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Facebook presents its mobile development framework

63 points by commanderj 15y ago

robjohnson 15y ago
Am I missing something? From a native iOS perspective anyway, this is nothing new. (Besides the one-click log-in anyway) This seems like facebook's way of catching up with how twitter's technology is baked into the iOS 5 OS.
- wyclif 15y ago
  So the info on this page is not new? Anybody?
- timdorr 15y ago
  These are all in-browser, not native applications. That's new.
- _corbett 15y ago
  Yea I'm confused. Seems the UI of the iPhone SDK might have changed but nothing else? SSO's been around for awhile, etc.
joelhaasnoot 15y ago
Typically Facebook: the docs suck I click on "See it in action" and "Android devices" (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/screenshots/android/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/screenshots/andr...) and get a 404.
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  - joelhaasnoot 15y ago
    Definately not hiring nitpickers or micromanagers. From what I understand, everything works in small teams. Knowing my own small startup, you can easily get swamped with bugs and issues and put off documentation and checking it till later, when it becomes an issue. It's bad practice, but with only so many hours in a day you have to prioritize. Nonetheless, someone from the marketing / developer relations should have noticed this. EDIT: Question was, how is this possible.
- Roritharr 15y ago
  Just noticed the same. This is another case of, how can this happen? Someone with more industry experience than me here that can explain how this is possible in such a shop?
- henrikschroder 15y ago
  The good thing about that though is that it allows clever startups to offer a service that takes care of the horribly documented details of making a Facebook app, and let their customers focus on the actual app. (Guess what my company is doing)
- joelhaasnoot 15y ago
  Fixed now...
alperakgun 15y ago
It is interesting to see how Facebook, Google, Apple collide on mobile by bring their core competencies onto their own mobile offering. Each one also tries to lock down users, based on their advantages. If competition wins, we shall have the same exciting ground on mobile too.
Mikushi 15y ago
Could be interesting, even though most of this was already doable through the regular API, some new interesting things (send Request to a friend for example is a nice idea). But with the FB Credits thing, i'm not sure what are the implications in terms of revenue stream, if my app already as an advertiser platform, do i have to funnel it through Facebook, or FB Credits are just for end users? Anybody as more information regarding this?
patja 15y ago
There is a big difference here in that app post contents will (hopefully) appear on mobile devices with all of their content visible and intact. Today when an app makes a post, the "description" (one of the optional post parameters) is left out when the post is viewed on a mobile device, and if there is an image it will get cropped to be square. The "description" is where your app really delivers most of its content for the post, and leaving it out today on mobile makes the posts appear almost nonsensical. Plus there is an open bug right now ( https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/151722701585098 https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/151722701585098 ) that has rendered app posts almost completely invisible on mobile devices since about Sept 25...I am guessing they will have to fix that bug as part of this new commitment to mobile. I know for one of my apps this bug has cut our traffic (and ad revenue) by 50%.
endlessvoid94 15y ago
This is awesome. Except, I can't see my friend lists. I assume this is in the works...

63 points by commanderj 15y ago

Am I missing something? From a native iOS perspective anyway, this is nothing new. (Besides the one-click log-in anyway) This seems like facebook's way of catching up with how twitter's technology is baked into the iOS 5 OS.

wyclif 15y ago
So the info on this page is not new? Anybody?
timdorr 15y ago
These are all in-browser, not native applications. That's new.
_corbett 15y ago
Yea I'm confused. Seems the UI of the iPhone SDK might have changed but nothing else? SSO's been around for awhile, etc.

joelhaasnoot 15y ago

Typically Facebook: the docs suck I click on "See it in action" and "Android devices" (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/screenshots/android/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/screenshots/andr...) and get a 404.

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- joelhaasnoot 15y ago
  Definately not hiring nitpickers or micromanagers. From what I understand, everything works in small teams. Knowing my own small startup, you can easily get swamped with bugs and issues and put off documentation and checking it till later, when it becomes an issue. It's bad practice, but with only so many hours in a day you have to prioritize. Nonetheless, someone from the marketing / developer relations should have noticed this. EDIT: Question was, how is this possible.
Roritharr 15y ago
Just noticed the same. This is another case of, how can this happen? Someone with more industry experience than me here that can explain how this is possible in such a shop?
henrikschroder 15y ago
The good thing about that though is that it allows clever startups to offer a service that takes care of the horribly documented details of making a Facebook app, and let their customers focus on the actual app. (Guess what my company is doing)
joelhaasnoot 15y ago
Fixed now...

alperakgun 15y ago

It is interesting to see how Facebook, Google, Apple collide on mobile by bring their core competencies onto their own mobile offering. Each one also tries to lock down users, based on their advantages. If competition wins, we shall have the same exciting ground on mobile too.

Mikushi 15y ago

Could be interesting, even though most of this was already doable through the regular API, some new interesting things (send Request to a friend for example is a nice idea). But with the FB Credits thing, i'm not sure what are the implications in terms of revenue stream, if my app already as an advertiser platform, do i have to funnel it through Facebook, or FB Credits are just for end users? Anybody as more information regarding this?

patja 15y ago

There is a big difference here in that app post contents will (hopefully) appear on mobile devices with all of their content visible and intact. Today when an app makes a post, the "description" (one of the optional post parameters) is left out when the post is viewed on a mobile device, and if there is an image it will get cropped to be square. The "description" is where your app really delivers most of its content for the post, and leaving it out today on mobile makes the posts appear almost nonsensical. Plus there is an open bug right now ( https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/151722701585098 https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/151722701585098 ) that has rendered app posts almost completely invisible on mobile devices since about Sept 25...I am guessing they will have to fix that bug as part of this new commitment to mobile. I know for one of my apps this bug has cut our traffic (and ad revenue) by 50%.

endlessvoid94 15y ago

This is awesome. Except, I can't see my friend lists. I assume this is in the works...