Discovery

Millions play games on Facebook.com and Facebook-connected mobile games. We'll help you get discovered by the right people. Learn more >

App Center for Games

Ensure you create an App Detail Page, categorize your game correctly and submit your app for listing in the App Center to enable over one billion people to discover your game.

Distribution

Learn about the various social channels available to help you grow your game on Facebook, and best practices to make them effective. Learn more >

Requests

Requests are a private and direct communication between two players. Build Requests into your game to invite new users and engage existing ones.

Feed

Feed stories allow players of your games to share interesting content from their game experience with their friends. Learn how to enable it here.

Notifications

Notifications allow you to send short, free-form messages to users of your game and serves as a powerful channel for player communication and engagement.

Open Graph

Open Graph allows you to share structured information about players' gaming activity. Use Open Graph to publish stories to drive traffic to your game.

App & Game Groups

Organize your players into clans, alliances or teams using Facebook Groups to help players connect and share experiences in your game.

Cross Platform

Learn how to leverage Facebook's ubiquitous presence across multiple platforms to gain maximum distribution potential for your game.

Monetization

Turn players into payers by leveraging Facebook's fast and flexible payments solution.
Learn more >

Best Practices

Learn proven tips and techniques to better implement payments and monetize your game, in order to drive long term value for your business.

Pay with Mobile

Facebook allows players to purchase in-app items through mobile. Create an optimized and efficient payment flow for these users.

Subscriptions

Establish a recurring revenue stream by offering weekly or monthly subscriptions plus support for an optional free trial period.

Tutorials

Friend Smash! - Fully featured, open source Facebook sample game. Learn how to build, grow and cross-promote a game that is social by design. Learn more >

Canvas Game Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to implement Facebook's key social technologies into an existing game on the web.

iOS Game Tutorial

Using Xcode, Objective-C and C++, learn how to implement Facebook's SDK for iOS into a game for iPhone and iPad.

Android Game Tutorial

Built natively in Eclipse using Java, learn how to implement Facebook's SDK for Android from the ground up.

Platform Specific Resources

Canvas Resources

A collection of technical resources and best practices for putting together a game on Facebook.com.

iOS Resources

A collection of technical resources and best practices for putting together a game for iPhone or iPad.

Android Resources

A collection of technical resources and best practices for putting together a game on Android.

Production & Checklists

Managing your Development Cycle

A walkthrough of features available to help you manage your development, staging and production game releases.

Games on Facebook Checklist

A comprehensive overview of all recommended best practices for games on Facebook.com

Mobile Games Checklist

A comprehensive overview of all recommended best practices for mobile games both on Android and iOS.

Mobile Games Best Practices

Learn how to best leverage Facebook's social technology when building a native mobile game from this detailed guide.

How-To and Reference Guides

Requests

Learn how to construct Requests to allow your players to communicate 1-on-1.

Multi-Friend Selector

Build your own multi-friend selector to improve the user experience within your game.

Feed Gaming

Learn how to embed an interactive gaming experience directly into News Feed.

Tutorial: Open Graph

This tutorial will walk you through getting started with building for Open Graph.

Payments

This tutorial will guide you through adding a payment solution to your product.

Mobile Price Points

Enable mobile price-points within your game to take full advantage of mobile payments.

Graph API for Scores

Learn how to gain increased distribution through Facebook by publishing a player's score.

Graph API for Achievements

Gain additional distribution by rewarding your players after they've earned achievements.

Games Case Studies

Candy Crush Saga

Games, Cross-Platform

Going cross platform was a winning strategy for Candy Crush Saga. The game used its existing audience on Facebook.com to drive adoption and mobile engagement.

BINGO Blitz

Games, Subscriptions

Adding monthly premium subscriptions that offer players benefits and exclusive rewards.

Diamond Dash

Games, Open Graph

Diamond Dash is a 60-second gem rush game, where players can match colorful gems, unleash magic diamonds and compete with friends.

Avengers

Games, Open Graph

With engaging stories about comic-book characters, Playdom has generated over 7 million referrals to its game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.

Vostu

Games, Mobile Payments

Vostu updated its payment flows using Facebook APIs to make payments with mobile phones easy for people.

Criminal Case

Games, Open Graph

Solving the secret to Criminal Case's Open Graph success. From 0 to 7M DAUs in 6 months

Facebook SDK for iOS

Build great social apps and get more installs.

Download the latest SDK See what's new in 3.5 (Change Log. Upgrade Guide.)

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Overview

Using Facebook helps you build immersive social apps and get more installs. Learn the basics of building and growing your app on iOS devices.

Getting Started on iOS The Facebook SDK for iOS is designed to be easy to install and use. This guide walks through the basics of setting up the development and project environment and creating a simple app. Or you can watch our video introducing you to the SDK.

Tutorials

Adding More Social Functionality Once you've added Facebook Login, you can start using the Graph API, and publishing Open Graph stories from your iOS apps. This tutorial will show you how.

Integrating Games with Facebook This tutorial shows how to use the Facebook SDK for iOS to add features such as scores, achievements and requests to your iOS game.

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SDK Reference

If you're already up-to-speed with using our SDK, you can jump straight to our reference documentation.

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Best Practices for iOS Apps

	Use our SDK at all times. Our SDK flows are optimized and work robustly across various types of devices without any manual adjustment. On mobile, using our iOS SDK lets people using your app avoid having to log in twice (once to Facebook, once to your app). Read our Facebook Login for iOS SDK guide.
	Use SDK controls and dialogs wherever possible. UI components like the Share Dialog and the Login control provide a simple and consistent way to implement various social features from Facebook. See our UI library for iOS.
	Improve distribution using social features. Sharing links, publishing Open Graph stories, and sending requests will help to drive more people to your apps. Read more about our distribution features.
	Promote your app and reach more people. Mobile app install ads appear in mobile news feed and are a new, effective way to reach more people with your mobile apps. Read more about them.
	Drive growth with App Center. Facebook's App Center is a great way to drive growth and this guide will help you get your app set up and optimized for it.

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Features

Facebook Login The Facebook SDK for iOS provides various login experiences that your app can use to authenticate someone. Read more about them in this guide.

API Queries The Facebook SDK for iOS includes methods to access the Graph API and FQL. Read our Graph API guide to accessing the User object or our FQL query guide.

iOS Integration Apple added features in iOS 6 that help native mobile developers build great experiences on iOS devices.

Dialogs and Controls

Our SDK offers a number of built-in UI components to speed up your integration process and we have guides to help you use them all.

• Share Dialog. Lets you share content and publish Open Graph stories with a small snippet of code.
• Profile Picker. Can be used to show the profile picture for a person, place, or event.
• Friend Picker. An easy way to display a list of a person's friends to select.
• Place Picker. Lets apps retrieve location information from people.

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Promote your App

Mobile App Install Ads Mobile app install ads appear in mobile news feed and are a new, effective way to reach more people with your mobile apps.

App Center The App Center is a great way to drive growth and this article will help you get your app setup for App Center.

Sharing and Distribution Learn how to use the SDK to improve the distribution of your app through sharing and publishing.

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Guides

Once you've gotten through the basics, we have more guides to help you build complex features into your apps.

Optimization Batch requests in the Graph API Caching requests by pre-fetching data Selecting friends that use particular devices	Customization Adding filters to the Friend Picker Managing your own token cache Sharing an app ID across multiple apps
Advanced Handling incoming app links Understanding Sessions and the FBSession class Download previous versions of the iOS SDK

Building an app on Facebook gives you the opportunity to deeply integrate into the core Facebook experience. Your app can integrate with many aspects of Facebook.com, including the News Feed and Notifications. All of the core Facebook Platform technologies, such as Social Plugins, the Graph API and Platform Dialogs are available to Apps on Facebook.
In this document we will explain the following concepts:

• Canvas Page: The Page in which your app is loaded.
• Social Channels: The key channels that help you grow your user base and re-engage existing users.
• Analytics: Accessing analytics for your application.

If you wish to start building an App on Facebook now, please refer to our getting started tutorial. If you want to build an app to add to the tab of a Facebook Page then you should refer to Page Tabs.

Canvas Page

Apps on Facebook are web apps that are loaded in the context of Facebook in what we refer to as a Canvas Page. You can build your app using any language or tool chain that supports web programming, such as PHP, Python, Java or C#.

Canvas for your app

Apps on Facebook are loaded into a Canvas Page. A Canvas Page is quite literally a blank canvas within Facebook on which to run your app. You populate the Canvas Page by providing a Canvas URL that contains the HTML, JavaScript and CSS that make up your app. When a user requests the Canvas Page, we load the Canvas URL within an iframe on that page. This results in your app being displayed within the standard Facebook chrome.
The canvas chrome is 760px width by default but you can set it to be a Fluid Canvas so that it is left aligned and takes up the full width and height of the user browser.
If you want to get started with building an App on Facebook right away, please read the getting started tutorial.

Bookmarks for quick re-engagement

Once a user starts using your app, we create a bookmark to enable users to easily navigate back to your app from within Facebook. These Bookmarks are available on the Facebook homepage as well as on the Canvas Page on the top right corner.
These Bookmarks are ordered based on how often and recently the user used your app. The red counters on the bookmarks notify users of outstanding Requests 2.0 related requests for your apps and encourage them to respond.

Social Channels

To drive more traffic to apps on Facebook, we enable various channels that enable new users to discover your app as well as existing users to re-engage with your app. Each channel is designed to help engage users and our algorithms help surface the best content for each user. The current channels include:

Bookmarks

Bookmarks enable users to easily navigate back to your app from within Facebook. Bookmarks are automatically added for your app after the user engages with your apps. The bookmark will appear on left column of the homepage as well as on the top right of a Canvas Page. Users can add a bookmark to 'favorite' which pins them to the top. Bookmarks also show a counter next to them which represents the number of outstanding requests for the user for your app. The more link next to the app bookmarks takes the user to the app dashboard which shows the outstanding app requests as well as the full list of apps the user has authenticated.

Notifications

Notifications on Facebook are meant to provide prominent but lightweight heads-up about interesting changes to content relevant to users. You can send notifications via the Notifications API or via requests.
The Notifications API allows you to send free-form text messages to any user of your application. It's the most effective way to reengage active users, informing them of important events, invites from friends, or actions they need to take the game. Learn more about this API in the reference guide.
Requests enable users to invite their friends to your application. Although requests can be sent to any user on Facebook, their appearance in the notifications pane and elsewhere on Facebook is more restricted, so it is best to use requests primarily to invite new users.
There are two types of requests that can be sent from an app:

• User-generated requests: These requests are confirmed by a user’s explicit action on a request dialog. These requests update the bookmark count for the recipient.
• App-generated requests: These requests can be initiated and sent only to users who have authorized your app. You should use these requests to update the bookmark count to encourage a user to re-engage in the app (e.g., your friend finished her move in a game and it’s now your turn).

You can learn more about how to enable users to send request from your app in our getting started tutorial

Newsfeed stories

The News Feed is shown immediately to users upon logging into Facebook, making it core to the Facebook experience.
Discovery stories
Facebook shares stories with friends when a user starts using a new app or first installs a new game. These installation discovery stories show up in friends' News Feed and enables users to discovery popular apps their friends are using.
In addition, Facebook also generates aggregated ‘playing’ stories by default. These stories show up in friends' News feed. Gamers and non-gamers alike will see stories that list games their friends are playing the most. These stories are designed to bring new users and significant re-engagement to games by encouraging users to discover games their friends are playing.
Developers of app associated with more personal behavior such as dating, weight management or pregnancy, can turn these stories off by disabling the social discovery field in the App Dashboard in the ‘On Facebook’ tab under the ‘Canvas’ section.

Publishing stories
In addition you can publish content to the stream using the Feed Dialog. You can prompt users to publish stories about what they are doing in your app. If a user chooses to publish, the story will appear on the user’s profile and may appear to the user’s friends’ News Feeds. Stories published from your app will include a link to your app, and can optionally include a rich attachment. You can learn more about how to enable users to publish stories from your app in our getting started tutorial.
User control
On the Application Settings Page users can control the maximum audience each app can share with on their behalf. So if users want people to see that they are playing one game, but not another, they can control that.

Timeline

The user's Timeline deeply integrates a user's top game activity over a given period of time. This Games Timeline unit highlights the games users play the most, as well as top scores and achievements, allowing for quick re-engagement for the user and discovery among friends.
Developers of apps categorized as 'Games' can publish stories by using the Open Graph built-ins for achievements and scores. These stories are only shown to users, when using an app categorized as 'Games'.
The achievements API allows you to publish stories about the user and their friends achieving a set of achievements you define for your app. The scores API allows you to publish stories about the user and their friends passing each others' scores in your app as well as High Score stories when the user earns a new high score. The user needs to grant your app with the publish_actions permission before you can publish a user's scores and achievements.
In addition the Timeline also showcases recent game activity for the user.

Search

When your App reaches 10 monthly active users it will be automatically queued to be included in the search index the next time we rebuild our search index (we rebuild every 2-4 weeks). After the index is rebuilt your app will be discoverable via Search.

Page

Additionally, you can create a Facebook Page for your App from the App Dashboard. Simply visit the Contact Info section in the App Details tab of the App Dashboard, and click on the “Create Facebook Page” button to create a new Facebook Page.

Hitting Confirm on the next dialog associates the new Facebook Page with your app.
The Page differs slightly from regular Pages; it will have a "Go To App" or "Play Game" button, as well as the following App-related links:

• Block App
• Remove App
• Contact Developer
• Report App

By default, the Page is titled "[YOUR_APP_NAME] Community". You can modify this name at any time subject to the same rules that govern all Pages.

Games & Apps Dashboard

Facebook has a Games and Apps Dashboard that allows users to see outstanding requests as well as recommended Apps and Games to enable them to discover new games as well as re-engage with existing games.

Users can also access all their apps and games feed in one place here.

Analytics

Use Insights for your app to track how users are interacting with your app to build the best possible experience for your users. For app administrators, Insights includes feedback for stream stories, referral traffic to your app, a breakdown of what user actions contribute to active user count, demographics on authorized users and active users, and the number of times permissions are prompted and granted.
In addition, it provides diagnostics for your app so that you can track API errors as well as get access to allocations and throttling information.
You can access Insights for your app directly through the Insights Dashboard or by selecting your app in the App Dashboard and clicking the “insights" link.

Next Steps

• Get started with building an App on Facebook by reading our tutorial.
• To learn more about our Game APIs, read the achievements and scores API docs.
• Please read about our core concepts - authentication, Graph API, Social Channels.
• To learn how to build Facebook Page tabs, start here.
• Learn about using Facebook Credits to get started with using payments on Facebook platform.
• To learn more about the Facebook platform, watch the Facebook Platform Overview course

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