The app that never fails on any smartphone is Facebook, the most used social network in Italy, useful for exchanging messages and chatting, for sharing photos from your mobile phone and for knowing what your friends are doing at all times. Facebook for Android has always been a somewhat difficult app, even if today it is much better than in the past, however it remains very heavy on the most limited memory smartphones and, in any case, not perfect.
Just think that, according to rumors, from the official Facebook app you will no longer be able to chat in the future without the Messenger app installed, forcing users to install two heavy applications that consume a lot of battery and take up memory .
Fortunately, there are excellent alternatives to the Facebook app for Android, including some that focus entirely on lightness and speed, to improve the usability of Facebook from an Android phone .
1) Accessing Facebook from the mobile site is convenient
Without installing applications you can open Facebook from the web browser, Chrome or Dolphin.
If you do not change User Agent, the Facebook version for mobile phones opens, very light and fast.
If you choose this mode of using Facebook you will have to accept at least three serious limitations: you cannot use chat, you cannot share a photo directly but you will always have to open the web browser with a slow sharing procedure and you will not receive notifications .
UPDATE: The Facebook site on Chrome sends notifications like the app
2) Official Facebook Lite app for slower and older Android smartphones .
ast is the app that advertises itself as the lightest to use, the fastest and the smallest .
This app is really fast, you can scroll through the news, updates and photos of the home with extraordinary speed.
With just as much speed, you can share photos, videos and status updates even using a desktop widget.
The app supports notifications with the installation of a plugin and other widgets and the graphical interface can be customized with the choice of colors and themes.
Integrated into Fast you can also install Messenger Lite chat to send and receive messages.
3) Swift is the best alternative Facebook app that can be found, not only because it is free and mirrored to the official app, but also because it includes the message function.
In practice this application allows you to have Facebook and Messenger in a single light and fast application, without limitations, which also works to make Facebook calls and to use the most advanced functions, consuming much less memory.
4) Metal For Facebook and Twitter
Metal is an app to use Facebook and Twitter in a single app on Android faster and faster.
The interface is similar to the official app and also the various features and options, with better performance and more speed.
With this app you can uninstall both the Facebook and Twitter apps and save a lot of space and memory on your phone.
5) Swipe for Facebook is the best alternative app to install Facebook without an official app, even if what it deserves is above all the pro version, which costs 2 Euros.
From Swipe, there is also the handy widget to read Facebook notifications and messages on the screen.
Considering that the Facebook app occupies at least 50 MB of space, that the Messenger app occupies another 30, that the background processes consume a lot of battery, it is really worth choosing one of these alternative apps that will not occupy more than 10 MB yes memory, ideal especially on less powerful phones, but good for all those who are not satisfied with the official app.
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