Bloo - The Facebook Android App

[JohnnyLicious]

Bloo - The first native Android Facebook App.

Update:
Current Version on Market: 1.1
- Fix notifications
- Fix wall posting issues

Features:
- Real snapshot of the Feed
- View your wall, your friends wall and info
- Post to your wall or friends wall
- Contact merge to call your contacts
- View albums and upload photos
- Notifications (birthdays, events, comments)
- Events and event direction

Information how to obtain Bloo:
- Via Android Market on your Android phone (Search Bloo or Facebook)
- Online Link (view info / comments only no download)
http://www.cyrket.com/package/android.bloo

Bloo Online:
- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78356046679
- http://fbandroid.wordpress.com/


They say pictures say 1,000 words so lets get it started.

Interface:
Very Sleek and simplistic UI (User Interface) for Bloo, Facebook color-scheme,


Home page



Menu Option for Home page




Status Update:
Updating your status never been easier, just click status on the homepage and you can edit your status simple and easy.




Preferences:
Currently Bloo's preferences lacks from what users what in a facebook app, but the developer will be adding more features, so far it only supports Startup options for feed and show notifications for post / comments on your wall.




Notifications:
Probably one of the most important feature this app has and needs, So far the notifactions have been working for me on Post on my wall / Post on my status and photo comments, Still needs notifications for poke and other features. *these are push notifications also*

- Notifications for pending event invitations
- Notifications for todays birthdays
- Notifications for latest comments to your posts



The Feed:
As everyone knows the feed is a list of recent activity / post all your friends including yourself have updated on facebook. Very clean look with options just as if you were on your desktop. *NOTE* the feed is "CACHE" so you only need to load it once and check back and the pictures / text will load quickly.

- View Status updates, wall-to-wall posts, photo posts and YouTube posts
- Post to the Stream new status updates, links and new photos
- Post comments, remove your own comments or remove your own posts
- Like or Unlike posts



Menu Button for refreshing The Feed



Post Action when long pressed on a person's activity.



Comment their status / update



Green post highlighted are stuff you can edit / delete



*Continue to Next Post*

Profile / Friends:

- View your own or your friends profile wall
- View your own or your friends profile basic info (Fields are yet to be determined)
- Post to your own or your friends wall
- Auto complete search box to quickly locate a friend
- Merge a friend with your phones contact. You will be asked to choose an existing or new contact to match and decide which fields to sync





Friends list / Search



Our wonderful admin :]



Merge your facebook friend into your contacts




Photo Albums / Uploading Photos:

- View your own albums ( w/ paging)
- View your own photos inside albums (w/ paging)
- View your own or a friends photo tags, jump into their profiles by clicking on the tags
- Save your own or a friends photo to your SDCard
- Tag your own photos only. Facebook policy does not allow to tag ANY photo, so only yours.
- Upload a photo from your Gallery straight to an album



















But my upload failed / upload is still buggy



Events:
- View your own events
- Get directions to events
- Synchronize your calendar with an event — This is the only feature I am still thinking about as it makes the app REQUIRE you to have the CALENDAR app installed. Right now it is included, as I have found out that the Calendar







Conclusion of Review:

As we conclude another amazing application for the Android Platform by an amazing developer named - Dimitris Couchell.

Overrall this is a near perfect Facebook app. Has everything a hardcore facebook user would want for an mobile application. With constant updates from the developer this app will be at top performance. As new facebook applications are on the verge of being release, we'll have to sit back and keep an eye out on what the other apps have to offer.

Features that Bloo Lack / Con:
- Notifications are a bit slow
- No interval to check for notifcations / custom sound
- No Inbox (due to Facebook API)
- No Chat (due to Facebook API)
- Need option to poke friends in their profile and poke others back
- Video option upload (Babbler has this option)
- more to post later.
- Few request time errors



That's a wrap guys, hope you guys enjoy the sea of photos from this app, its amazing. Hope you guys can get a chance to try this applications before judging it.

Post your review, comments, feedback, concerns in this thread

Open Discussion:]]

- Johnny

[JohnnyLicious]

enjoy everyone =D

[LazyGenius]

damn... if i knew you doing the review already i would have said something so i could show up in your newfeed... then when you did the screenshot i would've been like, "hey theres me!"

[JohnnyLicious]

LOL @ Lazy, my bad but i did post in the other bloo thread, on my facebook and on my twitter that i was doing the review already ahah

[JohnnyLicious]

hope everyone can see the photos fine, their linked to my flickr account

and hope susan is alright if i used her photo and full name on facebook XD

[guitarfreak846]

Nice review! I'm gonna get it

[Sheraz150]

Damn Johnny your a beast! Lol, awesome review man..well done.

[LazyGenius]

thats the biggest review i have ever seen! nice job!

with other facebook apps coming out though i think we are going to see people taking sides like they did when the home replacement apps came out. remember how some ppl swore ahome was the best and others swore open home was better?(open home is better by the way)

well yea same thing here. some people are going to swear bloo is the best and others babbler. but its nice to have options.(also nice that me and johnny are on the same side lol)

[konzern]

lmao thats a long az review!! too bad i think facebook is lame

[konzern]

GREAT JOB by the way