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Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
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Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

by Chris Dannen, Christopher White
July 2011
Beginner
320 pages
6h 47m
English
Apress
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Chapter 14. Facebook UI Design

The Facebook app is one of the App Store's most unusual; it is also the most capable client on any platform for the world's largest social network. If it looks like an iPhone within an iPhone, it's because the Facebook platform is just as formidable as iOS. Figure 14-1 shows the Facebook app's iOS-like grid UI.

Facebook was the first major platform to reproduce the iOS "grid" UI inside an app.

Figure 14.1. Facebook was the first major platform to reproduce the iOS "grid" UI inside an app.

Usability Priorities

Facebook API projects should have slightly different priorities than Twitter projects. Those priorities should include the following:

  • Looking people up: Users query other users more frequently on ...

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