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By my understanding, only the HTC First will have Facebook's lock screen. Without that, Home is just another Launcher. The upside of HTC First: will be the fir
by radley 14y ago
By my understanding, only the HTC First will have Facebook's lock screen. Without that, Home is just another Launcher.
The upside of HTC First: will be the first HTC device to have native Android UI - if you turn off Home.
- Zigurd 14y agoThat is probably correct. There is no kosher way to replace a lock screen if you are not the OEM (or have rooted). Home is more than another launcher, though. In some ways it defines a new class of application software for Android - a cooperating suite of apps, with a coordinated set of interfaces.
- codesuela 14y agoI would not say rooting your phone is not kosher. A little inconvinient maybe but nowadays you don't have to be a hacker to unlock your phone. Every tech literate person should be able to do this (as annectodatly wittnessed by me, a couple of my friends flash CW when purchasing a non Nexus Android and they aren't software devs)
- Zigurd 14y agoI should be more specific since there are plenty of apps, even on Google Play, that outright require you to root your phone. There is no way for an app that expects to be installed normally, using the normal system of permissions, to change out the lock screen. In practical terms, Facebook could not insist their users root their phones. For some debugging tools, that's much less of a problem. There are "pseudo lock screens" but those are very hacky.
- bsimpson 14y agoI believe Facebook has OEM support from both Samsung and HTC. That's why they're launch partners.
- fpgeek 14y ago> The upside of HTC First: will be the first HTC device to have native Android UI - if you turn off Home. How soon we forget. HTC did make a little phone called the Nexus One. Prior to that they also made the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream. That being said, I don't know if the HTC First will really have a native Android UI underneath. It could just as easily be "Sense themed to look AOSP" like the (US) T-Mobile G2. That probably depends on how much Facebook cares about what's underneath. Edit: Apparently HTC's OpenSense SDK includes lock screen APIs (see http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/opensense-sdk/lock-screen/lock-sample-code/ http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/opensense-sdk/lock-screen/lo... ). That seems like another argument for a Sense-derivative.
- radley 14y agoGot one - it's bare bones Android OS.