Come See Our New Home on Android - Facebook Event Livestream

Basically, facebook has creating a custom launcher for android (like nova [0]) on the google play store. You will only get full functionality in conjunction with the facebook app and messenger app. Facebook has an on-boarding process for users who already have both those apps installed on their compatible phone. The FB VP of Engineering said they are not going to refork android. They like the custom launcher implementation.

Drops on April 12th, HTC phones, Galaxy 3 & 4, mentioned as fully supported at launch. (no mention of nexus lineup)

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoils...

It's so cumbersome that I could see die-hard facebook users grow sick of facebook after using this for too long.

Alternative link: http://new.livestream.com/facebooklive/events/1980369

I'm curious about widgets. I like the deep integration they're presenting (esp. with chat) and I personally haven't found an Android launcher I truly like. I'm stuck with Nova right now and while it does what I want, it's still missing features that I want. (It is better than the other few I've tried).

However, if this replacement doesn't support some kind of widgets, I imagine it won't stick for me. I love having widget access to inboxes and gmail widget access to labels/etc.

Also: Google Now search bar is a widget and I will not give that up for the world. Hear me Facebook? No Google Now, no go!