Controversial Facebook app update is part of a beta test

It was reported yesterday that Facebook is bypassing Google Play in order to prompt users to update its app on Android devices to build 141046 and other similar builds. Now it has emerged that Facebook is trying out possibly a new feature with a small pool of users before making it available to the Android community at large. A source at Facebook revealed to The Verge that only a small subset of Facebook for Android users were receiving the prompt to bump their app up to a newer version. These users were receiving incessant notifications from Facebook, letting them know that an update was ready. Once clicked, it took users directly to the Facebook app to download the update, completely bypassing Google’s Play store, the source for app updates.

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