Facebook completely overhauls Messenger on iOS to make it faster and lighter

My favorite type of app update is an update that reduces the bloat. With the new version of Messenger for iOS, Facebook's done that, and in a big way. 

Instead of shuffling some code around, the company's engineers actually rewrote Messenger from scratch, reducing its 1.7 million lines of code to a mere 360,000. 

This means the new Messenger is now a smaller download, with smaller updates, that launches faster than before. As Facebook points out, "a faster start time may not matter as much if you only open an app once or twice a day to play a game or watch a movie, but it makes a huge difference when you open an app many times a day." Read more...