw fb app! This app is awesome! The regular facebook app takes up 30mb of memory and won't even write to sd card. That's way too much memory. This app does write to sd and when I get a notification, I just go straight to my browser! I love it! Never downloading that crappy fb app again!
A Google User
May 11, 2013 9:04:30 AM
App down App not working for 2 days now
A Google User
May 10, 2013 3:13:06 AM
Authorize Problem Can not login or authorize the app, I love this app and this is a new problem to me
A Google User
May 7, 2013 6:09:26 PM
Great app Authorization works now great app nice features best fb app yet
A Google User
May 6, 2013 1:51:16 PM
Help I still can't authorise my app therefore I can't access any help menu. I did follow the links on your website but these gave me error messages. I always use your app but my Galaxy S4 isn't liking it. I give you a 5 for previous experience though and for any help you can provide, thanks
A Google User
May 5, 2013 7:47:04 PM
Absolutely the best! Works perfectly on my old version Android phone! I am blind and this app integrates perfectly with my TTS! I am simply amaze! this app is perfect in every way! Thank you for a job well done! I recommend this app to all low vision and blind users!
A Google User
Apr 30, 2013 3:49:32 PM
Excellent little app.. Notifications work perfectly. I have i have it trigger the web browser and the browser is faster than the original FB app anyways so it does what I need. Even works better than friend caster in fact friend caster gives mecommunication errors with Facebook sometimes but MB notifications works every time. I have tried others but always end up coming back to dependable MB notifications. It's also light on battery and uses little memory. Nice work Mike.
A Google User
Apr 27, 2013 4:46:32 AM
Replying error The only problem I have found is replying messages in the app does not seem to work.
A Google User
Apr 24, 2013 7:25:32 AM
Awesome! I can't stand the Facebook app, and this allows me to still know when I get a notification! Excellent!