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Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

By : Michael James Williams
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Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

By: Michael James Williams

Overview of this book

The Facebook platform provides you with an ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web to develop an effective user experience application. Combined with Flash which effectively enables social interactions, you can create a fully functional application on Facebook. If you've been waiting to get started with your own applications and games on Facebook, with this book you don't have to wait any longer.This book takes you through everything you need to know to integrate your AS3 apps and games with Facebook accompanied by illustrative screenshots and short quizzes.It presents you with in depth coverage of the key underlying concepts such as creating a basic application that runs inside Facebook and exploring the Graph API which greatly simplifies how developers can retrieve data. This book also covers topics on security, permissions and authentication features on Facebook.This beginner's guide starts off by teaching you about retrieving simple public data and then rapidly working your way up to authenticating users, building powerful searches across the entire database, and uploading photos and other content. Throughout the book, you'll learn by building two fundamental components: an RIA Facebook interface and an AS3 SDK that you can drop into any project to add Facebook integration. This easy-to-understand guide has everything written as AS3-only projects with publicly available components, so you can follow along whether you use Flash Pro, Flex, or MXMLC – as long as you know AS3! This hands-on tutorial will present you with a whole new perspective of the three core aspects of Facebook – searching, retrieving, and updating the data .This practical book focuses on how to set up an application on Facebook and how to deal with different contexts like AIR.By the end of this book, you will be confident enough to set up your own application and create social interactions for users to share on Facebook.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Facebook Graph API Development with Flash Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What about...?


There are a lot of things you can do via Facebook's website interface, but not through the Graph API. We've already looked at the restrictions to the "like" feature; what else is missing?

Sending inbox messages

It's possible to read inbox messages (as we saw in Chapter 5) but not to create and send them. Facebook had planned to allow apps to create inbox messages but this plan appears to have been scrapped. It's possible that this functionality will be included as part of the new messages; see Chapter 8 for a little more information on this.

Creating Pages, Groups, Applications, and Videos

It's not possible to create any of these types of Graph Object via the Graph API.

This is a little surprising—a Group is not that different from an Event, and a Page, in turn, is not that different from a Group. The lack of video creation ability is even stranger, as it means it's not possible to create a mobile application that uploads video directly to Facebook.

Not being able to create applications...