How do you get the Twitter and Facebook icons in your apps - ios

I created a Twitter and Facebook SHARE buttons. However, I don't know if i'm allowed to use the official Twitter bird logo and the official Facebook F logo as a custom image button on my app. Are developers allowed to do that or are we supposed to get permission from Facebook and Twitter? Or should I just create a custom button that says Facebook, Twitter on it? I've seen only official facebook and twitter logos on game apps and other apps. How is it done?

Both Facebook and Twitter have strict guidelines for that, which you can find on their corresponding developer sites. You will also find the necessary resources (i.e. images) on these sites. It is typically not ok to use custom images.
That said, the official guides are not always followed and personally I have never heard of anyone being held responsible for doing it wrong. But I would strongly encourage you to follow them in any case.

At least for Facebook, I would always advise to use the official SDK and the Share Button it provided. You can read more here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/ios#triggering
FBSDKShareButton *button = [[FBSDKShareButton alloc] init];
button.shareContent = content;
[self.view addSubview:button];

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Coding a simple SHARED Button for Facebook

Which of the 2 ways am I supposed to use to create a simple share button for Facebook in my game app?
1) import Social Framework into project and then put in the following code...
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
[controller setInitialText:#"High score is %i"];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:Nil];
}
2) Add Facebook SDK into your project, get a Facebook App ID by signing up to Facebook's developer program, then add App ID into .plist file, link FBSDKShareKit.framework into project and then use the code provided by Facebook (and there's a LOT of it).
The 1st way of doing it works perfectly fine. Is it a MUST for me to do it the 2nd way? If I do it the first way, would I get in trouble with Facebook or would Apple reject my app? Also, if I do it the first way does it mean I can't use the Facebook "f" logo for the Facebook SHARE button?
If you're planning on sharing OpenGraph Stories within your game I would go with the Facebook SDK. According to Facebook's official docs:
"iOS 6+ includes a native share sheet that lets people post status updates, photos, videos and links to Facebook and includes support for setting the audience for the post and tagging the post with a location. You cannot share Open Graph Stories with the share sheet. The Facebook SDK supports the use of this native controller.
While you can use the iOS native view controller API (share sheet) directly, there are several reasons to use the native iOS Share dialog provided by the Facebook SDK. Using the native Share dialog provides a quick way to test that people have signed into Facebook on their iOS 6+ devices"
If you need more information to decide, I suggest you take a look at Sharing on iOS

iOS App and Posting to FaceBook

In my app, I would like to provide a facebook icon so my users can post to their wall. I have read ALOT about Facebook and the Facebook SDK, but I am hoping some Facebookers out there can give me some ideas on the best approach.
I have built a test app that logs in to facebook, but then I saw another app that brings me to the settings to configure facebook.
SO, what is the best way to do this in an app? Here are some questions:
1) Should I provide the login from my app, or is it better to use the built in native settings?
2) If the settings are better, is there an example of how I bring up the dialog? Do I use SLComposeViewController?
3) Do I ONLY need the Graph API?
I apologize if these questions are silly, but I have seen sooo many different ways, and many are pre 2012, so I do not want to do anything that is old. If I follow the Facebook docs, I do not see anything about the native iOS settings dialog.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!
If you are going to post only text or image than better way is using SLComposeViewController. Why? No need to register app on developer.facebook.com. Native login, and easy to create post.
Example to do it:
SLComposeViewController *controllerSLC = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
[controllerSLC setInitialText:#"My post"];
[controllerSLC addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.example.com"]];
[controllerSLC addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"img.jpg"]];
[self presentViewController:controllerSLC animated:YES completion:nil];
If all you are looking to achieve is post to the user's wall, I would recommend using the SLComposeViewController. This abstracts all the work in logging into Facebook and implementing the GraphAPI. A previous post answered this here: Tutorial for SLComposeViewController sharing
If you want more control over the Facebook integration, i.e. Read the User's Timeline, View/Change User Settings, etc. you will have to install the Facebook SDK and register your application with Facebook. This is more labor intensive, but the extra control and access to data may be what you need. The SDK can be access here as well as some demos and example code: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios

Creating share buttons in iOS app ( twitter facebook...)

I was wondering what is a good way to create share buttons in iOS, and by share buttons I mean these 3 kinds of buttons:
1- Follow me on Twitter
2- Like a page on Facebook
3- Send a mail (Optional)
I have heard about sharekit but I am interested in just creating these 3 buttons that will be found on the back of the page of the app.
You can use something like:
NSString *launchUrl = #"http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=USER NAME";
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString: launchUrl]];
which will open Mobile Safari and let you follow that user. You may be required to log in.
I guess there is a similar URL for Facebook.
To send a mail from within your app, use the MessageUI Framework.
Posting data to social services is much more complicated than just setting up a button. You must register your application, choose user, authenticate, then communicate via the internet.
ShareKit does most of that for you.
You may not just 'create share button' and have it share data to fb or twitter.
Posting to those service is complicated because you'll have to create Apps on those social networks as well as handle the oauth handshake the occurs which allows your app to share on behalf of the user. The Socialize SDK (www.getsocialize.com) is the fastest way to get Facebook/Twitter authentication without coding it yourself. Sample code below:
Socialize* socialize = [[Socialize alloc] initWithDelegate:self];
[self.socialize createShareForEntityWithKey:#"http://www.url.com" medium:SocializeShareMediumFacebook text:#"Check this out!"];
You could use ShareKit 2.0
https://github.com/ShareKit/ShareKit
I believe it supports sharing on most common social networks.

iOS: Adding a Facebook Like button to a native iPhone app

I would like to know whether it is possible to add a Facebook Like button to a native iPhone app. In the app, the user browses a business directory or deals. When they tap on an item to view the details, it would be nice to have a Facebook Like button that can be used to post the item to the user's Facebook page.
Facebook writes: "Currently, the Like button is only available in mobile web apps".
My app is a native app and not a web app, so therefore I assume it's not possible. However, I do assume that it is possible to mix native UI components on a screen along with web components and therefore it might be possible to implement the Like button, although I am not sure how you pass data from the native portion to the web portion.
If the only solution is a hack, then I won't implement it because at some point the hack will fail when Facebook alters their API.
read around SO a little, you get many leads. Here's one:
Like button in iOS application
And a comment points to github.com/brow/FacebookLikeView
It has same caveats, but it seems there aren't any magic solutions.
There are these blogposts as well:
http://angelolloqui.blogspot.com/2010/11/facebook-like-button-on-ios.html
http://petersteinberger.com/2010/06/add-facebook-like-button-with-facebook-connect-iphone-sdk/
But not sure you get a native UIButton. Maybe you can open a webview in the background and emulate a click on it...
GL, update if you have some findings,
Oded.
Now you can use the FBlike button using the following code but it need to download latest sdk and it is the beta version :(
Here is the code:
[FBSettings enableBetaFeature:FBBetaFeaturesLikeButton];
[FBSettings enablePlatformCompatibility:NO];
FBLikeControl *like = [[FBLikeControl alloc] init];
like.objectID = #"http://shareitexampleapp.parseapp.com/photo1/";
like.likeControlHorizontalAlignment=FBLikeControlHorizontalAlignmentRight;
like.likeControlStyle=FBLikeControlStyleBoxCount;
[self.view addSubview like];
It looks like Facebook finally decided to allow this, more directly, via the Open Graph API.
See documentation here
Check this out, FB just made it possible through their SDK. Only for testing and ios for now
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/like-button/

Like button in iOS application

Does anybody know how to place Facebook "like" button into iOS application? I've tried the method described in this blog post. But I do not really like this method, because its ugly Login dialog. And, what is more important, it makes user login twice. For example, user wants post a message to his wall if he isn't logged in I call standard FBLoginDialog, after that user posted a message he may want push "like" button and he have to login again - it is really bad user experience.
How to be? How can I give user "like" feature in my iOS app?
That is actually the only way to do it. There is no special iOS like button. However, the good news is that just today Facebook announced single sign in support for mobile apps. This should remove some of the burden the user faces to log in to facebook.
It seems there is an agreement on not being able to do this. This question shows you can, as does the FB Graph API documentation:
You can comment on or like any object that has a /comments or /likes
connection by posting to https://graph.facebook.com/OBJECT_ID/comments
and https://graph.facebook.com/OBJECT_ID/likes, respectively.
Unfortunately, according to this question you can’t like a page.
I like using ShareKit: http://www.getsharekit.com/
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but still...
The only way supported by Facebook on any platform (web, mobile, etc) is from their iFrame code. From iOS, that means embedding a UIWebView into your application with the iFrame code. Note that it does require them to login via Safari.
- (void)addLikeButton{
[FBSettings enableBetaFeature:TRUE];
[FBSettings enablePlatformCompatibility:NO];
_like = [[FBLikeControl alloc] init];
_like.frame = CGRectMake(60,12,200,33);
_like.likeControlAuxiliaryPosition = FBLikeControlAuxiliaryPositionInline;
_like.likeControlHorizontalAlignment = FBLikeControlHorizontalAlignmentLeft;
_like.objectID = #"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strana-Gapra/1377227779244834";
_like.likeControlStyle = FBLikeControlStyleStandard ;
[_like addTarget:self action:#selector(onSelect:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
[self.likeView addSubview:_like];
[self performSelector:#selector(getLikeSubviews) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.6];
}

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