Facebook Graph API Development with Flash. Build social Flash applications fully integrated with the Facebook Graph API

Facebook Graph API Development with Flash. Build social Flash applications fully integrated with the Facebook Graph API - Opis

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 ‚Äì as long as you know AS3!This hands-on tutorial will present you with a whole new perspective of (...) więcej the three core aspects of Facebook ‚Äì 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. Spis treści:
Facebook Graph API Development with Flash Beginners Guide
Table of Contents
Facebook Graph API Development with Flash Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction
What's so great about Facebook?
It's popular
Numbers
It's everywhere
It's interesting to develop for
Have a go hero get on Facebook
Web hosts
What's a web host?
Why do you need one?
How do you choose one?
Useful software
What about domain names?
Have a go hero get a web host, upload to it, test
How much AS3 knowledge is required?
The source code
Powered by
Debugging
Watch out for caching
A final note
2. Welcome to the Graph
Accessing the Graph API through a Browser
Time for action loading a Page
What just happened?
Have a go hero exploring other objects
Accessing the Graph API through AS3
Time for action retrieving a Page's information in AS3
What just happened?
Time for action deserializing a JSON object
What just happened?
Time for action visualizing the info
What just happened?
Understanding connections
Time for action finding connections in a browser
What just happened?
Have a go hero exploring connections
Rendering Lists
Time for action rendering Lists of Posts
What just happened?
Rendering connections
Time for action displaying a Graph Object's connections
What just happened?
Introducing the Requestor
Time for action creating an HTTP Requestor
What just happened?
Understanding Connections of Connections
Time for action loading photos from an album
What just happened?
Putting it all together
Time for action traversing the Graph
What just happened?
Have a go hero exploring other areas
Pop Quiz
Summary
3. Let Me In!
What can you see?
Time for action snooping through other people's accounts
What just happened?
Have a go hero viewing your privacy settings
What's that got to do with the Graph API?
Access tokens are proof of authorization
User/Application authorization
Time for action registering an application with Facebook
What just happened?
Application ID + logged-in user = access token
Time for action requesting an access token with the browser
Registering a redirect URI with our application
Using the Access Token
Me, me, me
What just happened?
Keeping secrets
What did Facebook give us?
Authenticating with AS3
Time for action Using an access token in our Graph visualizer
That's cheating!
Time for action authenticating through the application
What just happened?
A different approach
Time for action authenticating via JavaScript
Creating a callback web page
Receiving the access token
What just happened?
What about users who haven't used the application before?
Have a go hero dealing with the undecided
Extended permissions
Time for action obtaining extended permissions
What just happened?
Time for action requesting extended permissions
Have a go hero using a permanent access token
I want it all, and I want it now
Have a go hero dealing with extended permissions
Using the Adobe ActionScript 3 SDK for Facebook platform
Time for action implementing the SDK
What just happened?
Have a go hero requesting extended permissions with the SDK
Pop Quiz
Summary
4. Digging Deeper into the Graph
Getting more results with paging
Time for action displaying the number of objects in a list
What just happened?
Time for action requesting more Objects
What just happened?
Time for action requesting more Objects at once
What just happened?
Paging
Time for action obtaining data in pages
What just happened?
Have a go hero using limit and offset for other connections
Time for action adding limit and offset to GraphRequest instances
What just happened?
Date-Based filtering
Time for action requesting data based on date
What just happened?
Time for action adding since and until to GraphRequest instances
What just happened?
Time for action filtering by date using the UI
What just happened?
We gon' partition like it's yo' birthday
Have a go hero loading birthday wall posts
Date-based paging
Requesting multiple IDs at once
Time for action using the ids parameter in a Graph URL
What just happened?
Have a go hero creating a Compound Object based on results from a List
Summary
Pop Quiz
5. Search Me
Using the website's Search box
Time for action examining quick search results
What just happened?
Time for action Using the Full Search results
What just happened?
Searching with a Graph URL
Time for action searching without authorization
What just happened?
Time for action searching while authorized
What just happened?
Differences
Restrictions
Time for action implementing a Search window in the Visualizer
What just happened?
Time for action searching via the SDK
What just happened?
Have a go hero setting the locale
Searching feeds and wall posts
Time for action searching your news feed
What just happened?
Time for action searching a friend@#U+0027:s Wall Posts
What just happened?
Time for action searching feeds through the Visualizer
What just happened?
Summary
Pop Quiz
6. Adding to the Graph
Hello, Facebook!
Time for action posting to the user's feed
Request methods
What's a request method?
Time for action using the POST method
What just happened?
Time for action listening for errors
What just happened?
Time for action granting the required permission
What just happened?
Time for action posting via the SDK
What just happened?
Going further with Wall Posts
Time for action publishing rich posts
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Posting to another Wall
Time for action posting to another Wall using the Visualizer
Actions, privacy, and source
Actions
Time for action literally
What just happened?
Privacy
Time for action setting a Post's privacy settings
What just happened?
Source
Deleting Graph Objects
Time for action deleting a Post
Time for action deleting Posts using the Visualizer
What just happened?
Publishing other kinds of Graph Object
Comments
Likes
What about "liking" other Graph Objects?
Deleting Likes
Notes
Events
Event RSVPs
Albums
Photos
Checkins
What about...?
Sending inbox messages
Creating Pages, Groups, Applications, and Videos
Changing biographical information
Making Friends
Inviting Friends to Events
Pop Quiz
Summary
7. FQL Matters
What is FQL?
Understanding the FQL interface
Models of data
Representations of data
Getting information
Time for action retrieving info from the Page table
What just happened?
Have a go hero creating an FQL query builder
What about connections?
Photos, Albums, and their Owners
Have a go hero getting a user's albums
Primary keys
Crow's feet
Have a go hero drawing your own crows' feet
Link tables
What just happened?
Time for action getting a user's friends' names with AS3
What just happened?
Time for action an easier way
What just happened?
Time for action getting it down to one API call
What just happened?
Have a go hero Mutual friends
The Graph as a layer
Have a go hero recreating existing Graph API calls in FQL
Permissions
Checking existing permissions
Getting more information
Restrictions
Searches must use an indexable field
Does this matter in practice?
Advanced FQL
Operators
Comparison
Logical
Have a go hero getting a list of your events based on location
Have a go hero finding gatecrashers
Ordering
Paging
Extra functions
Have a go hero combining what you've learned
Calling multiple queries at once
Pop Quiz
Summary
8. Finishing Off
Putting it online
On Facebook
IFrame
Time for action setting up an IFrame application
What just happened?
Page tab
Time for action adding an application to a Page tab
What just happened?
Off Facebook
Your own website
Flash game portals
As a desktop AIR application
Time for action authorizing through AIR with HTTP
What just happened?
Time for action authorizing through AIR with the SDK
What just happened?
As an AIR for Android Application
Time for action authorizing on Android
What just happened?
Have a go hero modifying the SDK for Android
Choosing your application's Facebook settings
Getting your application out there
Editing the application's profile page
Have a go hero creating your application's profile page
Custom tabs
The Facebook Application Directory
Watch out for these policies!
What next?
The Official AS3 Facebook SDK
Other Facebook APIs
JavaScript SDK
Insights API
Facebook Chat API
Internationalization API
Adobe Social service
Related Technologies
PHP
Open Graph Protocol
Real-Time Updates
Brand new and coming soon
Facebook Credits
Test users
The New Messages
Facebook developer resources
Official Facebook resources
Other great websites
Me, me, me
Keeping up with the Zuckerbergs
Dealing with change
Summary
A. Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Index O autorze: Michael James Williams is a freelance Flash developer and technical concept writer. He is the technical editor for Activetuts+, and writes AS3 game development tutorials on his blog. You can find him on Twitter, too: @MichaelJW. mniej