I am interested in developing an app for Facebook, however, I am quite bothered by the sidebar on the right side of the screen. Is there a way to disable it so that users of my app won't see it? I have attached a pic to explain exactly which sidebar I am referring to:
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If you're hosting your app on facebook.com (apps.facebook.com/something) then you don't get to control the entire browser window, just the iframe which contains your app.
If you need full control of the browser, host your app off-facebook.
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A client wants to have a facebook page tab app, but they don't want the tab to be visible to the public. They're OK with the general public accessing the app if they obtain a link to it somehow, but don't want to advertise the app with a page tab icon at the top of their facebook page.
If I "Remove from favorites" on the page tab icon, the app itself becomes inaccessible. If I put the app in sandbox mode, only admins/testers can access it. All I really want to do is hide the icon itself but the leave the app up and running. Is this possible?
No, it's not possible to have a page tab app which doesn't appear as a tab.
You/They should probably use a canvas app ('App on Facebook' in the settings, accessed via apps.facebook.com) for this purpose.
This also has the advantage of giving them more screen real estate to work with, and it can be kept 'anonymous' by just linking directly to it and not promoting it any other way
For example, the following URL shows the app in a tab:
https://www.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325
But when on a mobile device it redirects to the mobile site and does not show the tab or even have a link to it:
https://m.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325
I even have the application tab set as the Default Landing Tab for this page, but cannot get the pap to show for the page. Is there another format we need to develop for the App to support mobile? Ideally we would like to show the tab on iPhone app and other mobile viewing.
If you're in control of the link the user clicks on to reach your fanpage/pagetab-combination, then try adding a GET parameter ref=ts
h++ps://www.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325&ref=ts
Apparently this prevents the redirect to the mobile version of facebook.
There's not currently any way to see App-provided Page tabs on the m.facebook.com site
Mobile web apps are supported, but they're not tied to the Page and need to be manually linked-to or bookmarked, the tab functionality simply doesn't exist now.
Currently you can develop application functions such as app authorisation but sadly no, you can't display standard iFramed tab apps, I suspect this is because of slow 3G data speeds and the fact that Facebook wouldn't want the mobile experience being any slower than it already is (dependent on external hosting etc).
Many of my larger clients are begging for it. The only workaround I use is to build an external page with the same content used in the iFrame - then you can direct users to the tab or mobile users to an external link.
https://www.facebook.com/pagename/app_000000000000000?ref=page_internal
as of now ref=page_internal is working as a work around.
You can redirect Mobile users to a specific mobile website, and have desktop users redirected to your page tab app.
Detailed instructions for doing this are available here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15860533/121285
The safari browser lets you add an icon to the home screen as a bookmark to whatever webpage you happen to be on. I would want to do that same thing, but in an app I develop. So basically, the user would launch the app, do a bunch of stuff and somewhere along the way, a web clip would be created and pushed to their home screen (with their consent of course). Is this possible, or is it a feature exclusive to the Safari browser? It seems like this sort of thing could be done, but it also seems like it could be viewed as spam and therefore a reason for Apple to reject the app outright. Is this sort of thing feasible? If so, I would be very thankful for a link on where I could read up on how to go about it.
It seems unlikely that the iOS app security sandbox would allow an app to directly add web pages to the home screen.
Best bet might be to upload the webpage to some site, and then launch Safari with a URL to the webpage on that site, after requesting that the user manually "clip" that site using Safari.
Is it possible? I mean an app that works inside the facebook.
Yes it is, every application which is registered in facebook contains a application page. If you click on this page, go to the Info Tab and there you will see the name of the developer.
To get to this page, scroll down while using the app. At the bottom left of the webpage you will see the name of the app. Click it and you will go there. Next, use dooonot's directions.
I have successfully created a Facebook application. I have successfully added the application to my Facebook "Page". After I do this, no link for the app shows up in the menu on the left. This seems like something that should be simple to do, yet I can't find any documentation that is up-to-date. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Configure the Page Tab settings in your application settings under Facebook Integration.
Go to the developer page where you get the list of your apps.
Click on the more link next to your app, and choose Application profile.
Once you are on the app profile, on the sidebar menu click on Add to my page and choose the page where you want to add the tab.
Note that you must have your app tab configured properly inside your app configuration in order to get this to work i.e. setting the correct domain and tab file.
If you are logged in as the page, I suggest you either creating a profile ID and log in as it, or the solution that #ifaour pointed out, although it will be difficult to find your app inside the search engine that FB provides.