I'm using the facebook ios sdk 3.1. In ios 6 the integration has no issues since it uses the native dialog. In ios 5.1, I implemented a fallback to use the feed dialog. The post shows up in user's timeline but doesn't appear in friend's newsfeed. I've tweaked the setting of the facebook app to 'public' but problem still exist.
- (void) publishUsingFeedDialog {
if (_facebook == nil) {
_facebook = [[Facebook alloc]
initWithAppId:FBSession.activeSession.appID
andDelegate:nil];
// Store the Facebook session information
_facebook.accessToken = FBSession.activeSession.accessToken;
_facebook.expirationDate = FBSession.activeSession.expirationDate;
}
// #"Facebook SDK for iOS", #"name",
// #"Build great social apps and get more installs.", #"caption",
NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
#"My test with app", #"name",
[self getDescription], #"description",
#"http://www.test.com", #"link",
#"http://www.test.com/logo.gif", #"picture",
nil];
// Invoke the dialog
[_facebook dialog:#"feed" andParams:params andDelegate:(id)self];
}
Thanks
I realized that I didn't include any caption information: #"my caption", #"caption". Even though I can still post without any problems, but facebook algorithm will sometimes hide it from public.
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Using the new Facebook SDK 3.1 and iOS 6 there are 2 (actually 3) ways to post.
(Seems the new trend is to have more options to make it more simple??) OMG!!
Here is one:
SLComposeViewController *fbPost = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
[fbPost addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:href]];
[self presentViewController:fbPost animated:YES completion:nil];
And this is another way using native dialogs:
[FBNativeDialogs presentShareDialogModallyFrom:self
initialText: nil
image: nil
url: [NSURL URLWithString:href]
handler:^(FBNativeDialogResult result, NSError *error) {
if (error) {
}
else
{
switch (result) {
case FBNativeDialogResultSucceeded:
break;
case FBNativeDialogResultCancelled:
break;
case FBNativeDialogResultError:
break;
}
}
}];
We, developers, think this is cool because we give a nice functionality to the user and also because our app name appears in the post and that can make some promotion of the app.
The funny thing is that latest implementations are not allowing to specify the app name was posting, the name appears after 'via'.
I tried aswell using SLRequest:
ACAccountStore *store = [[ACAccountStore alloc] init];
ACAccountType *fbType = [store accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:ACAccountTypeIdentifierFacebook];
NSMutableDictionary *options = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
(options)[#"ACFacebookAppIdKey"] = kFacebookAppID;
(options)[#"ACFacebookPermissionsKey"] = #[#"publish_stream"];
(options)[#"ACFacebookAudienceKey"] = ACFacebookAudienceFriends;
[store requestAccessToAccountsWithType:fbType options:options completion:^(BOOL granted, NSError *error) {
if(granted) {
// Get the list of Twitter accounts.
NSArray *fbAccounts = [store accountsWithAccountType:fbType];
NSMutableDictionary *params = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
(params)[#"link"] = href;
// (params)[#"picture"] = picture;
// (params)[#"name"] = name;
(params)[#"actions"] = #"{\"name\": \"Go Gabi\", \"link\": \"http://www.gogogabi.com\"}";
//Set twitter API call
SLRequest *postRequest = [SLRequest requestForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook requestMethod:SLRequestMethodPOST
URL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed"] parameters:params];
//Set account
[postRequest setAccount: [fbAccounts lastObject]];
[postRequest performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
if(error)
{
NSLog(#"%#", error.description);
}
else
{
NSLog(#"%#", [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
}
}];
} else {
}
}];
Unfortunatelly to share that name is not so trivial anymore, I wonder why and who was designing the new implementation...
I would appreciate to get some help on that, thanks in advance.
I try to make my questions funny because is soo boring spend time in so trivial topics...
When you use the SLComposeViewController, it's actually the system presenting to you their controller, and it's the user who sends using the post button. Therefore on Facebook it appears as "via iOS".
There's no way to change that.
Using the Facebook SDK 3.1, under the hood it is also using the iOS 6 native integration, so when you're calling the FBNativeDialogs, on iOS 6, it's using SLComposeViewController.
Facebook continued to develop their SDK because they provide a couple of nice modules to use "out of the box" - this includes friends list selector etc... But I believe the biggest reason for Facebook to continue supporting their SDK it for backward compatibility. Under the hood if you're not on iOS 6, it falls back to it's library, and if you are on iOS 6, it uses the system integration.
Facebook is a big thing, and now it's natively available a lot of developers will be using it, just like Twitter's integration last year. The problem of course is at that point the developer has the option to drop older iOS support, or... have a lot of duplicate code, in the sense that they will check for SLComposeViewController and if it's not available (iOS 5) then use the old Facebook SDK... You can imagine how this would become very messy very quickly.
So, the Facebook SDK (3.1) is using iOS system Facebook integration if available, or if not, it's own. In a nutshell, unless you really want the Facebook SDK goodies (friend picket to name one), and you're not planning on supporting iOS < 6 then you don't need to worry about their SDK, just use the Social framework.
So, back to your question, there are 3 ways to post to Facebook ? Actually taking into consideration what I mentioned, there are 2 ways in iOS 6: SLComposeViewController or, SLRequest. On older iOS versions, only 1: Facebook SDK.
Since the SLComposeViewController is owned by the system, not your app, it will always share as "via iOS".
On the other hand SLRequest will show your apps name. When you specify an account for your SLRequest, that account was acquired via the ACAccountStore as a result of passing in some options including ACFacebookAppIdKey, which will be used to determine your Facebook apps name to post onto the users feed as part of the post.
Hope this helps.
I would like to update my iOS app to take advantage of iOS 6 Facebook integration. Currently I use the Facebook dialogue. I like the way I can present the dialogue to the user and when it posts it has my app icon and the small tag saying "via my app name" which links to my app.
With the iOS 6 Facebook integration it says "via iOS" and a link to Apple's Website. Is there a way to achieve the same type of result using iOS 6's Facebook integration?
current code:
NSMutableDictionary* params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
#"1234567890", #"app_id",
#"http://www.mywebsite.com/page5/page5.html", #"link",
picLink, #"picture",
countDownName, #"name",
#"My app name", #"caption",
#"For the iPhone and iPod Touch", #"description",
theMessage, #"message",
theFriendID, #"to",
#"Share on Facebook", #"user_message_prompt",
nil];
[facebook dialog:#"feed" andParams:params andDelegate:self];
my iOS 6 code (taken from Facebook's sample code)
BOOL displayedNativeDialog = [FBNativeDialogs presentShareDialogModallyFrom:self
initialText:initialText
image: [UIImage imageNamed: #"myImage.png"]
url:url
handler:nil];
if (!displayedNativeDialog) {
[self performPublishAction:^{
// otherwise fall back on a request for permissions and a direct post
[FBRequestConnection startForPostStatusUpdate:message
completionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
[self showAlert:message result:result error:error];
self.buttonPostStatus.enabled = YES;
}];
self.buttonPostStatus.enabled = NO;
}];
A quick google search showed the following tutorial: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/IPhone_iOS_6_Facebook_and_Twitter_Integration_using_SLRequest#Facebook_Integration_using_SLRequest
That seems to be a good tutorial to do what you're looking for.
Please try using custom Facebook compose view provided here.
I've just updated Facebook framework and old code for invite friends does't work(Now there is no Facebook class object.). I used the following code:
NSMutableDictionary* params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
#"1", #"frictionless",
#"My message", #"message",
#"Notification", #"notification_text",nil];
[self.facebook dialog:#"apprequests" andParams:params andDelegate:self];
Is it possible to show the same dialog on the latest framework?
Yes it is. The sample iOS game, Friend Smash (https://github.com/fbsamples/ios-friend-smash), uses this technique. The equivalent code is here:
https://github.com/fbsamples/ios-friend-smash/blob/master/friendsmash/friendSmasher/Game/GameController_FacebookIntegration.cpp#L365
I can't seem to find information on how to open share dialog box with parse sdk which includes fb 3.0. I am able to login with facebook and actually found a way to post with out the dialog box but still would like to have the dialog box so that people can add comments and it comes out with the image on facebook. This is what i have so far.
#"publish_stream",#"publish_actions" allows me to publish with out the dialog box
logInController.facebookPermissions = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"user_about_me",#"friends_about_me",#"publish_stream",#"publish_actions", nil];
this is to publish
PF_FBRequest *request = [PF_FBRequest requestForPostStatusUpdate:[self.Excerpt objectForKey:#"text"]];
[request startWithCompletionHandler:^(PF_FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error){
NSLog(#"error %#",error);
}];
I found the code to open the dialog box from facebook website but i am not sure how to get an instance of the PF_Facebook object so i can open the dialog box. I can try to do
PF_Facebook *fb = [[PF_Facebook alloc]initWithAppId:<#(NSString *)#> andDelegate:<#(id<PF_FBSessionDelegate>)#>;
but that doesn't seem to be right because i already initialize this in the appdelegate
//Update
I am able to get the dialog box using this code
NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
#"Facebook SDK for iOS", #"name",
#"Build great social apps and get more installs.", #"caption",
#"The Facebook SDK for iOS makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook integrated iOS apps.", #"description",
#"https://developers.facebook.com/ios", #"link",
#"https://raw.github.com/fbsamples/ios-3.x-howtos/master/Images/iossdk_logo.png", #"picture",
nil];
//publishes text on facebook
PF_FBSession *session = [PFFacebookUtils session];
PF_Facebook *fb = [[PF_Facebook alloc]initWithAppId:session.appID andDelegate:nil];
[fb dialog:#"feed" andParams:params andDelegate:self];
But the problem is that the person gets the login page in the dialog box even though he is authenticated already in the app
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thank You!
To set up a PF_Facebook object you need to also provide the access token and expiration date information as below:
PF_FBSession *session = [PFFacebookUtils session];
PF_Facebook *facebook = [[PF_Facebook alloc] initWithAppId:session.appID
andDelegate:nil];
// Store the Facebook session information
facebook.accessToken = session.accessToken;
facebook.expirationDate = session.expirationDate;
Rather than creating a new session, you can just use the "facebook" class method to get a configured PF_Facebook object
PF_Facebook *facebook = [PFFacebookUtils facebook];
NSMutableDictionary *parameters = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:#"Check out this great app", #"message", nil]:
[facebook dialog:#"apprequests" andParams:parameters andDelegate:nil];
Is it possible to use the iOS Facebook SDK's dialog method to post to the active user's friends' walls? That is, assuming the correct permissions have been granted?
Using the dialog method, with "feed" as the action, only seems to allow me to post to the user's stream, not to anyone elses. What am I missing?
[facebook dialog:"feed" andParams:... andDelegate:self]
The params only specify the content of the post; there doesn't seem to be any way to specify the profile I want to post to.
Just use the following code:
[facebook requestWithGraphPath:#"[IdOfFriend]/feed" andParams:... andHttpMethod:#"POST" andDelegate:self];
post on friends wall through graph path no more works
your feed action works.. have params like
NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
#"Checkout my APP_NAME", #"name",
#"Come visit my APP_NAME", #"caption",
[NSString stringWithFormat:#"I just joined APP_NAME Can you?"], #"description",
#"http://www.friendsmash.com/images/logo_large.jpg", #"picture",
#"FRIEND'S_FB_USER_ID", #"to",
// Add the link param for Deep Linking
[NSString stringWithFormat:#"https://YOUR_WEB_LINK.com/"], #"link",
nil];
Cheers...!