Can we post app video preview link in the itunesconnect app description section.
There's no definite exclusion in the App Review Guidelines concerning links in the description part of your app. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#metadata
But any links in your description will just show up as "text" and are not "clickable" for your users. They would have to manually type the URL into their browser. (It's not possible to copy & paste text from the App Store description)
As jacky suggested, you should upload an App Preview, which will appear "before" your screenshots. Apple put a nice page together, what is allow for App Previews: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-previews/
On a side note: You still can create a landing page for your app including the video and add that URL to the "Marketing URL field" in iTunes Connect.
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We generate quick links in our iOS app that are supposed to point to specific content within the app. When a quick link is shared via a messaging app that supports preview snippets, we want the snippet to display custom content depending on the parameters passed when our iOS app generates a link.
For example, user wants to share an audio, the app generates a link which is then posted in a messaging app or social media. We want the preview snippet to reflect specific title/subtitle and image related to that audio.
We use a custom domain name for Branch links if that matters.
What is the right way to achieve this?
You can use Link Preview for achieving this functionality. It will enable the link to display content as a preview card in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, iMessage, etc. This card can contain a title, description and image (that you append in the link as OG Tags such as $og_title, $og_description, and $og_image_url) .
My team released an Android app and asked for a smart banner directing users from our website to the app and specific content; to complete this task, we are using branch.io.
According to this guide, I inserted the JavaScript snippet with the branch key found in the settings section of the dashboard and the SDK is correctly initialized.
In the dashboard we defined the styling of the banner and on which sites and devices it should appear. But the banner looks like this (on desktop):
No icon or text are set. Apparently when I use the preview link generated by branch.io it is displayed correctly.
Moreover when I initialize the banner via JavaScript and set the properties it is displayed correctly too:
branch.banner(Banner.options, Banner.data);
const deeplink = `${window.location.pathname}${window.location.search}${window.location.hash}`;
branch.setBranchViewData({
'$deeplink_path': deeplink
});
Somehow nothing from the dashboard is adopted.
Thank you for your help!
Alex from Branch.io here: the branch.banner() function and the banner you set up on the dashboard are actually separate things. The dashboard option replaced the banner() approach, which has been deprecated.
You'll want to review the full details in the set up guide. One important note is that the dashboard version does not yet support banners on desktop, as we found almost none of our partners were using that function.
Try smartbanner.js. Has a lot of custom options and behaviour at very low footprint (~ 13 KB). Takes a few meta tags to set up.
I have a native iOS & Blackberry App. You can create personalized videos.
When people share their video clip on Facebook, I would like the company logo and the accompanying link to go through to our website (not FB App page).
Instagram, Blackberry and Twitter all do this.
For e.g. when someone uploads an Instagram photo - it has the Instagram logo, with link to their website underneath the upload.
Do you know how I can do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
First your Facebook app will need to request manage_feed permissions from the user. Once you have manage_feed, you can http POST the posting using the Graph API to put the stream item into their feed. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/ for further info.
am new to iphone technology and i have been allocated on a project where i will be using an API of facebook so i have downloaded the facebook api from this link http://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk
and i read its documentation where i got confused this is what i want to do:
1) The image from the UIImageView must be posted by the user to his facebook album, and that album will be selected by the user from his/her account.
2) The user can add comment on that photo which he/she added.
3)Logout logic
But when i draged and droped the FBConnect folder, in the documentation its said that i have to set the header but how and what to set in the header i am not aware of that, also when i tried to do login with the appID and appKey which i generated from Facebook developers its not helping me at all
Please help me out, am confused on this topic completely, if you provide me some snaps of the source code or some links then it would be very nice of you
You might consider using ShareKit. It has made connecting to Facebook easier for some developers. You can find it at this link: http://www.getsharekit.com/
Has anyone posted a video via the Facebook Connect API to their profile / feed page?
Ideally, the video should be queued to the first frame with the superimposed Facebook's blue right arrow "play" button. Or if a thumbnail representing the video has to also be uploaded (rather than the video being queued to the first frame) as well, this is fine.
Also, when the video, or thumbnail, on the profile page is clicked, the video plays where it is - rather than going to another page off Facebook to be played there.
The question may have not been correctly worded. The term "API" was misleading to a couple of folks - and I apologize for that.
What I was trying to do was to "share" a video by linking it in Facebook, AND to have it play in the profile feed (ie. to not leave the Facebook site while viewing the video - just like YouTube and Hulu.com do).
After digging into the JavaScript that Hulu was using to get this behavior, we noticed that a link tag was missing between our version of the <meta> and <link> tags, and Hulu's.
Facebook's web page, http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php, was missing a tag that you should have if the content is a video, and you want it played in the profile feed.
Along with:
<link rel="video_src" href="http://www.example.com/player.swf?video_id=123456789"/> ...
You should include:
<link rel="media:video" href="http://www.example.com/player.swf?video_id=123456789"/>
That will get it to play in the feed. BUT, your domain name must be whitelisted.
To get your domain whitelisted, fill out this form: http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php#/developers/developer_help.php
I got a reply, and approval, within a day! Kudos to the Facebook developer support staff!
Use the Video.upload as described by stevedbrown or the Stream API or if you want to go simple share the link via API or share link.
Have you read the Facebook developer wiki page on this? That explains what is possible and how, it's pretty decent.