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Frost-for-Facebook
This project is undergoing a full rewrite. The latest snapshot of the old project is available at https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/tree/legacy.
While a rewrite isn't necessary to keep the project going, I wanted to take some time to learn new things, and also to support some big features:
- Views to compose. This will make things a lot more structured, and will simplify dynamic colors/themes, which I've included in my projects well before Material You.
- WebView to GeckoView. This will add support for web extensions, and provide more functionality. Admittedly, this has been a huge pain to learn, and there are things that are far easier with webviews, but I think I'm at a point where I've answered my main questions.
- Web extensions allows for actual ad blocks, and theme updates without pushing new apks
- I intend on adding notification support for friend requests, though that could have been done with the old build
The direction I'm taking Frost v4.0.0 is to simplify a lot of things, and to leverage other extensions/libraries where possible. GeckoView also makes it easier to support multi account, in case I want to extend this beyond Facebook at some point in the future.
Note Some keystores are public for the sake of automatic builds and consistent signing across devices. This means that others can build apps with the same signature. The only valid download sources are through my github releases and F-Droid.
Frost is a third party Facebook wrapper geared towards design and functionality. It contains many features, including:
- Support for multiple accounts and fast switching
- Full theming across all activities
- PIP videos
- Overlaying browser to read posts and get right back to your previous task
- Extensive notification support, with bundling, filtering, battery friendly scheduling, icons, and multi user support
- Context menu from any link via long press
- Native image viewer and downloader via long press
- Reactive based loading
- The transparency of open sourced development
Frost is the only third party Facebook app to have:
- Transparent themes and a fully customizable theme engine
- True multiuser support, along with multiuser notifications
- Fully swipable overlays
- Fully customizable tabs
Test builds can be found here.
Note that these builds occur for every commit, including unstable ones.
Typically, those merged into master are stable, and those merged into dev have been tested.
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Translations
Frost depends on translations crowdsourced by the general public. If you would like to contribute, please visit here. Note that this project heavily depends on KAU, which also needs to be translated here.
Special thanks to the following awesome people for translating significant portions of Frost!
The full activity stream for the translations can be found here