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.
Gerry
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Mark Wilcox <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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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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