I built a Facebook share dialogue on my website, which gets about 77% of its traffic from mobile devices. I am logging how many people click the button and how many of them actually share content. After some days it turns out, that the button is being clicked hundreds of times, but literally no one continues to actually share anything. The problem is: they get prompted to log into Facebook in their browser.
Is there any way to use an active FB-app login for sharing from a mobile website? And are there any differences between iOS and Android?
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It's been about 2 months now. We manage several facebook pages and all these pages were linking to native iOS / Android apps from the CTA button where users were either opening their apps via "Use App" link or were redirected to download them in case they didn't have it installed.
What happens now is that the dialog to connect your app via the "add button" function in Facebook pages, it only shows a textfield to redirect the users to a website (image attached). There is no way to link to a registered app (of course there is a related app registered with all the relevant platforms enabled and the admin has access to it). Facebook, as always is completely silent and not responding to any support requests, clients that had their apps linked to pages now ask us what happened and we are out in the cold without being able to understand wtf is happening.
This happens to 90% of our pages, some of them still have a "Use App" button that works just fine, but all others have the above problem. Also, new pages, suffer from the same problem as well. Changing the page theme doesn't seem to do anything. One (strange) finding is that if you download the pages management app in a mobile device, there is also a checkbox which allows to enter a deep link url besides the standard url but just that. The list with the apps that we had access to link to pages has just vanished.
Any ideas? Anyone having the same issue?
Excuse me for the confusing title. We have programmed App which runs with in the Facebook. It can be accessed over the desktop/notebook browsers. However it is not accessible/available if I login to the Facebook app on my iPhone and go to the APP list. Following scenarios does not work.
1) If somebody sends me the invitation to use the APP using Facebook message. If I now login to the Facebook-app on my iPhone and go to the messages and click on the invitation, I see the error. "Page not found". This works perfectly if I login to Facebook using browser (on laptop or iPhone)
2) On my iPhone, in the Facebook APP, if go to list of my APPs then our APP is not available in that list. (Other apps like candy crush and so on can be found)
Are we missing some configuration?
Thanks in advance.
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You are talking about a canvas app?
Those are not available on mobile, and never have been. But you can specify a Mobile Site URL in your canvas settings – users on mobile devices, that follow a link to your canvas app somewhere will then automatically be redirected to that external address.
Little cave-at: This has been disabled on a larger scale by Facebook recently, because some people where using it to redirect users to malware sites. Therefor now you have to get your app “white-listed” before this will work. Check this bug report, the FB engineer mentions are form where you can request this: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1051463851558493/
I have a simple scenario that I can't seem to find the answer to.
Scenario:
On my website I have Facebook share link. When clicked I want:
If the user is on a mobile device - open in Facebook app if they have it, else open in browser
If user is on a PC - open in browser
At the moment all that happens is it opens in the browser. This isn't good as hardly anyone is logged into Facebook on their mobile browser which is going to result in lots of users dropping out and not logging in to share.
I've found a few questions like this on Stack Overflow but they are old and nobody seems to have found a solution.
Is this achievable? Seems odd that you can't open the Facebook Share Dialog in the Facebook app.
Thanks.
Just because this issue killed some hours of my precious time I would like to share these possible solutions with you.
Issue:
Facebook like box does not appear in either google chrome, safari, internet explorer or whatsoever browser.
Answering my own question
Possible reasons:
First of all keep in mind at all times that it might have something to do with your facebook login state in a browser.
Usually you are using a certain browser when surfing and developing. In this browser your are most likely logged into Facebook.
When trying a different browser you may not be logged in and Facebook possibly hides the like-box from you if:
Your Facebook fanpage has country restrictions
Your Facebook fanpage has age restrictions and Facebook does not know your age when you are not logged in
Your Facebook fanpage has been created but it has not been published yet (This was my case and it almost drove me nuts.)
You can adjust these settings in the admin panel of your fanpage.
Happy coding :)
Can this be true, or am I missing something, big time? It seems there's no way to access a Facebook app's profile page on the Facebook mobile site (m.facebook.com)?
I thought I wouldn't need to create a separate fan page for my app now that the app's profile page kind of looks and feels like a regular fan page. But if it's not accessible in Facebook mobile, then it's no use to me whatsoever - the thing is, I'm developing a native iPhone app, and the Facebook app is just for sharing the results, promoting and building fanbase - in other words I need a "Visit app's Facebook page" button in my iPhone app, and obviously the link should open in m.facebook.com, not the full www.facebook.com site.
I have no problem opening regular fan pages in Facebook mobile on my iPhone, or opening app's profile pages in the regular Facebook site. But I can't seem to be able to access any app's profile page in Facebook mobile. Please tell me I'm just dumb and there's of course a way to do this.
Here's a few ways that I was able to make it work.
Named pages
m.facebook.com/coke
m.facebook.com/facebook
m.facebook.com/yupiq
Applications
m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=150980384961454
Does that solve it for you?
EDIT:
I was unable to get the m.facebook.com/{id} to work for anything.