I am a mobile developer and I frequently use facebook to add sharing feature to my applications.
I usually have alot of applications on my facebook developer account.
But today all my apps have disappeared and my account seems to not be a developer account.
When I click on the "Applications" menu (on https://developers.facebook.com/) I only see "Register as a Developer" in the dropdown menu.
Someone have any idea how to fix this?
I have exactly the same issue. If there was a violation - and I don't think there was as the app is in sandbox - I received no notification of this. The literature states that an app will be disabled, not that an entire developer account will be removed. As I have other active apps this is quite a problem. It seems I can set up another developer account but one assume all existing apps will need to be set back up. Clusterf**k
UPDATE:
I re-signed up as a developer and all my apps are still there. A fright, but better that!
I'm not registered to accept payments. I couldn't find a hint of official support on the subject of 'closed developer accounts' nor any real way to directly engage other than firing off a bug report. As I said, re-registering did the trick and they just asked for a few bits of info.
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I am trying to add facebook to freelancer.com but it didn't work saying:
App not active This app is not accessible right now and the app developer is aware of the issue.
Why is this happening and what should be done?
I have searched for solutions but no reasonable answer was provided yet. Is this something related to my facebook account?
About a month ago or so, my facebook account was temporarily suspended due to suspicious login activity (it was me logging in on my own phone via mobile web browser).
Anyways, I managed to verify my identity and subsequently changed my password. Everything else is fine but I have lost all the apps in my developer account which probably numbered between 20 - 30. I have tried submitting the problem in the facebook accounts section but have not gotten a reply since. Has anyone had a problem like this before and how can I get in contact with someone who will actually reply and can help with the problem?
Thanks
p.s. I have found another similar thread but they differed in that they lost their "developer" status and got their apps back after they signed up as a developer again. My facebook account is already signed up as a developer but the apps are nowhere to be found.
There are 2 things you can try:
Go to this page and see if your Apps show up: https://developers.facebook.com/appeal
Ask in the official Facebook developers group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fbdevelopers
I would like to remove all developer capabilities from my Facebook account, but cannot get a clear sense of how to do this (after much searching).
I'd appreciate any help, thanks!
Can you please elaborate what you mean exactly with "developer capabilties"?
You could remove the Facebook Apps such as "Developer" and "Graph API Explorer" here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
Furthermore you can remove yourself from every app you created under the "Role" submenu of the app overview here:https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
This helps me in disabling the developers facebook account. First you need to delete any apps that is associated with your account, Watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3Qk5DP1NM
I have developed an iOS app that allows users to login via their Google Account using OAuth.
It was rejected by Apple for allegedly violating 11.13 of the App Store Review Guidelines:
11.13 Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a “buy" button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected
Upon asking for more information, Apple said:
To clarify, your app has been rejected for including means for users to acquire new Google accounts. Linking customers to a page where users may sign up or register new accounts, and then use those accounts to purchase service/server space to be used within the app, is not appropriate and must be removed before resubmitting your app.
Here's a screenshot of the infringing functionality:
The Gmail iOS app has the same screen and I can't find any other app that connects to Google by OAuth so I'm at a loss on how to fix this.
Any ideas?
Many thanks!
EDIT: Here's a screenshot of same offending screen in Gmail
Edit
Google has finally added a native library that performs in-app sign in. You can find it here https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/ios/start
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This has happened to several users and unfortunately Google are still "working" on a solution.
I would strongly recommend that anyone facing this issue please comment in the official forum. The more attention it gets the higher the chance something will be done about it. Here's what one of the employees at Google had to say:
Hi all -- at Google, we aim to make our services available to as many
users and developers as possible. We have heard a very small number of
reports of problems of this type, but those app developers appear to
have eventually gotten approval to launch by working through Apple’s
standard process.
Meantime, we're continuing to work on improved mechanisms for login. I
do agree with Daniel that direct use of GTMOauth2ViewControllerTouch,
or the equivalent UIWebView trickery, is not recommended.
Right now the solution I used was to remove Sign In from the Launch Screen and move it to the menu inside our app.
Place a link mentioned below instead of SignUP button:
https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?service=mail&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fca%2F<mpl=default&hl=en
This link should be open in iOS Safari browser.
I had the exact same thing happen to me, but for a different service (SmugMug). In my situation, I worked with SmugMug and they provided for me an OAuth authorization page that didn't have the sign up button.
Some months ago, same thing with Dropbox. Dropbox also ended up providing a login page without a sign up button temporarily, but they got a little more cooperation with Apple.
Perhaps we can try to collectively get Google to provide the same. Even though we're iOS developers, Im' sure Google wants to support development of iOS apps that use their platform.
Have you tried contacting Google?
I want to develop a facebook app. The only thing I want to know is will this (the fact that I am developing an app) be shared to my friends? If yes how can I disable that?
I don't really understand your question - what exactly do you think would be shared with your friends?
Unless you post something from your app there's no way for a third party to even know that it exists, let alone who runs it. Even the app's info page won't show the developer info unless they choose to enable that.
There's also test accounts you can create via the app edit interface or API ( https://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/ ) to test the app without using your own
{edit} Also, as Derek says, you can use sandbox mode while testing so the app and its content aren't visible to anyone except the admins, developers and test users{/edit}
You can enabled "Sandbox mode" which should disable all notifications and public access to your app.