News for Developers

Introducing WhatsApp verification codes for Account Kit

We're releasing the SDK to integrate WhatsApp verification into Account Kit for iOS and Android. Developers can now give people the option to use WhatsApp to send verification codes as an alternative to SMS for phone number login. This has been available on the web SDK since late 2018. Account Kit helps you grow your app or website by giving people...

Business Tools Platforms

April 30, 2019

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

On September 19, 2017, Apple released iOS11 and with it, Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). ITP limits the use of 3rd party cookies to 24 hours and deletes a site's cookies entirely for sites not visited within a 30-day period. This will affect developers who use Facebook Social Plugins, Facebook Analytics and Facebook Login.So...

Business Tools Social Integrations

October 5, 2017

Optimizing and Improving the Android SDK

We've made some important updates to our Android SDK to help keep your mobile apps lean and make it easier to take advantage of our analytics tools.Today, we're splitting the Android SDK into sub-modules so you only need to add libraries for the features your app uses. This helps developers build accessible, engaging apps with code that's...

Business Tools 2017

September 26, 2017

F8 2017 Roundup

Today, more than 4,000 people joined us at our annual developer F8 conference in San Jose, California....

Business Tools Gaming

April 19, 2017

Facebook Analytics Features Announced At F8

We've been busy building the future of analytics. Today, at F8, we launched new capabilities designed to help you understand and optimize your complete customer journey across the channels you use to interact with customers, such as your app and website. At the same time, we're making it easier than ever to draw valuable insights from your data.We'...

Business Tools 2017

April 18, 2017

Facebook SDK Update

With the latest version of the Facebook SDK, v4.19 for iOS and Android, we've made it quicker and easier for developers to set up Analytics for Apps to understand, measure and optimize their customer journey. Previously, logging app events in order to view analytics required developers to perform multiple steps.Starting today, both new and existing...

Business Tools 2017

January 25, 2017

Cross-Platform Analytics (Beta)

Originally posted on the Facebook Analytics for Apps blogFacebook knows growth, which is why we built Analytics for Apps—to help businesses grow by understanding their customers, using the same tools and techniques we use. Since launching at F8 in 2015, over 800,000 unique apps have used the service. It's completely free and you don't need to use...

Business Tools 2016

September 28, 2016

Swift SDK Beta

Since its WWDC 2014 introduction, Swift has proven to be one of the fastest growing programming languages. We believe it is important for us to grow and diversify our developer ecosystem by extending our platform capabilities to Swift app developers on iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS.Earlier this year we provided a complete Swift implementation for ...

Business Tools 2016

July 14, 2016

F8 Reveals New Developer Tools & Services

More than 2,600 developers joined us today in San Francisco at F8, our annual global developer conference, to hear about the new technologies and tools Facebook is building to help build, grow and monetize apps.Our community is more global than ever. Hundreds of thousands of developers are building with Facebook products, with more than 70% of them...

Business Tools Publishing

April 12, 2016