yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
I don't know. The previous baseline APK that I used was based on 5.x. Unfortunately, people complained that this was not compatible with Android 4.x, so I went back to using 4.x. It's a bit hard to gauge the fraction of 4.x vs 5.x users, but I have been using 4.x on my phone (same as what's posted) and I haven't noticed any real difference from the way things behaved when I was using 5.x.

Maintaining two versions would be quite a bit of effort. The class names inside the application are randomized, and they are randomized differently for each release (including 4.x and 5.x). And although I might be able to find the similarities between them and match things up, patching is still done by hand. So although it wouldn't be 2x the work, it's close to that.
[Android Apps and Games] theduke7:
8.4 smooth and fast... great work
[Android Apps and Games] Maxbmwe53:
8.4 has the new UI interface?
[Android Apps and Games] selw0nk:
How is the battery life for some people?
[Android Apps and Games] nikhil.agrawal:
Battery life is always better compared to stock Facebook. Atleast it has been for me. 8.4 is no exception.
[Android Apps and Games] selw0nk:
This is stock without the sponsored posts and other stuff ;)
[Android Apps and Games] nikhil.agrawal:
Yes I know. By stock Facebook I meant the one available on play store. I should have phrased my sentence better I guess. :p
[Android Apps and Games] zxspectrun:
Is there a way to disable all the ads that appears she you're watching a video
[Android Apps and Games] Sebacestmoi:
This mod was perfect until Oreo, now it crash more than 100x a day. Official version works great (if you can call that bag of ads great :D ).

Is it because it's based on the 4.x version ?

Still thank you a lot for the wonderful works.
[Android Apps and Games] redultra82:
Thanks for your work as always

Unfortunately pop ups to update the second I opened messenger and in the Facebook app menu :(
[Android Apps and Games] rafit5:
As i have two fb accounts i want to use both official & this app.is there any way to install both ?
[Android Apps and Games] el_easy:
Not many people really, that was me who complained twice that I couldn't install FB, because I have KitKat 4.4. I really very happy with FB bullshified right now, but I see people who use Android 5.0 Lollipop and up are not.. I don't know how many people are using KitKat 4.4 with FB bullshified right now, but I willing to upgrade to Lollipop , so you can put the FB base back to 5.x and make everybody happy, because maintaining two versions is insane ...
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Cool. I might do that. Another contributing factor is Android O - I have a sneaking suspicion that people are seeing FCs on Oreo due to the evil things that the 4.x version does to the DVM (to get around an old resource limit), which is neither relevant nor compatible with O. But, time will tell...
[Android Apps and Games] pino222:
You can use apps like appcloner or similar to do that :)
[Android Apps and Games] selw0nk:
I still have the marketplace tab in version 8.4 how do I remove it?
[Android Apps and Games] leomate:
Can i request messenger with internal stuff inlocked but with android 5.0 based version? I have much bad experiences when typing to my friend so very laggy like in slow phone meanwhile i using snap 820.
[Android Apps and Games] 60nine:
first - thanks to the OP for doing this...

would like to see a messenger lite that works on android 5.0.1 (full messenger works)

cheers
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
As i said earlier you actually don't have to produce 4.0 version separately as any 5.0+, after patching/de-bullshifing can be converted to 4.0+ using this mod's attachment fbconv-1.0.jar , you just need to upload both to let users chose.

another good reason to use 5.0+ as base is, it has better graphics, compare official app logo of both variants.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Ooh, handy. Thanks! I still need to look into integrating with that mod. But I just got home from work stuff and now it's time to sleep off the week. I will get to it when I have time.
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
Well latest version of FB won't work properly with that mod as Facebook removed messenger code with v100+ and even some more with v120+, but still give it a look as you are looking in FB codes, you can get better idea than me. btw if you are interested we can always go back to "vintage" version to get all working, as i said in my 1st post in this thread ;)

Have a sound sleep !
[Android Apps and Games] Quarsar:
Having issues on Oreo. First time, it said couldn't set up English (United Kingdom) and when I pressed English it just crashed, and now it's just a white screen.

Tried clearing data, still just a white screen.

Edit: Disconnected USB debugging and it works. Odd.

Edit 2: Back to white screen both on Messenger and Facebook.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Any ETA of new messenger and FB with Android 5.0 base ?
[Android Apps and Games] Nicole:
Never ask a Dev for ETA...

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[Android Apps and Games] EwOkie:
[MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION]

8.2 Version was responsive but using the latest version it lags on my Device

What I have noticed now with using both versions 8.2 and 8.4 , unless I have changed a setting somewhere

When ....

Clicking on a video it stays for a while trying to load even on Wifi

Clicking on Pictures on a post it freezes for a few secs then have to go back to re-open it

Also on FB Messenger (Patched) when replying to someones comment, sometimes it doesnt show
[Android Apps and Games] mahrukhsa2:
hey [MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION] great job dude.. im really pissed off the stock facebook app.. its so ****ty and laggy too.. it often hangs..

its good that someone is making some changed to optimize and make the app less crappy.. im downloading these apps.. will give feedback after using sometime.. :) but great thanks.. (Y)
[Android Apps and Games] Cherifiali:
Good app

Just Can you rename it to Facebook simpely :D
[Android Apps and Games] agueijo:
Excelent app very good job!
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
[MENTION=259309]evil[/MENTION] wombat - bro, just got a outdated app notification on 8.4
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
oh that was fast !

btw you have quoted the wrong guy :P

here you go.

[MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION]
[Android Apps and Games] lesp4ul:
Sorry for late reply. Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] raptorddd:
whats up guys. so what are the last app to work okey.? i have nougat 7.0

i used to have the patched one without messenger from @ jineshpatel30

now i use official from playstore and i would love to try this as we all know we need more battery and get rid of those ads.
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Cripes, this latest lags to hell and back on my 5X 8.0. Removed all fb apps, installed the latest LC fb and messenger lite, and fb takes maybe 30 seconds to open, and often within seconds of my exiting it says 'facebook lc has stopped/closed'
[Android Apps and Games] chabula:
Just installed it, did not use the Fb app but a link on the home screen.

But now if I start up the app I got message that I use an older version of the app.

Is this message from your app or from FB.

Second do I use also a version from messenger from you
[Android Apps and Games] kaziupal:
thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Colossus96:
features request: download videos form the app.
[Android Apps and Games] Cherifiali:
If you have xposed

Use OneTap Video Downloader for Facebook
[Android Apps and Games] rafit5:
Appcloner clone the original app. Bit i want to use both facebook lc & facebook official. :(
[Android Apps and Games] Colossus96:
Thanks mate..
[Android Apps and Games] Matteo Mazzu:
Hi! Great idea, love what you are doing! Was wondering if you could remove the orange bar that tells you are using save data mode. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Gstyle1789:
I cant download the last versión :'( any help? When i open the link it closes very fast
[Android Apps and Games] r-l:
This **** i mean , i really hate it. Still great work?
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Here, try this version. It's been tested for all of three seconds, so, no guarantees :) :fingers-crossed:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o6giytjbqx673vo/facebook-lc-v2-nostories.apk?dl=0

It should be the same as today's update, with the stories bar removed (I think / hope)...

Now I really gotta get to sleep... good night!
[Android Apps and Games] r-l:
Gonna give it a try

Edit, it seems to work, but had to rename the file. It had no extension
[Android Apps and Games] ★Michaelo★:
Btw what's the minimal supported Android version for this app?
[Android Apps and Games] albertoajuria:
It would be awesome to have one fully working on lollipop

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[Android Apps and Games] RaidenHUN:
Is it rooted? Cos I have Fb preinstalled and cant insall this app ://
[Android Apps and Games] r-l:
If Facebook is preinstalled as a system app then you have to be rooted to de-install it.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
I'm... actually not sure. I can check the manifest when I get home, but since this is a mod of the official FB app, the version requirements should be the same. I haven't changed anything that would restrict past versions.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Hmm... I remember starting these mods while I was on Kitkat (up until a few months ago) and I've migrated to Marshmallow since then. Both were fine for me. What issue are you seeing with Lollipop?

There might be two causes of installation problems:

1. Another (related) app is already installed on your phone. This refers to any app that is made *by* facebook (Messenger, Pages Manager, etc), and the problem happens due to a mismatch in the APK signing keys. The solution is to uninstall other facebook-authored apps (and replace the relevant ones with re-signed versions, found in the top post). If you are not sure what this means, that's probably not the problem.

2. You are running a ROM where Facebook is already a system app. Since my signing key is different from Facebook's, you won't be able to install my version alongside the system version. You would need to be root to uninstall the system version (and then install mine).
[Android Apps and Games] r-l:
I still got (sometimes) the movie you may like part in fb. Anyway to remove that?
[Android Apps and Games] el_easy:
Question FB Messenger got new update too?
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Nah, I haven't changed anything in Messenger. It's largely stock (but signed with my key, so that it plays nicely with the main FB mods).

I haven't seen any kind of "suggested video" crap lately, so I'd need to reproduce it in order to hide it. I've seen some custom layouts slipping in sometimes (which are going to be hard to deal with because the client deals with them generically), but luckily most of the crap uses static layouts so it's usually fairly straightforward to track them down.

Without a UI dump (and a corresponding screenshot), it's hard to know what to look for. But, I'll keep an eye out (and have my laptop nearby).
[Android Apps and Games] albertoajuria:
Your apk must be based on Facebook 5.1+ version and I was still in 5.0.2, anyway I have just upgraded to nougat and no problems[emoji122] Thanks and good work[emoji12]

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[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Aah, cool. Glad it's working. According to the manifest file, the minimum required SDK version (API level) is 21. This should correspond to Lollipop.

Hmm... I wonder how this was ever working for me back when I was on Kitkat? Do they have different packages out there for different API levels? I guess that would make sense... just never thought about that part.
[Android Apps and Games] r-l:
It doesn't happen often, but here's a screenshot
[Android Apps and Games] el_easy:
Can you make a version for Android 4.0.3+? I have Kitkat right now I can't install it, it gives me installation errors!!:crying:
[Android Apps and Games] manoy_patikan:
Tried this version and eveything is working. So neat and clean indeed! Thanks [MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION]!

Just for fun, I tried patching this with [MENTION=7414440]lorantm[/MENTION]'s pacther 100+ to be able to read messages but nah, It ddidn't work. It will load the messages 'window' but it's just blank. I guess we can't have both but it would be superb if you 2 great devs can work together to have a de-BS FB with the webview messenger.
[Android Apps and Games] JRJ442:
This is really awesome. I've bought quite a few of those wrappers and I always end up hating them because of something. This is so much nicer with just the stories and sponsored crap removed.
[Android Apps and Games] ElaJohn:
I really second this. :( I have 5.0.1 but minimum is 5.1 I'd love to use this so bad. Hope you consider it bro. [MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION]
[Android Apps and Games] Yanghbr:
I cannot uninstall Facebook on my zenfone 3, is there a way to install this app ?
[Android Apps and Games] androidlover420:
Installation took a lot of time

After opening the app my phone constantly crashes
[Android Apps and Games] phex8:
This app got battery drain same original fb app?

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[Android Apps and Games] kwanthenewbie:
Yes, it just has less crap.

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Your browser's problem. Works fine for me.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Ah yes. I got an update nag notification yesterday also. I'll grab the next official FB release whenever it drops (probably next week) and start rebasing. It looks like a (non-beta) version dropped on 9/19/17, but apkmirror lists only one variant (for Android 5.x). I'm not sure what's up with that, actually. I might start with a v5.x version this time, for Nougat / Oreo compatibility, and go from there...
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
if time permits clean up manifest also this time so that it can become initial release of path ahead.

also i don't know if you are using them or not but "compress" and "zipalign" are two commands apk modders recommends after patching to improve RAM management on device
[Android Apps and Games] pote2639:
Hey,

Just curious, but if this de-bullshiified messenger does some sort of blocking on game notification? Or it's not possible?

Getting tried of EverWing bullcrap on my messenger.
[Android Apps and Games] ViniRustAlves:
Do you plan to implement themes (like material dark, colorful, amoled) in this app? Would be a great update, since this is the best alternative client that I've knowledge.
[Android Apps and Games] Ladokoz:
Facebook pages apk is giving me a "file format not recognized" message when I try to install it. Any ideas what might be the problem?
[Android Apps and Games] chabula:
Try it again with a question, because reading the post didn't give me the answer.

What does this program do.

Less info to FB

Cleaner/faster

And second what do I need more to replace FB and Messenger, if I use this program
[Android Apps and Games] lubikem01:
mee too. I tried to wipe cache/dalvik in recovery, didn't help. After that tried again to install LC version without any problem, but the official version from play store can't.
[Android Apps and Games] deggar:
Kudos to your fine work. Using v8.4 on android 6.0 with no issues.

Is there a way to use the internal settings to change default newsfeed from Top Stories to Most Recent?

As well, notifications only appear on the icon badge. No notification bar or sound. Can I correct this in Internal Settings?
[Android Apps and Games] kos25k:
unfortunatelly xposed one touch video....doesn't work for me on Miui 8...
[Android Apps and Games] Marty_Since87:
I had a updated versionon fb then all of a sudden it reverted to it's old ui?? lol has this happen to anyone else?
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Hello. Hmmm... Sound should be unaffected.

Most Recent / Top Stories has been on my list for a bit, but I keep getting distracted. Right now I'm trying to rebase to a new base APK, and I sort of have my hands full. I wanted to try something new, which seemed simpler. So I started messing around with some jumptables, and in the process, well, I accidentally the whole news feed. Whoops! I checked out a previous working version of the mod and tried to get my stuff in using a yet different method, but then the installer on my phone glitched out and stopped installing the APK properly. So I wiped a bunch of cache stuff and now am waiting for my poor little Nexus 5 to re-run dex2oat on all my apps (Optimizing app n of 114). Then I get to bisect which change broke the feed, and start again.

Come on little MSM8794, you can do it ....!
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
O....kay.

If anyone is feeling adventurous, here is a bleeding-edge attempt at a rebase on top of a FB release from 9/21/17. This is extremely rough and has been tested for maybe all of 3 minutes after the last patch was applied. It's nearly morning (!) and I've been at this for the past 3 nights, and day job has also been keeping me very occupied. Now time for sleep, followed by hopefully a long day of biking or maybe a hiking trip to south bay. But in the meantime, here's the result so far.

Though most of the miscellaneous mods (such as follow-ups, sponsored posts, etc) have largely unchanged, I tried to do something very different with how unwanted facebook-originated posts are hidden. This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, and I'm not fully sure this even really worked. But, we will see.

If anyone is feeling super brave, here's a link. Note that this file could disappear at any time, hence partly the naming.

facebook-lc-v9.1-preview-experimental.apk

Hopefully this won't overload dropbox like last time. I normally host "latest" releases on a university server, but that seems to be out of space.

As always, good luck, and have fun! And good night.
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
Thanks ! I'll try it out.

btw if it get's overloaded i can re-upload it to AFH, given people want to try and of-course you permit.

btw you can also apply for AFH dev account it's free for XDA devs. (i applied a year ago. don't know what's exact situation now but i think it's still the same )
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Thanks! Sure, feel free to reupload if you like. Next time I have some time, I need to do some cleanup and some lightweight remaining mods (like s/not now/screw off/, etc). Plus, manifest things. So I'm not sure how long-lived this version will be, but it's a start.

The other thing is that this version is based on a release for Android 5.x (the only thing available at the time on apkmirror). So, it would be good to see if this version will run on Nougat and/or Oreo.
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
working fine on nougat. using since last 5 mins
[Android Apps and Games] deggar:
My apologies, the lack of sound and notification preview is a long standing facebook issues. Not related to your app. Just thought maybe a tweak of some of the internals settings could correct this for me. My phone is a chinese model, ulefone armor. Sometimes the notifications work but most of the time they don't. All other apps work except facebook. I've installed Push Notification Fixer but no fix.
[Android Apps and Games] BIGWORM:
I'll give the experimental a shot and report back in a day or so with typical usage.
[Android Apps and Games] kimpot04:
Can i make a feature request? Can you add dark mode/dark theme for messenger? If it's okay with you.. Thanks :D
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
Hello All,

i made some Facebook-LC versions on basis of experimental version 9.1 by evilwombat

Disclaimer : original v9.1 is experimental which also applies to my modification which means it will have all shortcomings of original mod plus there might be some more which have nothing to do with original mod by evilwombat so if you find some bugs/FCs in my modification make sure to to check them in original v9.1 also, then only report it to OP

Now coming to point :

Changes i made

1. Compressed (4.0+)

2. Zip aligned

3. Separate 5.1+ & 4.0+ versions

I also wanted to add messenger web wrapper from this mod , which was Main intention to write this post but seems FB all together removed every chance we have to enable this by clearing code entirely from v140+ and removed messenger option in side bar so even though i succeeded in injecting wrapper, there is no way we can open it in app. :( :( :sigh:

(assuming it's even possible) the only way now is [MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION] can find a way to trigger it by messenger icon on top right (instead of opening playstore), so please keep an eye for the same when you mod next apk.

anyway here are apks

5.1+

Original OP Mirror: facebook-lc-v9.1-preview-experimental

facebook-lc-v9.1-original-preview-experimental-zipalign

Edit : Find working v9.1 for 4.0+ here

[*]facebook-lc-v9.1-original-preview-experimental-4.0+ (it's not a zip file just remove .zip from file name, i was getting error on upload so i have added .zip at end, report back if it works)

EDIT : As reported by some users APKs doesn't seem to work below Android 5.1, reason being Facebook started giving only 5.1+ apks since Oficial Base v142 insted of normal both 4.0+ & 5.0+ so conversion method used doesn't seem to work with 5.1+ apks as it was ment for 5.0+ varient, still if you want to give it try go ahead and report if installs sucessfully,
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
It's not as easy as it sounds.

proper themeing requires lot and lot of testing that text & theme are contrast at every place and entry. So it's not like a switch that changes white to black. Plus Dev might need to change approach with every new versions as base code changes.

So don't put your hopes high

Saying that, if you guys are on Android 6.0+ you can try substratum themes which is specifically designed for themeing and handles this very well
[Android Apps and Games] Robert342:
Experimental version works very good. Thx.
[Android Apps and Games] Wacky2bakky:
Is there a way to install this when not being rooted? Just got myself a note 8 not too long along and the Snapdragon version doesn't have root yet
[Android Apps and Games] Robert342:
If you've got Facebook original app on system partition, try to download this mod and clone it using AppCloner or similar tool. Then try to installing.

If Facebook is not system app - Just uninstall original version and install modded one.
[Android Apps and Games] Wacky2bakky:
That worked perfectly. I always wondered how to install over system apps lol

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What's the difference between these 9.1 versions and evilwombats release?
[Android Apps and Games] EwOkie:
[MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION]

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[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
1st one same

2nd one zip-aligned which theoretically means better for memory management and no accidental memory leak
[Android Apps and Games] Wacky2bakky:
Zip-aligned mean we have to flash it? Or can we just install? I'm on non rooted note 8
[Android Apps and Games] jineshpatel30:
no no...it's done in apk. you don''t need to do anything from your end

just install it as normal apk (after uninstalling any other version of FB of-course.... this goes without saying when you use anything modded )
[Android Apps and Games] BIGWORM:
No issues with the 9.X experimental version. On the latest PA on OP3T.
[Android Apps and Games] dileivi24:
Someone tell me which one I have to install? I see many links and I do not understand what it is
[Android Apps and Games] wonsky21:
Dude, seriously? The answer is like 4 posts above yours. Is it too hard to read 5 last posts???