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$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-facebook4 --variable APP_ID="123456789" --variable APP_NAME="myApplication"

Repo: https://github.com/jeduan/cordova-plugin-facebook4

Use the Facebook Connect plugin to obtain access to the native FB application on iOS and Android.

Requires Cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-facebook4. For more info, please see the Facebook Connect.

Installation

To use the FB plugin, you first have to create a new Facebook App inside of the Facebook developer portal at https://developers.facebook.com/apps.

Retrieve the App ID and App Name.

Then type in the following command in your Terminal, where APP_ID and APP_NAME are the values from the Facebook Developer portal.

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-facebook4 --save --variable APP_ID="123456789" --variable APP_NAME="myApplication"

After, you'll need to add the native platforms you'll be using to your app in the Facebook Developer portal under your app's Settings:

Click 'Add Platform'.

At this point you'll need to open your project's config.xml file, found in the root directory of your project.

Take note of the id for the next step:

<widget id="com.mycompany.testapp" version="0.0.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">

You can also edit the id to whatever you'd like it to be.

iOS Install

Under 'Bundle ID', add the id from your config.xml file:

Android Install

Under 'Google Play Package Name', add the id from your config.xml file:

And that's it! You can now make calls to Facebook using the plugin.

Events

App events allow you to understand the makeup of users engaging with your app, measure the performance of your Facebook mobile app ads, and reach specific sets of your users with Facebook mobile app ads.

• [iOS] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/app-events
• [Android] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/app-events
• [JS] Does not have an Events API, so the plugin functions are empty and will return an automatic success

Activation events are automatically tracked for you in the plugin.

Events are listed on the insights page.

For tracking events, see logEvent and logPurchase.

Usage

import {Facebook} from 'ionic-native';

Static Methods

login(permissions)

Login to Facebook to authenticate this app.

{
  status: "connected",
  authResponse: {
    session_key: true,
    accessToken: "kgkh3g42kh4g23kh4g2kh34g2kg4k2h4gkh3g4k2h4gk23h4gk2h34gk234gk2h34AndSoOn",
    expiresIn: 5183979,
    sig: "...",
    secret: "...",
    userID: "634565435"
  }
}

logout()

Logout of Facebook.

For more info see the Facebook docs

getLoginStatus()

Determine if a user is logged in to Facebook and has authenticated your app. There are three possible states for a user:

1) the user is logged into Facebook and has authenticated your application (connected) 2) the user is logged into Facebook but has not authenticated your application (not_authorized) 3) the user is either not logged into Facebook or explicitly logged out of your application so it doesn’t attempt to connect to Facebook and thus, we don’t know if they’ve authenticated your application or not (unknown)

Resolves with a response like:

{
  authResponse: {
    userID: "12345678912345",
    accessToken: "kgkh3g42kh4g23kh4g2kh34g2kg4k2h4gkh3g4k2h4gk23h4gk2h34gk234gk2h34AndSoOn",
    session_Key: true,
    expiresIn: "5183738",
    sig: "..."
  },
  status: "connected"
}

For more information see the Facebook docs

getAccessToken()

Get a Facebook access token for using Facebook services.

showDialog()

Show one of various Facebook dialogs. Example of options for a Share dialog:

{
  method: "share",
  href: "http://example.com",
  caption: "Such caption, very feed.",
  description: "Much description",
  picture: 'http://example.com/image.png'
}

For more options see the Cordova plugin docs and the Facebook docs

api(requestPath, permissions)

Make a call to Facebook Graph API. Can take additional permissions beyond those granted on login.

For more information see:

Calling the Graph API - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript/reference/FB.api Graph Explorer - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer Graph API - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api

logEvent(name, params, valueToSum)

Log an event. For more information see the Events section above.

logPurchase(value, currency)

Log a purchase. For more information see the Events section above.

appInvite(options)

Open App Invite dialog. Does not require login.

For more information see:

the App Invites Overview - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-invites/overview the App Links docs - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/applinks