Material Deseign Elements Added By Facebook To its Andriod App

After quite a few months since Google first unveiled its Material Design guidelines, Facebook has decided to follow them somewhat. The world’s biggest social network is now testing a slightly enhanced look for its Android app, one that has been infused with a few Material Design elements.

As you can see, a big blue floating action button is present. Once you tap that a few options show up, which were previously available to you through a floating blue bar at the bottom of the screen. This bundled the “Take a photo” and “Upload a photo” items together, while “Where I am” used to be known as “Check in”. The old “Status” option from the floating bar is now replaced with “Write a post”.

The About screen tells us that this is version 28 of the app. You probably have 27 now, but even if you are on 28 you may not see the new UI. Facebook routinely tests many small improvements such as these, and sometimes they appear to some users and not to others – because, more often than not, such things are switched on at the server level. Still, if you participate in Facebook’s beta testing program for Android, you may have a few more chances of getting lucky and seeing this new design. However, that doesn’t mean it will ever be rolled out to all Facebook for Android installs out there.

And if Facebook really wants to adhere to Material Design guidelines, it shouldn’t forget to enable the tinting of the Android status bar in Lollipop.

New Galaxy S6 Video promises Faster Performance

The second video posted  in the #TheNextGalaxy series is out and it's as vague as ever, but what is interestine is that it seems to promise fast performance ("The faster I am, the more that gets done") and long battery life ("And the more time I can give to others"). For me we will be happy because that is what most users nowadays wants most in thier smartphones.

The previous  S6 teaser video focused on the camera and changed the profile pic of the Samsung Mobile account to the outline of a camera module. This new video brings a different sigil – a lightning bolt. You could argue this is "lightning fast" and connect it to the chipset performance – Samsung's own Exynos 7420 according to rumors. Another way to read this is wireless charging, we've heard talk that the Galaxy S6 will have only a 2,600mAh batteryand use wireless charging to offset the small-ish capacity.

The new flagship will be officially unveiled at the beginning of March at the MWC in Barcelona, but that's not for two more weeks. We should see several other teaser videos until then.

Lg Nexus 5 Running Andriod 5.1

Android 5.1 got an odd half official introduction a couple of weeks ago, when Google let slip that some new Android One handsets were running this version from day one. Today the software giant took its low-cost phone initiative to the Philippines, and sure enough the devices launched there run Android 5.1 too.