Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by yemyat91 » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 12:13 PM UTC

Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?
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Re: Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by attheodo » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 12:47 PM UTC

Highly unlikely. How did you manage to get this screenshot if not made-up in the first place?

Re: Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by victorology » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 12:51 PM UTC

I actually prefer tabs rather than a slide out navigation. Then again, Facebook is so complex and has so many features, it would be interesting to see how they would be able to condense things into 4 or 5 tabs.

Re: Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by nwh » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 1:54 PM UTC

I can confirm this is true. The resources are in the binary.

    iOS_TabBarIcon_Messages@2x.png
    iOS_TabBarIcon_More@2x.png
    iOS_TabBarIcon_NewsFeed@2x.png
    iOS_TabBarIcon_Timeline@2x.png

http://imgur.com/a/pVyiT

There's also a bunch of weird new stuff, like QR codes linking to people's profiles. In Messenger.app there's a disabled function that lets you message people that are physically close to you as well.

Re: Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by nwh » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 1:58 PM UTC

attheodo wrote: post #2

Highly unlikely. How did you manage to get this screenshot if not made-up in the first place?

The images are in the current public Facebook.app, you can confirm this yourself.

Re: Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by yemyat91 » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 2:05 PM UTC

nwh wrote: post #5

attheodo wrote: post #2

Highly unlikely. How did you manage to get this screenshot if not made-up in the first place?

The images are in the current public Facebook.app, you can confirm this yourself.

Do you know of a way to make this appear on any Facebook iOS app?

Re: Is Facebook testing a new Tab Bar UI for its iOS app?

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Post by nwh » Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

yemyat91 wrote: post #6

nwh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The images are in the current public Facebook.app, you can confirm this yourself.

Do you know of a way to make this appear on any Facebook iOS app?

There's an internal settings package which, among other things, enables these features.