iPhone, Facebook, oAuth 2.0 and the Graph API. A Tutorial.
25 May 2010
NOTE: The source code for this tutorial is still linked below, however the FULL Facebook/iPhone Graph API can be found here: http://github.com/reallylongaddress/iPhone-Facebook-Graph-API
The new Facebook Graph API looks to be the cat’s meow, the bee’s knees, the coolest thing since sliced bread. Ok, that’s a bit much… but it is a whole lot more powerful, easier and cross-platform consistent than the previous plethora of Facebook APIs. The Graph API was announced at Facebook’s F8 conference just over a month ago. At the time of release, I was surprised no iPhone SDK was made available. I fully expected that at least an unofficial SDK as well as full blown tutorials would be out en-mass by now, but to no avail.
Not nearly patient enough to wait for an official SDK or iPhone API from Facebook, I asked Google how to “Facebook oAuth 2.0 iPhone” and was disappointed with the results. It turns out,…