Facebook share counter not working on iOS - ios

I have facebook share counter on my website and it works correct,but on iOS Safari it doesn't show show number of shares. If I'm using incognito mode (private), it works correctly... Any suggestions?
$.getJSON( 'http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://example.com', function( fbdata ) {
$('#fb-count').text(fbdata.share.share_count)
});
Even if I'll use simple alert() inside function it won't appear...

Ok, found a solution using PHP.
$fb = json_decode( file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/http://example.com') );
$shares = $fb->share->share_count;

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Login through Twitter and Google Plus in Appcelerator Studio

It been two days I'm working with twitter and google plus Signup/Signin but unfortunately unable to hit it.
For twitter, I tried Aaron K Saunders's test app https://github.com/aaronksaunders/test_social. It says "You've granted access to your app. Next, return to your app and enter this PIN (XXXXXXX) to complete authentication process". What really is that??? I'm confused in it.
For google plus, I tried Google Auth for Titanium test app https://github.com/ejci/Google-Auth-for-Titanium. But it shows simple white screen.
I'm stuck into both of these. Can anyone please help. I'd be grateful.
Thanks a lot!!
I believe you posted this issue on Test Social's GitHub page? Here's what I had to do to get Twitter working on Android - Test Social still works as intended on iOS.
"I have the same issue (Android only, iOS still works as before). This is an issue with Android, not this module. Here is how I go about fixing this on Android.
getHtml on the webView is returning null in Android, but again fine in iOS - Just putting this out there in case anybody runs into this error. Doesn't seem to be a fault of this module.
I modified the authorizeUICallback function inside Test Social:
function authorizeUICallback(e) {
var promptView = Ti.UI.createView({
width:'30%',
height:'10%',
layout: "vertical",
backgroundColor:'black',
bottom:"20%"
}),
pinField = Ti.UI.createTextField({
width: Ti.UI.FILL,
height: Ti.UI.SIZE,
hintText: 'Enter PIN'
}),
pinButton = Ti.UI.createButton({
width: Ti.UI.SIZE,
height: Ti.UI.SIZE,
title: "Authorize"
});
promptView.add(pinField);
promptView.add(pinButton);
view.add(promptView);
pinButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
if (!pinField.value) {
alert('No PIN found');
} else {
pin = pinField.value;
response = 1;
response ? ( pin = pinField.value, /*pin = response.split("<code>")[1].split("</code>")[0]*/ destroyAuthorizeUI(), receivePinCallback()) : (loadingView && loadingView.hide(), loadingContainer && loadingContainer.hide(), webView && webView.show()), loading = !1, clearInterval(intervalID), estimates[estimateID] = (new Date).getTime() - startTime, Ti.App.Properties.setString("Social-LoadingEstimates", JSON.stringify(estimates));
}
});
}
There was another issue created on the GitHub page and they haven't found a solution either. This seems to be the only way to get Twitter to work with Test Social (or the ONLY way I've found to get it to work with Appcelerator at all).
I can't help you with Google+ just yet. I'm looking to implement that later, but it's not super high on my priority list with their recent changes... Who knows how much longer people will be using it, but I digress... Are you getting any kind of error in the console when you get a 'white screen'?

Binding Energize.js clicks to Google Analytics PhoneGap Build plugins

I'm writing an app using PhoneGap Build, jQuery Mobile and Energize.js (to speed up clicks)
My wish is to bind an 'event' to the Google Analytics plugin for PhoneGap Build, so that I can track user clicks.
As you can see below, my tracking listener is bound to a 'touchstart' event. At the moment, none of the tracking is working. I am unsure if it is because I have bound to an incorrect action (which Energize.js may have changed) or if there is another issue in my code.
Any help would be appreciated. My account on Google Analytics is set as a 'Webpage' instead of 'Mobile App' as per the plugin guidelines.
$(document).on("touchstart", ".condition-list-item a", function() {
var deviceID = device.platform + '.' + device.uuid;
// Generates unique variable for each device
var conditionVar = $(this).attr("data-condition");
// Pulls ConditionName from list item clicked
PageButtonClicked(conditionVar);
// Fires 'Page' tracking to Google Analytics, with ConditionName as 'Page'
VariableButtonClicked(deviceID, conditionVar)
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess);
// Creates an object 'Position' using Geolocation API
function onSuccess(position) {
var geo = position.coords.latitude + ', ' + position.coords.longitude;
}
});
Try this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".condition-list-item a").on("touchstart", function(e){
//your function
});
});
As follow-up, the above code is still not working. Google Analytics is currently attempting to track the information as if it were a website (as recommended by the plugin).
I change the settings on the Google Analytics website to track as if it were a Mobile App. I still think the above code is not working; however, Google Analytics' built in tracking takes care of much the same stuff and is working beautifully.

PhoneGap InAppBrowser: open iOS Safari Browser

In our PhoneGap iOS application, we are using the InAppBrowser plugin to display some content, and we need to open a page in Safari from within the InAppBrowser.
How can we have links from within the InAppBrowser open in Safari?
From the phonegap documentation:
Opens a URL in a new InAppBrowser instance, the current browser instance, or the system browser.
var ref = window.open(url, target, options);
ref: Reference to the InAppBrowser window. (InAppBrowser)
url: The URL to load (String). Call encodeURI() on this if the URL contains Unicode characters.
target: The target in which to load the URL, an optional parameter that defaults to _self. (String)
_self: Opens in the Cordova WebView if the URL is in the white list, otherwise it opens in the InAppBrowser.
_blank: Opens in the InAppBrowser.
_system: Opens in the system's web browser.
So to answer your question, use:
window.open(your_url, '_system', opts);
Note that the domain will need to be white-listed.
Update 4/25/2014:
I think I kind of misunderstood the question (thanks to commenter #peteorpeter) -- you want to have some way to click a link in the InAppBrowser and have that open in the system browser (e.g. Mobile Safari on iOS). This is possible, but it will require some forethought and cooperation between the app developer and the person responsible for the links on the page.
When you create an IAB instance, you get a reference to it back:
var ref = window.open('http://foo.com', '_blank', {...});
You can register a few event listeners on that reference:
ref.addEventListener('loadStart', function(event){ ... });
This particular event is fired every time the URL of the IAB changes (e.g. a link is clicked, the server returns a 302, etc...), and you can inspect the new URL.
To break out into the system browser, you need some sort of flag defined in the URL. You could do any number of things, but for this example let's assume there's a systemBrowser flag in the url:
.....html?foo=1&systemBrowser=true
You'll look for that flag in your event handler, and when found, kick out to the system browser:
ref.addEventListener('loadStart', function(event){
if (event.url.indexOf('systemBrowser') > 0){
window.open(event.url, '_system', null);
}
});
Note that this is not the best method for detecting the flag in the url (could lead to false positives, possibly) and I'm pretty sure that PhoneGap whitelist rules will still apply.
Unfortunately target=_system does not work from within the InAppBrowser. (This would work if the link originated in the parent app, though.)
You could add an event listener to the IAB and sniff for a particular url pattern, as you mention in your comments, if that fit your use case.
iab.addEventListener('loadstart', function(event) {
if (event.url.indexOf("openinSafari") != -1) {
window.open(event.url, '_system');
}
}
The 'event' here is not a real browser event - it is a construct of the IAB plugin - and doesn't support event.preventDefault(), so the IAB will also load the url (in addition to Safari). You might try to handle that event within the IAB, with something like:
iab.addEventListener('loadstop', function(event) {
iab.executeScript('functionThatPreventsOpenInSafariLinksFromGoingAnywhere');
}
...which I have not tested.
This message is for clarification:
If you open an another with window.open by catching a link on loadstart, it will kill yor eventhandlers that assigned to first IAB.
For example,
iab = window.open('http://example.com', '_blank', 'location=no,hardwareback=yes,toolbar=no');
iab.addEventListener('loadstop', function(event) {console.log('stop: ' + event.url);});
iab.addEventListener('loaderror', function(event) { console.log('loaderror: ' + event.message); });
iab.addEventListener('loadstart', function(event) {
if (event.url.indexOf("twitter") != -1){
var ref2 = window.open(event.url, '_system', null);
}
});
When the second window.open executed, it will kill all the event listeners that you binded before. Also loadstop event will not be fired after that window.open executed.
I'm finding another way to avoid but nothing found yet..
window.open() doesn't work for me from within an InAppBrowser, whether or not I add a script reference to cordova.js to get support for window.open(...'_system'), so I came up with the following solution which tunnels the "external" URL back to the IAB host through the hashtag so it can be opened there.
Inside the InAppBrowser instance (I'm using AngularJS, but you can replace angular.element with jQuery or $ if you're using jQuery):
angular.element(document).find('a').on('click', function(e) {
var targetUrl = angular.element(this).attr('href');
if(targetUrl.indexOf('http') === 0) {
e.preventDefault();
window.open('#' + targetUrl);
}
});
Note that that's the native window.open above, not cordova.js's window.open. Also, the handler code assumes that all URLs that start with http should be externally loaded. You can change the filter as you like to allow some URLs to be loaded in the IAB and others in Safari.
Then, in the code from the parent that created the InAppBrowser:
inAppBrowser.addEventListener('loadstart', function(e) {
if(e.url.indexOf('#') > 0) {
var tunneledUrl = e.url.substring(e.url.indexOf('#') + 1);
window.open(tunneledUrl, '_system', null);
}
});
With this solution the IAB remains on the original page and doesn't trigger a back-navigation arrow to appear, and the loadstart handler is able to open the requested URL in Safari.

Links will not open in iframe target in an iOS standalone web app

I am running into a pickle. When I view my web app within mobile safari via iOS 6, I am able to successfully open up my basic target links <a href="link.html" target="mainframe"into my retrospective iframe <iframe src="http://www.linkexample.org/" name="mainframe"></iframe>
Though when the app is opened via standalone all the links exit out of the app and into Mobile Safari. You can see a working example at http://lacitilop.com/m2
Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
You'll need to write some javascript to change the src of the iframe.
For a start, get your app working so that links will not open Safari by using something like the following (it's using jquery by the way):
if (window.navigator.standalone) {
$(document).on(
"click",
"a",
function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var aurl = $(event.target).attr("href");
if (aurl) {
location.href = $(event.target).attr("href");
}
else {
location.href = this;
}
}
);
}
then you'll need to modify it to work with iframes too.
For more iphone app stuff you'll want to look at this:
http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

ie9 not supporting geolocation?

Greetings Everyone,
I am creating a web application that uses the Geolocation API to locate the end user. It works great on almost every platform I can think of except for Internet Explorer 9. Things get a little stranger though. If I have my Google Toolbar loaded into my Internet Explorer browser window, everything sails smoothly. Here is the offending chunk of code that I have been working with:
if (navigator.geolocation) {
var locationMarker = null;
navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(
function( position ){
var point = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
if (!locationMarker) {
locationMarker = addMarker(
position.coords.latitude,
position.coords.longitude,
"Initial Position"
);
}
else{
updateMarker(
locationMarker,
position.coords.latitude,
position.coords.longitude,
"Updated / Accurate Position"
);
};
map.setCenter(point);
if (map.zoom < 17){
map.setZoom(17);
};
},
function( error ){
console.log( "Something went wrong: ", error );
},
{
timeout: (5 * 1000),
maximumAge: (1000 * 60 * 15),
enableHighAccuracy: true
}
);
}
else {
alert("Geolocation is not supported by this browser");
}
Whenever I access my application with Internet Explorer 9 I get the "Geolocation is not supported by this browser" alert. That is unless I have my Google Toolbar active. If the Google Toolbar is active however, then the Google Toolbar handles the permissions.
How do I get geolocation to work in IE9? My application works flawlessly in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, iOS and Android. I am totally stumped.
Thanks, Tyler Waring
user1303379,
IE9 and IE10 both support geolocation, however earlier versions of IE do not support it ( reference http://caniuse.com/#feat=geolocation ). Here is a blog post by IE about geolocation in IE9 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/17/w3c-geolocation-api-in-ie9.aspx and here is a test page using navigator.geolocation.watchPosition like you are above.
For browsers that don't support geolocation you may consider using one of the geolocation polyfills listed here https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Browser-Polyfills
IE9 & IE10 ask the user if they would like to share their location http://cl.ly/image/0X0o2F0s1N03 My guess is that you may have denied access to your location at some point.
The Google Toolbar added a feature to determine geolocation back in the IE8 days http://googletoolbarhelp.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-toolbar-6413211732-for-ie.html From what you describe it sounds like the Google Toolbar started to provide geolocation since the native IE9 geolocation was denied access.

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