Now our project setup is done. We can start coding our facebook application.
3. Open your AndroidManifest.xml file add network connect permission in order to connect to internet.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/> |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> package="com.facebook.androidhive" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /> <application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" > <activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name=".AndroidFacebookConnectActivity" > <intent-filter > <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> <!-- Connect to Internet Permissions --> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/></manifest> |
4. Open Your Main Activity Class and initialize all the variables needed.
public class AndroidFacebookConnectActivity extends Activity { // Your Facebook APP ID private static String APP_ID = "308180782571605"; // Replace your App ID here // Instance of Facebook Class private Facebook facebook; private AsyncFacebookRunner mAsyncRunner; String FILENAME = "AndroidSSO_data"; private SharedPreferences mPrefs; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); facebook = new Facebook(APP_ID); mAsyncRunner = new AsyncFacebookRunner(facebook); |
5. I created a simple interface which contains button to login, post to wall, show access tokens and logout for testing purpose.
Login to Facebook Account
I used a button to login into facebook account. In your activity write a click event for Login button click. Inside click event declare a function named loginToFacebook();
Login button click event
btnFbLogin.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { loginToFacebook(); }}); |
and function body for loginToFacebook() function is:
public void loginToFacebook() { mPrefs = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE); String access_token = mPrefs.getString("access_token", null); long expires = mPrefs.getLong("access_expires", 0); if (access_token != null) { facebook.setAccessToken(access_token); } if (expires != 0) { facebook.setAccessExpires(expires); } if (!facebook.isSessionValid()) { facebook.authorize(this, new String[] { "email", "publish_stream" }, new DialogListener() { @Override public void onCancel() { // Function to handle cancel event } @Override public void onComplete(Bundle values) { // Function to handle complete event // Edit Preferences and update facebook acess_token SharedPreferences.Editor editor = mPrefs.edit(); editor.putString("access_token", facebook.getAccessToken()); editor.putLong("access_expires", facebook.getAccessExpires()); editor.commit(); } @Override public void onError(DialogError error) { // Function to handle error } @Override public void onFacebookError(FacebookError fberror) { // Function to handle Facebook errors } }); }} |
Posting Message to Facebook Wall
write a click event for post to wall button and inside click event write a function namedpostToWall()
btnPostToWall.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { postToWall(); }}); |
and function body for postToWall() function is:
public void postToWall() { // post on user's wall. facebook.dialog(this, "feed", new DialogListener() { @Override public void onFacebookError(FacebookError e) { } @Override public void onError(DialogError e) { } @Override public void onComplete(Bundle values) { } @Override public void onCancel() { } });} |