I want to give the possibility to the players of my game, to publish to their Facebook feed images and videos stored on their device.
The Facebook SDK does not seem to provide this feature through FB.FeedShare. Only already hosted media can be referenced in the mediaSource field.
Several questions have been asked about this subject (1, 2, 3)
However, the Android SDK and iOS SDK does provide it. Isn't the Facebook SDK a simple "abstract layer" wrapping the native SDKs? Why all the native SDK features haven't been implemented?
I know an alternative solution would be to upload the media using the Graph API and reference from the FB.FeedShare function.
EDIT: As mentionned by #misorude, the publish_actions permission has been removed
TL;DR
Is it possible to create the Android and iOS plugins that would call the native functions used to share a media stored on the device of the users?
If so, do you know how is it possible to "reference" the native Facebook SDKs without bundling them into the plugins I will create? (Since they are already in the Unity Facebook SDK in my project).
EDIT: Seems like someone already tried to create a wrapper, but "it didn't play nice"
I am also open to other suggestions. My final goal is to let the user publish a video. I would love to use intents to open the Facebook app, but iOS does not have such feature.
Thanks in advance.
Related
I want to use deep link in my FaceBook ads install campaign.
According to Branch docs: https://docs.branch.io/deep-linked-ads/facebook-app-install-ads/#optional-deep-link-your-app-install-campaign
Unfortunately, we've found that the direct S2S mechanism for retrieving deep links is rather unreliable. We recommend that you have the Facebook Android / iOS SDKs installed so Branch can work directly with them on the client side for the best outcome.
I need to integrate Facebook SDK and then call:
Branch.getAutoInstance(this).enableFacebookAppLinkCheck();
But this method is not exist in Unity Plugin (https://docs.branch.io/apps/unity/)
Any ideas how to overcome that problem?
We don't have a wrapper for this method call. Please call the code from the Native Android files.
I'm making app with using Xamarin.forms. (PCL project)
I want to use facebook SDK to use
- get my profile. (name, e-mail)
- get my friends list. (their account id)
- posting on my wall.
I searched it and there are many options for that.
And Some solution seems like out of date. (not updated)
using Xamarin.Auth. (Component)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyq_ho4QflQ
looks like it's not using facebook app to log in that user installed on their phone.
The Outercurve Foundation's Facebook SDK (Component) https://components.xamarin.com/view/facebook-sdk
many people recommended to use it. but
In rating page, people says that it's out of date and useless now. (because it's not updated and facebook rule's changed)
Facebook SDK by Xamarin from nuGet Package.
Xamarin developer says that there is no FB SDK for PCL project so far.
I'm curious that what is the good way to use facebook SDK?
It must have been being used by many developers who make app with using Xamarin.forms.
Are you guys uses Dependency Service with native SDK?
No 3 is your best option. Correct, there is no Xamarin-Facebook binding library for PCL. However, it's fairly easy to make it happen with dependency injection. Either with the DependencyService or other container.
I've tried building apps with Xcode and it has been a struggle, i then discovered unity and an entire world opened up to me. and then i released 3 games this year on the iOS apple store made in unity.
now I'm trying to build a game and this games main feature is to upload and view videos. let me call it what it is making an app with unity. why? because i know how to use unity, this is my tool.
so i headed to Facebook and download the latest SDK for unity and boy did it take me time to figure how it works. after weeks of struggle i found out that the Facebook SDK can not upload video, well at least not yet (i hope i can ask them if they could make it that the Facebook unity SDK can do everything that all the other sdk's can do, like their iOS sdk and android sdk).
the way i found out was when i submitted a bug report and asked a Facebook team member and they told me that it is not supported. i then went to check the references of the Facebook iOS sdk and compared it to the reference of the Facebook unity SDK and to my wonder the calls are not there.
so my question is how can i use Facebook sdk in unity the way that i want it to?
is there a method of using the Facebook iOS SDK in unity and not the Facebook unity SDK?
At the end of the day i would really like to push the app out on android as well hence why i added the android tag. so I'm sure if i can achieve it with either platform i can just do it for the other one as well.
please if anyone can share assistance it would be appreciated, I'm extremely serious to get this project completed i can't wait to share my idea with the world.
seems like I've confused myself. apparently one can do exactly what i want to do. The Facebook team member responded to my question I've included his exact reply for your convenience.
we are working on share functionality for our unity game using the Facebook Unity SDK.
We are using FB.Feed for our post and share additional links at the end of the post using the 'properties' parameter and sending a Dictionary.
This works nicely on Android and for the webplayer but nothing is shown when using the iOS version which has the exact same codebase.
This seems to be a bug since the same happens using the interactive console example.
Can anyone confirm?
Is there an official forum for the FB Unity SDK? The beta goup on facebook seems to be dead.....
Help very appreciated.
Simon
We are deprecating the properties functionality. Just so you know, for your specific use case the properties are unnecessary. We will automatically send users to the Google Play store when they click your game's link on Android and the iTunes store when they click it on iOS.
I'm trying to build android+iOS application via phonegap build API. I found that that this api has some limitations, but I want to make sure...
1) Implementation Facebook features to phonegap application is possible only by phonegap plugin, which is not able to add via build API.
2) iAds aren't also supported. I found some plugin which can handle this, but as in first point, it is not possible to add plugins via phonegap build API.
3) Playing video using HTML5 video tag doesn't work if operation system of device doesn't have installed needed codecs. And there is no other way how to be sure that some type of video will be playable on most androis/iOS devices.
...so when I want to build applications via phonegap API, I have to forget to use facebook, iAds and video(on all devices) ?
Thank you.
For your first question: in the case of facebook some facebook plugins exist, you may want to look here:
http://www.mosacrea.com/how-to-post-to-the-facebook-wall-in-an-iphone-app-with-phonegap-facebook-connect-and-childbrother-plugin/ it uses the ChildBrowser plugin..
or here:
http://eisabainyo.net/weblog/2011/06/25/how-to-post-on-facebook-wall-on-iphone-and-android-using-phonegap-plugins/ same thing but with a slightly different approach.
hope it helps...