{"id":22,"date":"2015-06-07T23:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T23:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-10-17T22:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T22:39:01","slug":"facebook-lite-is-a-stripped-down-android-app-for-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Lite Is A Stripped Down Android App For The Developing World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fblite.jpg\" alt=\"fblite\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fblite.jpg 738w, https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fblite-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook is launching a bare-bones, low-resolution version of its Android app that works well on crummy networks or outdated phones, and burns much less data than its normal smartphone apps. It will roll out today in Asia, and come to parts of Latin America, Africa, and Europe in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Lite is designed specifically for the developing world to help the social network on-board its next billion users. Facebook Lite doesn\u2019t offer data-intensive features like videos or Nearby Friends. But if users are willing to accept that and lower-resolution image thumbnails, they can access Facebook quick, smooth, and cheap from the most remote corners of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch a quick video demo of Facebook Lite below:<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:center'><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/pshared.5min.com\/Scripts\/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&#038;width=590&#038;height=350&#038;playList=518866520'><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook is launching a bare-bones, low-resolution version of its Android app that works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=22\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readm\">Read More \u27e9 <\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}