I am developping an Android application that uses a Facebook component. It would be something to simplify the management of the Facebook privacy settings with the user only having to push 2 or 3 buttons to apply a whole set of privacy parameters to his/her account.
For example, by pushing the button "paranoid", my settings change as:
default privacy for new wall posts = only me
secure browsing ON
...
And by pushing "free givaway":
secure browsing OFF
default privacy for new wall posts = everyone
...
Just an example.
I'm just beginning, so I had a look at the Facebook SDK for android, implemented the few examples like the Hackbook, etc.
But I'm still wondering how to manage privacy settings. I understand it would be a security concern to let an app manage that kind of thing, but why not?
Since I couldn't find a clear answer inside the bowels of internet, my questions are:
Is it doable? Or even partially?
If not, why? Will it be possible in the future?
If yes, how? What part of the API should I use?
Thanks.
This is not doable via the graph API because managing settings isn't available to write/update. I am almost positive this will never be available via the API. The Facebook native app may or will allow this but Facebook itself makes that app and doesn't use their own api for their app.
If you really wanted to do this, you could break Facebook's terms of service and do this via scraping Facebook's desktop site.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/
From Above link : The value field may specify one of the following strings: EVERYONE, ALL_FRIENDS, NETWORKS_FRIENDS, FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS, CUSTOM
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I want to know if it is possible to find and manage privacy settings for a Facebook account programmatically. Like Jumbo Privacy app is doing.
I'm trying to find out if there is a way possible to change the privacy settings like timeline and tagging and a post's privacy settings, and friend-list's privacy settings (who can view my friend-list), programmatically using android or swift.
I've also seen an app named Jumbo Privacy app which is able to change privacy settings of an account. I just want to know if there is a pathway given by Facebook to do so or not.
No, there is no way to do this via any of the official APIs provided by Facebook.
If you got any app or service doing this, then they presumably must be doing it in some way that is explicitly not allowed, such as interacting with the web UI directly, or mimicking internal API calls, that were not meant for public consumption.
I know Deep linking with iOS application is supported by SFMC and I found documentation at here
But I am unable to find any documentation which provides details on supporting deeplining for Android application. Does marketing cloud supports android app links at all? Thanks
I think it still don't, but you might want to check with support once. See if you could use some work around' like https://app.urlgeni.us/
I would say is partially supported as depends on the platform, not really on the email coded as is exemplified here:
However, if other apps installed on a user's device can handle the same intent, users might not go directly to your app. For example, clicking a URL in an email from a bank might lead to a dialog asking the user whether to use the browser or the bank's own app to open the link.
So that depends on the configuration of the itents of the app to catch that request and how the user has configured the default handler on the device's system settings.
Assuming an application that has no login, how can one go about allowing some of its user access to activate 'hidden' features.
An example I recently came across is the need for some users to see a different version of the data feed the app is using (official feed vs editor feed which is being modified/approved)
In android, I assume that we could just point those user to downloading a specific file and test for that file presence in the app but I dont believe this approach can be used on iOS (sandbox).
The approaches I came up with:
Hide an activator in the UI: specific touches/gestures, invisible button and the like
Make the user visit a site which sets a cookie when on a specific page and test for that cookie's value in the app to enable features.
Did someone came up with a more elegant solution?
You can try any AB testing tool like Optimizely , Apptimize, Taplytics or MixPanel
They will help you to try new features by enabling them to only a group of users. Also you can set goals to each variant so you can compare how they perform.
Create a settings bundle. Then the user can just go into the Settings app to switch your 'hidden' behaviour on and off.
In iOS you can register an association between your app and a file extension. Then if you send an iOS user an email containing an attachment with this file extension, iOS will open your app and you'll have access to the file. You could save to the sandbox from there.
Just Like In-app purchases, when user completes a purchase some of the features in application gets unlocked.
I think best approach would be to have data maintained on your server end, the users vs features and in splash screen you get the response from server which of the application's feature are enabled for this user using a service call.
Obviously you must be needing some kind of business logic to implement the flow of enabled features in the application and that is totally up to you whether you use SharedPreferences of keep the information in txt or some other files.
Like how I tried to effectively word in the title, my issue with Sign-ups and log-ins for my application is that it would work best with a college email, as it's an app designed for college campuses, but I can only find APIs and information regarding the Google+ sign-up that is everywhere.
For instance, an app like Kik does not require a Google+ sign-in and you can make your account however you like, but I've not found any information on how to go about creating a sign-in like that. The only substantial information regarding sign-ups/log-ins I've found are for the Google+ API.
The only other thing i thought of was using the Google+ sign-in to verify the person, and then having something in the settings to enter and save the college email for the uses it'll have.
Would any of you have thoughts on this? I'd prefer not to do the latter simply because it requires more for set-up of the app on the users part (which isn't ideal) to use it's full functionality, but I don't really see any other way of doing it at this point.
I've successfully posted to a fan page as the actual page via the Graph API.
The problem is that the post says it was posted at "time via application name". Is there any way to hide this, so my post looks exactly as if I typed it directly into Facebook?
Any help appreciated
Short answer: No.
Slightly long answer:
Unfortunately, if such a feature was to be available, it would have to be made available by Facebook via their SDK / API. As of now, however, anytime anything is published via any third-party application, they will continue to bear the via application name stamp on their posts.
Why I say that Facebook will have to implement such a feature is because Twitter did exactly that. Sometime in mid 2012 I think. This was possibly done to bringing parity across the entire platform. * Source: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/28/twitter-longer-displays-client-tweet-posted-web-emphasizing-first-party-reading-experience/*
I suspect this is because you can only do a limited set of actions (when posting on Twitter) as compared to the Facebook platform. On Facebook, you have several choices when posting content to the platform. Images, Videos, Links, Status updates. And I am not even counting the Open Graph actions.
You could consider filing a feature request to Facebook. If they think the suggestion merits inclusion, they just might do it.