So I'm building this app for a client (It's a basic scheduling app like HootSuite but simpler) and he wants the ability to add multiple Facebook accounts with an IAP (aka In-App Purchase) after said IAP is purchased. The IAP is all done and works great but I cannot figure out how to link multiple Facebook accounts. I tried to use the same login method that a previous developer used (It's an ongoing freelance project and 2 other devs worked on it before I joined) to no avail since the login process stops once the app realizes that the user has already signed in...
So I guess that my question is this: Is there a way to link multiple Facebook accounts at once in a single iOS app? If so, how exactly? Forget the IAPs if that's too confusing, everything is fine there anyways. The goal is to be as seamless as possible, so ideally there would be no need for the user to log out and log back into the other account (Something I've seen a lot in other Questions/Answers).
I don't think I am authorized to show the code to you guys (that would also require sharing the entire project, it's a real spider-web!), but could someone please lead me in the right direction?
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you in advance.
Notes:
Just like the title says, we use Firebase for our storage, Cloud Firestore for our database and Facebook login (through Firebase) for login since the purpose of the app is to schedule posts on IG.
I use a basic variable called "activeUsers" to track the number of accounts "linked" to the app so we can know whether or not to show the "PurchaseModel" and, obviously, receipt verification and all that for IAPs. Thought it could be useful!
3. When the app starts, you are prompted to link a Facebook account to enable the scheduler. THIS WORKS GREAT! What I am trying to achieve is to add other accounts AFTER the first one has been "enabled"/logged into.
It's not possible to link multiple accounts from the same provider to a single Firebase Auth account.
You can only link multiple accounts of different types (Facebook, Google, GitHub, etc) to a single Firebase account as described in the documentation.
Preamble:
I'm not a Facebook user, I never had any Facebook account, so I'm not familiar at all with the Facebook website.
I need to create a Facebook App
Today I need to implement "Facebook Connect" (authentication) for the website of a client. I'm using an existing extension which requires me to enter my App ID and Secret key, which can be obtained by creating a Facebook App.
1: Where to get started?
According to both the Facebook Documentation and the extension I'm using, a Facebook App can be created by going to the following URL: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
2: Account required
When I go to that URL I am asked to login. Very well, so I go ahead and create my very first Facebook Account. On the registration form it says that if the account is created for a business then I don't need to enter my personal name. This account is not for me but for my client's website, and my client being a business, I go on and open a business account.
3: Account verification
To complete, I am required to verify my email address, which I do successfully. After that, it asked me to verify my personal phone number, which I do successfully.
4: Account created & verified: still can't access the App Creation page
Now, I finally have a Facebook Business Account. I go again to that same URL to create a Facebook App: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/. However, I still can't access the page as according to the Facebook Documentation it seems that I need to convert my account to a "Developer Account".
5: Developer Account required
Very well, I follow the process of converting my account to a Developer Account, provide all kind of information about me and the company hiring me, and finally, I now have a Developer Account, yeey!!
6: Second attempt
Ok, now it should certainly work and I will FINALLY be able to create this dawn app to start implementing Facebook Connect on my client's website!
Double checking that the URL is the correct one from the documentation of the plugin, and also from the Facebook Documentation itself, I go ahead and refresh this page: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
7: Still fail: now getting redirected to Facebook Advertising
But now, when loading the above URL, I am automatically redirected to the following page: https://www.facebook.com/advertising
I have tried to log-out, erase all my cookies, login again, but nothing will do, when I go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ I am always redirected to https://www.facebook.com/advertising which is about creating ads but what I need is to create an app!
8: Personal Account required
I searched all over the place for an explanation or maybe for a newer URL, but no luck. I finally found on StackOverflow (Can't access Facebook Developers App!!?! Redirected to my page repeatedly) that I can't create a Facebook App with a Business Account, and that I need a Personal Account instead.
9: Personal Account creation
Very well, I go ahead and create my very first personal account on Facebook.
10: Can't create a personal account, email and phone already used!
Oops, it says that my email was already used for another account. Hmmm OK so I go ahead and create a new email address especially, and then try to register a personal account again. Now it is asking to verify my phone number, which I do, but unfortunately it says that my phone number was already used to verify another account earlier today!
Dawn, I'm really starting to feel exhausted by Facebook. Let's think about a solution. I have only one phone number, and I wouldn't use the phone of a friend as they all have Facebook and all probably verified their own accounts using their phones.
11: Deleting my Business Account created earlier
Solution founds! I will delete my business account, so my real email and my phone number will be available again! Yeey!!!
12: Facebook won't delete my account today
A few minutes later, I understand that my Facebook Account cannot be deleted today. I can deactivate it. But this won't free my email nor my phone number. After some research on the web I found a hidden form that allows to really delete my account. I go ahead through the deletion process, enter my password about 10 times, and fill 10 really hard CAPTCHAS, and finally my account is deleted! Oh wait... it says it won't be deleted before 2 weeks!!!
13: Final attempt: fail again
Anyway, I still try to use my phone number again to create a personal account, but still no luck, Facebook won't let me use my own phone number to activate my account.
What are my options?
Have you looked at all into dummy phone numbers, such as with Google voice (free) or with Skype (nominal fee)? Some sites, such as Craigslist, can sniff those numbers out and still not allow them to be used for verifying, but others can't tell the difference. Could be useful.
Depending on how big your client's budget is, maybe grab a throwaway prepaid phone from the store and use it. Just a few thoughts on how to avoid the phone issue. Everything else seems straightforward after that.
Building an app on Facebook gives you the opportunity to deeply integrate into the core Facebook experience. Your app can integrate with many aspects of Facebook.com, including the News Feed and Notifications. All of the core Facebook Platform technologies, such as Social Plugins, the Graph API and Platform Dialogs are available to Apps on Facebook.
In this document we will explain the following concepts:
Canvas Page: The Page in which your app is loaded.
Social Channels: The key channels that help you grow your user base and re-engage existing users.
Analytics: Accessing analytics for your application.
If you wish to start building an App on Facebook now, please refer to our getting started tutorial. If you want to build an app to add to the tab of a Facebook Page then you should refer to Page Tabs.
Visit this site
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/
My company wants to include Facebook Connect into some of the web sites we sell. Getting the integrations to work properly isn't really the problem, the problem is creating the required app in a useful way.
I can create the app with my personal Facebook account, but that's no good if I quit a few years down the way, and since Facebook scrapped company accounts over Pages, it's not possible to make a company account where we can gather all the Facebook Connect apps we make.
Is there an official solution and/or working hack that will solve this problem for us?
Thanks in advance for all help!
No. You are going to have to use a "real" Facebook account for this. You also need to verify that account as a Facebook developer. This involves either submitting a phone number (SMS verification) or a credit card number.
If you are worried about using your own personal account, as your client to use his. There is no reason you should be forced to use your account - after all, its only a job right? :)
I strongly advise against opening a new "fake" account to manage your applications. Facebook is tightening their security and methods to find these fake users. Should Facebook close this "fake" account, you won't have access to your application's settings anymore.
Can I connect to 2 different websites at the same time using fb connect?
I have a networking site that uses FB connect but I also have a forum that I would like my users to register on is there any way that when they sign up to one site they automatically create the same user details on the other site using the connect button?
Or is there another way around it so that I can have them join both sites at the same time so they dont create 2 different users?
Any help would be great but please put it in simple terms as Im not very experienced at things like this :)
Your best bet would be to create your forum as a subdomain of your main site, so https://forum.yoursite.com. If you do this, even if the two are hosted/run separately, you can use the same FB login.
Otherwise if they're not the same site then really users shouldn't be signing up for both at the same time.
I have tried several times to create an APP for my business page and all it does is redirect me to my business page.
I also tried a few suggestions on here and got into a validation process. I have already validated by phone when I first signed up. I also tried the CC valid. Nothing.
Is this common? Do you have to have a personal account to create APPS? Anyone knows what gives?
Yes, you should use a personal account to create an app.