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.
Joe
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
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Currently, I am making an Android app in which I need to integrate the complete Twitter app.
I went through Fabric website where I got to know that using the plugin in my app I could integrate Twitter App functionalities very easily.
I want to know if someone has used it.
Will it be really helpful in my case?
Does it give the same feel of the original Twitter app?
Does the plugin also provide UI(Twitter app UI) or do I have to make my own UI?
The twitter APIs and SDK is one of the most advanced and interesting ones i have ever used. It gives the real feel and look of twitter ( login, twitter lists). The SDK does most of the work for you. For example when you want to list tweets using List,the only thing you will need is to create a list view and a text view in your xml.
Initializing the sdk in your app is just less than 5 lines of code.
The console is easy to use as well. This will help you set up your app so fast.
For me i didnt feel like a programmer when using the SDK unlike when I am really struggling to use GMAIL APIs.
Go ahead and just do it.
Happy Coding.
I have started learning FB integration in android tutorials from the facebook developers site. But what I have observed is that the Pick Friends activity in the provided example projects (Sample Projects Scrumptious and HelloFbSample) doesn't work either in the emulator or the smart phone. Is either anybody experiencing the same problem ?
The Graph API v2.0 shows only friends who are also using your app. See Don't get all friends of facebook in my ios app?
Even though The Facebook Platform v2.0 shows only friends who are also using your app, you still may be able to see the entire list of friends provided:
1) You are using older version of facebook sdk, as I am using 3.5, it's working well for me.
2) You must have registered your app in your facebook developer account before April 2014.
This will work only till April 30, 2015. After that the friends who are using the same app only would be visible.
Reference:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
I have found a few workarounds that will show a users friends, however you cannot interact with them. Like inviting them to your app. Facebook has bascically restricted this kind of behavior to games only but if you read my issue request here on HelloJS you will see i have a few solutions that might help. In no means is this for Java (Android) its for web based/cordova mobile apps not native android (java)
https://github.com/MrSwitch/hello.js/issues/57
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
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
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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.
Is there any way to access a Facebook non-user page (ex: Musician, Product, etc) through an API through Android? I saw that there is a Facebook Android SDK but I haven't been able to figure out if this can be done.
Yes this can be done. Have a look at the Graph API docs from facebook. I don't have very much insight into exactly how this is done with Android but the SDK should have example code to get you on the right track.