News for Developers

Contributing to Open Source Best Practices from the Major League Hacking Fellows

Recently, we asked some of the Major League Hacking (MLH) Fellows what tools and practical applications they found to be useful for getting started contributing to open source. Check out what they have to say about getting started in open source, the MLH Fellowship program, and the Facebook Open Source ecosystem.On Open Source Contributions “It's a...

Open Source 2021

June 14, 2021

Introducing Facebook Platform SDK V11.0 & Related Updates

Today we are releasing Facebook SDK v11.0 and additional updates to our Facebook Platform SDKs. This post outlines these updates and the required steps developers should take to avoid disruption, where necessary, for their application(s) integration with our platform. Here is a quick overview of some of the updates included as part of the SDK v11.0...

Business Tools Platforms

June 8, 2021

Introducing Facebook Graph API v11.0 and Marketing API v11.0

Today, we are releasing Facebook Graph API v11.0 and Marketing API v11.0. As a part of this release, we have created this blog post to highlight broad-reaching changes that will impact parts of our developer community. These changes include announcements and product updates, reminders from prior launches, and notifications on large-scale...

Business Tools Platforms

June 8, 2021

ELI5: Flipper - Cross-Platform Debugger

In this blog post, we briefly look at a popular open source project called Flipper, an extensible mobile app debugger for iOS, Android and React Native. We discuss this open source project using the ELI5 style of explaining things in simple terms and in the shortest amount of time. If you prefer to learn by watching, we also have an accompanying ...

Open Source 2021

June 8, 2021

VISSL: A Contributor’s Story with Grace Omotoso

The “Contributor’s Story” series is intended to provide a face and voice to our major open source contributors and community members, an overview of the projects they are working on, and the successes and challenges contributors face when developing. ...

Open Source 2021

June 7, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Neil Mitchell

This article was written in collaboration with Neil Mitchell, a Software Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Neil Mitchell who is a Software Engineer on the Build Infrastructure team at Facebook. The Build Infrastructure team works on build systems such as Buck. While working on this team, Neil has been using Rust as one of the...

Open Source 2021

June 3, 2021

F8 Refresh Hackathon winners announced

Thanks again to everyone who tuned in to the F8 Refresh Hackathon winners announcement over on our Facebook for Developers page earlier today! Hackathons have always been a core part of F8. ...

Augmented Reality Programs

June 2, 2021

F8 Refresh: It's All About Developers

F8 began as an 8-hour developer hackathon in 2007 (the ‘8’ came from our traditional eight-hour hackathons). Over the years, we added new industry tracks and introduced iconic Facebook consumer products. But as the event evolved, we heard from an increasing number of developers who wanted us to share the technical content that would help them...

F8 2021

June 2, 2021

Introducing Login Connect with Messenger

Our flagship developer product — Facebook Login — offers a convenient way for Facebook’s billions of global users to log into thousands of apps and websites. We created this product 12 years ago and it’s been amazing to see the convenience it creates for people around the world. Developers have tapped into the rich personalization that Facebook...

Platforms F8

June 2, 2021