Facebook

The application iOS Facebook [App Store Link - Free] is one of the most downloaded applications on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The reason is simple, a lot of customers are on the social network, so they want to have permanent access for the influx of the latest articles posted to their friends or those pages to which they adhere. However, a reproach returns consistently on the application: it is slow! Both Wi-Fi in 3G, it's hard to load content that is timely or improved since the last update. This is due to the way Facebook load its data.

Indeed, it turns out that the content displayed is from a web page coded in HTML5. The social network Mark Zuckerberg explains this choice to support all platforms without code for this and that phone every time. Therefore, the application does not take advantage of Apple's operating system. Thus, according to two Facebook engineers, a new update coming this summer (within a month) and will be much faster than the current version. Why? Simply because it is coded mostly in Objective-C, the language used by many developers iOS. Design meanwhile remain almost identical. Only the speed will take a hit. According to preliminary tests, the loading of data between the public version of today and is developing radical.

Coming this summer so if all goes as planned.