Facebook Home For HTC One And The Galaxy S4 is Now Ready For Download [Play Store Link]

Whether you love or loathe Facebook Home for Android, its impact on the social networking scene cannot be denied. It’s been a hot topic ever since the Menlo Park company sent out invitations to the ‘new home on Android’ event, and today, it appears as though the launcher has been tweaked to bring official support for the HTC One. Hitherto, anybody trying to install Facebook Home on the HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4 would have been met with a "not supported" message, but while the latter appears still to be prompting users with the same pop-up, the HTC One seems to be installing without incident.

Of course, Galaxy S4 users can still install Facebook Home unofficially, and I strongly doubt the message has stopped many owners of the latest Samsung handset from trying out Home anyway.

It doesn’t appear as though Facebook has released an official update to the Home app, nor has it made any kind of announcement on any changes. But those in ownership of the HTC One should now be able to download and run Facebook Home with minimal fuss.

The general response to Home has been rather negative, with Droidsters giving it a two-star rating on average over at Google Play. But it’s important to remember that this is a brand new launcher, and lest we forget how long it took for the standard Facebook app for Android to be brought up to scratch.

One of the most significant ingredients of Facebook’s big Android push has been Chat Heads, and with that particular having been pushed out to the vast majority of Android handsets via the Facebook messenger app, its reception has been markedly better than that of Facebook Home.

Due to the closed source nature of iOS, Facebook has been limited as to how much it can offer iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users, but with the jailbreak scene as dogmatic as usual in its quest to enhance functionality, it likely won’t be too long before iDevice owners can enjoy a comparative experience.

The official download link.

Play Store

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Facebook Home to Come to The iPhone? It Might!

Bloomberg reports that Facebook is in discussions with Apple about the possibility of adding its Facebook Home interface to iPhones. Facebook Home describes itself as ‘putting your friends at the heart of your phone’, and is effectively a skin that sits on top of Android to display social feeds and messages front-and-centre, with apps taking second place. So far, however, it hasn’t wowed Android users.

 After debuting the software, called Home, for Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android operating system earlier this month, the operator of the world’s biggest social-networking service is speaking to Apple and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) about expanding to other platforms, Adam Mosseri, director of product at Menlo Park, California-based Facebook, said in an interview on Bloomberg West yesterday. The talks are ongoing and nothing has been finalised.

Personally, we can’t see Apple allowing a facebook front-end to sit in front of iOS, and Facebook doesn’t appear to be any more optimistic:

On iPhone devices, the Home software would be tailored to what Apple prefers, said Adam Mosseri, Director of Product. It could look much different than the Android version.

“It may or may not be Home,” he said. “We could also just bring some of the design values to the iOS app. That might be how it ends up. Or we could build just the lock screen. Maybe then it’s not called Home, it’s called something else.” [Source]

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