Facebook Application

[emdalton]

Only that Facebook use seems to be growing very quickly, and as an application format it seems to be "where the money is" at the moment.

(Though for what it's worth, I am hardly ever logged into Facebook, and only have an account there because a previous job required it.)

[gtopawb]

Do you still have some notes on how to accomplish this?
Has anyone else in the community written a FaceBook app using LiveCode?

Ezra

[FourthWorld]

Applications integrated with FB for all platforms can be written in HTML/JavaScript.

Some applications have been written in Flash, but Flash cannot be used on iOS, and going forward it should be avoided for Android and Linux as well since Adobe has announced that they will soon stop maintaining the Flash engine for those platforms. Adobe seems to agree with Steve Jobs that Flash should be irrelevant, and are apparently working hard to achieve that.

JavaScript is a wonderful language, somewhat funky at times but given its important role as the only language embedded into every browser it's well worth learning.

Since HTML and JavaScript are just text and LiveCode is unusually adept at manipulating text, there are many ways LiveCode can be used to assist the production of Web apps.

LiveCode can also help on the server side of such apps, using RevServer:
http://www.runrev.com/products/server-deployment/

The FaceBook API also supports integration with platform-specific native apps for Android and iOS:
https://developers.facebook.com/

I don't know whether they allow you to use the Web APIs to do this from native mobile apps, which would seem supportable within LiveCode via GET and PUT.

If FB requires that native mobile apps use only the binary APIs, we may have to either wait for RunRev to support this or write externals to handle those.