Facebook App Development

– Seh Hui @felixleong

So, you want a Facebook App…

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428 million daily active users!

cc-licensed image by Stuart Richards, on Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/7149027@N07/1545584483/On average in December 2011, full stats available from Facebook’s Fact Sheet – http://newsroom.fb.com/content/default.aspx?NewsAreaId=22

For Context…

Knowledge sharing after developed a full-blown Facebook app for Mindvalley

Consider this as version 0.5 :p

Part 1 – Ze Compulsory Overview

not covering this(yet)

Starting from the basics…

FB Plugins for Websites

“Me wantz Facebook Juice!”

Plugins

Like, Share, Subscribe, Send buttons

Facebook Comments

Activity Feed, Like Box, Recommendations…

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

User accounts for web applications

Facebook Applications

Two types:

Page tab app

Canvas app

Canvas app

Facebook Pages

<< Apps! :D

Page tab app

the difference?

This is UserVoice

The TRUE POWER of Facebook

Graph API

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Graph API

Basic stuff you can retrieve

Name, gender, locale, profile picture

Friends, subscribed to and subscribers

“Ask, and ye shall receive”

You can request permission to access to more details (likes, photo albums, videos…)

Part 2 – Under Ze Hood

Step 1: Create & register your app

Step 2: Write your app

“It’s easy!”

it’s just a web app

Making It Social™

Once they authorized your app, you’ve access to their graph :D

Imagine the possibilities

Step 3: Test Your App

Step 4: Feeling confident? :)

<< set to “Disabled”

… and launch! :D

Resources

http://developers.facebook.com/

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/ (look for Developer Spotlight posts)

Q&A– Seh Hui @felixleong