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Facebook formalizes the Lite version of its Android app

The Lite version for emerging countries on Android Facebook app is now official.

In addition to supporting the Internet.org project, which aims to launch a kind of 911 web , Facebook has been working for a while on a Lite version of its Android application. In some countries (or via APK downloads) Facebook Lite was already available for some time.

Facebook Lite


What's this Lite version?

Unlike the Facebook application that you and I use every day, Facebook Lite is meant less greedy in terms resources and data. Therefore, it is particularly suited to people in emerging countries where mobile users are more likely to use Facebook on entry level phones via poorly performing mobile connections like 2G.

Facebook Lite does not therefore includes all the features of Facebook for Android app, it may seem too simple, but it uses less data and requires little bandwidth. In all, it weighs 1 MB.

Facebook Lite will first be deployed in some Asian countries, and will be the turn of Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Otherwise, for its part, Google decided to automatically reduce the search results when a user uses a mobile connection inefficient and even tests the compression of web pages.
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