A Facebook app using the genuine Facebook API has been released for the Android platform. Babbler is a full app offering Facebook function to Android and comes in two versions: a free, ad-supported version and a paid app without ads. The paid version of Babbler is $1.49 in the Android Market. So what can you do with Babbler? From the Babbler web site:
- see your newsfeed and your friends’ walls
- comment & like wall posts
- change your status
- write on walls
- view friends’ profiles
- view events
- browse friends’ photo albums and tagged photos
- background notifications
- background photo/video uploads
- share link from Browser or Youtube
- share photo/video from Gallery
- new UI with tabs
Since Babbler is a native Android app using the Facebook API, you never have to enter your User ID or password into the Babbler app, it gets that from Facebook.
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