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"Four weeks ago, Facebook launched Facebook Home, a launcher for Android that brings the social network's experience front and center.\nThe company on Thursday invited a small group of reporters to its campus to discuss Facebook Home, its successes and challenges, and what we can expect to see added to the platform in the future.\n\u201CWe\u2019re at just about 1 million downloads on Home,\u201D Facebook's Director of Mobile Engineering Cory Ondrejka told the group, a number which he says is about where Facebook wanted to be at this time. He didn't, however, share how many of those 1 million downloads were currently active users of the app. The company says that while number will be important to them in the future, right now it's focusing on the engagement level of those current active users, however many there happen to be. \n\u201CThis is the first product for us that has focused on mobile best,\u201D Ondrejka said.\nMobile best is different than Facebook\u2019s focus on \"mobile first.\" Home is the first product the company has created with an intention to make mobile better than the experience you might get elsewhere.\n\u201CWe\u2019re doing a relatively slow roll out intentionally,\u201D says Ondrejka, so Facebook can learn from early adopters, and make changes as necessary. \nFrom that slow roll out \u2013- and reviews in Google Play \u2014 Facebook has learned a bit about what people love about the launcher, and what\u2019s missing.\n\u201CWe\u2019ve spent a lot of time digging through the one star ratings,\u201D says Ondrejka. \nOndrejka says there are two major features that weren\u2019t in Home at launch that people really think the launcher needs. The first is folders, and the second is docks. Facebook has fixes to both issues in the works, with plans to release those features in future updates.\nDuring the event, we were given a quick look at what that feature will look like when it is released.\n\nAnother growth point for Facebook with Home is its \"chat heads\" feature. Users believe the feature is great for continuing a conversation, but not as useful when it comes to starting one. To help alleviate that issue, Facebook is planning to add a new buddy list from Facebook home where users can pull out a list of their friends to initiate a conversation.\n\nFacebook Home is currently only officially available on the HTC One X or One X+, Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S III, or the Galaxy Note II. The app also comes pre-loaded on the HTC First from AT&amp;T. Facebook says the app has also been sideloaded onto over 10,000 unsupported devices by industrious Android users.\nFacebook Home is currently sitting at a 2.2 star rating in Google Play.\nFacebook Home will be updated monthly starting today with primarily a bug-fixing update and is scheduled to receive another update July 11. The features shown off today will be released in the coming months.\nWhat features do you hope to see in Facebook Home in the future? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.\nThumbnail Image Courtesy Facebook; Interior Pics Mashable"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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