I've done application development for both. The comments here mock Android in the typical fashion that I'm used to. The delicious part is that there is no one responding to anyone of my commentary in asking, is there something magical about iOS that makes the apps just more amazing. (The Android app has been out for 3 years and probably at least a year and a half before their seamless messaging was even being considered. It's no excuse for why the iOS FB app got messaging and Android didn't. I called out XMPP... you know... because that's the protocol that FB Chat uses. Additionally, the entire point of the seamless messaging is that it doesn't matter which protocol the communication goes over, it's all aggregated to the same place.)

Does the Facebook's app presence on an iOS device magically give it photo album support and chat support? No, that's silly.

So, all of you that continue to downvote me and aren't bothering to respond to my actual contention, I'll ask again. Why are we making fun of Android as a platform rather than indicting the developers that don't bake in the same features.

I've seen the code for a simple XMPP client in Android, and I know that it would not be hard to implement in the Facebook app. Yet it isn't. And Android gets blamed for it. The comments here are unintelligent, but then again they usually are on anything iOS/Android related.

Finally, I never ever said they suck. I'm sure their priorities are elsewhere, I just don't understand why.