Comments on: Facebook for webOS: Seed Status

By: What’s the Tip updated 0.7.0 | Firm Foundation Technology

What’s the Tip updated 0.7.0 | Firm Foundation Technology — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:55:14 +0000

[...] with version 1. Right now you can e-mail or text a message. (I just saw the code to be able to post status updates to Facebook from WebOS apps.. oooooo v 1.5 here it [...]

By: kpdecker

kpdecker — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:47:39 +0000

@Geoff, I’ve forwarded on to our PM for discussion. Thanks!

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:57:21 +0000

I’d love to be able to open a specific user’s profile via the API. The foursquare app for now opens up the mobile website, but I’d rather it open in the facebook app if they have it installed.

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Tue, 18 May 2010 17:02:23 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Dion Almaer, Lisa Brewster, Eli, Joshua Marinacci, NaNplayer for Mobile and others. NaNplayer for Mobile said: RT @dalmaer: Any app can seed an update status message in the webOS Facebook app. @kpdecker shares how: http://bit.ly/b73lwf [...]

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using Facebook in my app ...? - PreCentral Forums — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:56:42 +0000

[...] might be of interest to you if you want a simple way to post status updates to Facebook. Facebook for webOS: Seed Status – incaseofstairs __________________ . NaNplayer Preview Videos : To view links or images in signatures your [...]

By: JC

JC — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:21:39 +0000

Thanks Kevin.

I thought that might be the case about the older API. Facebook is definitely pushing devs towards their newer stuff.

After a few days of experimenting, I have a solution working that uses a webview to do the necessary Oauth transactions.

I’m using the type=user_agent as this doesn’t require that the client secret be included in the app. I also use scope=publish_stream,offline_access to allow status updates and avoid the expiration issues.

It’s a bit kludgy, but it is what Facebook seems to recommend these days.

Thanks for your responses and your great work on the app.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:08:56 +0000

This is awesome! Thanks for adding this.

In the future, will it be possible for apps to register a common service for, say, Twitter? It would be nice to send a message saying “post this Twitter update” and not care which Twitter app/apps the user has installed – obviously this would require the devs of the different apps to agree on an interface, but this sounds similar to the JavaScript services that were mentioned at DevDays.

By: kpdecker

kpdecker — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:03:14 +0000

@JC, I sent a response using my Palm account.

For the near term any interactions with Facebook other than the status seed documented above will have to hit the APIs published by Facebook. I will bring the suggestion of a system-level API back to the team though!

By: JC

JC — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:54:43 +0000

Is there a Facebook API that’s going to be available for devs to use on WebOS?

I am working on some Facebook integration features for NaNplayer, but do not want to depend on a separate app to submit them. I emailed you about this with more details a few days ago.

I would primarily need to be able to submit status updates with text, images and links.

Thanks,
JC