Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Since last Wednesday's update, we announced Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for Android, and published a spotlight on BINGO Blitz.

Quick start guide for building social mobile games on iOS

Integrating Facebook can help your iOS game grow quickly and get discovered. If you're building a game for iOS, use this tutorial to get started quickly with the features that can help you reach and engage new and existing players among an audience of over 600M Facebook mobile users. Follow along with step by step guidelines and code samples to integrate authentication, personalization features, invites and requests, sharing, and Open Graph into your game. Check out the tutorial and code sample on github to get started right away.

January breaking changes

The following change will go into effect on January 9th, 2013. Please note that January 9th is the second Wednesday of the month, not the first Wednesday of the month as is normally the case per our Breaking Change Policy. This is due to the fact that January 2nd is a company holiday so our standard Tuesday push will be delayed.

• Removing unused splash_screen_url and gamebar_image_url properties
• Removing Dashboard REST API methods
• Using canonical URLs when fetching data using link_stat table

Check out the Developer Roadmap for all updates on breaking changes.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between Wednesday, October 17 and Wednesday, October 24:

Bugs activity

• 219 bugs were reported
• 25 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
• 10 bugs were by design
• 28 bugs were fixed
• 42 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information

Bugs fixed

• SSL certificate error with https://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter.php?version=11
• Facebook Android SDK fail to login while switched login language
• Missing 'image_url' on adcreative call
• Tax ID error when linking/creating Paypal account
• All Facebook Like , comments, etc disappeared
• javascript OAuth Dialog dialog doesn't close after login
• FB.UI callback broken
• Auto resize has stopped working since 10 mins ago
• Comment plugin broken
• oAuth dialog and apprequest dialogs are not working on Chrome
• Server certificate did not match its hostname (??.facebook.com / ??.fbcdn.net / ??.akamai.net)
• Facebook comment box height was being since this afternoon.
• xd_arbiter fails over https
• Error 100 when trying to comment or like a link post
• Broken link in graph api documentation
• Facebook sometimes returns 500 error when using API https://graph.facebook.com/me
• Open graph links back to our site are sometimes missing "?" separator between URL path and query string (Chrome only?)
• Event wall posts show up as regular status post when retrieving it with FQL query
• Video player from link posted by an application opens in new window when secure browsing
• app_non_users filter in requests dialog is not working
• Service Unavailable - DNS failure on getting Picture Page
• Enable linking Facebook 3.0 SDK for iOS with other versions of SBJson
• "Buy Empire Points by Mobile" windows don't have description of "Facebook Credits" - Japanese
• Send button social plugin shows empty dialog
• FacebookSDK-3.1 Caches and Provides Invalid Tokens
• flash objects must have the 'source' and 'picture' attributes
• Publishing Open Graph action consistently returns "unexpected error"
• Open Graph action doesn't get published onto test user's (auth dialog preview user) timeline

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 358 questions asked
• 118 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 42 answered, 33% answered rate
• 78 replied, 66% reply rate