Facebook for Android updated – now with… photos along the bottom

The rather clunky official Android Facebook app has been updated, adding in support for “Events” – and an automatically-generated icon list of recently updated photos from your friends along the bottom of the start screen.

You also now get an easier “one click” status update system, enhanced notifications and in-app video playback support. Here’s the full changelist:

An updated homescreen with:

- The ability to post a status update or search for friends with just one click

- A new photo reel that enables easy viewing of photos and videos from friends in your News Feed

- A draggable Notifications drawer where you can easily see if a friend posted a note on your wall, commented or liked a post or tagged you in a photo

- Video playback from the app. Similar to the Facebook for iPhone application, we are using the H.264 baseline profile for encoding videos

- Support for Events. You can now review your upcoming events, read your event details, and even RSVP – all from the application

- Respond to friend requests without leaving the application

And some screenshots featuring someone else’s friends and life:

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We’ve not tried it yet, as we are currently “all about” Twitter and have pretty much left Facebook for dead. Apart from when something exciting happens we want to boast to everyone we went to school with about, of course. Link via TechCrunch.

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  1. Dougster

     /  August 4, 2010

    Big Twitter fan myself but need Facbook for the girlies on their BBs.

    Still no chat in this update but I use eBuddy.

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  2. Chris

     /  August 4, 2010

    Still no photo tagging and chat…. rubish

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  3. Downloaded but then rolled back. Kept force closing. I’ll wait for the fixed version.

    Reply
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