I want to post a pre-defined message on Facebook through my android application. I got everything to work except the 'properties' field. I want to post a message where it says:
More information: here
and when the user clicks on 'here', it should link to the page.
This is what I did:
Bundle params = new Bundle();
String s2 = "{'More information':{'text':'here', 'href':" + details + "}}";
params.putString("properties", s2);
where 'details' is the link to the page.
But it seems like facebook is not picking up this line. I successfully set up the caption, picture and other fields.
Any insights? Thanks!
This is by design, as far as I know, we do not support HTML in status updates. We will automatically create a link if you post a valid URL however, so I would suggest just pasting out the full link
".....More information: (www.yourURLhere.com)"
On Facebook, www.yourURLhere.com will be a clickable link.
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I'm trying to share a post on my FB wall by an Android native app.
I'm following the official guide available # FBOfficial
I would know if it's possible to share a text, an image and an hashtag and also tag place or friends in the same post.
I tried to use the ShareContent class with no results.
If I use
new SharePhotoContent.Builder()...
it's not possible to add text, because the method "setQuote" is not available.
Otherwise, if I use
new ShareLinkContent.Builder()
it's not possible to add a picture.
I would also know why
setShareHashtag(new ShareHashtag.Builder())
works perfectly but
setPlaceId(String placeId)
never works, also if I add a valid placeId taken from PlaceIds
Is there a way to solve my problem?
TY in advance
I have an application that show to the user articles from news feeds.
I want to add Facebook like mechanism, that when the user push the like button,
his Facebook account will show that he is like this article.
So, I downloaded the Facebook sdk, and worked with the open graph example.
The problem is that I can't find any good example of how to to this.
I understand that I have action types, and object types. I added action type of me/og.likes and now I need to send the url of the selected article.
What I do so far is:
I have this lines, what they do is only add which type of action my application can handle.
this is working fine.
Bundle params = new Bundle();
params.putString("object", "http://samples.ogp.me/226075010839791");
Request request = new Request(
Session.getActiveSession(),
"me/og.likes",
params,
HttpMethod.POST
);
Response response = request.executeAndWait();
// handle the response
Now I want to send the actual url of the selected article, do I need to use some kind of outside url of an object or I can build object in my application and send it?
Any help would be great,
thanks.
When creating an action you must be sure that facebook robot can see the URL and correct meta tags. You can debug your page on this page. So in your case as I understand facebook can't visit your application and therefore can't determine meta tags in your app. So the solution I can offer is creating a web page which will generate meta tags depending on the $_GET[] parameter. You can pass an article ID and generate meta tags for that ID.
There is library which completely solve this issue (project page):
dependencies {
compile 'com.shamanland:facebook-like-button:0.1.8'
}
The simplest way to add like button:
<com.shamanland.facebook.likebutton.FacebookLikeButton
style="#style/Widget.FacebookLikeButton"
app:pageUrl="http://url.to.like/page.html"
app:pageTitle="Title of page"
app:pageText="Short description of page"
app:pagePictureUrl="http://url.to.like/picture.jpg"
/>
This view will be drawn in your layout:
After clicking on it you will see the dialog with official Facebook 'Like' plugin.
Read more details.
I am Trying to post on facebook with the help of "feed" dialog. I supply some information in post like "link","picture","caption","description","title" etc.
But when i share the post the preview look like the image below:
My Concern is this I want to show description right align to the dialog after the Image ends. Can i do this by some change in my code.
The updated Screen looks something Like the Image Below:
mFacebook.dialog(MyActivity.this, "feed",parameters, new FbDialogListener());
Where parameter is the object of Bundle contains all the values to be posted on Facebook.
There is the same issue with Iphone SDK too.
You can't do this, the dialogs are rendered from Facebook's side, as is the content itself once posted. You also appear to have attempted to embed HTML in the description, this will also not work as Facebook will not render client-supplied HTML in their interface.
Do not use Facebook's dialog, you can create your own views (e.g. UIView in iOS or View in Android) similar to the second dialog (or whatever you like). On share button tap you can use Facebook's graph API to share it on your wall.
iOS example
NSMutableDictionary * params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[appDelegate.facebook accessToken],#"access_token",
<your FB app id>, #"api_key",
<message you want to post>, #"message",
imageData, #"source",
nil];
[appDelegate.facebook requestWithGraphPath:#"me/feed"
andParams:params
andHttpMethod:#"POST"
andDelegate:appDelegate];
See here for graph API.
I am using a similar approach in my iOS app. I designed the share dialog almost similar to Facebook's share UI.
I am posting to a user's wall on Facebook. How can I add a link to the post next to the like and comment links, as seen on the illustration below. What is the parameter name I should include in my request?
This is what I eventually did:
The link besides the like and comment is called "actions". To add it, you need to create an array of actions (actually, as I understand only one action is supported). For example:
JSONObject actions = new JSONObject();
actions.put("name","Get Your App");
actions.put("link", "Your app URL");
parameters.putString("actions", actions.toString());
Here is list of all Post Fields.
link | The link attached to this post | Requires access_token | string containing the URL
This code WAS working fine, but suddenly stopped showing the map thumbnail from either Bing or Google static maps.. Any ideas? Did Facebook change their own parsing of the picture urls?
Bundle parameters = new Bundle();
parameters.putString("message", et_message.getText().toString());
parameters.putString("description", "Currently Near");
parameters.putString("picture","http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=36.837812,-76.022045&zoom=15&size=110x110&sensor=false&maptype=hybrid&markers=color:blue|36.837812,-76.022045");
parameters.putString("caption", lStreet + " - " + lCity +", "+ lState + " : "+ lPhone);
parameters.putString("name", lName);
if(lUrl != null){parameters.putString("link", lUrl);}
mAsyncRunner.request("me/feed", parameters,"POST", new myPostListener(), 1);
Now the Wall Post on my Facebook seems to be changing the link to combine parts of the LINK url, along with the image URL. I don't have a clear example of this that I can post, but a rough example is:
link = http://foo.bar/
picture = http://somemaps/image1.jpg
Result when hovering over the broken image on Facebook is something like:
http://apk.facebook/http://somemaps/image1.jpg
I don't get why Facebook isn't just using my raw picture Url in the first place!? Grrrrr
Anyone else having problem posting images to facebook wall, where image is a realtime generated image from Bing Maps, or Google Static Maps API?
I was having a similar issue and after a long debugging session it was due to me not providing a link and name attribute along with the picture attribute. I was just sending in message and picture but I think Facebook changed the way you can post pictures in a post recently because this did work about a month ago when I was testing.... Make sure they are all included in your post to Facebook. To post a picture you have to post to /me/photos, can't just send in a link unless you want it displayed as a "Facebook Link". Hope that helps.