Can someone please update/create a new FBConnect tutorial?

[Objective Zero]

Hey,

Every FBConnect tutorial I find, is like 2 years old. Now Facebook keeps updating their code like every 2 weeks and now those tutorials back from 2009 are worthless. Everything is completely different in their new source code. Does anyone know any newer tutorials from this year or can someone please share what they did from scratch to make FBConnect work with their new source code?

Thanks everyone!

[MacBook MH]

Yup, there is no UP-TO-DATE tutorial anywhere i can find... It would like to publish a "status update" with a link in my app, but cant manage to do that ... Can someone share a good tutorial if there is one?

[Allah]

FBConnects GitHub was updated in April, recent enough?

[MacBook MH]

yep... the sdk is new, but no matchin tut...

[Allah]

Originally Posted by MacBook MH

yep... the sdk is new, but no matchin tut...

Fair point the readme has these:

    [facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"me" andDelegate:self];             // get information about the currently logged in user
    [facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"platform/posts" andDelegate:self]; // get the posts made by the "platform" page
    [facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"me/friends" andDelegate:self];     // get the logged-in user's friends

And if you look in the header files there are more, but there isn't much guidance on the internet for the params and stuff like that.

EDIT: There are some alternatives and I've just found this on the Facebook website

EDIT 2: Seems as if shareKit isn't perfect, because it has many services, and it's a menu.

[Objective Zero]

Thanks for the info, but I need a tutorial from the middle somewhat. I got up to the point where the FBConnect files are in my app and ready to go. I just need to know how to import/what to import and what to put in my view did load, etc... Then finally I need to know how to post when I click a button (IBAction).

I would use ShareKit but:
1. Its buggy
2. Its not updated a lot
3. I do not want a UIActionSheet
4. I am using Apple's twitter client

[Objective Zero]

This actually isn't a bad tutorial, its actually the official Facebook one.
Mobile Apps - Facebook Developers

[Allah]

Originally Posted by Objective Zero

This actually isn't a bad tutorial, its actually the official Facebook one.
Mobile Apps - Facebook Developers

I suppose it's all about understanding the Graph API.

[Objective Zero]

I followed that tutorial, but there is a problem, look at my StackOverflow post here:
FBConnect problem - Stack Overflow

[wandou]

You can try ShareKit, there is a branch that works with new FBConnect. we use it in our app, works fine.

[Objective Zero]

With ShareKit, can I just use only the Faceboo part. And can I use it without a action sheet in some areas while in other areas i do use the action sheet?

[wandou]

yes, you can. you can remove all the other unnecessary codes. and you don't need to use action sheet. you just need to dig a little bit into the code or just look at the documentation on their website

[Domele]

Here is Sharekit's documentation on how to do that: ShareKit : Documentation

[Anand63]

Hi
Please help me...!
I am preparing(studying) How to develop a iphone apps.
I have some books on development of apps.
Please suggest me form which book i study..
Which book is good for fresher's..

1) Building iPhone Apps with HTML,CSS and JavaScript
By Jonathan Stark O’REILLY

2) iPhone Application Development for ios 4
By DUNCAN CAMPBELL

3) iPhone Application Development the missing manual
BY Craig Hockenberry O’REILLY

4) Professional iPhone and ipad Application Development
By GENE BACKLIN

5) The Business of iPhone App Development
BY Dave Wooldridge with Michael Schneider

[mr3cho]

The documentation for facebook sdk is so fragmented! For example the documentation on developers.facebook.com/blog/post/532 says to use...

facebook = [[Facebook alloc] initWithAppId:@"YOUR_APP_ID"];

while the documentation/sample on github says to use...

facebook = [[Facebook alloc] initWithAppId:@"YOUR_APP_ID" andDelegate:self];

i'd have to go with the code sample on github since the demo seems to work. This is all very frustrating!

[SundialSoft]

Having just reached completion point with my first app which went live today (does FB posts, photos with comments, downloads newsfeed, photos & comments) I can assure you that if you use the github sample & also have a look at Ray Wenderlich's FB example you then have enough to get going.

Register as a FB dev and create an app with FB so you have the correct id's to insert in the demo app & get the demo app working properly then you can take it from there.

Get stuck in to the graph api docs because that includes most of what you need to do things.

There are quite a lot of posts out there on this site & stack overflow.

[mr3cho]

Originally Posted by SundialSoft

Having just reached completion point with my first app which went live today (does FB posts, photos with comments, downloads newsfeed, photos & comments) I can assure you that if you use the github sample & also have a look at Ray Wenderlich's FB example you then have enough to get going.

Register as a FB dev and create an app with FB so you have the correct id's to insert in the demo app & get the demo app working properly then you can take it from there.

Get stuck in to the graph api docs because that includes most of what you need to do things.

There are quite a lot of posts out there on this site & stack overflow.

Cool. I've been following the demo and have made some good progress on integrating FB connect with my project.

I'd like to be able to log into facebook without having to show the 'allow access' screen everytime but the demo app doesn't cover that.

[SundialSoft]

Originally Posted by mr3cho

Cool. I've been following the demo and have made some good progress on integrating FB connect with my project.

I'd like to be able to log into facebook without having to show the 'allow access' screen everytime but the demo app doesn't cover that.

I assume you mean the login screen? You can work around that. When you log in you get a token. You can save that in user defaults & check if it's still usable before asking for the login. There are a couple of posts about it, just search here & stack overflow.