As we reported this morning, Google (
) is expecting a flood of new Android-powered phones to hit the market this year. With more handsets being used by more people, the opportunity to develop applications for Android (
) will become increasingly attractive. And in another twist today, we have what appears to be the first application that uses Facebook Connect on Android. Although we don’t yet have an official announcement from Facebook () or Google, Playfish’s popular game Who Has the Biggest Brian? has been ported to Android, allowing “Android fans … to play together with their Facebook friends anytime, anywhere.”
As the blog PocketGamer speculates, “that presumably means that the Android game uses the same Facebook Connect technology as the iPhone version - which as far as we’re aware is the first implementation of Facebook Connect in an Android game or application.”
Facebook Connect for iPhone launched earlier this year, and we’ve already seen a number of popular existing iPhone apps (including Who Has the Biggest Brain?) and Web applications implement it to quickly create social interaction in their products.
With Android, Facebook Connect is perhaps even more valuable, because even if your friends don’t have a Google phone (which is more than likely at this point) you can still interact with them, so long as they access Facebook in some way.
