Corona using deprecated version of Facebook SDK (v3.x vs. v4.x) for Android

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#1

Facebook last month announced Facebook SDK for Android v4.0, with some significant changes: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/change-log-4.x

Corona seems to be using v3.x. More precisely, the release notes for build 2014.2458 last October were the latest to mention Facebook, and they say: “Update iOS Facebook SDK to 3.19. Fixes casenum: 35950.”

Facebook now lists v3.x as “deprecated”:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/deprecated

I doubt that Facebook will turn off support for v3.x anytime soon, but it will happen – support for v1.0 was turned off two days ago, I believe, and support for new apps using v1.0 was turned off a year ago. I wanted to flag this to make sure upgrading to v4.x is in the pipeline. Thanks!

#2

Is there any chance for a line with info about this upgrade?

This is quite crucial, because we will finally be able to use proper permissions management.

Are you guys going to upgrade to 4 anytime soon?

I know there’s quite some things to do, but I think facebook support is quite crucial to most of the games.

#3

Work on upgrading our Facebook SDK has begun, and I’ll post updates on it to this forum.

For the curious, we’ve open sourced our Facebook plugin and it can be found here.

You’ll also see updates occur in the commit log here.

#4

Awesome!

Thanks for the info!

I have scheduled creation of a custom fb plugin for today, came in to work, received emails and here’s the news :slight_smile:

Oh, if there’s any chance you guys could make sure we are able to have more control over permissions [required/non required] and if we could ask for all of them in one go [it’s supported by fb], this would be awesome.

#5

Ajay: how does the progress of you work look like?

Thanks

Krystian

#6

Hey

Just checked the github page of the plugin but didn’t see any new commits there. Will only update there when the update is done or is there any other place where we can check the progress ?

#7

The upgrade to 4.0 is requiring significant work.  Github will not be updated until after the plugin is released.

Rob

#8

Hey Rob,

Thanks for the update.

Do you guys have an ETA for this plugin to be updated ?

We are working with some other libraries that depends on Facebook, so having an estimate would help out.

#9

Engineering is working on this and it’s getting close. This is a huge change and almost how everything is done change with 4.0.  We can’t go any faster.

Rob

#10

@rob Would the new integration support install-attribution for facebook install ads? Given that FB mobile ads is one of the most important channel for acquiring mobile user nowadays, native support would be HUGE! 

thx!

Andrew

#11

Hey everyone,

I apologize for the lack of response on this forum about the status of the SDK update. However, I’m pleased to say that we’ve just released a beta version of our new facebook plugin which is built on top of Facebook SDK 4.4.0.

Currently this new plugin is only supported on Android, as we’re finishing up the iOS side.

To access the new plugin, you’ll need to upgrade to daily build 2015.2685 or later.

For instructions on upgrading, see our migration guide.

Feel free to discuss the new plugin on the Facebook v4 forum.

#12

Is there any chance for a line with info about this upgrade?

This is quite crucial, because we will finally be able to use proper permissions management.

Are you guys going to upgrade to 4 anytime soon?

I know there’s quite some things to do, but I think facebook support is quite crucial to most of the games.

#13

Work on upgrading our Facebook SDK has begun, and I’ll post updates on it to this forum.

For the curious, we’ve open sourced our Facebook plugin and it can be found here.

You’ll also see updates occur in the commit log here.

#14

Awesome!

Thanks for the info!

I have scheduled creation of a custom fb plugin for today, came in to work, received emails and here’s the news :slight_smile:

Oh, if there’s any chance you guys could make sure we are able to have more control over permissions [required/non required] and if we could ask for all of them in one go [it’s supported by fb], this would be awesome.

#15

Ajay: how does the progress of you work look like?

Thanks

Krystian

#16

Hey

Just checked the github page of the plugin but didn’t see any new commits there. Will only update there when the update is done or is there any other place where we can check the progress ?

#17

The upgrade to 4.0 is requiring significant work.  Github will not be updated until after the plugin is released.

Rob

#18

Hey Rob,

Thanks for the update.

Do you guys have an ETA for this plugin to be updated ?

We are working with some other libraries that depends on Facebook, so having an estimate would help out.

#19

Engineering is working on this and it’s getting close. This is a huge change and almost how everything is done change with 4.0.  We can’t go any faster.

Rob

#20

@rob Would the new integration support install-attribution for facebook install ads? Given that FB mobile ads is one of the most important channel for acquiring mobile user nowadays, native support would be HUGE! 

thx!

Andrew