App Architecture Study: Facebook

Facebook has become one of the most used platforms over the past few years. A social media platform with around 1.79 billion monthly active users, of which around 200 million are from India. With the evolution of the platform, the Facebook app has also evolved over the years. Keeping up with the latest developments in Android, Facebook has iterated over the years with designs to suit the different versions.

The current version of Facebook as of writing this article is 97.0.0.18.69, i.e, the app has had as many as 97 major iterations in the past with countless more minor updates.

Over the years, with each iteration, Facebook has evolved to give a unique user experience, with is aesthetically pleasing as well comfortable to use. Using a number of shades of blue to mark its brand, you would find that shades that clash with the eyes or with the theme as such are not used.