Unity3d Facebook SDK "Nearby" message - facebook

I am not sure if the title of my post is right, spare me if it is wrong :)
I am using the latest facebook sdk with unity (Ver 4.2). When i call a fb.api request, i get the message "Nearby" whenever some facebook stuff is loading.
Scenario.
A share on fb/ connect with fb/ invite friends function, loads facebook.
At this point, there is a waiting dialog. Weirdly enough this waiting shows "Nearby" rather than waiting/loading. And i could not find any option to configure this.
I looked high and low, but could not find a place where i could configure the default waiting message. Any suggestions?

You can modify Unity/Assets/Plugin/Android/res/value/strings.xml - modify <string name="com_facebook_nearby">nearby</string> entity. But I think it is not a solution. I guess that there is some kind of logic with place picking in the Unity Facebook SDK while login flow. But unfortunately I have not figure out it yet

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facebook ads not install tracking

I have this really odd problem. The bosses in the office decided to do facebook tracking by using the [FBSettings publishInstall:<appIDhere>] in the app delegate. This works because the graph.facebook.com/<appID>/activities, etc are called, and Facebook returned true.
However, the problem is that this is NOT showing up in the dashboard. The app_activate shows up just fine, it's just that the app install is not showing at all.
So, my questions are:
Why is it that the install is not read correctly? The call is made and facebook response. Why is it that it's not showing up in the dashboard?
Does facebook do any other filtering? For example, if I delete the app and then reinstall, should the app be counted to have installed twice? In this case, the call to graph.facebook.com/ is made twice to send the MOBILE_APP_INSTALL activity. After this, does facebook do any other filtering? e.g. they remember device tokens, etc?
I am not quite sure how facebook differentiate using the URL scheme. I presume that this is to differentiate people who upgraded compared to people who installed. How does the fb<appid> help as a URL Scheme?
Thank you in advance for all your help.

Not receiving Facebook cookie when using new Unity SDK and integration

Already posted this on Unity Forum and Unity Answers, but either support there moves too slowly or it's not been encountered. Thought I'd post to SO as well
I've been trying to update our current Unity project to use the new Facebook SDK for Unity and all the lovely features that come with. Up until now all we've had is a server-side implementation to request permissions using the PHP SDK. We held off on further implementation as we knew the new SDK was going to be released imminently.
However, now that we're implementing it, we've run into a slight problem getting it to fit with our current process. Now that Facebook Apps can link directly to a deployed .unity3d file, the PHP page that the web player used to sit in no longer gets hit and as a result, none of the PHP code is executed. We used the server-side code and PHP SDK to do the account creation for new users but because this is no longer being hit, new accounts are no longer created.
In the settings for the Facebook SDK for Unity asset, it actually has a tick box for "Cookie" with a description that implies usage in server-side code... but I have no idea how I'm supposed to access this cookie when the web page specified as the Facebook App's (Secure) Canvas URL is never hit... not even once.
I've searched around and can't find anyone else with a similar problem, so either I'm doing something wrong or it's not been encountered? Hopefully it's something simple and I'm just being daft
Anyone know how to solve this?
Thanks!
You can pull your server-side account creation into an async call. After calling FB.Login(), take the FB.UserId in the callback when you get it and pass it to your backend to check if they have an account. create one if they don't.
I don't think you need the cookie support, but if you do, it follows the same as the Javascript SDK, so you should be able to use ExternalEval() and Javascript to get at the data.

App requests successful, but no notification shown

I am using the normal setup for sending invites through the requests dialogue:
FB.ui(
{
method: 'apprequests',
message: "Please add me, I am doing the same, thanks!"
},
function(response) {
console.log(response);
}
);
The response is successful, response.to shows multiple ids. So sending these invites works like it should. The problem is that these apprequests are not shown up as notifications like they usually do, instead the only place to find them here.
Has the API changed? Looking for answers has given me no results, though I did find this bug report from February 15th 2013.
Is Facebook just testing yet again, or has the API changed but not the documentation? I am truly grateful for any insights!
There's two simple things that might cause that problem.
One is that you application is missing the Canvas. Just add it from the your App panel in Facebook Developers.
The second one - make sure your app is NOT in SandBox Mode. If it is it won't send any notifications. I lost hours before figuring that out and changing the code in all possible ways.
Hope that helps.
Its not facebook bug its a problem in your facebook app configuration :
Follow the below configuration and its working like a charm.
You just need to go in to the Facebook developer and select your app and goes in to the setting of your app and click "Add Platform" and select "App On Facebook" and than add canvas url in it. now try to send invitation and it will show the notification.
Thanks
Sagar
or go to facebook developers,
Change 111 to your APP ID
-Fedmich
This was posted yesterday in facebook bugs site.
However, it is still not working for me even though I'm utilizing the exact code that the FB comment is referencing.
I realize this is not complete answer to the question and should be put in the comments. However I am a newbie and don't have enough reputation on StackOverflow to post comments. Emil, could you please let me know if you resolve this issue.
Had same issue, I added Secure Canvas URL, etc. But problem was I haven't provided iPhone Store ID inside iOS section in Settings.
As of Graph API 2.3, Game requests are only available to games.
As mentioned in Game Requests description, you have to create Facebook Web Games in App Portal, then you will get the notification with Game Request. Not for website anymore.
I had to implement facebook ‘apprequests’ instead of the deprecated ‘appinvites’ in an existing cordova app and spent hours debugging.
‘apprequests’ are only available in Facebook Apps categorized as ‘games’.
You can send notifications only to platforms (iOS, Android, Facebook web games) that are involved with the facebook app. That means, you will never receive a notification in your browser if you miss ‘facebook web games’ as platform. My expectation was to be notified in the facebook browser app if I was invited from a Mobile app.
iOS devices don’t get notifications.
In my case, I’ve missed to fill the app store id in the Facebook app platform configuration. After that, notifications appeared instantly.
If you like notifications in the fb browser app, you have to add ‘Facebook web games’ (formerly known as ‘canvas’) as plattform.
You can save yourself a lot trouble by creating test users in the app role category of your facebook app.

iOS app misconfigured for Facebook integration

I am using the facebook-iphone-sdk framework to integrate my iPhone app to FB. The problem is when I click the button it gives an error "The application you are using is misconfigured for the Facebook integration. Please download the latest version of the app."
I was able to connect with FB only once. For the first time it worked fine and I was also able to post some data into my wall but afterwords it not working, and the above error occurs.
What could I be doing wrong?
The Bundle ID is case sensitive so watch out for that.
e.g. com.myapp.MyApp is not the same as com.myapp.myapp
This happened to me and gave the same error message.
May be you are using the deprecated API of facebook... Please use the New FBGraph API for facebook integration ....
How to share or post by mail, twitter and facebook from the current application?
This is not only about email... here you will find the tutorial and sample code for facebook integration.....!!
Possible Solutions:
1) Double Check that you are putting in the right facebook app id in your code, and that you didnt somehow overwrite that when you made it work the first time.
2) Check that in the facebook developer profile you have all the proper things set up (They have decent doc's for how to set up properly).
3) Check that you are using the most up to date version of the SDK for fb.
4) Consider using the built-in Facebook for iOS6, since you probably wont be releasing your app before iOS 6 comes out anyways.
5) If all else fails, start over and go through the instructions from beginning to end. Check and re-check everything you set up and carefully scan for little typos or something. It's probably a minor mistake somewhere that you're overlooking.
6) Post code if you want more specific help. An error message isnt enough to deduce what your problem is.
Just delete you app from facebook dashboard, create it again, and then change the facebookID in you App-Info.plist, in the key FacebookAppId and URL types array key. I did it and my app works fine.
Delete facebook app, force perform login in safari..

How can I add a link to an iPhone native app from website IF POSSIBLE

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.