Chapter 6. Building Community with Facebook
In This Chapter
Getting to know Facebook
Connecting to Facebook accounts
Creating a Facebook application
Using the Facebook Platform API
Analyzing business aspects
It's not enough to have the best graphics, the best sounds, and the best game play. Today's gamers expect the total package. They want it all. They expect high scores, badges, and achievement systems. They want to be able to compete against their friends and share their game experiences wherever they are. Building community is becoming an important part of making a successful top-notch iPhone game.
Today people are more connected than ever. While you can still use the iPhone to keep in touch with friends through phone calls, there are many new and exciting ways to stay in touch. The iPhone allows developers to take advantage of these technologies. With everything from e-mail to text messaging and instant messaging, it is almost like you are carrying your friends with you wherever you go.
How could you be any closer? What about if you could pull all of your friends in from Facebook and interact with them in apps on your iPhone? With Facebook Connect, you can do just that. In this chapter we'll show you how.
Getting to Know Facebook
Facebook (www.facebook.com) is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study, and live around them. In other words, Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Considering Facebook has over 200 million active ...
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