Thursday, November 6, 2014

How is that Facebook ranks the Android devices? – Pplware

About two-thirds of smartphone connected to Facebook are equivalent ” something “released in 2011 or earlier

The Facebook app is undoubtedly one of the most resource-consuming applications on smartphones. With more than 10 000 different Android devices used to access Facebook, for more than 500 million users, how the largest social network in the world of Android provides users the best experience?

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It was a post published on Facebook’s own Chris Marra (Product Manager) and Daniel Weaver (Software Engineer) reported that the Facebook classifies Android devices per “year class”.

According to published information, Chris and Daniel consider the exponential growth of Android smartphones in recent years has been amazing! With so many different devices you need to find a strategy that ensures users the best browsing experience on the social network.

“… the Android Gingerbread behaves differently Android Ice Cream Sandwich, as well as Ice Cream Sandwich has a different behavior Bean Jelly, and so on. However, the recent explosion of Android devices, and low cost prices to run Jelly Bean … means that we are dealing with (essentially) medianos.Assim equipment, to get get the best out of the equipment we decided to look more closely at the specs of the phone – RAM , CPU cores and clock speed . Based on these three specifications, we have grouped the phones in order to simplify the concept of “performance,” said Chris Marra.

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Chris Marra relates this concept designated the “year class”, ie a classification based on the year in which the device was considered a “high end” (although not considered a top of the range), has helped development teams to create a product almost the measure.

“… the Alcatel T-Pop that I bought in Mexico is in the category in 2010, despite only having been released in 2012. Overall, about two-thirds of the telephones connected to Facebook are equivalent to something released in 2011 or earlier, “says Marra.

With this classification, development teams have the Facebook trying to offer the best experience for users of Facebook, via mobile, according to the characteristics of the hardware a group of devices … but not only! According to him the product manager of Facebook, this information is also used to improve the UI, the ranking of news in the application (eg if the machine has low performance, then presents the first news of text and only after the videos) etc.

Tell us which your Android device and believes that the Facebook app has good performance in the same

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