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iPhone Design Award-Winning Projects
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iPhone Design Award-Winning Projects

by Chris Dannen
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
210 pages
5h 35m
English
Apress
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Chapter 2. Facebook

Developer Name: Joe Hewitt

Development Company: Facebook

Tags: Layout; Open Source; Client App

URL: http://facebook.com

The largest social network on earth wields tremendous power on the iPhone: its technical and visual innovations are so widely used they can become an immediate part of the iPhone UI cannon. Its task is daunting: transport Facebook's entire app platform on top of an OS that is years younger than Facebook itself (see Figure 2-1).

Facebook's unique grid-like home screen, modeled after the iPhone's own.

Figure 2.1. Facebook's unique grid-like home screen, modeled after the iPhone's own.

Joe Hewitt, who developed Facebook for iPhone, has open source roots—he worked on the Netscape on Mozilla ...

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