{"id":741965,"date":"2013-03-15T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=154551"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:43:21","slug":"facebook-updates-their-android-app-without-using-the-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741965","title":{"rendered":"Facebook updates their Android app\u2026 without using the Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.talkandroid.com%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F03%2FFacebook_VoIP_Voice_Calling.png&sref=rss\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152946\" alt=\"Facebook_VoIP_Voice_Calling\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Facebook_VoIP_Voice_Calling-630x393.png?resize=630%2C393\" width=\"630\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We always love updates for our apps, especially when they bring <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/144573-facebooks-native-android-app-officially-released\/\">drastic changes for the better.<\/a>\u00a0Facebook&#8217;s newest update is definitely a big change, but it&#8217;s also pretty weird. Instead of getting the prompt to update your app from the Play Store, users are beginning to see a notification from within the Facebook app itself letting you know there&#8217;s an update available. The app then updates from within itself, no Play Store required. It&#8217;s a weird approach to take, especially for a major application like Facebook. Although, with Google&#8217;s foray into the world of social networking and web integration with <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/tag\/google-plus\/\">Google Plus<\/a>, maybe we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see Facebook attempt to distance themselves from their competitor&#8217;s market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As far as the update goes, it&#8217;s actually pretty minor. It includes the ability to change profile photos from within the app, and you can now hide and mark postss as spam. It also comes with a new permission to allow the app to auto-update itself. According to Facebook&#8217;s support center, that&#8217;ll only happen over WiFi, but I&#8217;m not sure this is a direction everyone is going to be comfortable with. Anyway, we&#8217;d give you a Play Store link in the source and tell you to go download the app, but, uh&#8230; I guess that doesn&#8217;t work anymore. So let us know in the comments if your Facebook app <span style=\"color: #888888\"><del>has become self aware<\/del><\/span> updates itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhelp%2F122940794553357%2F&sref=rss\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/154551-facebook-updates-their-android-app-without-using-the-play-store\/\">Facebook updates their Android app&#8230; without using the Play Store<\/a><\/strong>\n<br \/>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/rth-YYCuY3w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always love updates for our apps, especially when they bring drastic changes for the better.\u00a0Facebook&#8217;s newest update is definitely a big change, but it&#8217;s also pretty weird. Instead of getting the prompt to update your app from the Play Store, users are beginning to see a notification from within the Facebook app itself letting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-371b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}