Facebook authorisation on iOS

[stephen barncard]

Meanwhile Apple just "UPGRADED" my iTunes without asking or permission.
Nice. Bastards.

Oh right, I had to re-install the entire OSX because the 'new' Safari 6.1
can't be uninstalled.  I guess update is default automatic.


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Gerry Orkin <gerry.orkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, thanks. I've pretty much come to the same conclusion - I got it to
> work but it was slow and unreliable :) I'll roll my own email-based
> authentication method, I think.
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>     Gerry
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>     —
> Sent from Mailbox for iPad
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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Mark Wilcox <m_p_wilcox at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > ________________________________
> >  From: Gerry Orkin <gerry.orkin at gmail.com>
> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>; LiveCode
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> > 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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