I am going to integrate "facebook sharing" into an app. Basically a timeline post with a link and an image and text.
What is the difference between an elaborate Facebook 3.0 integration vs using the Android OS' share intent with certain parameters, where the latter allows users to choose between apps such as Facebook and it just works if the app is configured to use that intent.
The only difference will be a one line of code that will work with thousands of different app (and other social network) Vs bloating your app with Facebook SDK, hours of work, pain, bug for a less clean result.
;-)
Edit:
The Android Intent will also allow people to share on Twitter, Google Plus, and other websites if they don't like Facebook.
See this Facebook bug report, I guess you have to do it with the Facebook SDK.
Since they only allow posting a link with the share intent.
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Salam every body
I want to develop a project that allow to user to view latest picture uploaded in a certain pages
i'm new in facebook android sdk and i don't know what is the first step to do
can you give some directives to start this project?
best wishes.
I always recommend that developers who are looking to integrate Facebook into their apps to start with our documentation. This tutorial on our developers page walks you through a sample app that gets you started with our most basic SDK functionalities such as logging in via Facebook, uploading a picture, and grabbing the user's profile picture for example. Once you go through that, you should be well-versed enough to learn how to extend the SDK functionalities to do what you want.
This community is also very helpful when you have questions (but you have to provide context, sample code, and very thorough description of the problem you're facing).
I wish to drop pins or view the photo's which are of my interest in my Android Application, do we have any SDK by pinterest , as I would want to integrate the same inside my Android Application.
Any suggestions would be like a boon
http://developers.pinterest.com/android/
This is for others who might want to get started with pinterest and land in this page.
It seems like the answer is "not yet"... But go and sign up with them, I'm sure it's on their radar and will come soon enough if it's in their basic FAQ.
https://support.pinterest.com/entries/21151603-i-m-a-developer-does-pinterest-have-a-public-api
Another option (or just for the meantime before they release an official API) may be if the official pinterest app offers an intent for sharing? Plenty of other social web entities like twitter, facebook, etc give intent based access in their official apps, that let you dump media, links, etc into them from other apps in the system, and have the information posted to your accounts.
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 want to implement authentication of following sites in my Android application.
Facebook
Twitter
Goggle
So far, I went through many solutions but
For Facebook, I need Facebook Android SDK
For Twitter, I need twitter4j
For Google, I have found some OAuth code
So if I want all these three authentications in one Android applications, the application eventually is bulked up by the code so is there any common solution to implement all these authentication in one Android application, some light-weight solution?
Take a look at this : http://kurogo.org/technology/
They have a module named Login. AFAIK, this module has support for SSO (Single Sign On). So, they should have login modules for SSO supported platforms. Google/Facebook and twitter does that. But so far they have not released any Android port of the same. But, as you might see, it is based on the popular MIT-Mobile middleware. Here is their github repo
Not sure this is exactly what you are looking for or something like that does exists. But its worth giving a shot.
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.