Facebook Messenger has MessengerExtensions.requestCloseBrowser that will close the webview on the Messenger app. Is there an equivalent for Google Assistant?
The use case might be authenticating or completing some type of acquisition and closing the webview out.
I tried various window.close() methods, but they just get ignored.
Well, I have some bad news, some good news, and some bad news.
First of all, I'm assuming you're opening the web view through the use of a card that links to the page in question. Right?
First bad news: you can't use window.close()
The Javascript window.close() function doesn't do what it used to do. It only closes windows that it opens. Since it was opened elsehow, you can't use this method.
Some good news, sort-of
You can, however, use something like history.back() to back out of the page. If you have only one page in the history, then this will back out of the web view and back into the Assistant.
It won't, however, let you generate another response through the Assistant. So while they might be authenticated, you can't send anything telling them that (at least not in the Assistant), until they say something back to you.
Facebook seems to sort-of allow this through their URL trick, but this is a trick, and it doesn't seem to work on all their platforms.
But the real bad news is...
Even if you can find a technical solution, you can't do this for the reason you're trying to.
Google's term's don't allow you to do any other kind of authentication except through Account Linking. Specifically it says:
Don't use any other method to associate a Google user with an account on your system
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I am in the process of building a touch screen photobooth where users will take pictures, add graphics, etc in Adobe AIR. At the end of the process, they will get to email themselves the picture, share the picture on Facebook, and share it on Twitter.
I am using this tutorial: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/oauth-in-adobe-air-applications-built-with-flash-or-flex/ to figure out how to get oAuth to work in AIR. But it seems simple. Just load the authorization request URL into AIR's equivalent of an iFrame.
The tricky part is that there will be no physical keyboard on site. For all text input, we designed an onscreen keyboard. Programming an on screen keyboard in AS3 is pretty easy. But we don't have access to the text fields within the AIR HTML/Browser wrapper so we can't manually add characters to the input strings...
Is there any workaround we can implement for this? Adding a physical keyboard is unfortunately out of the question.
I realize this is 5 months old, but I was working on something similar for a client this evening and ran across your question. I also wanted to omit the need for a system level onscreen keyboard, or a physical real world keyboard, just wanted to use a Flash/AIR based keyboard completely under control of the app via the attached touch screen.
I came up with a hacky way to do this all in Flash/AIR and it works for any oAuth dialog (with some caveats). I've got it working as a test for Facebook and Twitter oAuth permission pages just this evening. It requires that you use a StageWebView for the display of the oAuth dialog and some JavaScript injection via loadUrl method of StageWebView. Using the stageWebView, setting up a listener for the Complete event on the load of the oauth permission page in your StageWebView is the first step.
Next step, is once its loaded and the complete event fires, in your complete handler, you can then inject javascript directly into the page via the StageWebView reference, and then via that function set up communication to populate the fields dynamically from your AS3 on screen keyboard or other function. For example, to populate the username field in Twitters oAuth permission page, you could do this:
webView.loadURL("javascript: form = document.forms[0]; form['username_or_email'].value='your_username';");
That populates the username field in Twitters oAuth permission page.
So you could inject a function into the page, which you could then call from ActionScript to pass in key presses from your virtual onscreen keyboard, or completed strings, to populate the proper fields. That is the only tricky part, identifying the form and field names in the source of the oAuth pages ahead of time. So far Twitter and Facebook look pretty straightforward to identify, but of course could break at anytime, a little regexp could help make sure they are correct. Only problem I see here beyond that would be if the field names changes dynamically for security purposes, but from a quick glance at twitter and facebook at least they don't appear to do that. Other oAuth pages may or may not, YMMV.
There is a useful library for working with StageWebView that might be helpful in doing some of this communication - take a look here: http://code.google.com/p/stagewebviewbridge/wiki/Communication
In any case, that is the overall approach, leverage StageWebView, and then dynamically inject your own JavaScript function to handle passing in the value to the fields from your onscreen keyboard, or simply populate the fields directly with code similar to the above. Hope this helps anyone out there attempting something similar.
Wanted to add that I came up with this approach because it was/is a requirement to allow a user to do this directly on the exhibit I am working on, but my personal preference would be to simply collect a users email address, or phone number, and have the interactive send them an email or SMS message to their own device, which they could then easily share more safely and securely. Another solution would be to display a QR code, a user could snap and quickly resolve to share more securely - I prefer those approaches, but the above will do the trick for users willing to enter in their credentials in a public place. Make sure you have time outs on the session and properly logout users credentials for subsequent users, otherwise bad things are guaranteed to occur.
I've recently installed the browser plugin Disconnect to keep Facebook, Twitter and Google from recording my browser history as I use the regular web while still letting me use those services when I choose to.
Can anyone explain how Disconnect works?
I'm interested in how it works to understand where my web experience might be changed or compromised and as an intellectual curiosity about what these sites are doing and how it can be blocked.
There are detailed descriptions of what our extensions do in the extension galleries (and someday soon, our site), e.g.:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo
More technically, all our extension code is open source (and well commented and otherwise readable, if I do say so myself):
https://github.com/disconnectme
I'm only guessing, but to track you, google, facebook and twitter send you a cookie to identify you. Then if you browse the web a display page that contain an adsense banner, a g+1 button an analytic script, a facebook/twitter widget, google , facebook and tweeter access this cookie.
So to prevent them to record your browsing, maybe the addon filter the cookie sent in http request or filter google/fb/twitter script/iframe/url from the viewed page.
Hope this could give you a hint.
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I'm not sure why but creating any kind of integration beyond the use of social widgets and buttons on external sites always confuses me.
What I need to do is create a tab on a particular Fan Page. This tab needs to:
Contain an interface for casting a vote in a Poll.
Handle multiple Polls. Only one will be featured in the tab at a time, but there should be an interface for navigating to previous polls.
All polling data needs to be stored on my servers - 3rd party Polling solutions (facebook apps, or embedable services) are not an option unless the data storage location is configurable.
All those requirements are pretty easy to address. Im just confused about how to integrate with FB.
Do i need full FB App for this, or is there another way? This will only be accessible via the Fan Page tab, so I don't necessarily need an App at apps.facebook.com.
If it is an app... is there a way to hide the app page, and the standalone app canvas from everyone except Fan Page admins?
FBML will be discountinue very soon. You might need to find an alternative way to do it. :-)
Check out the Static FBML app that Facebook provides. You can implement it on any Facebook fan page, change the tab title, and specify the content in HTML/FBML (with some limitations, I believe IFRAMES, password inputs, and some other random things are not allowed, but don't take my word on these until you test them). Hopefully this at least gives you a little head start.
Even Tradablebits platform is an option. They give a good functionality and make it simpler to work with Facebook. http://apps.tradablebits.com/ I analyzed this platform for one of my apps.
Its quite possible I'm missing something obvious here; I hope so.
I have been trying to get a Facebook game that posts to the user's wall after the game has finished working. As I understand it, this should be a pretty simple process (and there appears to be several different approaches).
I have tried most of these, and they all seem to fail for the same reason; I do not have a 'connect' URL (which, as I understand it, is also called a canvas callback URL?) set correctly.
This sounds easy to fix, but it seems like the application settings page has recently changed. Often a 'connect' tab is referred to, but this no longer exists. All I have is a 'Facebook integration' tab and this has only the canvas URL, there doesn't appear to be a connect URL.
You need to set the URL in the Website Section. You'd be best settings the domain as well just to make sure. I find it best practise to set the URL in the Facebook Integration tab as well as then Website tab regardless of the type of Facebook integration I am creating
You are correct that the error message is out of date, the connect URL is the Website URL now (just wanted to clarify)
I have a link to a Facebook page from a website. I know I can use the URL scheme href="fb://" to open up the Facebook application from within an iPhone, but if the iPhone user does not have the native application installed, an ugly error message pops up. I would rather just send this user to the Facebook website.
There's gotta be a way to do this, but everything I've tried has had some short-coming:
Can't make a HEAD request to a different server
Can't run a try catch javascript function since the event leaves the client page
Can't seem to access information about the user's applications... or can I? I've read a bit about a cookie called "appInstalled" but can't find any real documentation about it.
Any ideas out there? Thanks a ton in advance.
Denis
Can a website determine if a device [iPhone] has certain applications installed ? I'm pretty sure that's a big NO because of privacy and security concerns.
Not a really technical answer, but you could change the user interface to give the user an option. For example, having:
Click here if you have the facebook application installed on your iPhone.
If you do not, click here to go through to the site.
Sorry that I cannot offer a "proper" solution, I'm not really that familiar with iPhone development.