Facebook Lite as a simplified version of classic Facebook works reliably even with an unstable network. It is a freeware, lightweight, and efficient app specially designed for low-end devices or areas with poor network services, even with 2G.

It was launched in 2015 by Facebook and became the one of most growing versions of Facebook with 100 million monthly active users. India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, and the Philippines are the big users of the app. The support for multiple languages is also available for your ease.

Simple to use the app with a quick installation process offers quick access to your News feed. You can stay up to date about celebrities while following their News feed. Similar to the official app, here you have the option to upload your posts and, like or comment on other’s posts.

Flawless Connection

Facebook as one of the old social media apps is one of the best solutions to contact your local and international community. We spend our spare time reliably by just scrolling on our mobile if we have Facebook. But, around one-half of the population globally has no facility for the latest and quick network services i.e. 3G, or 4G. So, the company searched and tried to sort out the issue by introducing Facebook Lite with a lightweight, fast, and native Facebook experience.

Build Process of Facebook Lite

The proxy server used for Facebook Lite has a thin client to run on any type of Android. It can lift heavily to fetch data from Classic Facebook and transfer it to even low-end devices. The APK size does not have a product code and resources available on Android, as it is only a VM with a rendering engine for offering functionalities including reading a file, opening, a camera, creating an SQLite database, etc.

The client is in the form of a compressed UI tree and connected only with a single server for getting data. Message protocol works over TLS instead of HTTPS for exchanging compressed messages. It offers a quick way to perform reliably on a 2G network. The image servers are capable of connecting to CDN to deliver the exact-sized images.

Attractive Screen

The main screen is a little different from the official app while having the same tabs including News, Feed, Friend Requests, Messages, Videos, Notifications, Options, etc. The difference is only in the adjustment of sections i.e. Newsfeed on Facebook Lite is on the left side, but you will find it on the right side of the official app screen. The menu and search bar with the Lite version are on the top, and with the official version, they are housed at the bottom.

On the Facebook Lite screen, the text and buttons are small, but the official app has a stylish look while offering white cards over a gray background. So, the basic purpose of the Lite version is to run Facebook on a low RAM, low CPU level, and poor internet network.

Tiny-sized App

As we aforementioned, the basic purpose of launching Facebook Lite is the size of the official app which is 167MB. It is hard for low-end devices with poor network connections to run such a heavy app. So the Lite version was introduced. It is under 10MB and takes up 2.19MB of storage space on an Android device. You can download it within a few minutes even on a 2G network. The APK size is better as it reduces the data plan. The developers have made great efforts to make it a seamless app with a VM and place the product code on the server.

Controlled Image Size

The image delivery is a great consumer of data usage, so the developers have worked greatly to reduce the data usage by controlling the image size. So, the receiving of exact-size images by the client-server is from TCP instead of CDNS directly. The JPEG format is used for making the images in small size, and the delivery process is easy and quick.

Fool-proof Safety

You have a wide Privacy option to set your privacy as you like. You can lock your account only for your few friends, or set your profile About Info just for the Friends Only option. You can block anyone if you don’t want to chat via Messenger chat inbox. Facebook requires permissions, but you can avoid using your web browser to access Facebook Lite.

Low-End Devices Integration

The basic purpose of Facebook Lite was access to it via low-end devices. So, the client architecture was built based on minimum CPU level, low storage, and limited RAM capacity. Likewise, multiple other steps were taken such as heavy interactions and animations being avoided, the images and resources being selected with cache size, and memory being released when required.