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Facebook To Unveil App Center, A Place For Finding Apps

Facebook recently announced its own App portal called the App Center. With the new App Center, users can now access existing apps for Android, IOS and browsers plus paid HTML5 apps. Facebook hopes to boost its platform log plus increase their income with this new App Center.

The Facebook App Center will be available in the coming months and will be accessible via a web page and iOS and Android apps. Obviously, Facebook has established several guidelines for developers to meet so that their apps can be included in the portal. One of those requirements is that the apps have to provide Facebook login features. This requirement applies to both IOS and Android apps. While free Web apps should have Facebooks Connect login platform support. Facebook also proposes a number of qualities in the apps, such as a high user rating and a good user interface.

Facebook will also offer paid HTML5 apps via App Center. Developers must know that the social network will keep about 30% of all income generated from these paid apps. The introduction of the Facebook App Center should lead to a growth in the number of mobile apps that use Facebook, whatever platform it is running on. With Facebook now almost having 1 billion active users, the introduction of the App Center will definitely appeal to them.

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