Im trying to add caption/meta data from the link that is attached from the the NSURL.
I followed this article: http://www.mobile.safilsunny.com/integrating-facebook-ios-6/
There are a picture attached to the article at the bottom, that includes the meta data from its link. ( Windows Phone 8 tutorials... etc).
When sharing links on Facebook web, it will automatically give you this meta data so my question is how can i achieve this from iOS?
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler myBlock = ^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result){
if (result == SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled) {
NSLog(#"Cancelled");
} else
{
NSLog(#"Done");
}
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:Nil];
};
controller.completionHandler =myBlock;
[controller setInitialText:#"google.se"];
[controller addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.google.se"]];
[controller addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"icon.png"]];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:Nil];
}
else{
NSLog(#"UnAvailable");
}
EDIT #1: I see that the Digg app do this.
Use Facebook SDK it is not possible now using SLComposeViewController
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I want to share photo and some text from the app on Facebook. I used SLComposeViewController class for sharing.
My problem is that when I tap on Facebook button a dialog box appears with image which I want to post but default text is not appearing in the device while in simulator it works perfectly fine. This code works perfectly for Twitter both in simulator and device. For more clarity I added code and an image
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook])
{
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler myBlock = ^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result)
{
if (result == SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled)
{
NSLog(#"Cancelled");
} else
{
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Congratulations!" message:#"Photo is posted to facebook Wall." delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
[alert show];
}
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:Nil];
};
controller.completionHandler =myBlock;
str=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Text to share"];
[controller setInitialText:str];
[controller addImage:savedImage];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:Nil];
}
str=#"Text to share";
[controller setInitialText:str];
OR
[controller setInitialText:#"Text to share"];
change your code like this and try...
- (IBAction)facebookPost:(id)sender {
if ([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {
SLComposeViewController *mySLComposerSheet = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
[mySLComposerSheet setInitialText:#"Social Framework test!"];
[mySLComposerSheet addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"myImage.png"]];
[mySLComposerSheet addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://stackoverflow.com"]];
[mySLComposerSheet setCompletionHandler:^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result) {
switch (result) {
case SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled:
NSLog(#"Post Canceled");
break;
case SLComposeViewControllerResultDone:
NSLog(#"Post Sucessful");
break;
default:
break;
}
}];
[self presentViewController:mySLComposerSheet animated:YES completion:nil];
}
}
Try this........This what I did for my project
I'm looking to add functionality that when an event happens on my app, it will post to my facebook timeline. That said, I'm trying to get it to look very similar to how when you post a youtube video to the timeline where there is a thumbnail image to the left and a title and subtitle next to it.
Anyone have any ideas how I can accomplish this?
You can't make a post automatically from code, but you can open a system window with predefined message and image attachment.
Sample code:
- (BOOL)postToFacebook:(NSString*)title andDescription:(NSString*)description {
UIWindow *frontWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
UIViewController *vc = [frontWindow rootViewController];
BOOL success = NO;
if ([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler myBlock = ^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result) {
if (result == SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled) {
} else {
}
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:Nil];
};
controller.completionHandler = myBlock;
[controller setTitle:title];
[controller setInitialText:description];
[controller addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://example.com"]];
[controller addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"sampleImage.png"]];
[vc presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:^{
}];
success = YES;
}
return success;
}
Remember to add two frameworks:
Social.framework
Accounts.framework
In my application I used UIActivityViewController to share text in Facebook and Twitter. But how to do different text to share? please help ..thanks in advance
I used this code:
NSString *posturl2=#"twittwrer and facebook ";
UISimpleTextPrintFormatter *printData = [[UISimpleTextPrintFormatter alloc]
initWithText:#"Hi"];
NSArray *Itemsarray = #[posturl2,printData];
UIActivityViewController *activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc]initWithActivityItems:Itemsarray applicationActivities:nil];
[self presentViewController:activityController
animated:YES completion:nil];
want like this
Import Social Framework
#import <Social/Social.h>
Then just call
- (void)shareOnFacebookWithText:(NSString *)textToShare {
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
[controller setInitialText:textToShare];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:nil];
}
}
- (void)shareOnTwitterWithText:(NSString *)textToShare {
if ([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter])
{
SLComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [SLComposeViewController
composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];
[tweetSheet setInitialText:textToShare];
[self presentViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES completion:nil];
}
}
I am pretty new at incorporating Facebook into iOS apps. I have read 3 books, studied the Facebook examples, and studies the Facebook tutorials, and I don't understand Facebook integration. I understand how to register the app with Facebook, but what I don't understand is the code to post text and a picture to a user's news feed. I have tried to understand Facebook's tutorials, but they are all based on Xcode and iOS versions which are not current. Facebook's tutorials are also not consistent (e.g., the login tutorial does not match variables with the posting tutorial, etc.). I do understand how to add text to "initialText", but it's against Facebook policy to provide default text in this variable. Can anyone explain how to publish text and a picture to a user's news feed in Xcode?
Thanx!
Have you tried this one?
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler myBlock = ^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result){
if (result == SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled) {
NSLog(#"ResultCancelled");
} else
{
NSLog(#"ResultSuccess");
}
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:Nil];
};
controller.completionHandler =myBlock;
[controller setInitialText:#"Learn iOS6 Social Framework integration"];
[controller addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://google.com"]];
[controller addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"myimage.jpeg"]];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:Nil];
}
else{
//NSLog(#"UnAvailable");
UIAlertView *alert=[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Facebook"
message:[NSStringstringWithFormat:#"The application cannot post message at the moment. Please login under setting section with your Facebook account."]
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:#"OK"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}
import social framework in your project.
- (void)ShareOnFB
{
SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler myBlock = ^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result){
if (result == SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled) {
NSLog(#"Cancelled");
} else
{
NSLog(#"Done");
//Adding the Text to the facebook post value from iOS
}
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:Nil];
};
controller.completionHandler =myBlock;
NSString *fb=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"you can add your text hereand change it as and when needed"];
[controller setInitialText:fb];
//Adding the Image to the facebook post value from iOS
[controller addImage:yourImageView.image];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:Nil];
}
I have been using this code for twitter posting .
SLComposeViewController *fbController=[SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter])
{
SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler __block completionHandler=^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result){
[fbController dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
switch(result){
case SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled:
default:
{
NSLog(#"Cancelled.....");
}
break;
case SLComposeViewControllerResultDone:
{
NSLog(#"Posted....");
UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Success"
message:#"Posted Successfully"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"OK"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alertView show];
}
break;
}};
[fbController addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"1.jpg"]];
[fbController setInitialText:#"Check out this article."];
//[fbController addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://soulwithmobiletechnology.blogspot.com/"]];
[fbController setCompletionHandler:completionHandler];
[self presentViewController:fbController animated:YES completion:nil];
}
If the user doesn't setup the twitter account it is displaying the alert which is having the setting and cancel buttons . But it is not displaying the alert in the Device? Could any one help me please . Thanks in advance .
The same thing happens with Facebook sharing. Remove the test:
if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter])
If the user's Twitter account isn't already set up in iOS 6, the above test will evaluate to false and none of the sharing code will execute.
Instead, if you skip the check and try to present the SLComposeViewController anyway, iOS will prompt the user to set up their Twitter account.
BOOL canCompose= [SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];
if (canCompose) {
SLComposeViewController *fbCompose=[SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];
[fbCompose setInitialText:addressLabel.text];
[self presentViewController:fbCompose animated:YES completion:nil];
}
once try this code instead of using completionHandler
Follow this tutorial. here open the alert.
http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-101-integrate-twitter-and-facebook-sharing-in-ios-6/
- (IBAction)postToTwitter:(id)sender {
if ([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter])
{
SLComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [SLComposeViewController
composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter];
[tweetSheet setInitialText:#"Great fun to learn iOS programming at appcoda.com!"];
[self presentViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES completion:nil];
}}