Comments on: Facebook Does the Right Thing in New Android Update, Removes Pesky Camera and Messenger Shortcuts

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:45:00 +0000

People still use and/or worry about what is in their App Drawer? I hardly ever even open my App Drawer since I started using Folder Organizer and CircleLauncher to access the over 500 apps installed on each of my Android devices.

By: Harold Williams

Harold Williams — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:24:00 +0000

Come on, they can’t even fix the fact that opening a notification from the android drop down doesn’t clear the new notification in Facebook itself. Drives me bonkers.

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By: Karl Monson

Karl Monson — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:02:00 +0000

It made no sense to have icons for apps that already have the same functionality as apps that are built into the android OS

By: mikeym0p

mikeym0p — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:36:00 +0000

I liked the app shortcuts, I could do without the duplicate messenger icon as I have facebook messenger installed. But I thought the camera shortcut was a good idea. I mean, is it really hard to differentiate the icons? We use visual cues, it’s not like you have to differentiate using only the text under the icon. Facebook should just make it an option to have the icons.

By: Conner Brown

Conner Brown — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:45:00 +0000

I actually liked the added convenience. Since I have ICS, I was able to put the FB camera icon in my “Social” folder and leave the normal camera on my homescreen. See what proper organization (on top of being able to tell two icons apart) can do? Anyway, I don’t get why people were all pissy. The FB camera app is good at what it does. Oh well.

By: rocketdaddy

rocketdaddy — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

I deleted Facebook from my mobile devices when the new shortcuts appeared. Odly, I haven’t missed it so I doubt it’ll get put back.

By: Jwhap

Jwhap — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:45:00 +0000

I think they should do what every other app does. Create widgets. If you want to us the widget you can but keep it out of the app drawer…..except then it clutters the widget drawer….but just assuming people want extra app icons. Sometimes I think about hiding a few of mine!

By: Caleb Martin

Caleb Martin — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:38:00 +0000

It’s nice that they actually listened to feedback for once instead of just doing whatever they wanted; however, I really liked the Messenger icon because it was annoying having to wait for the app to load when I just want to quickly check my messages. But I guess there is still the Messenger app for that…

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:58:00 +0000

lame. i actually liked the camera shortcut.

By: Sean Bello

Sean Bello — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:38:00 +0000

now if they could just make it faster and make notifications reliable…

By: fvqu

fvqu — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:32:00 +0000

I’m glad I don’t use the official facebook app anymore.

By: Q

Sat, 05 May 2012 19:43:00 +0000

They should just make the camera app a widget.

By: Inquizitor

Inquizitor — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:10:00 +0000

Woo, my first D-L tip!

Now for a relevant comment: I never had much of a problem with the shortcuts, especially since Google Maps has way more of them than the two facebook made. Honestly the Camera one was superfluous, but I had high hopes for the Messenger one. If they had better integrated Messenger notifications in the main app, I was hoping the shortcut and new features in the main app would have made the separate Messenger app unnecessary. It’s been a while, and they really need to combine those two apps already.

By: D.B.Evans

D.B.Evans — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:59:00 +0000

It defaults to the camera; but you can still upload from your gallery. From the camera, click the grid icon, then select gallery.

Would be better to let the user select what they want to have as the default. Hopefully enough people will complain that FB will relent on that as well and allow a user preference in settings.