Facebook has pushed out an update to its iOS app. Users won't see a major redesign or many new front-facing features with native to iOS.
Facebook has released a new version of its iOS app, one that the company rebuilt from the ground up using Apple's Xcode integrated development environment (IDE).
The move to native iOS has sped up the app's performance, Facebook stated. While HTML 5 allowed the social network's devs to leverage much of the same code across iOS, Android and the mobile Web, among other things, it wasn't especially fast.
This new app is the first created without the use of Facebook's open source Three20 framework, the social networking company said. Over the years, the framework has become less relevant
the new app implements various techniques to speed things up, Facebook said. For example, it re-balances when certain tasks are performed. Tasks that require lots of computational power, such as networking activity, JSON parsing, NSManagedObject creation and saving to disk, are performed in the background.
The new app also shows previously cached content immediately.
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