Hi Gerry,

I don't know how Andre Garcia's library works but assume it's not using an 
external that wraps the Facebook SDK for iOS. From painful personal experience 
I'd advise against any attempt to access Facebook other than through the 
official SDKs or platform native interfaces (e.g. for sharing on iOS). I'd also 
suggest avoiding using the web/JavaScript SDK unless you're building a web app. 
Facebook has a "move fast and break things" culture and they regularly break 
their APIs. When you're using an official SDK (even wrapped) you share the pain 
with everyone else and it usually gets fixed very quickly. If you've got some 
community generated solution with a minimal number of users then you're almost 
on your own and every time it breaks you need to rush through an update to your 
app to fix it. Not even slightly fun.

My experience came through trying to integrate with Facebook via native apps on 
platforms they don't provide official SDKs for - it was a mandatory requirement 
from the client and I didn't have a choice. If you have any other choice - take 
it. Either go down the external route or just don't use Facebook auth.

FWIW, this is almost unique to Facebook, we didn't have similar problems 
integrating with other services.

Hope that helps,
Mark


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 From: Gerry Orkin <gerry.or...@gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>; LiveCode Developer 
List <livecode-...@lists.runrev.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 1:50
Subject: Facebook authorisation on iOS
 

Hi all

As you know lots of sites and apps use Facebook authentication to verify user 
identities. I'm trying to get that working in iOS using Andre Garcia's Facebook 
library. I can get the FB sign on screen but the app always crashes after I 
enter my log in details. I'm having no luck debugging the problem :(

Has anyone got this to work? Is it work persisting?


Cheers

Gerry
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