I'm using the Open Share Dialog from Facebook SDK for iOS in my iPhone App to share a custom story. I created open graph action and object which is already successfully approved by Facebook review team and live.
But if a user shares a story using my App, it's not shown on the news feed of his friends. So I googled a lot and looked here in stackoverflow and everyone writes to set the ExplicitlyShared flag to true. But this is not working for me using the share dialog. After setting this flag to true user stories will not be generated anymore and the post button is disabled.
Also in the Developer Docs Facebook provides this hint:
Anybody a solution?
I used exactly the same code as in the Facebook OpenGraph Share Dialog sample on GitHub: https://github.com/fbsamples/ios-howtos/tree/master/FBOGSampleSD
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I have to implement navigation from facebook post to my native iOS app or app store if the app is not installed. For that, I have tried Facebook APP Link feature but it did not work. Then I created Firebase Dynamic link and post it on facebook app directly. After tapping on posted link, it shows one pop up saying "Leave Facebook? This webpage is trying to open an app outside of Facebook. Are you sure you want to open it?"
After tapping on Yes, it does nothing. I have cross verified the created link with https://app_id.app.goo.gl/apple-app-site-association It shows associated bundle id, team id, app store id.
Can anyone please suggest me the proper pathway to implement deep linking with facebook post to the app?
Also, can we test deep linking with the app which is not on the App Store?
Thanks in advance.
Facebook doesn't like users to leave their app. They stopped supporting App Links in their iOS app almost a year ago, and have never supported Universal Links (which is what Firebase Dynamic Links uses).
The only workaround is to send users to a landing page with a CTA button, and put another deep link behind that button (on a different domain than the one on which you're hosting this landing page). It's an extra step for the user, but currently the only option. Branch.io (full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team) does this via the Deepviews feature. Dynamic Links currently doesn't have an equivalent, so you'd need to build something yourself.
I am using SLComposeViewController for sharing in Facebook.
While I didnt have Facebook installed on the device, the controller was coming up with texts pre filled as expected. After i installed Facebook, the setPreText is not showing.
Moreover, I cannot post to Facebook. Twitter is working fine.
My device has iOS8.
A question related to your issue has already been asked here.
This bug report has more details on why the setInitialText: does not work. Basically it is against the Facebook platform policy to pre-fill the share sheet.
Pre-fill using the iOS share sheet. For apps pre-filling using the iOS
share sheet we recommend that you either remove all instances of
pre-fill from your app and submit an update to Apple's App Store or
use Facebook's share dialog for a more seamless experience.
I want my app to create a new Facebook group chat with certain people that opens either on Facebook's site in Safari or in the native Facebook app when the user presses a button. I want Facebook to handle the whole chat and my app only to initiate it somehow in the cleanest and least involved way possible. My app already uses the Facebook SDK to open an active FBSession, so I've already got login credentials.
Looking around online and in Facebook's docs, I can't find anything that suits my needs. The closest thing I found was in this answer containing a list of Facebook app URLs you can connect to that open the Facebook app to certain pages. There's "fb://chat/(initWithUID:)" and "fb://messaging/compose/(initWithUID:)". However, not only is there no explanation on how to use these, but people say that Facebook has changed these URLs (and does not have any documentation on them), so they don't work anymore unless I reverse-engineer new URLs (which could change again). Ugh, so close!
I also found examples on starting chats with the Facebook Chat API, but that involves logging into Facebook using some networking framework then writing my own GUI and model for sending messages, which I am only prepared to do as a last resort. There should be some way to let the Facebook app or website do all that. Does anyone know how I can do this?
I've found something very close, but I still don't see a way to make my app initialize it with the desired group of friends:
The Facebook SDK has a message dialog that can appear for sending messages to friends. This isn't exactly what I wanted but is good enough because it means that all the programming is already done for me by Facebook, and users should be able to see these messages on https://facebook.com and the Facebook apps. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/share#message-dialog
I have created a custom story with a custom action and custom properties. All of this is approuved by Facebook. My action have the explicit share capacity whitch should post the graph action on the newsfeed.
When i test my code from my device with FBDialogs presentShareDialogWithOpenGraphAction, everything is fine, no errors, no logs. On Facebook i can see the post in my timeline and activity log but NOT in my newsfeed.
This problem exists only in Facebook desktop version. In my fb mobile app, the custom story appear in newsfeed, no issue in this case.
My facebook application is in sandbox mode.
I have search a lot on the web and see a few solutions like the explicit_shared flag on the action but not working.
Have somebody resolved this problem ?
We have an iOS app that publishes certain activity to Facebook that contains links to pages on our domain. Our intention is for friends to click on those links and view them as webpages.
However, when you click on links in these published stories in the FB iOS app, it's auto launching our app instead of going to an embedded Web View or kicking out to safari.
Note: We still want to have single sign on (SSO), so just want to change the behavior of clicking links in published stories.
To clarify, this is what I'm talking about:
My app is able to publishes http://foo.com/123 into the FB newsfeed for a particular user that opts in.
That person's friends see the link, but when they click it, it just goes to http://foo.com/123 in the browser instead of launching my FOO app. This is because my app doesn't yet handle incoming context from FB iOS app.
I still want FB SSO to work from my FOO app. That is, when clicking on FB sign in in my FOO app, it jumps out to the FB iOS app (if installed) and does a single sign on and redirects back to my app. IOW, I don't want to break this authentication scenario that currently works.
What setting in the FB developers App Settings controls this? It's not clear from the documentation. I see sections for Native iOS app and Website which I currently have set but it's unclear which sub-setting affects the behavior in question. Also, it's not clear even if I was to find the setting, can I affect it without affecting SSO.
The setting you want in the Facebook App dialog is under the iOS Native section (see the screenshot below) - set both the highlighted sections to Disabled.
This won't affect Facebook login/SSO in the app, so you'll still be able to do the OAuth dances.