I was wondering if it is possible for us to post to Facebook without using the Facebook SDK, but rather launch the native Facebook app with specific content to be posted?
In iOS, we can use the Social Framework, how do we approach this problem in Android?
Is it possible?
Yes, it is possible to invoke the share dialog without using the Facebook SDK using an Intent. Unfortunately it is not possible to share custom text. If this is a requirement you have to integrate their SDK.
For more details on the intent solution, have a look at following post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21189010/5199788
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was just curious as to how I can go about reading Facebook status posts from a particular page through my Android application.
I looked into the Facebook API but that seems to be more related to making Facebook applications, which wasn't my intent.
If anyone can point me in the direction of a guide or link that will explain to me how to do this it will be much appreciated.
Well the whole idea of the Facebook API is so that you can call their functions to give you access to Facebook content. If you want to incorporate them into your Android Application, try using their Android SDK
While using the Facebook SDK for Android, I realise Facebook uses their own dialogs with forms so the user can enter their information.
Is there a way to use my own forms and send the data to Facebook to authenticate? Or do I have to use theirs? If so, is that the same case for uploading pictures, posting on your wall, comment, etc.
I'm not sure about uploading pictures, but I ran into the same problem some time before with the forms and after a lot of research reached the conclusion that you have to use their forms. The only application AFAIK that uses custom Facebook login on Android is Facebook for Android (official application).
You might be able to figure out a way by tracing the URL that is being used by Facebook for authentication, but those sorts of hacks won't be reliable as Facebook may change the API on you. It sucks, yeah.
Here is some more information, Stack Overflow question Android -> Facebook login without a dialog?.
I'm developing an android app with phonegap and html5. Can anyone tell me how to implement Facebook login button. Also I need to know, how to implement share on wall functionality. I tried using facebook phonegap plugin, but no success.
You can check the "Hackbook" example provided with the SDK sources.
https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/blob/master/examples/Hackbook/src/com/facebook/android/LoginButton.java
I have seen widgets and apps that show you status updates of your friends on facebook. Does anyone know if it is possible via a custom app to comment or like things from an app or is there no public API for functions of this nature.
Try looking at http://developers.facebook.com and that has all of the API documents you should need (look at Graph API, if that doesn't have it look at the legacy REST API). If there's something missing, request it using the bugzilla on that website.
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Facebook have an SDK for Android, which your app can use to integrate with Facebook, and do the things you're describing
https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk
I saw some topics here regarding facebook and twitter integration with Android Application.
I need help regarding, is twitter integration with Android App possible in real??
[I need to tweet on user's wall and all]
If i wanted to integrate Facebook with my App then whether i go as per explained in following link(and if this is the recommended way then how to implement this SDK):
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=146956
or
else i use Android facebook SDK available here on code.google.com
The official facebook SDK for android is here:
http://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/
It includes complete examples of use.
I need help regarding, is twitter integration with Android App possible in real?? [I need to tweet on user's wall and all]
In real? Of course! You could be able to tweet on the user's timeline. In this case, use the appropiate authentication methods. There are many ways to do so, this is one of them:
http://www.androidsnippets.org/snippets/24/index.html
You can also use specialized third-party libraries (like twitter4j) to use Twitter from your Android app.