I am using the official facebook ios sdk in my app (https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk)
It was all working fine. I was able to log in, pull all my info from Facebook, post things on my wall. Do all those regular stuff that you do...
But since last night, it appears to be broken. When the login window appears and the user logs in, instead of getting the authkey and getting a callback. The login window directs users to facebook.com.
Did anyone else notice the problem? Is there any fix to it or we just assume that the graph API is broken right now and wait?
I assume Facebook were just having a problem. If you had it working & did not change the code then the issue is elsewhere?
In general it's a pain to get working so the following is a brief hint to anyone who is stuck.
Having spent 2 days getting this working I recommend (assuming you have registered an app with Facebook) :
First get the demo app working.
This ensures you have your app ID and worked out how to add the URL stuff into the plist. This is explained in the docs so should not give you much trouble.
Once all the options in the demo app work (login, post, upload a sample photo) you can think about your own app.
Many things are different but you still need to have the AppDelegate method for the URL stuff. Also this method does not work as is assuming your app is using more than one view controller.
I went for the approach of setting up facebook in the app delegate eg:
Facebook *facebook
and in the actual facebook routine referencing that appDelegate's facebook object eg:
appDelegate.facebook
This approach is the subject of quite a few posts on the interweb so you should be able to google it.
I can log on, get info, post & upload photos.
I'm having the same issue, i downloaded the "official example" from gitHub, and wehn compiled it does she#. After i login, it open safari and redirects to http://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php, and the app stalls. Well that's not the way to do it, Facebook. They are obsoleting the old rest api, meanwhile the "new" graph things not working. Im currently using graph API with my own calls to graph.
Check if you have done the following
1.URL scheme corresponding to your Facebook application ID is set. Your URL Schemes must contain item looking like "fb1234567890"
2.AppDelegate's method must be implemented:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url
it is described in https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk "Authentication and Authorization".
Read also "Single Sign-On".
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First I just want to state that I already know this question exist. It is somewhat similar to mine. But since I don't have enough reputation I couldn't comment and ask if there was any progress on the issue.
Ok, so I'm trying to retrive the request_ids from the target_url, as per the Facebook docs. When the user taps on a request in the native Facebook iOS app, iOS switches to my app, and when I try to process the app launch url in order to parse out the request_ids, I can't even find the target_url.
The launch url should look something like:
fb00000000000000://authorize/#access_token=00000000000000&expires_in=86400&target_url= http://m.facebook.com/apps/friendsmashsample?fb_source=notification&request_ids=abc&ref=notif&app_request_type=Duser_to_user
But in my case the target_url is missing, and instead it looks like:
fb00000000000000://authorize/#access_token=0000000000000&expires_in=86400
So my question is: How do I get the target_url, so that I can parse the request_ids in order to deep link in my app?
Thanks!
I am trying to use Twitter to authenticate on parse.com in an iOS app.
I have got to the point I have this set in my application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method.
[PFTwitterUtils initializeWithConsumerKey:#"myConsumerKey”
consumerSecret:#"myConsumerSecret”];
When I tap the twitter button it shows a “Loading …” box for a few seconds and then nothing happens.
What I am missing?
I found two details (easy to miss) I needed to modify in the server settings to make things work.
The Callback URL field needs to be filled. It appeareatly doesn’
matter with what as long as it is a well formed URL. Obviously this
was in my case. I presume the content of the URL sometimes matters.
I needed to check “Allow this application to be used to Sign in with
Twitter”
Quite simply unable to make a post with just the text and NSURL object. I can do it with just the post, or with the post, NSURL and image, but ideally I'd just like to provide the link with the post.
It simply states "Cannot post to Facebook" as "The post cannot be sent because the connection to Facebook failed."
Is there anything I can do? I'm not using the Facebook SDK at the moment, but perhaps I might have to?
Many thanks
We just started running in to this issue with code that was working correctly yesterday. Googling shows a lot of people having this issue sharing from other Apple apps today via native integration. I actually think this is an issue on Facebook's end.
I tried sharing a URL from Mobile Safari and it too fails with the same error. Can you confirm that Mobile Safari also fails to share?
Well for now I'm able to leave the image part nil (still include the method, just leave the argument nil) and it will show the text and link only.
I'm looking at integrating support for tracking Facebook's new mobile app ads.
I've read the tutorial here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/tutorials/mobile-app-ads/
It says:
Include the following code to be executed when your app opens for the first time by user
[FBSettings publishInstall:appId];
So the first question is - where do I put this so that it only invokes the call if the install was driven from Facebook? I don't want FB to get credit for someone who found my app themselves on the app store.
Do I need to manually track whether or not I've called the publishInstall before for this specific user? (The preamble sentence implies this - but the SDK documentation for publishInstall implies otherwise).
And even more confusing is that the SDK FBSettings reference includes shouldAutoPublishInstall which defaults to YES. This would suggest that I don't need to do anything other than have the SDK integrated. So why does the tutorial not mention this as an option?
I assume that the appId is the associated Facebook appId (as opposed to the App Store App ID). This is also not clear from the documentation.
I browsed the sources of facebook iOS SDK, and it seems that guide is wrong.
You are right, that autoPublishInstall is set to YES by default, which means we don't need to invoke [FBSettings publishInstall:appId]; manually. AppId is indeed the facebook app id.
When you invoke openActiveSessionWith.... method, it initializes FBSession with
initWithAppID:permissions:defaultAudience:urlSchemeSuffix:tokenCacheStrategy: which contains in the end [FBSettings autoPublishInstall:self.appID];
+ (void)autoPublishInstall:(NSString *)appID {
if ([FBSettings shouldAutoPublishInstall]) {
dispatch_once(&g_publishInstallOnceToken, ^{
// dispatch_once is great, but not re-entrant. Inside publishInstall we use FBRequest, which will
// cause this function to get invoked a second time. By scheduling the work, we can sidestep the problem.
[[FBSettings class] performSelector:#selector(publishInstall:) withObject:appID afterDelay:FBPublishDelay];
});
}
}
So technically it should report the install out of the box (if I'm not missing something). I'm going to play with it a little more today to see if it works as expected and update answer with results.
Just put it at -[application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions].
Not all of the apps want to integrate the Facebook login. They only want the feature "mobile app install ads". For these kind of app, they should invoke +[FBSettings publishInstall:appId] manually. On the other hand, if your app has already integrated facebook login, you can assume that the FB sdk has published the installation.
If we just have to put
[FBSettings publishInstall:appId];
manually in
-[application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions]
how will I identify which install happened from facebook? I don't want FB to get credit for someone who found my app themselves on the app store.
put the code in Appdelegate DidbecomeActive method
- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application
hope this help :)
I start writing a simple app to use FaceBook IOS SDK from GitHub.
I have a few questions about it:
Is there a better documentation about those Delegate .. functions ? I cannot find those except the ones in DemoApp in the package
In the DemoApp, fbDidLogin, fbDidNotLogin and fbDidLogout are never called ... even a dialog is shown and I typed in username and password for logging in
I finished my application with FaceBook SDK.Therefore, I can answer my own questions now.
1) Developer can follow the DemoApp OR can visit http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/how-to-develop-facebook-application-for-iphone/ for more information
2) fbDidLogin, fbDidNotLogin and fbDidLogout would only be called IF inline Dialog box (for FaceBook) is used. Those delegate functions won't be called IF FaecBook app or Safari browser is used instead