New Facebook Android app and sorting News feed by recency

Have you lost the ability to sort the new Facebook Android app by the recency of News feed.

Is it defaulted to Top Stories? Do you want it back? Or at least an easy way to switch?

I think I've got a little solution....

Click the menu button (it's that one with three bars) - you may have to press it twice if you don't get the "options" page first time.

Below your Facebook profile picture you should get a set of FAVORITES

What we want to do is add News Feed recency to those favorites. It's called "Most Recent" on the Facebook app.

So whist still on that options page scroll down to nearly the bottom and the section labelled SETTINGS.

Click Edit Favorites in that SETTINGS section.

Scroll down to FEEDS and click on the star to select "Most Recent" and confirm you want to add that favorite.

Make sure you press the "Finish Editing" at the top to save your settings.

Then scroll back to top and you should see "Most Recent" at the top of this menu/options page.

You can know click on Most recent and your normal viewing for news feed recency has returned.

The Android Facebook app seems to remember this setting when you switch to other tabs. Pressing the menu (three bars) returns you to the most recent news feed.

Pressing again and it take you back to options if required.


NOTE:
If this works for you DON'T deactivate the "Most Recent" from "Favorites" as it then seems to remove the option to re-add (after removal). I removed mine to create a better screenshot for this post and then lost the option to re-add completely. Restarting my phone brought the "Most Recent" option back.

tqv

Multiple deleting of emails in Android Gmail?

Do you find yourself trying to multiple delete emails in Android Gmail? I did, and spent many minutes searching Google for an answer....
"android gmail batch delete"
"deleting multiple emails android gmail"
"deleting bulk emails on gmail"
etc.

I found lots of results but it was all to do with the removal of the check/select tick box that had previously allowed you to multiple select items and click the bin icon. Gmail changed the app to show the sender's photo/icon instead and removed the check box. :-( With that change selecting items was switched to the press and hold technique. Quite clunky for selecting multiple emails.

See some posts I found:
http://lifehacker.com/select-multiple-messages-in-the-new-gmail-even-with-se-511499703
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57561068-285/a-better-way-to-select-messages-in-gmail-for-android/

However I thought this morning how would I like to do it if I wanted and so I tried pressing many email items at the same time. I didn't get it quite right at first go but found it did work after a couple of attempts. So you can still multiple select with this press and hold technique but you just need to use more fingers and press and hold carefully. You can only press and hold the items in each screen view, then scroll and press and hold more to add to list of selected. I've not found a way to say "select all". Let me know if you do?

I posted to Facebook and here's what I said:

For you mobile Gmail users who need to delete multiple emails, you can swipe to delete each messages or press and hold to single delete via the bin icon. However if like me you want to delete multiple messages at times, I've just found that you can press and hold multiple messages at the same time. 

tqv