Developing Facebook Apps for Android

By carmendelessio

“BFF Photo for Facebook”  is now on the Android Market.

It is an Android app for viewing the photos you and your friends have posted to Facebook.  You can also upload new photos and videos.

Please give it a try. Find it in the market by searching “bff”.  If you like it, rate it and comment on the Android market. Post technical questions here.

To interact with Facebook, I am using their new “Simplified Desktop Authorization Flow.

For API calls, I am using a Java Facebook Client library I developed for talking to the Facebook REST server. I’ll be writing more about it. I intend to clean up the library and ultimately make it open source.

I am using Android Intents to take a photo and capture a video.

Video Demo Coming Soon!

2 Responses to “Developing Facebook Apps for Android”

  1. Gyuri Says:

    Are you familiar with Facebook Connect for Android? Project is in early stages, but it allows login to Facebook and queries already.

    http://code.google.com/p/fbconnect-android/

  2. carmendelessio Says:

    Gyuri,
    Thanks for the comment. I was keeping my eye on this project. I had developed my own login based on using a desktop app model. When Facebook updated that model it got even easier. http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=289 so I used that.

    But logging in can be a pain and good solutions are needed.

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